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At one of the many factories in the vast industrial complex of Anthony Stark Enterprises,

the lights burn late this night.

There is tension in the air.

I'm leaving with the senator for the hearing, Pepper.

Take care of Happy.

Don't worry, Mr. Stark.

Less than ten seconds later, a startling event occurs.

So mysterious, so fantastically unbelievable that it is destined to overshadow all else.

Look, in the sky, those strange flashing bullets.

What does it mean?

It isn't lightning.

We're being bathed in waves of shimmering light.

It seems to be alive.

The engine stopped.

We're stalled.

We can't get out.

In one, two, three seconds, the car and its occupants seem to vanish from the face of the earth.

Meanwhile, deep in the heart of the Orient,

we find the grim and foreboding castle of the inscrutable Mandarin.

Again, I have attained the unattainable.

The prize is mine.

Hold.

O stands behind the Mandarin.

I am General Yan.

My troops surround your castle.

We demand you aid our army.

You dare make demands of the Mandarin?

At attention, Abinga.

I shall put your entire force throughout.

At that very instant, a lethal rain of giant hailstones shatters the hapless troops,

driving them to a shelter in the surrounding hills.

So much for your helpless minions, and now for you.

We shall leave quietly excellency if you most graciously permit.

Go then, and remember this well.

The Mandarin serves no nation, but soon all of us will be beneath my heel.

And now I shall complete the pleasant task I have started.

As the awesome Oriental continues to twirl his complex electronic dials,

the police car, half a world away, suddenly materializes--

What?

--without the presence of one of its occupants.

Stark, he's gone.

I don't know how he did it, but he's managed to spear himself away.

Although the senator doesn't know how it happened,

Tony Stark begins to guess the awesome truth.

I'm in the grip of a powerful space-time continuum.

Only a brilliant, a superhuman brain could harness such a power.

A Mandarin, precisely Stark, a brain such as mine.

You used one of your devilish devices to bring me here, but why?

Actually, it was Iron Man, I thought.

But I could not locate him on my multidimensional scanner.

Therefore, as his employer, it is only fitting that you take his place.

For only once in the past has he dared to threaten me, the Mandarin,

with violence against my passion.

I can still feel the sting of his iron fist,

as it struck me, the Mandarin, who had never known physical violence before.

It is a pity Iron Man himself was not in your car

when I transdimensionalized you to my castle.

My very soul hungers to see him cringe helplessly before my unassailable power.

But now that I stand on the threshold of my greatest triumph,

it is only fitting that he or you, his compatriot,

be forced to helplessly witness my earth-shaking victory,

for I am about to unreach.

Altimo!

Altimo? Who's Altimo?

You shall see soon enough.

What?

Not my attached case. - Silence.

This time I take no chances.

An explosive might be hidden within.

And the one thing that can save Tony Stark,

now lies buried deep in the murky moat below.

At last, the time has come.

The moment I move this lever, the world will be mine.

Now, let Altimo live.

As the fateful lever is pushed forward,

a tremendous roar is heard throughout the countryside,

as from within the depth of a volcano thought to be long dead,

the most gigantic figure ever seen by mortal eyes emerges.

The towering, terrific, titanic figure of Altimo.

Without his attached case, Tony Stark is unable to become Iron Man,

as the greatest menace ever to face mankind,

comes closer, closer, and closer.

Stark is unable to become Iron Man, as Altimo runs amok.

Even as we speak, Altimo comes closer.

I've got to stall for time and hope for a miracle.

The greatest weapon the world has ever known,

for he is a living weapon because of him.

The Mandarin shall reign supreme.

And Iron Man is helpless to stop him.

Now stand back.

When a turn of a dial, I shall bring Altimo into view,

and under my complete control.

As Tony Stark, I am no match for the Power Rings he wears.

If I can reach my attached case below,

I've got the chance at it,

while the Mandarin's attention is riveted upon his control panel.

Even now, an image comes into view.

If I can just back up to the stairway in time.

What is this?

Troops attempting to attack my castle.

The abysmal fools, they shall be the first to feel Altimo's power.

He is almost upon them.

I've lost all interest in you,

therefore let me speed you on your way with one final power blast.

Thus do I show my utter disdain for both of you,

you and that accursed Iron Man.

And when he comes to gain retribution,

he too shall be defeated with clones.

Thrown backward by the titanic force of the Mandarin's Power Rings,

the captive industrialist is hurled toward the castle stairway like a helpless puppet.

And now I can turn to all momentous manners.

But the Mandarin has made his first fateful error.

Once again, my protective chest of ice has saved my life.

