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Billionaire industrialist Tony Stark was one of the smartest men on the planet. When he donned state-of-the-art high-tech armor of his own design, he became one of the world's most powerful super heroes... The Invincible Iron Man!
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Iron Man Website Updates
 All quiet on the present-day frontMay 13, 13
Despite it being the month of the movie, I have no new issues to add this week.
Avengers #11 was delayed from last week, but turns out not to contain Iron Man, or any of the other characters featured in our websites, so I won't be documenting it.
I'm also not doing Iron Man #258.2. It continues to seem like an alternate timeline, although there are signs that they may be able to sneakily fit it back into the main Marvel reality. I'll let you know more when it finishes.
What we do have from Peter Silvestro's Thor site is JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #629, where Shellhead has a cameo at the end of Fear Itself. But War Machine isn't with the other Secret Avengers in Fear Itself: The Fearless #2 which Peter has also done on his Captain America website.
And T Vernon continues his journey through deep time with IRON MAN (1968) #37, which cements Kevin O'Brien's place as a supporting character by having him learn the Golden Avenger's identity.
I'm not completely unrepresented this week. As well as having his own adventures and being a member of the Avengers, Tony Stark was heavily involved with SHIELD in the early days. The 1994 FURY 1-shot shows us how Tony helped create the organisation, before its debut in Strange Tales. And this issue has one of my longer comments.
Lots of issues, not all of them includedMay 6, 13
I've added some comments to IRON MAN 3 movie section. We still haven't included a full synopsis so as not to spoil things for those who haven't seen it yet.
In IRON MAN #9 our hero goes after the genocidal Recorder 451. But it turns out that 451's master plan stretches back at least as far as Tony Stark's babyhood, involving his parents.
The Golden Avenger doesn't make an appearance until the last page of AGE OF ULTRON #7. But it turns out he's the boss of the new reality.
There's Iron Man overkill this month, to coincide with the movie. This week, as well as the above 2 comics, there's the 1st issue of Iron Man #258.1-4, which isn't a retelling of John Byrne's Armor Wars II but an alternate reality flowing from a plot point Bob Layton left in #256. Then related to the film itself there's an Art of the Movie HC, and The Coming of the Melter which fits between films #2 and #3. Plus there's a Hands of the Mandarin reprint TP, and an Iron Man variant cover to Hawkeye #10. But not Avengers #11 as that's been delayed a week.
Peter Silvestro has moved on to chronicling Fear Itself: The Fearless. We get to share #1 because War Machine's in this issue with his Secret Avengers partner Valkyrie.
Peter, with his Captain America hat even more firmly on, also continues the Captain saga and the Armor Wars I story in CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #341 as Steve Rogers and the Armoured Avenger extend their disagreement from the previous issue.
T Vernon wraps up the Spymaster sequence in IRON MAN (1968) #36, simultaneously starting a new 1½-parter about yet another alien invasion, this time by an alien corporation. And it introduces Tony Stark's next girlfriend Marianne Rodgers. Yet TV still doesn't rate the issue very highly!
As well as Shellhead's own continuity implants for the earliest era, there have been some dedicated to his team the original Avengers. Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes vol 1 and Captain America: Man Out Of Time have already been documented on these websites. Now we have a recent addition AVENGERS: SEASON ONE. This isn't an origin retelling, but a new story featuring Loki trying to get revenge for his defeat in the origin.
A bumper crop and a bonzer filmApr 29, 13
Being in England I, like Julio, got to see Iron Man 3 early. I'll be writing a report when it's been available in the US. But suffice it to say it's got lots of spectacle and lots of laughs, as you'd expect. It's also got lots of different Iron Man armours! And we've got lots of issues this week to celebrate.
Iron Man's officially still in space but actually in the skies over London in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #2
Another 2-week delay lands NEW AVENGERS #5 in this week's pile, as we learn the true history of Black Swan.
I've also documented Avengers #10, but as our hero's not in that issue you'll have to pop over to the Captain America Library to see it.
Peter Silvestro completes his promised run with NEW AVENGERS (2005) #20 (but he has several other sets of issues in mind where Shellhead shares the spotlight with Peter's own Captain America and/or Thor). This one's deep in X-Men territory, involving Magneto, Xorn and an island of dead mutants.
Cap-Meister Peter is also on hand with another old Cap issue. In CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #340 the Captain and Iron Man fall out over the Golden (or in this case Silver) Avenger's Armour Wars campaign.
T Vernon follows the Spymaster/Zodiac Key story into DAREDEVIL (1964) #73 and another dimension. Nick Fury's still there too. Normal Iron Man service will be resumed next week.
This week's continuity-implant is IRON MAN: SEASON ONE which came out a few weeks ago. If it had arrived earlier I would have put it at the start of this little sequence, because it retells the origin in Tales of Suspense #39, with added extra villain. And Tony Stark recommends Nick Fury as Director of SHIELD again.
Iron Man 3 Comments (No Spoilers)Apr 26, 13
I (Julio) went to see Iron Man 3 in theaters last night. The third chapter in the successful and entertaining Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man films, pushes the limits in several aspects, exceeding the number of blasts and even enemies from its predecessors. My comments are short and do not reveal the story. Check them out in the Iron Man 3 Movie page. We will post a full synopsis when the movie comes out in the United States.
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