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A terrific Masterwork volume........2007-04-30
This typically gorgeous Masterwork volume covers the origins of our beloved Shell-Head, Iron Man. Included here are his first twelve stories from the pages of "Tales of Suspense", one of Marvel's Silver-Age anthology titles.
These are a kick to read through, as their brevity makes them quaint. Relics of a bygone age where the Commies were the bad guys.
The Marvel "twist" on a superhero with a miraculous suit of iron, is that our hero needs it to stay alive...something about shrapnel obtained from a wound in Vietnam moving closer towards his heart. It's the predecessor to our modern pacemaker.
Iron Man fights a string of villains we never saw again...his first one, Wong Chu...a Kirby-designed Gargantus...The Red Barbarian...
There's a weird episode involving Angel from The X-Men...radioactivity makes him temporarily evil. Kinda makes you scratch your head wondering what they were thinking...
On the other hand, we get the debut of one of Marvel's enduring villains, The Mandarin.
Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan, two of the title's oldest and best-remembered supporting cast members, are first seen here as well.
The writing is period-appropriate clunky (the non-Stan Lee stories are worse...) and the art leaves a LOT to be desired. I never "got" Don Heck...and his revisions over Kirby and Ditko are jarring and incongruous.
Plus, I don't think Iron Man has EVER gone through as many costume changes in twelve issues than he did here. He went from grey to gold to the relatively svelte red-and-gold in ten issues, and would change again within the next five.
That's a huge part of the charm of these early stories. It's a look back into the pop culture of the early 60's with little interference or criticism.
The physical book itself is, as you'd expect, lovely. Crisp, colorful reproductions and a sturdy binding make for a worthy, nay...necessary, addition to your library.
IRON MAN: The Tragic COMMIE-SMASHING Hero!.......2005-12-26
This book collects the first 12 stories of my favorite solo Marvel superhero, IRON MAN, from TALES OF SUSPENSE #39-50. It's a mixed batch, and one can't shake the feeling Stan Lee & co. were struggling to figure out how to do this series at first.
Tony Stark, a rich, impossibly-handsome, utterly brilliant inventor-industrialist, is seriously injured and captured by a North Viet Namese warlord, who tries to force him to design weapons for him on the promise of saving his life-- of which he has no real intentions. Instead, Stark fashions a device that can not only keep him alive, but doubles as a suit of armor. He dispatches his captor and escapes back to America, but his normal life has been shattered, for he can't remove the device he now wears without suffering a fatal heart attack.
Jack Kirby designed the initial armor (and did almost all of the covers), while the interior art was assigned to veteran DON HECK, a master of horror, sci-fi, romance, and known for drawing some of the most beautiful women in comics. Iron Man was his first superhero assignment, and while some may feel he's out of his depth he brings a "real-world" feel to everything.
Stan Lee plotted all the stories here, but left the dialogue to others for the first 8 installments. His brother Larry Lieber, never as flashy as Stan, brought a solid, deadly-serious feel to his only episode, helping to fashion of the of the truly GREAT "origin" stories of early-60's Marvel! Back in the States, veteran scripter Robert Bernstein dialogued the next 7 stories. The really odd thing is that Jack Kirby pencilled episodes 2, 3 & 5 (SUSPENSE #40, 41 & 43). Kirby is known for his unparalled creativity, and anything he worked on it's a good bet he added immensely to the plots along the way. Looking over the first few episodes carefully I've suspected they may even have been done out-of-sequence, though one noted comics historian has suggested they weren't. Iron Man tackled various minions of the Communist Bloc, in line with Tony Stark being a weapons designer & manufacturer. Along the way he even tackles "Kala, Queen Of The Netherworld", who strikes me as a variation of Simon & Kirby's own "Green Empress" from the 1940 BLUE BOLT series! (Never throw away ideas.)
