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IRON MAN Vol 1 #73 (March 1975)
Title: Turnabout: A Most Foul Play
Villains: The Crimson Dynamo and Kuon Set
Synopsis: This issue picks up a week or so after the end of our previous story. Tony Stark is back in Manila at the Stark International Regional Headquarters in the Philippines. He is conferring with Pepper Potts-Hogan and her husband Happy, his Executive Assistant and his Security Chief respectively. Pepper has been informed that Tony is really Iron Man, so now both she and Happy know the secret.
Amid this relaxed setting Tony discusses Stark International's new food processing plant in Manila, part of Tony's ongoing reorganization of his company to leave his days as a weapons manufacturer behind him.
The married couple ask their boss about his recent trip to San Diego, and Tony tells them about his battle with Whiplash, the Melter and the Man-Bull as part of the Black Lama's (at right) unfolding War of the Supervillains. Our hero also mentions returning to Stark Internationals Headquarters on Long Island for a few days and his eyewitness account of seeing the Man-Thing in action.
NOTE: That refers to Tony Stark's guest appearance as himself - NOT Iron Man - in Giant-Size Man-Thing #2.
Next, Tony shows Pepper for the first time how he dons his Iron Man armor which he carries around with him in segments in his briefcase. In a comic book coincidence, shortly after Tony becomes Iron Man an explosion rocks his Manila buildings.
Iron Man flies to the boiler room and manages to bring things under control before an even more destructive explosion can occur. Leaving Pepper and Happy to deal with the aftermath of this industrial accident, our hero tells them he is flying off to Vietnam to investigate Roxie Gilbert's disappearance a few installments back. Read more of this post
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