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Issue: The Many Armors of Iron Man #[nn]
Publication Date: November 1992
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Variant: First Printing
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: 1992
Volume: none
Pages: 212
ISBN: 087135926X
UPC/EAN: 02488523629301
Price: $18.45 CAD
$15.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (9 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Collects Iron Man (Marvel, 1968 series) #'s 47, 142-144, 152, 153, 200, and 218.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; Baxter interior
Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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In Issue: FlagIron Man by Michelinie, Layton & Romita Jr. Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2013
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Contents & Credits

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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The Many Armors of Iron Man

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Colorist(s): various
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: Iron Man's adaptability and intelligence are his real strengths.
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Why Must There Be an Iron Man?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Simon Gilbert (villain)
Synopsis: After Kevin O'Brien's funeral Tony reflects on his origin and ponders his future.
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Pages: 21
Job Number: 859Z
Disclose Notes: Splash page notes: "Based in part on a story by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber from Tales of Suspense #39."
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Apocalypse Then

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: There comes a time in the life of everyone famous when he must face a gathering of his admirers and detractors.
Synopsis: Escaping from Wong-Chu, Iron Man encounters James Rhodes of the US Marines and enlists his help getting out of enemy territory.
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Disclose Notes: Flashback story telling how Rhodes met Tony Stark and came to be employed by him; takes place between Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #39 & 40
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First Line: The key to Tony Stark's character is that he's a technological hero...
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Sky Die!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bambi Arbogast; Vic Martinelli; Ling McPherson; Roxxon Oil (villain); Senator Glen Mountebank (villain); Mike Trudeau (villain)
First Line: Monday morning, 9:00 am, as an elevator door hisses open in the administration building...
Synopsis: After a radiation surge kills hundreds of people in a small town Iron Man ventures into space to investigate the source: Roxxon's new solar energy station.
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: First appearance of the Iron Man Space Armor.

The sequence of Iron Man approaching a shielded/cloaked space station in a slow reveal similar to one in the James Bond movie Moonraker (released in 1979).
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Meter on the Sun!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sunturion [Arthur Dearborn] (villain, introduction); Jonas Hale (villain); Ludwig Schmidt; Wolfgang Kuhn; Ivan
First Line: Ebony on black: The impenetrable darkness of shadows in space.
Synopsis: Iron Man encounters the Roxxon station's defender, Sunturion, and finds him a reasonable man - but unwilling to halt Roxxon's plans.
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Sunfall

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bambi Arbogast; Sunturion (villain, death)
First Line: Two days ago, several hundred inhabitants of the small midwestern hamlet of Allantown, Iowa,E
Synopsis: Roxxon's station falls from orbit and Sunturion seems to die helping Iron Man contain the damage.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: The changes to Iron Man's armor were necessary to make the stories contemporary.
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Escape from Heaven's Hand!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Anatol Dubrov (villain, introduction)
First Line: High above the midnight mountains of East Germany flies a man.
Synopsis: To liberate Bethany Cabe from East Germany, Iron Man dons his stealth armor.
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: First appearance of Iron Man's Stealth Armor.
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Light Makes Might!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: At Heaven's Hand, the top-secret Communist research installation hidden deep within a mountain...
Synopsis: The East Germans have increased Living Laser's power to the nth degree - but in battle with Iron Man it proves more power than the Living Laser can survive.
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Resolutions!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dr. Clytemnestra Erwin; Bambi Arbogast; Timothy Anders; Dr. Theron Atlanta (villain); Chessmen (villains)
First Line: Nobody on Earth could have survived that bomb blast, Mr. Stark.
Synopsis: Following the death of Morley Erwin, Tony Stark resumes the identity of Iron Man and defeats Obadiah Stane. Unable to cope with losing, Stane kills himself.
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Pages: 41
Disclose Notes: First appearance of new "Silver Centurion" armor.
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First Line: The use of different armors is comparable to the way things work...
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Deep Trouble!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Irina Tarasova; Carter Hastings (introduction, death); Mr. Kuttner (flashback)
First Line: In England, the ability to maintain one's dignity under stress...
Synopsis: Iron Man uses his deep sea armor to retrieve undersea chemical weapons before their casings deteriorate.
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Disclose Notes: First appearance of Iron Man's Deep Sea Armor.

John Romita Sr. redrew Carter Hastings' head/face in many panels. Original Bob Layton art under paste-up shows him with a full head of hair.
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War Machine Blueprints

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Genres: superhero
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Genres: superhero
First Line: This collection is a blueprint...
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Disclose Notes: On back cover.

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