The one thing missing in the early episodes is anything remotely resembling a supporting cast! This is finally addressed in ep.7, "The Icy Fingers of Jack Frost", with the introduction of Stark's flighty, love-lorn redheaded secretary, "Pepper" Potts, and his ex-fighter turned chauffeur, "Happy" Hogan. While Don Heck's rendition of Tony Stark in many panels is a DEAD RINGER for Errol Flynn, he claims he based Pepper on Ann B. Davis! (A very YOUNG Ann B. Davis, I'm guessing.) Happy, more than anyone in these early stories, reminds me of Maxie Rosenbloom. Not too pretty, not too bright, not too couth-- but he takes one look at Pepper and falls HARD-- to her HORROR (and the humorous delight of anyone else watching). Pepper gets a facelift in ep.12 (SUSPENSE #50), but it's such a change it looks more like what happens when a tv show recasts an actor! Stark finally takes notice... but keeps her at a distance because (typical soap-opera problem) he feels she'd have no future with a man who could die any day now!
Steve Ditko (SPIDER-MAN, DR. STRANGE) was brought in for 3 episodes, and gets credit for completely redesigning the armor-- variations of Ditko's design lasted for decades! But when Heck returned, he & Lee began the REALLY "classic" run of the series. With all the right elements in place, they kicked off a nice solid run in #50 by introducing The Mandarin, a mysterious evil Oriental would-be world-conqueror (very much in the Fu Manchu mold), who would quickly become I.M.'s #1 arch-enemy!
One major drawback to most of Marvel's reprints is their longterm low quality standards with stats. Much linework tends to fatten, blur, or disappear. One of the worst victims of this, tragically, is the art of DON HECK. Fortunately, I happen to have all but a few of the original comics here. They've allowed me to compare side-by-side, and realize just how much younger fans are MISSING! Often, without the original 40+ years-old comics, you may have NO IDEA just HOW GOOD his work was. Also missing is Stan Goldberg's superb, intense, moody coloring on the covers. I see the new edition of this book at least gave I.M. back some of his shine on the cover-- the 1st edition (1992) reduced his armor to a single drab shade of brown. I have the original (1963)-- Goldberg used 4 different shades of gray, and made that suit look like REAL METAL!!!
One could look at this entire collection as the "origin" of Iron Man. After this, the next 2 years of the series would be among the BEST episodes seen in its entire run!
Stan Lee and Don Heck usher in the age of Iron Man.......2004-02-13
When the Marvel universe exploded and there were suddenly multiple Spider-Man titles and countless comic books devoted to mutants of one sort or the other, I gave up reading dozens of Marvel comic books each month and just kept up with two titles: "Daredevil" and "Iron Man." The latter selection was pretty ironic because I had ignored Iron Man for years. Outside of the story of his origin, I never read very any of these early stories from "Tales of Suspense," issues #39-50, reprinted in color and collected in "Marvel Masterworks: Iron Man, Volume 1." In fact, if I picked up an issue of "Tales of Suspense" in the Sixties, it was to see what was happening with Captain America, the other Marvel superhero sharing the title with Iron Man. I never really read Iron Man until he got his own comic.
My problem was never with the character of Iron Man because I thought the idea of inventor Tony Stark coming up with and continually upgrading and specializing his Iron Man armor was a pretty good premise: give me a suit of armor like that I am too will go out and fight the good superhero fight. However, the whole rich playboy bit was nothing special (the tradition goes back to Bruce Wayne/Batman and Britt Reid/The Green Hornet), and it was not until many years later when Stark was revealed to be an alcoholic that his normal side became really interesting. I also though the weak heart bit was rather unnecessary, except that it provided an unnecessary rationale for why Stark did not let some healthier and heavily insured younger guy do the death defying heroics.
My problem was that I never really liked Don Heck as an artist. He was competent enough, but when the competition is Jack Kirby, Gene Colan, John Romita, Neal Adams, and Jim Steranko, it is hard to hold up to artistic comparisons month after month. Heck does most of the pencils in these "Tales of Suspense" stories, although Kirby does several issues as does Steve Ditko (with Heck usually doing the inking in those instances). For that matter, Stan Lee often does just the plot for these comics, leaving the actually scripting to others, primarily Robert Bernstein.
