Feb 3, 2021
Iron Man! The most technologically advanced hero to come out of the 1960s! So why is he fighting that caveman?
It’s not unusual for comic book heroes to go through a bit of a weird phase in their early days (e.g. Superman leaping instead of flying, or Batman wearing tiny purple gloves and casually murdering people). Iron Man, who spent his first five years headlining
Tales of Suspense before getting his own title in 1968, is no exception. Aside from the bulky, monochrome armor, he had to deal with what I can only describe as a grab bag of bizarre, mostly one-shot baddies. I am not the first to comment on this, but I’d like to go beyond pointing and laughing and explore possible reasons why Iron Man’s early adventures are so unusual.
West Coast Avengers (Vol. 2) #1-41, Annual #1-3 (October 1985 – February 1989)
Written by Steve Englehart (#1-29, 31-37, 39, Annual #1-3), Al Milgrom (#30), DG Chichester (#38), Margaret Clark (#38), Mark Gruenwald (#40)
Plot by Tom DeFalco (#41)
Co-plotted by Mark Bright (Annual #1), Mark Gruenwald (Annual #2), Tom DeFalco (Annual #2)
Script by Ralph Macchio (#41)
Layouts by Al Milgrom (#6)
Pencilled by Al Milgrom (#1-5, 7-37, 39-40, Annual #2-3), Kyle Baker (#6), Tom Morgan (#38, 41), Mark Bright (Annual #1)
Inked by Joe Sinnott (#1, 3-5, 7-21), Kim DeMulder (#2, 22), Kyle Baker (#6), Romeo Tanghal (#23), Mike Machlan (#24-27, 29-31, 33-37), Dave Hunt (#28, 38), Tony Dezuniga (#32), Al Milgrom (#39, Annual #2), Mike Gustovich (#40), Tom Morgan (#41), Geof Isherwood (Annual #1), Gerry Talaoc (Annual #3), Chris Ivy (Annual #3)
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War Machine (Don Cheadle) suits up for action when the Iron Man technology invented by the late Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) falls into the wrong hands in
Armor Wars, one of the many Marvel Studios series in the works for Disney+. In the classic Marvel Comics story, Tony Stark wages all-out war on a gauntlet of armored villains including Firepower, Stingray, the Crimson Dynamo, and the Titanium Man who are powered by stolen Stark technology sold by industrialist Justin Hammer, Stark s chief rival.
In 2010 s
Iron Man 2, Hammer Industries CEO Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell) attempts to replicate Stark s Arc Reactor tech after the genius playboy goes public with his short-lived secret identity in
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