With Stark Enterprises' new space station in place, Iron Man - whether Tony Stark or Jim Rhodes - is on the move. But if it's up to AIM, they'll be headed straight down...to burn up on re-entry! Even with one Armored Avenger down, the other's still up for adventure overseas and underwater - but Roxxon Oil's backing a new opponent who'll have Stark climbing the walls and breaking through them, just in time to face Justin Hammer's B-Team: Beetle, Blizzard, and Blacklash! Featuring Spymaster and the Ghost, later of Dark Reign infamy! Collects Iron Man (1968) #215-224.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific collection of classic '80s Iron Man issues,
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This review is from: Iron Man: Armor Wars Prologue (Marvel Premiere Classic) (Paperback)
When I first started reading comics as a teenager, Iron Man soon became my favorite title, thanks in large part to the work of David Michelinie, Bob Layton and Mark Bright, whose work is highlighted in this Armor Wars Prologue collection. This collection, which includes issues 215-224, leads up to the famous Armor Wars storyline, and features some very memorable adventures of the red and silver Iron Man.Michelinie and Layton had a terrific run on Iron Man, and the issues collected here are some of their best. Yes, there's a degree of `80s cheesiness, and the dialogue is a bit silly at times, but they did a great job adding depth to both Tony Stark and James Rhodes, and the introduction of the Ghost was one of the best Iron Man issues of the decade. As far as calling this collection the Armor Wars Prologue, I guess that's true in the sense that these issues preceded that storyline, but the events in Armor Wars weren't even hinted at here. The artwork in this volume may seem dated compared to the modern Iron Man artwork of Adi Granov and Salvador Larocca, but for me the team of Mark Bright and Bob Layton will always be the "gold standard" of Iron Man artists. Iron Man always managed to look both bulky (like a guy in a suit of armor should look) but fluid, and their attention to detail was incredible. The issue where Tony and Rhodey both suit up and fall from space still amazes me. I can't tell you how many of those dynamic Iron Man illustrations I painstakingly copied as a teenager. Obviously I'm a fan of the issues collected here. The Armor Wars Prologue isn't a "must-have" Iron Man collection the way Iron Man: Armor Wars, Iron Man: Extremis or Invincible Iron Man Omnibus, Vol. 1 are, but it's still a terrific run of classic `80s Iron Man issues, and one that all old school Iron Man fans will enjoy.
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One of the best Iron Man teams ever!,
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This book is a perfect companion to the armor wars as the team of Layton, Michelinie and Bright set up one of the all time best Iron Man story lines. The art is fantastic for the pre computer coloring days. I'm hoping to see these issues someday get the Essential treatment because they would be fantastic as pure line drawn art. It may be a little hard to see Tony Stark with the requisite "Soul Glow" Jerry Curl from the 1980's but getting to see the Silver Centurion armor next to the classic red and gold more than makes up for it.
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Prologue is past, but also pretty cool.,
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The very first issue of Iron Man I ever bought, Iron Man 214, is the first issue printed in this collection, and it's a rip-roaring, entertaining story in which Iron Man Stark and Iron Man Rhodes head into space to secure a station only to be thwarted by A.I.M. saboteurs. It ends on one of those classic, high suspense cliffhangers in which the life of Iron Man Rhodes is at stake.... Pretty cool stuff, even reading it now, and it forever ingrained in my mind the idea that Iron Man was about high adventure a little in the style of James Bond, with a little Batman, and some sci-fi thrown in. When it came out, I remember I picked up the issue cos it had two Iron Men on the cover, and at the instant when I picked it up, the idea that there were more than one hero called Iron Man, blew.my.young.teenage.mind! I bought that issue and the next one to finally see what happened to the "other Iron Man," but for reasons too long to go into, never picked up any other issues after that. I always did wonder though what that series would have been like if I had been able to continue.Although the opening 2 parter featuring Tony in space are probably the best of this collection, the stories here hold up surprisingly well, for some genuinely good reasons and some less flattering ones, but nonetheless make for a happy hour and a half of fun, light reading of classic stories. Michelinie was doing a fantastic job writing here and the art by M.D. Bright with some inks by Bob Layton was tight and actually pretty good. As a team, the writer and artists perfectly complimented each other and Michelinie was hitting precisely the right kind of tone he was aiming for, which were fun, high adventure hero versus villain stories full of (admittedly unsophisticated) corporate intrigue, high stakes business deals and lots and lots of superhero action. Packed with panels and plenty word bubbles, this is classic 80s comics where navel gazing was unheard of and heroes were still heroes; people who knew what they were about and likeable too. Michelinie portrays Tony here as a driven corporate, risk taking but generally likeable fellow. Strangely, there's almost no womanizing which is a bit odd given the time and the character involved. Strangely, or perhaps interestingly, there's also no Pepper Potts, at all, or Happy Hogun, which was surprising to me as an only casual fan. (Their place in the movies suggested they were central supporting characters in the comics.) Another highlight here is a three issue game of cat and mouse between Iron Man and the Ghost. Although the stories here are probably unnecessary background to the next volume, namely the "Armor Wars' collection proper, "Prologue" is also important for one other reason; namely that it highlights what has always been Marvel's strengths - Marvel is great at telling the same story over and over while DC is always telling new stories badly. What's interesting about the stories here is that the Tony Stark presented in these pages, is in precisely the same position as the Tony Stark currently being published by Marvel and written and drawn by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca respectively. In these issues, Tony has just come back from bankruptcy and is in the process of setting up a new company out of the ashes of his old one. In the process, he is sabotaged at nearly every stage but nonetheless takes huge risks to get where he wants to go. The *exact same story* is currently being rehashed by Matt Fraction but is drawn out to painstaikingly slow and deliberate lengths, with just issue after issue of talking heads in which the minutiae of corporate recruitment is trudged out to the reader as if the writer was soul-deep convinced that readers were far more interested in comics about that at 3.99 an issue, than actual events or a plot which moved things along. But it is interesting as a long time comics reader that Iron Man the character is in exactly the same position some 20 or so years years later, as Marvel had him in the 80s. I say all of this to put the excellent work of Michelinie, Bright and Layton in perspective, from the point of view that the stories here are dense, move at a brisk pace, highlight and explore Tony's character in many ways, and above all, are entertaining, even if they are slightly, but only slightly, dated. There are references to the cold war for example, etc, but the stories remain surprisingly vibrant. Bottom line, this is good fun, and classic Iron Man comics. In fact, if you're currently reading Iron Man by Fraction now, I highly recommend getting this volume to see how the same story Fraction tells in "Iron Man: Stark Resilient" has already been done but in a far more entertaining fashion. This is not a collection that will change your life, and is probably best for someone who collected Iron Man around that time, and would like to re-read those issues again. For me, it was just interesting to read beyond that initial two parter I bought all those years ago, when the cover image of two Iron Men flying in space was just more than my curiousity could resist.
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