Comic Book: Iron Man (1968 series)
Description:
Iron Man's flagship title. Following TALES OF SUSPENSE, this title ran for decades, establishing Tony Stark and his armored alter ego as one of Marvel's greatest heroes. The cover title is "The Invincible Iron Man" but the indicia states the name as simply "Iron Man".
Data Sheet:
May 1968 to Sep 1996
1968
N/A
Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.
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May 1968"Alone Against AIM"
Script: Archie GoodwinThis story continues from IRON
MAN & SUB-MARINER #1.
The A.I.M. Vortex-Suction Beam pulls Iron Man through the hull of the Maggia gambling ship and aboard the A.I.M. vessel where he is trapped in a sealed chamber and gassed. Once he is unconscious, the A.I.M. [...]
June 1968"The Day of the Demolisher"
Script: Archie GoodwinIndustrialist Drexel Cord is obsessed with destroying Tony Stark, his more successful rival. While his concerned daughter Janice tries to calm him, Cord reveals his scheme to overcome his enemy by vanquishing his celebrated bodyguard Iron Man. [...]
July 1968"My Friend, My Foe: the Freak"
Script: Archie GoodwinIron Man is on his way back to the Stark facility after his battle with the Demolisher last issue. [...]
August 1968"Unconquered Is the Unicorn"
Script: Archie GoodwinTony Stark straps the unconscious Freak (captured last issue) into his Enervation Intensifier, preparing to change him back into Happy Hogan. [...]
September 1968"Frenzy In a Far-Flung Future"
Script: Archie GoodwinIn his lab preparing for a weapons test, Tony Stark is suddenly engulfed in a whirlpool of light and pulled forward into the 24th century by a Time-Probe. There he is sentenced to be executed to prevent him from creating Cerebrus. [...]
October 1968"Vengeance! Cries the Crusher"
Script: Archie GoodwinHaving been buried alive in TALES OF SUSPENSE #91, the super-strong Crusher bursts to the surface in Florida, where he vows revenge against Iron Man. He tracks down his Caribbean comrades and forces them to take him on a fishing boat back to Long Island…. [...]
November 1968"The Maggia Strikes"
Script: Archie GoodwinAs the story opens, Maggia hoods are rehearsing for their coming assault on Stark Enterprises under the supervision of their leader, the Big M. Big M, Whitney Frost, is having second thoughts because of her feelings for Jasper Sitwell, who risked his life for her (last issue). [...]
December 1968"A Duel Must End"
Script: Archie GoodwinIron Man, hands injured by falling machinery and his repulsor rays useless, is locked in combat with the Gladiator who is not giving the hero any quarter…. [...]
January 1969"...There Lives a Green Goliath"
Script: Archie GoodwinLate one dark and rainy night, movers deliver a large, heavy crate to a Manhattan antiques shop. It is received by Mei Ling, a beautiful Chinese woman in traditional dress; the movers are scared away by her companion, a sinister hooded man. [...]
February 1969"Once More, the Mandarin"
Script: Archie GoodwinThe Mandarin exults in his victory—by means of the Hulk robot (last issue) he has deduced that Tony Stark is Iron Man. (We also learn that the robot Hulk was his indirect revenge against Jade Jaws for wrecking his castle in HULK #8.) He then proceeds with his plan to destroy his arch-enemy. [...]
March 1969"Unmasked"
Script: Archie GoodwinTrapped beneath the neutralizer beam, Iron Man is at the mercy of the Mandarin! The villain blasts his helmet off to see—not Tony Stark but a rugged blond-haired man! [...]
April 1969"The Coming of the Controller"
Script: Archie GoodwinIron Man comforts Janice Cord as the apparently dead Tony Stark (actually a Life Model Decoy) is taken away in an ambulance. Shellhead excuses himself and takes off into the skies; he races to his factory where he is able to reactivate the LMD by remote control. [...]
May 1969"Captives of the Controller"
Script: Archie GoodwinBack at his mansion, the Controller adds the unconscious Iron Man and Janice Cord to his Mental-Wave Absorbatron, which uses the bodies of captives as batteries to power his exo-skeleton. [...]
June 1969"The Night Phantom Walks"
Script: Archie GoodwinVoodoo drums pierce the night, bringing terror to a small Caribbean island. [...]
July 1969"Said the Unicorn To the Ghost"
Script: Archie GoodwinFlashback to the climax of issue #4: the Unicorn has defeated Iron Man and he then raised his fallen foe over his head and hurled him off the cliff to his death—but that’s not how it happened—a mysterious voice forces the Unicorn to recall how the battle really played out. [...]
August 1969"Of Beasts and Men"
Script: Archie GoodwinAt SHIELD headquarters the semi-comatose Jasper Sitwell has been hooked up to a psyonic amplifier to access his most recent memories. [...]
September 1969"The Beginning of the End"
Script: Archie GoodwinIron Man, on his way back east after his encounter with the Red Ghost and the Unicorn (issues #15-16), flies though a storm. Suddenly he is struck by an intense bolt of lightning, sending him crashing to the ground. [...]
October 1969"Even Heroes Die!"
Script: Archie GoodwinIron Man joins Captain America, Nick Fury and a team of SHIELD agents in their assault on a Hydra stronghold. [...]
November 1969"What Price Life?!"
Script: Archie GoodwinIn a realm between life and death, Iron Man is battling valiantly against his many foes but they have an invincible ally on their side: Death himself…. Tony Stark, having suffered a critical heart attack while fighting his own LMD, has been rushed to the hospital where Dr. [...]
December 1969"Who Serves Lucifer?"
Script: Archie GoodwinThe story opens with some flash and awe as Iron Man is absorbing the explosion of a small anti-reactor device by clutching it to his body while guards hustle Stark staff to safety. [...]
January 1970"The Replacement!"
Script: Archie GoodwinBoxer Eddie “Iron Man” March is in trouble: his opponent has him outclassed but Eddie—who takes his nickname from his favorite hero—learns the Tony Stark is in the crowd that night. [...]
February 1970"From This Conflict, Death"
Script: Archie GoodwinTony Stark as Iron Man rushes to the waterfront to save the life of his replacement, Eddie March (see last issue). At the pier, the new hero is taking a savage beating from the new, improved Crimson Dynamo. [...]
March 1970"The Man Who Killed Tony Stark"
Script: Archie GoodwinIron Man swoops down on the ship which smuggled Titanium Man into America and tears it apart, alerting the Navy to pick up the crew as they desert the sinking ship. [...]
April 1970"My Son, the Minotaur"
Script: Archie GoodwinMadame Masque, having leaped overboard from a boat into the Aegean Sea in issue #19, is lying unconscious in a cave near Crete. She is having a dream that Tony Stark and Jasper Sitwell are fighting over her and she awakens to the sight of a monstrous face…. [...]
May 1970"This Doomed Land, This Dying Sea"
Script: Archie GoodwinIron Man stands, the last survivor of an arid and befouled Earth destroyed by pollution, as he contemplates the imminent extinction of mankind…. What is this, some deadly attack by an alien enemy? [...]
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