Iron Man – Comics Everyone Should Read

I am currently editing this page to give the issues better descriptions, so until I’m done you will only see the issue numbers and series titles. However, using these you should be able to look up detailed descriptions of most issues somewhere online if you want to. Adding new descriptions isn’t really a priority for me, so I’ll be a while before I’m done…

Tales of Suspense
#39 – Origin of Iron Man.
#45 – First appearances of Happy Hogan and Pepper Potts.
#46 – First appearance of Crimson Dynamo.
#50 – First appearance of the Mandarin.
#52 – First appearance of the Black Widow.
#54-55 – Another Mandarin story.
#56 – First appearance of the Unicorn.
#57 – First appearance of Hawkeye.
#59-63 – Tony Stark is trapped in his Iron Man armor.  Also, the origin of the Mandarin.
#69-71 – First appearance of Titanium Man.
#77-78 – First appearance of Ultimo.
#81-86 – Tony Stark is ordered to hand over his Iron Man armor to the government.
#95-99, Iron Man and Sub-Mariner #1, Iron Man #1 – First appearance of Whiplash.

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#7-13 – First appearance of the Controller.
#17-19 – First appearance of Madame Masque.
#21-22 – Tony Stark quits being Iron Man.
#33-34 – First appearance of Spymaster.
#117-129 – Demon in a Bottle.
#131-133 – Tony Stark tries to cure the Hulk.
#134-135 – Titanium Man returns.
#137-141 – Madame Masque and Justin Hammer return.
#142-144 – First appearance of Sunturion. Also, Rhodey’s first encounter with Iron Man.
#145 – First appearances of Edwin Cord and the Raiders.
#146-147 -Stark’s head of security is targeted by Whiplash, who now calls himself Blacklash.
#148 – Stark’s plant in Costa Diablo is taken over by revolutionaries.
#149-150 – Doomquest.
#151-153 – Iron Man goes looking for his missing girlfriend Bethany Cabe.
#215-217 – Tony Stark’s space station is sabotaged by AIM.
#219-221 – First appearance of the Ghost.
#222-232 – Armor Wars.
#237 – Iron Man is hired to investigate a space station which the government has lost contact with.
#238-240 – The Ghost returns.
#241-248 – Tony Stark is shot through the spine and crippled.
#249-250 – The sequel to Doomquest.
#256 – Stark is approached with a way to decontaminate his old space station.
#258-266 – Armor Wars II.
#267-268 – Retelling of Iron Man’s origin, with retcons adding the Mandarin in.
#269-275 – The Dragon Seed Saga.
#276-277 – Black Widow approaches Iron Man for help.
#281-291 – War Machine.

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