What's happening? A lot, honestly. Tony is bouncing around the world bagging some honeys and making super sweet roller skates for the U.S. military before taking a date to the circus. He saves the day (and the circus) but in doing so offends some bleeding hearts with his foul appearance. The bird he's with on the date says Iron Man should change his color scheme, so Tony Stark, the fashionista, changes his costume in just the second issue of his existence. By spraypainting it gold. After losing track of some other broad he had on the line, he investigates a town that has become mass hypnotized. Here he fights a giant neanderthal man with a huge club, whom the denizens of the town worship.
Turns out the giant caveman was a robot being controlled by little green men in a UFO hidden by a cloud. Seriously. The green men hit the bricks after Tony destroys their giant caveman/robot, intending to tell their masters that Earth is now under the protection of Iron Men.
ETC: Tony is unable to join his friends for some night swimming because his torso is completely covered by the complex machine that keeps his heart beating. I don't want to go too deep into the sexcapades of a character in what is essentially a children's book, but if Tony is stringing along all these babes, is he doing so while adhering to a vow of chastity? Man, that HAS to be rough. Right?
Also, while modern comics (and science fiction) like to use nanotechnology or gravimetric .... shit to hand wave explanations of the comic book science, the source du jour in the early 60s was transistors. Yep. Transistors.
MVP: Marion. She did some deep soul-searching to pick out Tony's new color scheme, and dammit, she deserves credit.
MIA: In Tales of Suspense 39, Tony is overcome at one point with the realization that he is trapped forever in the Iron Man suit. In fact, he wonders off at the end of the story in a hat and big duster, presumably in much the same situation as The Thing or The Hulk. But at the beginning of this issue, Tony is back to living his life pretty much as before, only now he's shy about taking his shirt off at the pool. He has become, essentially, a chubby 14-year-old.
WTF: The roller skates Tony gives the Army. They can collapse (because of the tiny transistors, this is important to remember, you might want to write that down and remind yourself periodically) and attach to the bottom of the boot. Once activated, the troops can roller skate at 60 MPH down the highway. The general seems really excited about this, but... I think he's bullshitting Tony here. How the hell can you steer or stop roller skates at that speed? And if this crap can be broken down so well, why don't you make a collapsible bicycle? Or better yet, INDESTRUCTIBLE TANK?
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