A lot of these early stories put Iron Man in a Cold War context, which made him rather unique as a Marvel superhero. Iron Man first appears after Tony Stark is captured in Vietnam and his early villains include the Red Barbarian, a top Red general, the Crimson Dynamo, his Soviet counterpart, and the Mandarin in issue #50, who is apolitical but lives in Red China. But you will also find American villains, such as the Melter (an obvious threat to a guy in armor) and even an early villain called Dr. Strange, who is not to be confused with the Master of the Mystic Arts. Meanwhile, Tony Stark, his best friend and loyal associate Happy Hogan, and the beautiful Virginia "Pepper" Potts, start to become entangled in their own little unrequited love triangle.
Another thing I did not like about these early comics has to do with the 10-page stories we had to put up with for Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk, the Sub-Mariner, Ant-Man, Dr. Strange, and Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., during the Sixties. Actually, until issue #58, we were getting 13-page stories or longer for Iron Man until Captain America showed up for good (the two actually fight each other in that issue before sharing the magazine officially in the next issue). It is not surprising that the early, longer stories are better. But it was not until Happy and Pepper married and got out of the picture, the major subplots had to do with the business problems of Stark International, and Iron Man got his own comic book, that this title reached its heyday. However, it is not until we get to Volume 3 in the Marvel Masterworks collections of "Iron Man" that you will get to see the character reach that stage.
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Giant-Man becomes Goliath! The Wasp returns! The team battles the Enchantress, Power Man, the Ringmaster, Kang, Doctor Doom, Attuma, the Collector, the Swordsman, and the Black Widow! Collects AVENGERS Vol. 1 #21-30
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Goliath rejoins the Avengers of Captain America, Hawkeye, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch.......2005-08-24
Volume 3 of "The Avengers" in the Marvel Masterworks series collects episodes 21-30 of the comic book, which is covers the second major lineup in the group's history. Led by Captain America, the group consists of Hawkeye, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch at the start of this volume with Goliath rejoining the team by the end of this volume, although it turns out that the former Giant-Man and former Ant-Man is now stuck in extra large size. As Cap says, "The most powerful Avenger...and yet...he's also the most tragic!" (This coming from a living legend who had been frozen in a block of ice since the final days of World War II). The original Avengers line-up was too powerful, with Thor and Iron Man, not to mention the Hulk at the very beginning. Then they went to skill over strength with a group consisting of a guy who throws a shield, a guy who shoots arrows, a mutant who runs fast, and a witch. When Hank Pym rejoined the team they could actually use a bit of strength without having the overkill of a Norse God. They were not that powerful of a group of superheroes, especially compared to the Fantastic Four (or the Justice League of America over at DC), but they could hold their own against the X-Men.
At this point "The Avengers" is still being written by Stan Lee, with Don Heck established as the book's artist. Now, I have made clear that Heck was my least favorite artist that Marvel used on a regular basis, but that being said, the issues where his pencils are being inked by Wally Wood (#20-22) are the best Heck's work ever looked (I was going to add issue #23 inked by John Romita, Sr. to that short list, but it really looks like a Romita drawn issue). Dick Ayers inks #25 and Frank Giacoia #26-30, which is right before the period where Heck did the pencils and ink (for the record, Chic Stone did the least to enhance Heck's art for this book). But you can make up you own mind about where Heck's artwork stands in the Marvel pantheon.
