Pairs well with: Other classic Iron Man story arcs: Demon In A Bottle, Doomquest, 10 Rings to Rule the World, Iron Monger, The Ghost and the Machine and The Dragon Seed Saga. I thought that the conclusion was a bit anticlimactic but it was an ending that still worked and ushered in a new era for Tony Stark and his friends. This is still one of the greatest Iron Man tales ever written. Both his basic Iron-tech AND a dangerous artifact have been stolen, and Tony must recover them. On one side was The Blue run by Steve Rogers. This was just a great comic, even as a stand alone and not a chapter in a larger story arc. In the aftermath of Ultimatum, Iron Man goes to secure a lab he maintained in New York, only to discover its been raided, both by the Ghost and Justine Hammer. Secret Wars In The Comics Continues Iron Man & Captain Americas Civil War In 2015s Civil War, the original events final battle in the Negative Zone created a massive disaster, killing millions and creating a massive chasm that would be known as The Divide. This happened a few decades before the Civil War storyline in the comics and was the first time that I remember seeing two heroes really throw down with each other without one being controlled by some villain or being corrupted by some sort of power or force.Īpart from the Iron Man and Captain America fight, I loved the chapter that saw Tony Stark go head to head with both the Titanium Man and the Crimson Dynamo at the same time. One of the biggest highlights, however, was that this has a chapter where Iron Man fights Captain America. This story also features the West Coast Avengers, who had one of the coolest comics in the late ’80s. I was already a fan of Beetle from his appearances in Spider-Man stories. This is where I first discovered the Crimson Dynamo, Titanium Man, the Controller and a few others. It is certainly one of my favorites and when I was a kid, it really served to introduce me to a lot of Iron Man’s famous villains. To this day, this is still considered one of the best Iron Man stories of all-time. Ultimately, this is a very well written comic book story arc for its time. This sets up a situation where Tony has to go rogue, deal with the consequences of those actions and also has to battle a bunch of his famous foes, who are now more enhanced thanks to Tony’s secrets. He sets off to try to correct this, learning that his secrets have been sold off to a bunch of supervillains and tech industry rivals. The story kicks off with Tony Stark finding out that his tech secrets have been stolen. But as I’ve been going through all my old comics in an effort to preserve them and catalog them, I wanted to revisit this old school tale.Īrmor Wars, at the time of its printing, was referred to as Stark Wars, which was probably a cheap attempt at capitalizing off of Star Wars. Good lord, it has been an incredibly long time since I read through this classic Iron Man story arc. Published: December 10th, 1987 (start of the story arc)
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