Appearing in "If This Be Bedlam!"
Amazing Spider-Man #74
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Billy Connors
- Martha Connors
- Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) (Mentioned)
- Randy Robertson
- Josh Kittling
- Louis Wilson
- May Parker (Mentioned)
- Flash Thompson (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York State
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Lower East Side
- Peter and Harry's Apartment
- Manhattan
- New York City
- Florida (Mentioned)
- New York State
- United States of America
- North America
Items:
Synopsis for "If This Be Bedlam!"
Amazing Spider-Man #74
Silvermane has demanded that Curt Connors assist in deciphering the tablet that he has stolen. Connors is locked in the room with the Kingpin's henchman Wilson. The stress of the whole episode causes Curt to begin to change into the Lizard, a transformation he can suppress with great difficulty.
When Silvermane's mouthpiece Caesar Cicero kidnaps the Connors family, Spider-Man tracks him down and fights off his Maggia thugs. However Cicero manages to escape and when he sets off a bomb in his hideout, he (incorrectly) believes Spider-Man to be dead. Resuming his identity of Peter Parker because he has to attend class, Peter is distant to everyone who tries to talk to him.
Meanwhile, Connors and Wilson have cracked the secret of the tablet and provided what Silvermane seeks: A potion which will reverse the aging process and make him a young man once more. When Silvermane ingests the potion he passes out. When Marko believes that Connors really poisoned Silvermane, he is about to pummel the scientist when suddenly Silvermane rises announcing that the potion worked. Marko looks over his shoulder and sees that Silvermane has been reduced in age to a man in his prime.
Appearing in "The Black Knight!"
Tales of Suspense #59
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Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Winged Horses / Pegasi
- Asgardians
- Ants (Mentioned)
- Fish (Mentioned)
Locations:
Items:
- Mjolnir
- Captain America's Shield
- Captain America's Uniform
- Giant-Man's Suit
- Wasp's Suit
- Iron Man Armor Model 2
- Iron Man's Briefcase
- Black Knight Armor
- Black Knight's Power Lance
Events:
- Christmas (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "The Black Knight!"
Tales of Suspense #59
They're suspicious! They know I'm keeping something from them! What will happen next--when Tony Stark does not return? 
Black Knight's flying horse tracks down his owner to the state penitentiary and gets close to the window of Black Knight's cell. Black Knight extends his hand out of the window into the horse's saddle bag and retrieves a disolvo-ray, which he uses to dissolve the window bars and escape on his steed. He swears to take revenge on the Avengers.
Meanwhile, in Avengers Mansion, all members are waiting for Wasp to finish getting ready to attend a charity benefit. With Iron Man remaining in the mansion in case of emergency, the other Avengers leave. The alarm of Stark's factory goes off, and he's forced to drive there. When Tony arrives, he collapses in front of Happy and Pepper because his chest device is running out of power. He tries to convince his friends to let him stand up and reach his office, but they're too worried to let him move, and they call a doctor.
Seconds later, the lights go out. The Black Knight is assaulting Stark Industries in an effort to draw the Avengers' attention. Tony sneaks past Pepper and Happy while they're distracted by the Black Knight, and shuts himself in his office to recharge his chestplate. After a brief recharge, Tony suits up as Iron Man to battle the Black Knight. Pepper and Happy desperately knock on the door to Stark's office, concerned for his health.
Iron Man breaks through the wall of his office and confronts Black Knight, easily fending off the villain's micro-missiles and flexible steel coils. He dodges an energy blast that hits a storage tower, and the debris threatens the lives of civilians, but Iron Man quickly grabs the falling structure. Back at Stark's office, Happy tries to chop down the door with an axe, to no avail, because he soon discovers the door and even the wall are made of solid steel. Happy climbs out the window and gingerly crosses the building ledge, in order to reach Stark's office from outside. However, the Black Knight suddenly realizes Happy could work as a hostage, and captures him with a lasso.
When Iron Man tries to rescue Happy, Black Knight throws miniature power drainers at Iron Man, and they cling to his armor. In an attempt to get rid of the drainers, Iron Man dives at top speed, shaking off the disks. The Black Knight believes Iron Man has just plummeted to his death, and seeing no use for a hostage, drops Happy. Iron Man catches him and flies him back to the building.
Iron Man takes the Black Knight by surprise, and flips his horse by the hooves, causing the villain to fall off. As he starts to fall to his death, Iron Man convinces him to surrender his power lance in exchange for being saved. The Black Knight gives Iron Man his lance, and the Golen Avenger catches him at the last moment and leaves him with the police.
The victorious hero returns to his office to change back to his civilian identity, but he realizes he can't take his armor off. If he does, he'll black out, and he needs the extra power to stay alive. Iron Man's lament is soon interrupted by Pepper and Happy knocking at the door, after hearing noise from inside the office. Tony receives them as Iron Man, and claims that Stark had to leave through a secret entrance for an emergency that would take him a while to solve. Both Pepper and Happy doubt Iron Man's claims, and while he knows they are suspicious, Tony can't tell them the truth.
Appearing in "The Wrath of Replicus"
Thor #141
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Chuda (First appearance) (Death)
- Replicus (First appearance)
- Slugger Sykes (First appearance) (Death)
- Blackie, one of Slugger Sykes' goons
Other Characters:
- Granny Gardenia (First appearance)
- Peter Parker (Mentioned)
Locations:
- New York City
- Chuda's Laboratory
Items:
Synopsis for "The Wrath of Replicus"
Thor #141
Slugger Sykes and the scientist Chuda are working together to find a means to destroy Thor. At Chuda's lab, Slugger amuses himself by beating up one of Chuda's replicas that was designed to resemble Thor. After the demonstration, Chuda shows Slugger his latest invention: Replicus, an android that can adapt to any situation and can hypothetically defeat Thor in battle. Chuda activates the robot and the two prepare it for it's mission to destroy Thor.
Elsewhere in the city, the Thunder God is making a house call to Granny Gardenia in his mortal guise of Donald Blake. As Blake is checking up on the elderly flower vendor, she is visited by some of Slugger Sykes' men, who have come to check on her because Slugger would regularly purchase a fresh Gardenia every day from her. Although Blake recognizes Slugger's name, Granny Gardenia is completely oblivious to Slugger's true vocation, and Slugger's men give Blake grief over making sure that Gardenia returns to her proper health.
After Slugger's men leave, Granny asks that Blake turn on the television. Upon doing so, both see a news report about Replicus, who had just successfully robbed a bank and managed to escape in spite of the the polices efforts to stop the robot. The robot returns to Syke's hide out and dumps the loot, making their first attempt a success. When Sykes' men ask for a cut of the money, Sykes has Replicus toss them out.
Thus begins a series of crimes by Sykes, who sends out Replicus to do all the dirty work. After enough robberies, Blake decides to do something and changes into the Mighty Thor and goes searching for the machine. Thor finds it all right and the two lock in combat. Thor finds to his surprise that the robot can adapt to any situation and exhibits new powers to counter act any attack that Thor throws at it.
As the battle rages on, inside the lab at Chuda, Chunda explains how he will use the Replicus robot to crush democracy. Slugger, in spite of the fact of being a crook, is a Patriot and refuses to allow the robot to be used to destroy Democracy. In the ensuing struggle, Chuda's devices are damaged and explode killing both men.
With the robots control devices destroyed, Replicus' attack on Thor ends before the robot manages to lift up Thor's hammer. Later, back in his civilian guise of Donald Blake, Thor finds that Granny is doing better but is saddened by the death of Sykes. Blake leaves, musing over the fact that Sykes may have died a nobler man than the he lived.