The collection gets off to a good start with the introduction of Power Man (who is he?) in #21. He defeats the Avengers and the city council orders the Avengers to disband. In #22 the Avengers try to find out who is helping Power Man (the Enchantress), and while they succeed and the City Council declares Avengers Day, Steve Rogers announces he has played straight man to these jokers long enough and he decides to split. However, Kang the Conqueror returns for a rematch in the next two-issues (note that #24 features a cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers). If you thought that was bad, Dr. Doom shows up for #25, which means the Fantastic Four cannot be far behind. The Wasp has to be rescued from Attuma in #26, which means the Avengers have to assemble underwater in #27. Giant-Man is back in #28, only now he is known as Goliath, because the Wasp has still not been rescued; now the Collector has her. They rescue the Wasp, but then Goliath collapses and we find out why in #29, although the Black Widow and the Swordsman cause problems (you new that sooner of later a guy with a sword should show up to fight a pair of guys with a shield and arrows). Finally, in issue #30 the Scarlet Witch wants to resign because she has not been helping the group lately, so Cap lets her and her brother go on vacation while the Avengers that are left finish up with the Black Widow and the Swordsman.
There are no classic Avengers tales here, but you have to admit things are never dull in any superhero team that has both Hawkeye and Quicksilver on it because they are the two biggest malcontents around (in the pre-Wolverine era anyhow). Hawkeye always thinks he would be a better leader than Captain America, and Quicksilver is always complaining about humans hating mutants (although he is sending back a healthy dose of animosity in the other direction all by himself). The Scarlet Witch is the problematic character because if Wanda is hitting on all cylinders then she should be able to win every fight by herself (Do you see Doctor Strange fighting with a team? No, not until the Defenders anyway, but that is decades away at this point). But I had to admit I like the brother and sister act of Pietro and Wanda since it sibling bickering is more interesting than lovers/spouses bickering (to wit, Hank and Janet), plus they have the whole need for redemption since they used to be members of Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. I really consider these stories just marking time until the Vision shows up, because that is when this comic book finally comes into its own.
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- Essential Iron Man, Volume 1
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- The stuff legends were made of!
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Experience the armored Avenger's earliest adventures - including classic confrontations with arch-foes Crimson Dynamo, the Mandarin, and the Titanium Man. Guest-starring the X-Men, Captain America, and the Black Widow.
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Essential Iron Man, Volume 1.......2007-05-09
This comicbook story is good. The stories in the Iron Man Volume 1 (Marvel Essentials) appeals to children and adults. The artwork in Essential Iron Man, Volume 1 (Marvel Essentials) is excellent. I RECCOMMEND Essential Iron Man, Volume 1 (Marvel Essentials) to children and adults.
the invincibile iron man stricks again.......2006-10-14
an great comic one of the most essentials of the essentials containing the iron heroes early missions containing villains such as the manderin,the black kight, mr doll and titanium man
Unfortunately, one of the weaker Silver Age Marvel.......2006-06-25
Returning to these stores after 40 years, I have to say I found them rather disappointing. The Iron Man idea was great, but many of the early stories are quite weak and not much thought seems to have been given to fleshing out the character or giving him a supporting cast. An indication that Stan Lee and company didn't much know what to do with the character is the story reprinted from Tales of Suspense 44 in which Iron Man goes back in time to save Cleopatra from an evil pharoh. This was obviously an attempt to cash in on the publicity surrounding the film Cleopatra that was released that year. The result was a story that makes little or no sense. Not until TOS 45 did they bother to provide Iron Man with any supporting cast -- the not very memorable or interesting Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan. For those getting back into Silver Age Marvels -- or encountering them for the first time -- I would recommend either the Fantastic Four or Spiderman. Those stories have aged much better than these Iron Man stories.
The stuff legends were made of!.......2006-04-11
This volume captures the very best writing and the very best artwork in the long history of Iron Man. Re-reading this material was just so entertaining! Reading the modern version is such a let down to me because the work of Gene Colan, Johnny Craig and George Tuska in these stories is just so good. This is what Iron Man should look like.
I kept thinking that Hollywood would be well advised to mine this volume for good story material for the Iron Man movie. At this writing, multiple drafts for the movie have been rejected and the project is just about dead. But what if some of Stan Lee's great PRIME silver-age Iron Man material was adapted for the screen? There is plenty of action, drama, romance, suspense and science-fiction integral to Iron Man. Any of the multi-story arcs would work. The characters are rich and fully developed. Word to the wise of Hollywood if you are reading this.
