Tales of Suspense #75

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Synopsis

When using the Enervation Intensifier device in order to heal Happy Hogan of his wounds, Iron Man accidentally transforms his friend and body guard into a horrible creature dubbed "The Freak".Iron Man Story-"The Fury of... the Freak!"In the previous issue, Happy Hogan was transformed into a brutish monster called the Freak by one of Tony Stark's inventions by accident. Feeling like it's his responsibility to stop the Freak from rampaging, Iron Man confronts him in a power station. Unfortunately, Iron Man didn't manage to recharge his transistors enough, and has to defeat the Freak before his transistors run out of energy. After trying to stop him in hand-to-hand combat, Iron Man realises that he's can't defeat the Freak by punching him. He's about to use one of hs built in weapons to stop the Freak, when he realises that they'll kill him if he uses them. Iron Man then plans to lead the Freak to his lab, where he can hopefully reverse the effects of the Enervator and turn Happy back to normal.As Iron Man runs away from the Freak, to try and lead him to his lab, his transistors start to lose more and more energy until Iron Man doesn't have enough energy left to control the armour, and collapses. The Freak is about to kill Iron Man, when he hears Pepper Potts from afar. The Freak then heads after Pepper, since he vaguely remembers that he loves her as Happy Hogan. The Freak finds Pepper in Tony Stark's lab, talking to Senator Byrd, who wants Tony Stark to reveal the secrets of the Iron Man armour, otherwise he'll arrest him. The Freak manages to knock out Senator Byrd in his haste to get to Pepper, who then faints when she realises what the Freak wants.The Freak then picks up Pepper's body and heads to the window, where he's spotted by some of Senator Byrd's guards. They then shoot at the Freak, who drops Pepper as a result. Although it looks like she's going to fall to her death, Iron Man has recovered by now, and manages to save Pepper. Iron Man then quickly heads up...