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Comic Book: Invincible Iron Man (1968 series)

What This Book is About:
Iron Man's flagship title. Following TALES OF SUSPENSE, this title ran for decades, establishing Tony Stark and his armored alter ego as one of Marvel's greatest heroes.

Data Sheet:
Dates
May 1968 to Sep 1996
1968
N/A

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

Iron Man
Iron Man

(Tony Stark)
James Rhodes
James Rhodes

(Rhodey)
Pepper Potts
Pepper Potts

(Pepper Hogan)
Plus: Mrs. Arbogast, Jasper Sitwell, Abe Zimmer, Marianne Rodgers.

Comics Index

Page: 12 of 14

Total Indexed Comics: 332

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

Invincible Iron Man #275
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #275

December 1991
"Dragon Doom!"
Script: John Byrne
The damaged Iron Man (James Rhodes) pulls himself together and surveys the situation: he sees the real Iron Man—Tony Stark—in action against the Gathered dragons. Shellhead holds his own while Chen Hsu grows angry over the hitch in his plans. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #276
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #276

January 1992
"With Friends Like These..."
Script: John Byrne
Early one morning, Tony Stark is woken in his bed by the Black Widow, asking for help from Iron Man. Tony explains that he is no longer Iron Man due to the debilitating condition of his nervous system and he has but a short time to live. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #277
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #277

February 1992
"War Games"
Script: John Byrne
US missiles have been launched toward the USSR, thanks to the Black Widow who turned out to be Soviet sleeper agent Oktober. Iron Man now awakens from the neural zap Natasha gave him and finds himself surrounded by military security types, who demand an explanation. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #278
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #278

March 1992
"Decisions In A Vacuum"
Script: Len Kaminski
Follows AVENGERS #345The first Avengers diplomatic team heads through the stargate to emerge in the Kree galaxy. They immediately encounter a massive space station and enter to find it empty. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #279
4.5 stars

Invincible Iron Man #279

April 1992
"Bad Judgment"
Script: Len Kaminski
Follows AVENGERS #346 Iron Man and a miniaturized Hawkeye are doing a reconnaissance on the Kree homeworld of Hala under cover of a cloaking field. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #280
3 stars

Invincible Iron Man #280

May 1992
"Technical Difficulties"
Script: Len Kaminski
Having returned from Operation Galactic Storm, Iron Man (Tony Stark) is in a gloomy mood, brooding over his deteriorating health and wishing he had died in space. James Rhodes tries to cheer him up, to be more optimistic but Tony has had it, punching a mirror out of frustration...... [...]
Invincible Iron Man #281
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #281

June 1992
"The Masters of Silence"
Script: Len Kaminski
Tony Stark is having a nightmare that as Iron Man he is confronted by a giant robot that melts his armor off and impales him and twists him in wires—betrayed by technology. James Rhodes wakes him up: Tony's life support had malfunctioned as he was recovering from the beating he took last issue. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #282
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #282

July 1992
"War Machine"
Script: Len Kaminski
The Masters of Silence have invaded Stark Enterprises on their mission to assassinate Tony Stark and come face-to-face with Iron Man in his new War Machine armor in a holographic simulation of the Vietnam jungle. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #283
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #283

August 1992
"Put the Hammer Down!"
Script: Len Kaminski
Iron Man in his new War Machine armor leads the Masters of Silence in an attack on Justin Hammer's artificial island stronghold. Hammer's forces fire on Rhodey in his helicopter but Rhodey evades the missiles and fires a couple of his own at the target. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #284
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #284

September 1992
"Legacy of Iron"
Script: Len Kaminski
“Anthony Stark is dead” announces the evening news, followed by speculations from the media which angers James “Rhodey” Rhodes. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #285
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #285

October 1992
"Ashes to Ashes"
Script: Len Kaminski
At Tony Stark's memorial service, Rhodey scatters his ashes from the roof of Stark Enterprises, hurling the empty urn at an intrusive reporter in a helicopter. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #286
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #286

November 1992
"Dust to Dust"
Script: Len Kaminski
In the new silver Iron Man armor, James Rhodes has defeated Spymaster and his gang but then a quartet of West Coast Avengers arrives—Hawkeye, Wasp, Doctor Pym, and Living Lightning—and confronts the unfamiliar armored figure, intending to take him down. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #287
3.5 stars

