Synopsis
Iron Man (1968 series) #232 synopsis by
T Vernon
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Iron Man finds himself walking through a darkened tunnel full of electronics components, searching for a quarry that he must destroy. He hears his enemy's electric hum and feels it is taunting him, as he fires at it and misses. He enters the monster's lair and finds that fighting it only makes it stronger. It enters his armor and tears it apart...
...Tony awakens to find himself lying in a pit of corpses. He encounters Rhodey in an older Iron Man armor, clearing out the dead and telling Tony that they are all his victims. Armored Rhodey offers the distraught Tony a drink at his bar and tells him, instead of looking for a way out, to look for a way in. Tony finds himself strung up in wires and cables and hanging from the ceiling. The monster arrives and it looks like a slapdash electronic version of Tony himself. It tries to steal his soul by draining his power but Tony fights it off. When things look bleak, Rhodey tells Tony to “turn it around.” Tony uses his repulsors to drain the monster's energy rather than blasting it; Tony uses its power against it and soon the evil creature explodes...
...waking Tony up from his nightmare. He realizes that his guilt over the damage caused by his stolen technology will always be a part of him—a beast within—yet he can only accept it and get on, as best as he can, with the rest of his life....