This issue has the origin and first appearance of The Melter. How’d he get started? He was a really, really bad inventor. He was trying to make an “inspection beam” (is that a flashlight?) but it turned out it could melt iron. So he strapped it to his chest and attacked Iron Man.
He melts off Iron Man’s arm-armor, and Iron Man beats him by busting a steam pip with magnets.
And for the rematch…
Aluminum.
And then Pepper takes dictation.
Nobody says “we’ve a lot of dictation to catch up on.” I get the sense Stan Lee just had no idea what an exec does during work hours.
These stories are just not good. The elements of a good hero and villains are there, but it’s just not working. And what is with all the chest-beams? Why did Stan Lee think that people would want to wear a weapon on their chest?