Invincible Iron Man #287

December 1992
"Meltdown!"
Script: Len Kaminski
New Stark Enterprises CEO James Rhodes addresses the board and informs them that he will not be making any major changes and that he is depending on them to keep the company going. Later at dinner, Rae Lacoste tells Rhodey she and Tony were only friends but that with Rhodey she wants something more. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #288
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #288

January 1993
"Ground Zero"
Script: Len Kaminski
After the press has been cleared away, Firepower, the armored troubleshooter of the US government, arrives at the Stane plant where nothing has been heard from Iron Man for several minutes. FP goes in and confronts the terrorist calling himself Atom Smasher. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #289
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #289

February 1993
"The Light at the End"
Script: Len Kaminski
The Living Laser bursts into James Rhodes' office intent on taking his revenge against Tony Stark. Rhodey tells him Stark is dead and offers him a job with Stark Enterprises. Laser is interested, figuring he could always destroy everyone later if he needs to. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #290
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #290

March 1993
"This Year's Model"
Script: Len Kaminski
Tony Stark, lying in his hospital bed, runs through his paces, rewriting his own operating system but Dr Erica Sondheim can not promise him that he will recover mobility. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #291
4.5 stars

Invincible Iron Man #291

April 1993
"Judgment Day"
Script: Len Kaminski
The paralyzed Tony Stark fights the battledroids assaulting Stark Enterprises with his brand new Iron Man armor by remote control. Attacking the tank, he jacks into the 'droids battle network—and realizes that this could harm him. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #292
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #292

May 1993
"Mixed Reactions"
Script: Len Kaminski
The media announces the incredible news that Tony Stark is still alive! This sends his villainous cousin into a rage but is more welcome to people like Captain America, Pepper and Happy Hogan, and Nick Fury while a mysterious figure watches with interest [Spoiler: it's the Controller. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #293
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #293

June 1993
"Controlling Interests"
Script: Len Kaminski
With the disconnected Iron Man armor resting on the bottom of the ocean, the paralyzed Tony Stark is wheeled into the presence of the Controller, Basil Sandhurst, looking normal and whole. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #294
4.5 stars

Invincible Iron Man #294

July 1993
"Orbital Resonances"
Script: Len Kaminski
Tony Stark uses the remote Iron Man armor to fly up to his space station with the help of a solid rocket booster, pausing in the slow moments to think about Veronica Benning and his painful therapy. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #295
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #295

August 1993
"Into the Void"
Script: Len Kaminski
Aboard the space station, the newly-evolved Technovore prepares to assimilate the remote controlled Iron Man, who fights back with his weaponry. But with every blow, the monsters repairs and enlarges itself. Shellhead senses trouble.... [...]
Invincible Iron Man #296
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #296

September 1993
"Trade War"
Script: Len Kaminski
Tony Stark runs his new Iron Man remote armor through a series of tests (the previous one was destroyed last issue) and declares it good. Tony attends a high-level staff meeting and discovers who at the company approved selling Stark's nuclear materials to A.I.M. and that Alessandro Brannex, A.I.M. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #297
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #297

October 1993
"Whipsaw!"
Script: Len Kaminski
On Boca Caliente, Omega Red and MODAM begin their battle to the death as a damaged Iron Man remote lies at their feet. At home, Tony Stark slowly recovers from MODAM's psycho-blast and quickly hacks into the armor to get it up and running right away. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #298
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #298

November 1993
"The unquiet earth"
Script: Len Kaminski
Prelude:- “Heart of Stone”Writer: Len Kaminski. Pencils: Tom Tenney. Inks: Avon. Colors: Ariane Lenshoek.Dr. Maximilian Stone, director of a geothermal research facility in the California desert, orders the place evacuated when an earthquake causes something to go wrong with the drilling. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #299
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #299

December 1993
"The Doomsday Machine!"
Script: Len Kaminski
Ultimo has returned, his programming by the Mandarin now erased, he has reverted to its prime directive: exterminate all life on Earth. [...]