Synopsis
Invincible Iron Man (1998 series) #59 synopsis by
T Vernon
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At an archaeological site in modern-day Wales, Dr. Ellen Mallory and her team make a surprising discovery….
Tony Stark is working on a time machine with Pepper Potts and notices that things are cold between her and husband Happy Hogan. Tony asks about it but Pepper doesn’t want to talk about it, as she’s bearing a lot of misery and resentment. Friday interrupts with a call from Dr. Mallory who shows Tony what they have discovered: Iron Man’s helmet buried in an ancient Celtic site. After being assured of its genuineness, he takes this as proof that his time machine works. Pepper is concerned about all of the problems seen with time travel in popular culture but Tony insists on suiting up as Iron Man and journeying to the past. He has the capability of returning whenever he wants and an automatic recall will kick in after forty hours if he’s back at the arrival point. Shellhead goes back into the past…
…and as soon as he arrives he is attacked by a knight on horseback. He then discovers the trip reversed the polarization of his armor and none of its weapons work so he grabs the knight’s lance and flips him off his horse. He takes the horse and lance and heads off. He encounters a group of soldiers escorting a noblewoman through the forest. When they are ambushed by a pack of bandits, Iron Man joins in and helps fight the interlopers off. A strange mist knocks our hero out….
Tony awakens to find Aislinn tending to his wounds. She is the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter and a sorceress; she marvels at Anthony of York’s armor—and then has her guards take him to the dungeon where she plans to torture him to learn the secret of his armor….
In the present, Dr. Mallory shows Pepper the one thing they didn’t show Tony: the Iron Man helmet contains a human skull….