This time by serving as a shockproof vest.

What? A castle?

It's shaking up a storm.

Altimo! It's him.

The only answer.

But no matter how monstrous he is,

no matter how powerful,

if I can reach my attaché case in the moat below,

Iron Man will live again to fight once more.

But then, a split second later...

It is the living behemoth.

The Mandarin has conjured up demons against us.

Three! Three! And we are trampled under foot.

Thus, while some of the troops flee in panic,

others raise their weapons.

Look! He prepares to strike!

And strike he does.

As Altimo's two gleaming eye beams

become twin boats of explosive, destructive force.

Dump for your lives!

Within seconds, the frenzied infantrymen are in full retreat.

While Altimo dashes tons of rock and shale to earth

in a mad paroxysm of uncontrollable rage.

And it is at this fateful moment

that the golden form of Iron Man appears,

almost totally dwarfed by the awesome figure

towering maniacally above him.

Altimo!

I found you, alas!

He's looking down. He sees me.

And rise! They're starting to gleam!

Well, halfway around the globe, in Washington, D.C.

Is it true, Senator, that you intend to cite Tony Stark

for contempt of Congress?

And impound all his assets and properties?

Yes, indeed.

I'm going to do just exactly that, boys.

Tony Stark has just 48 hours to put in an appearance,

or each of his government contracts will be canceled.

And that means you'll be out of business for good.

Faced with ruin for disappearing from a congressional committee,

fighting for his life against the Mandarin and Altimo,

how can Tony Stark hope to save himself?

But wait! What is that armored fool attempting to do now?

My creature is absolutely unbeatable!

By the mere pressure of a button, I attack the Stark again!

Ah, a terrifying jackal that he is.

In his blind, cowardly panic, he takes the wrong direction.

He heads even deeper into Altimo's domain.

This is far better than I could have planned it myself.

He thinks he's safe.

He does not realize he has rendered atop the very volcano

in which I created Altimo.

Earth-shaking footsteps behind me.

Azamo will be here in seconds.

Oh, what damage he can do to mankind

while he's under the control of a mad scientific genius like the Mandarin.

I brace myself and deliver my highest-velocity repulsor ray blast.

It's unbelievable!

He shields himself from it with one easy sweep of his gigantic arm.

And watching the entire proceeding from a TV scanner complex in his castle,

we find...

Oh, the Mandarin wins at last.

I am in his dome.

A moment of truth.

A time for decision.

There can be no more running.

Only one of us will leave this volcano peak alive.

The final outcome of their battle is a happy and foregone conclusion.

In fact, as a final act of mercy,

I intensify Altimo's heat rays.

Thus, in my infinite benevolence,

I end the battle quickly for my fore-domed victim.

And thousands of yards away at the peak of the smoldering volcano.

Whatever move I make will have to be now.

He's almost on top of me.

Now or never.

The beings are starting to emanate from his eyes.

He's preparing his most potent lethal strike.

One thing's for sure, I can't outrun him.

All my circuits are activated.

My body braced for the shock.

Moving with blinding speed,

the great golden Avenger jets himself safely past the most withering,

destructive eye blast Altimo is able to hurt.

But then, the most extraordinary event of all occurs

before Altimo can make another move.

He is transfixed as the beams from his eyes hit the vulnerable eye of the volcano.

He erupts with a force which totally dwarfs his own destructive power.

Altimo, who never really lived, is now truly dead.

And within the lonely, almost legendary castle of the Mandarin?

So, Ironman was not freeing in fear.

He deliberately lured Altimo to that very spot.

But there remains one major victory which I still show in.

But, bring the moat outside and bring me the body of Tony Stark.

Yet, long moments later...

Master, there is no trace of victim.

Moat is empty?

Ah, Ironman, of course.

It is he who has removed the lifeless Tony Stark.

But to no avail, the victory still is mine.

And one day, Altimo shall rise again.

Darkness begins to fall.

I've got to make my move.

The air base, another stroke of luck.

They've dismantled most of the base already.

But there's still one jet fighter left,

and only two armed guards standing between me and that flying passport to freedom.

And then, like a great golden-hued gladiator...

Behold, the armored one!

But unknown to the Ironclad Crusader,

he will soon be confronted by a new and more immediate problem.

Well, boys, looks like Stark has missed his deadline.

In just five minutes.

He's had it.

Sorry to have kept you waiting, Senator.

Just a little unfinished business I had to clean up.

Tony Stark makes you feel he's a cool exec from the hottest deal.

As Ironman, all jets ablaze.

He's tight and slight, but we close a race.

Amazing armor.

Amazing armor.