Thanks for re-printing it all. I'm still hoping for the Marvel Masterworks version in full color.
The Metal Man is here to stay!.......2006-03-12
Compiling a plethora of classic stories & great art from Marvel's early days, this 2nd volume continues the soaring adventures of Marvel's tin Avenger & is a must own for any comics fan. The golden age of super heroes never looked better in 2006. Highly recommended!
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Written by ROY THOMAS Penciled by JOHN BUSCEMA, DON HECK & WERNER ROTH Cover by JOHN BUSCEMA Get ready for Earth's Mightiest Heroes matched with two of comics' mightiest talents, Roy Thomas and John Buscema, as the Marvel Masterworks take you on a trip through one of the most stellar creative periods in Avengers' history! This baby's full to the brim with an amazing array watershed Avengers moments-the Black Panther joins the team, a pitched battle between the Avengers and the X-Men, the debut of the new Masters of Evil, the details behind Cap's fateful battle with Baron Zemo, a reality-bending battle between the current Avengers and the original Avengers, and the first appearance of the evil Ultron-5! Oh, and don't worry, we didn't forget-it all closes out on one heck of a high note with the first-ever appearance of the Vision and one of the most famous stories in all of Marveldom, "Even an Android Can Cry". Bring your tissues, True Believer, 'cause this one's gonna get ya right there. Collecting AVENGERS (Vol. 1) #51-58, ANNUAL #2 & X-MEN (Vol. 1) #45 256 PGS./All Ages
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Captain Americas depleted forces have determined the secret of File 42, setting them on a last-ditch collision
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The Iron Avenger returns for another round of Marvelous Masterworks Mayhem, and this ones gonna go straight down to the final bell, True Believer! So buckle up your red and gold retrorockets and get ready for adventure aplenty as only Marvel can make it!
Stan The Man and the Dynamo of Delineation, Don Heck, will pit Tony Stark against the undersea menace Attuma, the Dream-Maker and the massive menace of the Titanium Man in classics without compare. But then the order changeth! After defining the series for nearly 30 issues, Don Heck passes the torch to no less than Gene The Dean Colan, whose lush illustrations take the Invincible Iron Man to spectacular heights! Yup, Mssrs. Colan and Lee dive into a whos who as the Mandarin returns, Ultimo attacks and Iron Man goes toe-to-toe with Namor the Sub-Mariner in one of Marveldoms earliest cross-over epics!
This babys so going to move so quick that you wont have to worry about rust, but you may just have to slap on a pair of oven mitts before handling!
Collecting Tales of Suspense #66-83 and Tales to Astonish #82.
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- Could have been Iron Man: Gold
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Could have been Iron Man: Gold.......2006-08-30
Iron Man: the Iron Age volume 2 is the conclusion to the prestige format limited series by Kurt Busiek and Patrick Zircher.
The Iron Age takes a look back at an early period in Iron Man's career, and the early days of alter-ego Tony Stark's time at the head of his father's company. Volume one was narrated from the perspective of Tony Stark's secretary Pepper Potts, and volume two's narration is provided by chauffeur/bodyguard Happy Hogan. It's basically a nostalgia piece, and no one does that kind of story better than Kurt Busiek (Marvels, Astro City). The Iron Age is well written, and captures the feel of those early Tales of Suspense issues, but the major battles with the rival company's saboteurs seem awkward and out of place, as they had no real place in Iron Man's history. The death of Tony's parents was also handled poorly. One minute his dad is on his case, and the next minute the rival company's executives are bragging about having the Starks killed. The impact on Tony was never touched. Ultimately this series is one of the only times I've been disappointed with a Kurt Busiek project.
The artwork by Patrick Zircher was quite solid, and similar to Sean Chen's work on the ongoing Iron Man series at the time.
