Story by Danny
Fingleroth and art by Dwayne Turner (212) and Javier Saltares (213).
Our first two
part story and Bob Layton does the covers with no Chaykin involvement.
The story opens
in Tony Stark’s Los Angeles laboratory and he’s dealing with the death of one
of his staff and the reaction of his sister, Cly Erwin, who also works
there. I suppose since it is Iron Man’s
book we should deal with his on going plots.
But we then
head to Long Island and see David Fortunov, better known as Dominic Fortune,
talking with his son Jerry. Dom is
working out and telling his son that he feels the best he has in years since
returning to being Dominic Fortune (And it agrees with him in each appearance
he seems to be growing back his hair.)
Jerry is
threatening to have his father committed. Jerry points out an award the David
Fortunov won as Pontiac Dealer of the Year in 1965 but Dom says he was dead
inside. The trail to Sabbath is leading
to Simon Steele, Jerry suggests that there have been attempts on his life (see
Web of Spiderman #10) and may be he should back off.
Just then Dom
gets a call from his private eye, he has found Sabbath Raven in Los Angeles. Jerry resists signing the committal papers
and follows his dad to LA.
We then head to
Steele Industries and discover that Simon Steele has hired Iron Monger to take
out Dominic Fortune and Spiderman if he shows up. Simon and a young woman he
calls Sabbath.
Jerry has been
looking for his father and runs into Cly Erwin, they end up discussing their issues
and decide to help each other.
Dom has walked
right into a trap but manages to catch a passing helicopter with a grappling
hook and ride the rope to safety. Dom
jumps off on the roof of the convention centre where an electronics expo is
being held. Tony and Rhodey are there
and Iron Monger attacks Dom crashing into the convention centre. Tony suits up and fights Iron Monger (who is
no longer Obadiah Stane) but Iron Monger blast Dom, just as Jerry and Cly
arrive on the scene. Dom says that he is
dying and father and son say their goodbyes as Dom fades away. A doctor arrives on the scene and declares
Dom dead.
The next day
Jerry decides to continue his father’s legacy as the new Dominic Fortune and
wearing the suit. And on that cliff
hanger the issue ends.
The next issue
opens with the new Dominic Fortune fighting thugs to get some information.
(Luckily his old man taught him to take care of himself in a fight.) He finds out where Steele is holed up and
records a message for his wife Betty explaining that he must become the new
Dominic Fortune to capture his father’s murderers.
Cly tries to
talk him out of it but he won’t listen. So she goes to see Tony to see if he can
talk to Jerry. Jerry refuses to listen and leave the matter to the police. Tony points out that Jerry is an amateur
which the young lawyer points out that Iron Man was a beginner once too. Unable
to Jerry, Tony follows in stealth mode.
At Steele’s
mansion we discover that the original Dominic Fortune isn’t dead. And he is
introduced to the still youthful Sabbath Raven.
Iron man is
delayed stopping a traffic accident and Jerry arrives at the Steele mansion
where he is captured and lead to his father’s cell only for Dom to use the
opportunity to escape. Father and son
team up to capture Steele. Iron Man
arrives to help but Steele and Sabbath have created and electronics scrambler
that freezes Tony’s armour.
Jerry shoves
his father out of the path of a bullet and is hit. Steele and Sabbath take advantage of the
arrival of more guards to escape. Cly
has arrived and turns off the scrambler and they beat the guards.
Jerry dies in
his father’s arms. The next day Dominic
returns to New York with his son’s body.
Cly reveals that the young woman is the daughter of the original Sabbath
Raven and Steele’s brother. Dom swears to capture his son’s killers.
A nice two part
story, I’m not too keen on the fakeout death and I wouldn’t have objected to
Jerry being Dominic Fortune a bit longer maybe getting some training from his
father.
I’m not sure if
Jerry is the son we saw in the Spiderman issues that son wears glasses and
Jerry doesn’t. The other son has three
children and there is no hint that Jerry has kids. It’s a nice tale of legacies and Cly’s
struggles with her brother’s legacy nicely ties the story into Dominic
Fortune’s here.
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