Appearing in "Revelations"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Theron Atlanta ⏵ (First appearance)
- Obadiah Stane's father (Only in flashback)
- Bernie Devlin (Only in flashback) (First appearance)
- Ruffer (Only in flashback) (First appearance; dies)
- Chessmen (Only in flashback)
- Bishop (Alban Emond) (Only in flashback)
- Knight (Fletcher Heggs) (Only in flashback)
- Rook (Barnabus Kinloch) (Only in flashback)
- Thundersword (Mentioned)
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Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
- Circuits Breaker (First appearance) (Destruction)
Synopsis for "Revelations"
Madame Masque and Obadiah Stane are conspiring at his west coast Stane International facility about how to deal with the nuisance of Circuits Maximus. Stane relays a number of stories about his younger years in which he has had to cheat his way to success. Bethany Cabe lies unconscious after having been kidnapped[1] and one of his scientist henchman is looking to carry out an experiment on her.
At Circuits Maximus, Tony Stark is frustrated by his inability to save Bethany from kidnap due to his low tech suit of armor and Rhodes is frustrated about his challenges in dealing with Thundersword but the Erwin siblings push them to snap out of it and take action.
Meanwhile, Stane shows Madame Masque a sophisticated drone weapon he has built to attack the headquarters of Circuits Maximus. After it is launched, Tony detects it on radar and him and Jim don their Iron Man suits to deal with the menace. They work as an effective team to destroy the device before any serious harm can be dealt. Later, Cly asks Stark if he plans to become Iron Man again but Stark insists he is done wearing the armor and only has a spare suit to run tests.
Stane meanwhile dupes Madame Masque and injects her with a syringe. Afterwards, Bethany Cabe awakens and appears to be completely under Stane's control after the experiment, much to his delight.
Solicit Synopsis
Notes
- This issue details the origin of Obadiah Stane.
- In this issue, Madame Masque and Bethany Cabe exchange their conciousnesses into each other's bodies. The two will be restored (and more details will be given on this "Psyche Transfer Process") in Iron Man #204.
- This issue contains a letters page "Printed Circuits". Letters are published from Donald King, Dr. Gerald Lyman, Dennis Price, Larry Dudock, John Banner, and Joseph Meach.
Chronology Notes[]
This story has a series of flashbacks that affect the chronology of the following characters: Obadiah Stane:
- ⏴ Page 3, Panel 5 to Page 4, Panel 7 ⏵ - A young Obadiah witnesses his father, feeling invincible from his luck playing dice, committing suicide accidentally by playing Russian roulette.
- ⏴ Page 8, Panel 5 to Page 9, Panel 5 ⏵ - A young prematurely bald Obadiah finds himself without friends and puts all his efforts into intellectual pursuits. He beats a rival chess player at this school after killing the boy's dog to throw him off his game.
- ⏴ Page 13, Panel 1 to Page 13, Panel 4 ⏵ - A teenage Obadiah fools his boss into believing his wife is cheating on him so as to erode his confidence and take control of the company.