Overall, the Iron Age seems like a missed opportunity. Reading it a few years after its original publication date, one can't help but wonder what might have been if the idea was presented by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale a la Daredevil: Yellow, Spider-Man: Blue, or Hulk: Grey. An Iron Man: Gold series would have been a real treat, but the Iron Age makes that highly unlikely.
My other gripe is the format chosen for this series. A nice trade paperback would have cost about the same amount, and would have looked a lot better on my bookshelf.
This one is for die-hard Iron Man fans only.
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- Classic Iron Man Saga
- The greatest Iron Man tale ever told!
- The definitive Iron Man storyline of all time!
- THE classic Iron Man yarn.
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Classic Iron Man Saga.......2006-08-29
While the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline tends to get the most attention, the Armor Wars saga remains my all-time favorite Iron Man storyline. The Armor Wars ran in issues 225-232 of the original Iron Man series, and featured the creative team of David Michelenie, Mark Bright, and Bob Layton. This team was responsible for a particularly good run of issues, of which Armor Wars was the highlight.
In this storyline, Tony Stark discovers that some of his Iron Man technology was stolen and passed on to various armored villains. Agonized at the thought that his technology was used to cause the suffering and death of others, Stark dons the Iron Man armor and starts hunting down these villains and destroying their armor. It seems simple enough, but what about the technology he provided to the government, such as SHIELD's Mandroids or the Guardians at the Vault? Iron Man's quest soon has him taking on friends and allies like Stingray and even Captain America, and ends up costing him his Avengers membership (though to be fair, it was just the West Coast Avengers, and they hardly count).
This is a fantastic tale of obsession, guilt, and justice, not to mention a seriously cool chance to see Iron Man taking down a whole bunch of armored bad guys. It's about as good a tale as you're likely to find in an 80's mainstream comic book. Michelenie does a great job with the story, and the artwork by Bright and Layton remains the standard by which I judge all other Iron Man artists. The chilling epilogue by the legendary Barry Windsor-Smith ends things on the perfect note, and may be the best modern single-issue Iron Man tale ever.
If you're an Iron Man fan, this is a must-have trade paperback. Marvel fans in general should check it out as well.
The greatest Iron Man tale ever told!.......2005-03-02
I remember reading each issue as it came out when I was only 11 years old. I couldn't believe what ol' Shellhead was going through! And the new armor that came out of it combined with the way the new IM handled his opponent, awesome! Michelinie/Bright/Layton's finest finest finest work!
(Tied with it is the vol. 1, #s 280-300 by Kaminski and Hopgood--we need a TPB!)
The definitive Iron Man storyline of all time!.......2002-01-15
Tony Stark is a man on the brink of deadly obsession over his stolen technology gone awry. This storyline has all the elements you could ask for: action, intrigue, suspense, drama. Iron Man takes on friend and foe alike in his quest to eliminate the product of his genius, and woe be unto anyone who gets in his way! David Michilinie, Mark Bright, Bob Layton, and Barry Windsor-Smith weave a tale that simply shatters the boundaries of comic book fiction, and shows us a side of Iron Man seldom seen. Worth every penny, and then some!
THE classic Iron Man yarn........2001-10-11
Consistently voted online and off as the best of all Iron Man storylines, this Michelinie/Layton gem details how Tony Stark/Iron Man must attempt to nullify his secret armor technology that has fallen into the wrong hands. The original comics were Iron Man #225-232, and are virtually impossible to find. Nab this TPB whenever you can.
Armour Wars.......2000-10-13
I thought this book was an excellent read as it showed how Tony Stark went off on an action-packed costly quest to get his technology out of over people's hand's after discovering it had been stolen from him and used to harm innocent people, wanting to assure it was never used to harm people again, he caused a few deaths along the way and almost crossed the line beyond redemption.
It shows him hunting down armoured villains and attacking government agents. He goes toe-to-toe with the world foremost secret agency, armoured agents from other countries and one of his oldest friends. Not to mention one hell of a near death experience and a change in Armour.
Basically it has everything you need in a good novel, book or comic.
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