After a quick costume change/growth spurt...
Well, Iron Man is tough enough to snatch the wand...
The moral: Don't go to Florida. This kinda stuff happens every day down there.
From Iron Man Annual #3 (1976)
Thursday, August 23, 2018
The Night Of Five Molocule Men!!
It starts with some kids cosplaying in the swamp, because that isn't dangerous at all...
See what I mean?
Man-Thing shows up to save Cynthia from the alligator...
...but she still panics, and manages to run into a radioactive quicksand pit, because Marvel Universe...
...and then...
...it turns out that it was the real wand of the actual Molecule Man, whom everyone thought was dead, but no, he had actually transferred his mind into the wand, and now he's awake and has taken over her!!
After a quick costume change/growth spurt...
...she terrorizes poor Mom...
...and then we look inside her crowded noggin...
...and she's kicking the crap outta Iron Man, until Man-Thing intervenes again...
...and everything goes back to normal...
...but oh, that troublesome wand!
HOLY CRAP!!!!!
Well, Iron Man is tough enough to snatch the wand...
...but is he tough enough to Shatner-act his way out of being possessed himself?
Fortunately, Man-Thing again steps in...
...and thus endeth the threat.
The moral: Don't go to Florida. This kinda stuff happens every day down there.
From Iron Man Annual #3 (1976)
After a quick costume change/growth spurt...
Well, Iron Man is tough enough to snatch the wand...
The moral: Don't go to Florida. This kinda stuff happens every day down there.
From Iron Man Annual #3 (1976)
OMG, I'm fairly certain I actually read that comic around the time it came out. I don't think I owned it, though? It doesn't have the "I've read this two dozen times" feel it would have if it had been one of the very small handful of comics I had in the 1970s. But certainly most of the plot beats there seem really familiar. (Though not including the "turn Mom into a doll" bit you put on Twitter.)
ReplyDeleteI also think the pre-teen me might have had a crush on the little girl in the Iron Man costume...
Just went to look it up, and yup, that cover is incredibly familiar.
ReplyDeleteIron Man's faceplate can sweat? Truly, Tony Stark is a genius...
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