These issues are the bridge between the Iron Man/Watcher split to the Iron Man/Captain America split.
It’s interesting that, from the very beginning, the characters were pitted against each other.
Except in issue #58, it’s not Cap.
It’s Chameleon. Which is dumb. Chameleon shouldn’t be able to fight Iron Man just because he’s in a Cap costume. Iron Man should have eviscerated him.
Anyway, The Avengers cameo at the end, and Tony Stark feels a little humiliated about being duped so he offers a soliloquy on brains vs violence.
There’s a Tales of the Watcher at the end, but that’s the last one. With issue #59, Marvel cancelled Tales of the Watcher and instead made this an Iron Man/Captain America split book.
Here’s how the “Tales” feature ends…