—Jim RhodesI cheated -- and I'm glad.
Appearing in "Have Armor Will Travel"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Flying Tiger
- Flying Tiger's direct employer
- General Coy
- Kingpin (Mentioned)
- Colonel Perez
Other Characters:
- Iron Fist (Danny Rand)
- Power Man (Luke Cage)
- Regis Fusskey (First appearance)
- Doctor
- Señor Presidente
Locations:
- Sol
- Earth
- South America
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- New York
- United States of America
- Earth
Items:
Vehicles:
- Fuskey's plane
Synopsis for "Have Armor Will Travel"
Rhodes is helping Clytemnestra perform a pressure test of equipment by being run over by a bulldozer in the Iron Man armor. Afterwards, Clytemnestra and her brother Morley begin talking about their desire to start their own company with Rhodes. The idea appeals to Rhodes but he has no money and flies away pondering how he might get some.
Meanwhile, Tony Stark is brought to the hospital by police after they pick him up off the street completely drunk. The doctor vaguely recognizes him but doesn’t know who he is in his current state.
Iron Man visits the Heroes for Hire asking about getting into the business to help raise some money. Iron Fist says that he’s in luck as there is a case they’re too busy to take that pays a thousand dollars per day and Iron Man expresses interest. He meets a man named Regis Fusskey at the airport as Iron Man. Fusskey tells him the suit is too attention-grabbing so Rhodes decides to come back with the suit in the attaché case and with a slight disguise expecting that he won’t be recognized by anyone.
Meanwhile, a man is giving a mission to Flying Tiger which involves kidnapping Fusskey and depositing him at a jungle base ran by the Kingpin. Fusskey and Rhodes are flying in a private plane when the Captain announces they are over the South American jungle before the plane suddenly goes into a dive. Flying Tiger quickly appears holding a handgun with the intention of kidnapping Fusskey. Rhodes seeks to fight him off but is easily knocked aside as Flying Tiger grabs Fusskey and Rhodes’ attaché case holding the Iron Man armor and leaps from the plane while Rhodes recovers and grabs a parachute to give chase.
On the ground, Fusskey demands to know why he’s been kidnapped from Flying Tiger and another man. The man says they work for General Coy and that Fusskey is working for their enemies in the capital and suggests Coy will likely want him shot. On an airfield east of their location, the president of the unnamed country is asked by military men what action to take after locating the base of Colonel Perez and are told to send jets to bomb them. As Rhodes is sneaking through the jungle, he comes across Flying Tiger speaking to an unnamed woman and he gives her Rhodes’ attaché case but she tosses it away when she is unable to open it. Rhodes is nearby and recovers the case and tries to quickly don the Iron Man armor but is only able to get on the gloves before he is spotted by Flying Tiger. He knocks Rhodes away and takes the case after being intrigued by the armor but is soon knocked unconscious by an exploding bomb from the jets sent to attack Perez’s base. Rhodes recovers the armor and finishes putting on the armor to seek out Fusskey who he finds tied up but is forced to reroute a bomb that is being dropped close to him. Perez is about to shoot Fusskey before Iron Man returns and saves Fusskey from Perez and his men by blasting them with repulsor rays. He flies off carrying Fusskey and spots Flying Tiger, who he decides to attack after setting Fusskey down. Having knocked Flying Tiger out, Fusskey marvels at his ability but Iron Man says he merely cheated and yet enjoyed it. As Iron Man flies off with Fusskey, he manages to get him to agree to pay him $20,000 for rescuing him.
Back in New York, Rhodes excitedly tells Morley and Clytemnestra about his windfall and presents the check to help start their new business but is overcome by a sudden and intense headache.
Back at the hospital, a now sober Tony Stark is being lectured by the doctor about the serious consequences of alcoholism and tells him that only he can stop it.
Solicit Synopsis
Notes
- This issue contains a letters page, "Printed Circuits". Letters are published from Ronald West, Dr. Mitchell S. Paul, Roger Myers, Allen R. Ehrke, Vince Schmitt, and Conrad P. Fletcher.