Synopsis
Iron Man (1968 series) #249 synopsis by
T Vernon
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A strange artifact suddenly appears before Doctor Doom in his palace in Latveria and he becomes obsessed with understanding this very powerful device....
In California, Iron Man is at the ceremony dedicating the new mall replacing the one that had been destroyed when an identical artifact appears before him. Passing it off a part of the show he takes it back to his lab for study (delegating all the hard work to his staff) while he is checked out by Dr Erica Sondheim and driven home by the faithful Rae Lacoste....
When Doom learns that Iron Man also has one of these artifacts, he is not amused and flies to America to confront Tony Stark. Doom offers to buy the artifact; Tony refuses; Doom leaves, with a threat on his iron lips.... So Tony has Stark Enterprises evacuated and has James Rhodes prepared to blow up the artifact should any baddies get close to it....
Doom sends an army of robots to battle Iron Man while he enters the vault; to Rhodey's surprise, the artifact nullifies the explosions and leaves the vault to go to Doom on its own. After the robots are vanquished, Shellhead takes off after Doom....
At his rented villa not far away, Doom joins the two objects together and they start emitting a black sentient light. Iron Man crashes through the wall and the two adversaries are swallowed up by the black light and vanish....
CharactersGood (or All)Plus: Erica Sondheim, Mrs. Arbogast, Rae LaCoste.