Comic Book: Invincible Iron Man (2011 series)

Description:
Info, covers and comics index from Invincible Iron Man (2011 series) comic book.

Data Sheet:
Dates
Jan 2011 to Oct 2012
2011
N/A

Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.

Iron Man
Iron Man

(Anthony Stark)
Pepper Potts
Pepper Potts

(Pepper Hogan)
Plus: Ezekiel Stane.

Comics Index

Page: 1 of 2

Indexed Comics: 28

Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.

Invincible Iron Man #500
4.5 stars

Invincible Iron Man #500

January 2011
"The new iron age"
Script: Matt Fraction
This story is set in 2 eras:- 2011 and 2052. The 2 strands are interleaved in the comic, but I'm going to separate them.The presentday section features Iron Man and Spider-Man.Tony Stark collars Peter Parker on the way to his job at the Horizon Labs think tank. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #501
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #501

February 2011
"Fix me part 1"
Script: Matt Fraction
16 or 17 years ago Tony Stark met Otto Octavius at a technology symposium. They disliked each other on sight. Octavius believed that you had to do what the military-industrial complex wanted in order to guarantee funding. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #502
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #502

March 2011
"Fix me part 2: The God number"
Script: Matt Fraction
Last issue Dr Octopus 'persuaded' Tony Stark to help him by threatening to nuke Manhattan. (Tony can't turn into Iron Man because that would trigger the bomb.) Otto Octavius is dying from a neural disease, and he wants Stark to fix him. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #503
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #503

April 2011
"Fix me part 3: Fear itself"
Script: Matt Fraction
Tony Stark is being held prisoner by Doctor Octopus. Otto Octavius has asked Tony to find a cure for the neural failure that is killing him. Or admit that there is a problem that even the great Tony Stark can't solve. To ensure compliance he has threatened Manhattan with a nuclear bomb. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #504
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #504

May 2011
"Fear itself part 1: City of light, city of stone"
Script: Matt Fraction
We track 4 of the 7 meteoric hammers falling to Earth in Fear Itself #2. We see 2 landing in Brazil and on the Raft prison, where Hulk and Juggernaut found them in FI#2. We see 2 landing the K'un Lun mountains and Paris. The K'un Lun one will crop up in Iron Man 2.0. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #505
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #505

June 2011
"?Fear itself part 2: Cracked actor"
Script: Matt Fraction
We start with a flashback to young Tony Stark talking to his father Howard, who justifies building weapons that kill people.In the present Iron Man has just regained consciousness in Paris on a mound of broken 'statues' that were once people. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #506
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #506

July 2011
"Fear itself part 3: The apostate"
Script: Matt Fraction
In Fear Itself #4-5 recovering-alcoholic Tony Stark got drunk as a sacrifice to Odin. Odin answered, and Tony asks him for weapons to fight the Serpent and his hammer-wielding Worthy. Odin doesn't think Earth has any chance against the Serpent, but it will do as a holding action. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #507
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #507

August 2011
"Fear itself part 4: Fog of war"
Script: Matt Fraction
Iron Man and the Asgardian Dwarves are still carousing in Nidavellir. The unnamed dwarf Tony Stark beat in a fight last issue sneaks off to meet with some minions of the Serpent. It turns out he deliberately provoked the fight to get samples of Tony's blood and hair. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #508
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #508

September 2011
"Fear Itself part 5: If I ever get out of here"
Script: Matt Fraction
This issue again follows 2 separate threads:- Tony Stark in Asgard and Pepper Potts on Earth.In Svartalfheim Tony has been engulfed by a mud golem empowered by his own DNA. He fights his way free and activates his Iron Man armour. But it won't work properly. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #509
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #509

October 2011
"Fear Itself part 6: Mercy"
Script: Matt Fraction
In Svartalfheim Iron Man comes out of the vat of molten Uru metal he jumped into last issue (and Fear Itself #6) with his armour transformed into something grey and spiky (like the Destroyer). He greets Odin, Thor and Splitlip the head Dwarf. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #510
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #510

November 2011
"Demon part 1: The beast in me"
Script: Matt Fraction
During Fear Itself alcoholic Tony Stark had a drink. Now it's 3 days later and Mandarin is going to use it against him as part of a wider plot to discredit Iron Man (and more?). [...]
Invincible Iron Man #511
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #511

