IRON MAN # 206
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Synopsis: :
When Goliath of the Masters of Evil breaks loose from the West Coast Avengers'  compound,   Hawkeye and  Mockingbird  are the only ones around at the time who are left to recapture him. However, as Goliath has the strength of Wonder Man and Thor, he proves too much for the two Avengers, until  Iron Man  shows up to rescue them. The armoured avenger then goes one on one against Goliath, matching blow for blow. However, Iron Man is suddenly diverted from the battle by a distress call from Rhodey who is piloting the Stark Space Shuttle, and is about to burn up within the Earth's atmosphere after a sabotage plot by AIM. Having rescued Rhodey, Shellhead returns to deal with Goliath and finally decides not to hold back any longer, firing the full force of his new pulse bolts into Goliath's mouth, knocking him out cold.


Observations:

This is Iron Man's 2nd battle with Goliath, the first being in Iron Man Annual 6. However, it was Rhodey wearing the suit at the time.

The actual title of the issue is "Prisons". "Attack of the 50 Ft Goliath" came from the teaser at the end of Iron Man #205 and recalls the 1950s Sci-fi B-movie, "Attack of the 50 Ft Woman".

Patronising lines:

Mockingbird to Hawkeye: "Since you're not being funny, you might as well shut up!"


Sadism:

Goliath throws the adamantium cell in which Hawkeye and Mockingbird are hiding out into the ocean, hoping to drown them.

Iron Man's defeat of Goliath undoubtedly will give the villain the "granddaddy of sore throats".


Art Notes:

All the base figures here were rendered in Poser (with the exception of Mockingbird) and repainted into my own style. Mockingbird utilises the beautiful Rebecca Romijn Stamos's likeness. Apart from the obvious physical California girl similarity, Rebecca had the perfect hairstyle in the original picture of her for the style that Mockingbird was sporting in this issue and around this particular time.

Of course, a few artistic liberties were taken with the sizing etc. Goliath is not shown here full height (more like 15 Ft Goliath), otherwise the other figures would have to be extremely small and would not look good in the picture, or Goliath would himself have to be outside the picture if the others remained their current height. Hawkeye probably wouldn't be that high up either, but put him any lower down and that doesn't work either. So you'll just have to imagine he's standing on a rock or a stray stool someone left lying about or something.