"By Lenin's beard! What a fairy tale!"
The plot here is completely forgettable. A one-off communist functionary, the Red Barbarian, is an impatient tyrant who makes David Brent seem like an excellent boss, shooting his underlings dead at the slightest hint of failure. And an over-confident master of disguise, the Actor, is undone by his own arrogant hubris in his attempt to steal Tony Stark's latest invention. It's just rubbish.
The direction of this title seems worrying. These early stories are surprisingly different to the Iron Man we'll come to know- Shellhead (a term not yet coined) is often referred to as a "knight in shining armour". Everything the armour seems to do is because of transistors. Iron Man works as an FBI agent.
I'll admit to one little moment of amusement as Iron Man disrupts communist spy ring via magnetic stuff performed by his "transistor-powered device but it doesn't affect his armour because... well, technobabble. But right now Iron Man is most certainly a bottom tier title. I hope it improves soon.
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