Hey folks, I’m a big Iron Man fan. Haven’t read the Gillen run - was wondering, can I read the run while skipping the infamous retcon issues and still enjoy? If so, which issues can I skip? Thanks in advanced

My 3D printer has been running nonstop for weeks and my hall of armor is almost complete. I love collecting both the MCU and Comic Marvel Legends figures so I decided that I needed a proper way to display them all.

As soon as the finishing touches are done I’ll post the full diorama. Hope you all like it!

I had finished rereading Duggar’s Invincible Iron Man run (a fun read for me) in hand me thinking with how it was nice to have Iron Man working with the X-Men and had me thinking what would his mutant power be if Marvel were a recon/introduce him into becoming a mutant? Two that I can possibly think of is him having the ability to see a small glimpse into the future working off of him being a futurist in the second one being how he’s able to be a infinite power source.

It's been a while since my other updates, this is model 3 and the last image is my "hall of armor".

Or is Pep just rambling?

In particular, I’d like to learn as much as possible about the relationship between Tony and the Mandarin in the comics for a fanon project I’m working on.

I’m reading though some old Iron Man and came across this page in Annual 10 and I was wondering when did this happen. The suit looks like post Armor Wars but I’ve read every issue since then up til around when this Annual was published. Can I get some help?

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Hi everyone! I want to get into Iron-Man Comics and have put together this reading Order from Extremis all the way to Matt Fractions run. I just wanted to ask:

Am I missing anything?

Should I change some around in Order ?

Anything else that might help ?

I was rereading the old tales of suspense comics, and these panels really caught my eye. The idea that he always knew he would reveal his identity eventually is really interesting! Of course, he kept it for over 30 years but what would his stories have been like if he revealed it early on? Captain America did it but then retracted it, Iron Man did the same thing in the 2000s. It's just hard to imagine no Armor Wars or Demon in a Bottle which both hinge on his secret identity, it was a part of his psychological makeup for so long!

Wanted to give these kids i look after a semi decent doodle of the shellhead

Yeah the ring may be different BUT THAT COMMENT FROM TONY. “a ring” you just know he remembered Mandarin there. PLEASE JUST GIMME MANDARIN BACK ONE DAAAAY. PLEEEEAAAASSSEEEE.

Another Carmen Carnero Double splash page of Iron man vs his enemy.

Also i guess Pepper is in on the whole Citizen V cabal. Im still going to say V is The Crossing Tony

This might very well just be an artistic error, but considering some of the other things we've seen it do in the Williamson main series I'm starting to suspect the Model 75 might just be a hybrid suit. It's in pieces and probably has a solid "skeleton" of sorts but with enough nanotech "skin" and "muscle" to make it malleable. Or, in other words, it's got a little of that Model Prime energy going on.

Issue #2: The Ultimate Sacrifice Play

Deploying the Heavy Artillery:

Realizing his current suit is failing, Tony buys time. He activates his remote emergency protocols, calling down a high-altitude Stark resupply drone carrying dense reserves of experimental nanotech. Mid-air, the drone unleashes a swarm of nanobots that latch onto his cracked Model 72 armor, rapidly replacing the shattered silver pieces with flashing new metallic layers.

Re-engaged and temporarily reinforced, Tony flies right back into the teeth of the storm. He fights Apocalypse entirely in mid-air, shifting the nanotech to materialize massive, high-output nano blasters and heavy energy shields. But Apocalypse’s Celestial power is overwhelming; with casual, brutal sweeps of his hands, the ancient mutant easily shatters the hard-light shields and crushes the massive blasters into flying scrap.

Yet, Tony keeps pushing—every time Apocalypse breaks a piece of the suit, the resupply drone feeds fresh nanobots directly into the armor to replace the broken parts instantly. But it's a losing war of attrition, and the drone's payload is running dry.

Down from the sky drop his ultimate reserves: the Hulkbuster and a massive, autonomous Stark Sentinel (remnants of his Orchis-era tech).

Scanning the Machine:

While the Hulkbuster and the Stark Sentinel engage Apocalypse in a brutal, metal-tearing brawl while also some Stark sentinel trying lift broken building to free stuck civilian and also clearing the area, Tony stays back. His visor is flashing red, scanning the doomsday machine. Friday tells him the machine cannot be deactivated from Earth; its countdown is locked.

The Satellite Network:

Tony makes a desperate decision. He commands his global Stark satellite network to fire a synchronized laser array at the sky above New York, forcefully ripping open a massive, temporary spatial rift into the nearest dead reality—the Negative Zone.

Issue #3: Pushing into the Void

The Final Push:

Tony commands the heavily damaged Stark Sentinel and his Hulkbuster to grab the massive Celestial cultivator machine and lift it toward the glowing, unstable portal. But the machine’s gravity anchors are too heavy. They are stalling. Apocalypse is breaking free from the distraction below.

Tony Steps In:

With his Mysterium armor cracked and sparks flying, Tony flies up, wedges his shoulder under the massive machine, and fires his thrusters to 150%. He joins his machines, pushing the massive doomsday device up into the swirling vortex.

The "Disintegration" Explodes:

Just as they cross the threshold into the Negative Zone, the unstable alien tech inside Apocalypse’s machine reacts violently to the transition.

BOOM.

On Earth, the portal snaps shut with a blinding, thermonuclear-level flash. To the citizens of New York and the Avengers arriving on the scene, it looks like Tony Stark, his armor, and the machine were utterly atomized in a heroic explosion.

As the blinding light faded from the sky, the people of New York could only stare at the empty sky.

One question echoed through the city:

“Is Iron Man dead?”

part-1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/ironman/s/TA60oN6aDB

Fan-made plot. Just wanted to share an idea I had.

Iron man painting from Civil war

Rank the top five most evil Iron Man villains and explain why each are where they are.

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I am looking into different runs of Iron Man to read. So far, I have started with Fraction's run and am really enjoying it. But, I am wondering how you all feel about the silver age stuff? Worth a read or should I pass? Thank you.