![]() Get a ballpark estimate of the value of your comic based on its grading and condition. Looking to sell an Iron Man issue or a collection of comics you own? Browse our wide selection of Iron Man comic price guides by issue. His popularity continues to rise in the 2010's with the character's reccurring role in many Marvel Studios franchise movies. Shortly after, Iron Man would have a successful screen presence in some of the first huge money-making offerings from the Marvel Pictures dynasty. ![]() This particular Iron Man title finished it's run in 1996. Other interesting periods included the 1979 storyline, oft referred to as "Demon In A Bottle," which saw Tony Stark hitting rock bottom in his struggle with alcoholism! This era also featured early artwork by John Romita, Jr., with David Michelinie handling the writing. Notable key books of value where in this initial run, including issue #54, which introduced Moondragon, and the very next issue #55, which introduced THANOS (and Kronos and Drax)! In 1968, Marvel started to end most of their "anthology" titles, that is, books which featured 2 characters in one book, each with their own half of the comic.so it was when Tales of Suspense ended that Iron Man received a book of his own. So he does what every other millionaire-playboy would do, he refines his armor and it's weapons and decides to become a super do-gooder! Stark then tells everyone he knows that Iron Man is his "bodyguard," so that his frequent appearances did not arouse suspicion - and it worked!Ī myriad of icnoniclastic villiains that would be recurring characters - not just in Iron Man Stories - would be introduced : The Mandarin, The Melter, Crimson Dynamo, Titanium Man, The Black Widow, the Unicorn, Hawkeye (originally a bad guy),The Black Knight (resurrected as a bad guy, too), Ultimo, Crusher, Whiplash. Well, it turns out that Stark has to live the rest of his life with his "chest plate" in order to keep from kicking the bucket. He, instead, attempts to save his own life by building a suit of armor that both keeps the shrapnel embedded in his chest from becoming fatal, and allows him to overcome his captors with an arsenal of built-in weapons.Smart guy, right? I feel right at home.In the Spring of 1963, Marvel Comics rolled out another in a series of wildly popular characters, Iron Man, in it's anthology title Tales of Suspense (issue #39).Īn egomaniacal, high-livin' playboy, genius weapons engineer/ millionaire Tony Stark is injured while being kidnapped by "the communists", purportedly to have Stark build them a weapon of mass destruction. It's big budget, high-concept, widescreen storytelling. I get to bring two decades of new experience as an artist and storyteller to this. ![]() Hitch added, "It's been more than 20 years since I started work on The Ultimates, a project that would have a big impact on my own career and beyond, so when Marvel came to me with the idea of revisiting the Ultimate Universe with the man who so brilliantly and spectacularly destroyed the last one, I was both feet in! Jonathan is a terrific writer of big, sprawling epics and we've talked about working together more than once so for this new Ultimate Universe adventure to unite us is very exciting. RELATED: The Ultimate Universe Made Ant-Man and the Wasp's Relationship a Tragedy "So with that in mind, it couldn't be replicating or revisiting what Bryan did in the original Ultimates - creating a streamlined, modernized version that would eventually become the spine of the MCU - and it certainly couldn't be what I did, which was a final chapter of a pre-existing universe." ![]() "I think it's fair to say that both Bryan and I have already put in our time doing Ultimate books, so when Marvel laid this project in front of us, we both knew there needed to be a good reason to revisit the idea of 'Ultimate Comics' beyond telling a cool story or just getting to work together, which is something we've been trying to do for years," Hickman said when the series was announced. Hickman and Hitch on Returning to the Ultimate Universe
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