Appearing in "Return of the Freak"
Featured Characters:
- ⏴ Iron Man (Tony Stark) ⏵ (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Stark Industries (Main story and recap)
- Pepper Hogan (Main story and recap)
- Happy Hogan (Only in recap)
- ⏴ Roxanne Gilbert ⏵
Antagonists:
- Freak (Eddie March) (Impersonates Iron Man and possessed by Krimonn in recap)
Other Characters:
- Gaines Motors (First appearance)
- Numerous unnamed employees
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- Doctor Spectrum's Power Prism (Krimonn) (Possessing Eddie March in recap)
- Thor (Main story and recap)
- Dr. Don Blake (Main story and flashback)
- DPD (Main story and flashback)
- Numerous unnamed police officers (Main story and flashback)
- Doctor Spectrum (Kinji Obatu) (Only in flashback)
- Rokk (Only in recap)
- Hutzel Hospital
- Numerous unnamed employees
- Numerous unnamed Detroiters
- Lord (Invoked)
- Bruce Lee (Referenced) (Deceased) (Topical Reference)
- Marty March (Named only)
- Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) (Only in flashforward)
- McDonnell Douglas (Topical Reference)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Deviant Skrulls (Only in recap)
- Asgardians (Main story and recap)
- Mutants (Only in flashforward)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Asia
- North America (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Iron Man Armor MK IV (Main story and flashback)
- Doctor Spectrum's Power Prism (Only in recap)
- Mjolnir (Only in recap)
- Iron Man's Briefcase
- Enervator
Synopsis for "Return of the Freak"
Iron Man helps save workers at Gaines Motors from being crushed by machinery, then heads to the hospital where Eddie is. Elsewhere, Roxanne sets out on a personal mission. Tony arrives as Dr. Blake is operating, but Blake finds that he needs to increase Eddie's strength in order to save him. Tony offers to supply his Enervator device that he once used to save Happy Hogan's life. However, he cautions them that it turned Happy into the Freak. With no other options, they use the Enervator on low power, but within moments Eddie transforms into the Freak, gets loose, and goes on a rampage. Iron Man pursues and fights the Freak, finally using low-power repulsor ray jolts to drive him back to the hospital. He knocks the Freak unconscious by delivering a nerve jab to his neck, turning him back into Eddie. Blake completes his surgery but tells Tony that the damage Eddie took will leave him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Tony finds a note at his office from Roxanne; she has gone to Vietnam to find Eddie's missing brother Marty.
Notes
Publisher Notes[]
- This issue contains a letters page, "Sock It To Shell-Head!". Letters are published from Hector Randis Spartan, Gail Teague, Dave Ammerman, and Lester Boutillier.
- This issue contains a Marvel Value Stamp [1] Vol 1 80: Ghost Rider.