Product Description: 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.
Black & white reprints of classic four-color comics...? I honestly don't get the appeal of these books. Why bother making (or reading) black & white reprints of classic four-color comics...? I mean, yeah, the stories are still great and the original comics are hard to find, but a huge part of what made these comics great was the eye-popping artwork, including the bright primary colors: reading them in dull B&W is just plain wrong. Sure, the printing costs are lower, so you can get more pages for your money, but it's more pages of boring, not more pages of fun. It's really a travesty.
On the other hand, it recently occurred to me that these could be used as coloring books... Maybe you could buy a box of crayons to go along with all the artwork that the publishers ruined in this format. (Axton)
Not bad Iron Man has not been one of my favorite Marvel characters, but it was interesting to see more of his early appearances. With the short stories as they appeared in Tales of Suspense, character development is limited, and there is a lot of repetition from story to story ("If only they knew their indifferent boss is really Iron Man!" "If only I could tell Pepper how I really feel about her!" "If I can't get my chestplate plugged in, my heart will fail!"). I have a feeling when the stories get full-length, they'll be better. It will be interesting to see how they re-develop his origin in the upcoming live-action movie.
Essential Iron Man, Volume 1 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 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 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.
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