Iron Man #164 [Newsstand]

(November 1982)

Look Like A Big League Player (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Cracker Jack / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Deadly Blessing (Table of Contents: 2)

Iron Man / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Denny O'Neil

Pencils

Luke McDonnell

Inks

Steve Mitchell

Colors

Bob Sharen

Letters

Rick Parker

First Line of Dialogue or Text

For an instant,

Genre

superhero

Characters

Iron Man [Tony Stark]; James Rhodes; Vic Martinelli; Yvette Avril; Indries Moomji; "the master" [Obadiah Stane] (villain, partially seen); Laird of Travail (introduction, villain); Chessmen [Bishop; Pawn; Rook; Knight (dies)] (villains)

Synopsis

Bishop breaks the Knight out of jail but kills him because he failed their master. Vic Martinelli, Stark's head of security, learns that the person behind both the attack on Stark International and the attack by the Knight is from Glen Travail in northern Scotland. At the same time, Stark is invited to Scotland by the Laird of Travail. In Scotland, Iron Man battles and defeats the Bishop. Rhodey has been captured by the Laird and covered in poisonous spiders somewhere in the castle. Iron Man has one hour to rescue him.

Reprints

• in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #169 (5 janvier 1984)
• in Iron Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #10 - The Enemy Within (October 2013)

Now Bubble Yum Is SuperYum (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Bubble Yum / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Printed Circuits / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Jens H. Altman, Doug Buseck, Don Carnes, David Pirkle and Jeff Rees.