Synopsis
Invincible Iron Man (1998 series) #53 synopsis by
T Vernon
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Iron Man invades a Chinatown drug house producing Sleeping Dragon, the latest designer drug to hit the streets. He demands to know who is behind all this but stopping the house manager from suicide results in his death from a faceful of his own drug….
Later, Tony has his new AI assistant Friday analyze the drug; it is a combination of other drugs that includes bursts of extreme violence in its withdrawal symptoms….
A Coast Guard team searches a Russian ship suspected of smuggling the drug into the US but they find nothing….
A dude coming off his Sleeping Dragon high slashes his girlfriend when he finds she’s taken some of his stash and when his dealer tries to jack up the price the junkie kills the man but he is then killed by a mystery figure with a mechanical hand….
In a remote Asian monastery, a young monk named Temugin excels at his studies to impress his teachers. He then receives a gift from a messenger, representing the unknown father who left him to the monastery to raise. The gift is from his late father: the hands of the Mandarin bearing the ten Rings of Power and his destiny is to destroy Iron Man….
In the Stark garage, Tony and Pepper Potts almost have a romantic moment but after she is gone, he is intercepted by the cyborg Ayisha Ashirov and she is angry….
CharactersGood (or All)Plus: Ayisha Ashirov, Temugin.