December 2011
"Demon part 2: Exposure"
Script: Matt Fraction
Tony Stark and Splitlip the Dark Elf drop in on Stark Resilient late in the evening of the last issue, and everyone's still there. Tony catches up with the latest developments in their repulsor-powered products. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #512
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #512

January 2012
"Demon part 3: Control"
Script: Matt Fraction
In New York doctors try to save Iron Man from the heart attack caused by Living Laser last issue. But Tony Stark knows their efforts will only kill him, so he has to use minimal force to stop them. And then limps away. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #513
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #513

February 2012
"Demon 4: Control"
Script: Matt Fraction
Iron Man is trying to protect China's Three Gorges Dam from attack by a horde of Dreadnought robots. He is joined by Dynasty, China's answer to the Avengers (all apparently flying), led by The Star (an armoured Captain America, complete with shield). [...]
Invincible Iron Man #514
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #514

March 2012
"Demon 5: Melt"
Script: Matt Fraction
It is 2 weeks since Iron Man was 'escorted' home from China by War Machine and the Detroit Steel Corps. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #515
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #515

April 2012
"Demon 6: Fall"
Script: Matt Fraction
War Machine is fighting the new young Melter and waiting for Iron Man to arrive as backup. But Gen'l Babbage's override mechanism has caused Tony Stark's armour to retract back into his body, and he now relies on Bethany Cabe to get him to the scene by car. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #516
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #516

May 2012
"Long way down 1: Night of the long knives"
Script: Matt Fraction
Iron Man is fighting the new female Firebrand, another of Mandarin's upgraded villains, in Charlotte North Carolina, the 2nd-largest US financial centre. He has her defeated, until she is joined by the female Crimson Dynamo. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #517
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #517

May 2012
"Long way down 2: How to make a madman"
Script: Matt Fraction
A large part of this issue is a compare and contrast between Tony Stark and Ezekiel Stane.It starts with a flashback to 4 year old Zeke. His father Obadiah is trying to make him do better than Tony did at that age, and punishing him when he fails. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #518
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #518

June 2012
"Long way down 3: You ghosts of mine both new and old"
Script: Matt Fraction
Tony Stark holds a press conference with Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, confirming that he's resigned as Iron Man to fight his alcoholism. He denies knowing anything about a new Iron Man battling Somali pirates. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #519
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #519

June 2012
"Long way down 4: The work"
Script: Matt Fraction
We pick up where we left off last issue, with an armoured Ezekiel Stane attacking Mandarin in his office in Mandarin City. Zeke has been building up to this rebellion for a while, in #517 removing the bomb Mandarin planted in his chest. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #520
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #520

July 2012
"Long way down 5: The dead and the dying"
Script: Matt Fraction
Last issue Mandarin sent Chemistro and Mauler to assassinate Tony Stark at a press conference. But the new Iron Man (secretly James Rhodes) came to the rescue.Tony pretends not to know his saviour as the villains continue to attack. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #521
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #521

July 2012
"The future 1: The demolished man"
Script: Matt Fraction
This issue has 4 interleaved strands which I shall unravel here.It's 6 months after the last issue. Tony Stark is working for Mandarin in Mandarin City, but not mixing well with the villains who are also there.Mandarin wants Stark to build Titanomechs for him. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #522
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #522

August 2012
"The future 2: Rings"
Script: Matt Fraction
In Mandarin City, Mandarin sends  most of his super-agents out to scavenge the materials that Tony Stark said last issue he needs to build a Titanomech. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #523
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #523

August 2012
"The future 3: Swarm"
Script: Matt Fraction
In Mandarin City Tony Stark has built 3 Titanomechs for Mandarin. Mandarin takes off 3 of his rings and inserts one in each giant robot.Mandarin demands Stark finish the other 7 Titanomechs, for his other rings. Tony counters by asking where the materials he wanted are. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #524
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #524

September 2012
"The future 4: Armor war"
Script: Matt Fraction
Pepper Potts and Carson Wyche are held captive by the AI JARVIS of Pepper's Rescue suit. They suspected it of being compromised by Mandarin and his allies. But JARVIS instead claims to be in love with Pepper. [...]