Synopsis
Iron Man #84 synopsis by
T Vernon
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Iron Man rushes the Enervator to the hospital where Happy Hogan lies in critical condition from the injuries sustained while standing in for Shellhead in issues #82-83. After dropping the device off, he returns as Tony Stark to comfort Pepper—but she blames him for Happy’s condition. Happy is operated on with the Enervator in use and the surgery is a success. As he is being wheeled to a recovery room he transforms into the gigantic crazed Freak and escapes into the building. Tony suits up, again preparing to face a dangerous friend….
Interlude: Michael O’Brien is still trying to prove that Tony Stark murdered his brother Kevin, the Guardsman (in issue #46)….
After searching the hospital, Iron Man finds the Freak in the cobalt storage room and the monster has absorbed enough radiation to make him a walking bomb. It has also increased his strength so he can throw Shellhead through the wall and into the sewer. The Freak can also shoot energy blasts; hospital officials choose to flood the tunnel to send the dangerous duo out into the East River where they meet again aboard a ship. Freak beats on Iron Man with a two-ton crane and destroys a police helicopter that comes too close. The fight continues onto a bridge where the mad monster hurls his foe from a tower down to the roadbed far below. Freak engages Iron Man in a bear hug and the radiation fuses all of the armor’s circuits. The fiend then and leaps aboard a passing train, leaving the disabled hero helpless behind him….
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