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Comic Book: Invincible Iron Man (2008 series)

What This Book is About:
Volume 5, written by Matt Fraction, art by Salvador Larroca.

Data Sheet:
Dates
Aug 2009 to Dec 2010
2008
N/A

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

Iron Man
Iron Man

(Tony Stark)
Pepper Potts
Pepper Potts

(Pepper Hogan)
War Machine
War Machine

(James Rhodes)
Black Widow
Black Widow

(Natasha Romanoff)
Plus: Norman Osborn, H.A.M.M.E.R., Sasha Hammer, Ms. Hand.

Comics Index

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Total Indexed Comics: 33

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

Invincible Iron Man #1
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #1

May 2008
"The Five Nightmares Part 1: Armageddon Days"
Script: Matt Fraction
A group of young terrorists blow themselves up in a market street of Tabora (Tanzania, Africa), killing about a hundred people. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #2
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #2

June 2008
"The Fight Nightmares Part 2: Murder, Inc."
Script: Matt Fraction
Iron Man defeats Advance Genocide Mechanics troops at their base in the Congo, and then confronts their leader, a MODOK-lookalike called MODOG (Mobile Organism Designed Only for Genocide). After a brief fight he hurls MODOG into space, and the AGM base is mopped up by SHIELD forces. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #3
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #3

July 2008
"The Five Nightmares Part 3: Pepper Pots at the End of the World"
Script: Matt Fraction
Ezekiel Stane's suicide bombers have just blown up the StarkDynamics party in Taipei, taking the top floors of a skyscraper with them.Stane and Tony Stark are the only survivors. Stark lives because he summoned up the Extremis armour in time. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #4
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #4

August 2008
"The Five Nightmares Part 4: Neutron Bomb Heart"
Script: Matt Fraction
After a press conference about the terrorist attacks in the previous 3 issues, Tony Stark plays 5 simultaneous games of chess with Reed Richards while they discuss things. Mr Fantastic confirms that the suicide bombers' technology was based on Stark's own. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #5
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #5

September 2008
"The Five Nightmares Part 5: Code Black"
Script: Matt Fraction
Tours of Stark Industries are starting in LA, Tokyo, Valencia and Long Island. Iron Man knows the tours have been infiltrated by some of Ezekiel Stane's terrorists, because of trackers he tricked Stane last issue into incorporating into their tech. We see Stane himself at the Long Island site. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #6
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #6

October 2008
"The Five Nightmares Part 6: Irrational Actors"
Script: Matt Fraction
Ezekiel Stane sent his terrorists to attack Stark Industries factories in LA, Tokyo and Valencia, and personally led a team into the SI HQ in Long Island. There he confronted and fought Iron Man, and blew his head off.Now he strips off Stark's armour, intending to display the body in public. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #7
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #7

November 2008
""Clifton Pollard" The Five Nightmares: Epilogue"
Script: Matt Fraction
Ben Urich, Managing Editor of Front Line, takes Peter Parker to interview Tony Stark the week after Ezekiel Stane's attacks. (Peter has just fought Electro as Spider-Man.) On the way Ben tells Peter about Clifton Pollard, who dug JFK's grave and was interviewed by James Breslin. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #8
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #8

December 2008
"World's Most Wanted Part 1: Shipbreaking"
Script: Matt Fraction
Maria Hill, Tony Stark's deputy Director of SHIELD, is fired from Norman Osborn's new HAMMER regime.Iron Man helps with the heavy lifting in the ongoing clean-up of the mess made when the SHIELD helicarrier crashed on New York during Secret Invasion. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #9
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #9

January 2009
"World's Most Wanted Part 2: Godspeed"
Script: Matt Fraction
The Extremis procedure turned Tony Stark's brain into a hard drive, where he stored lots of Stark Industries and SHIELD sensitive info, including the Superhero Registration Database. Last issue he made sure this was now the only copy. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #10
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #10

February 2009
"World's Most Wanted Part 3: No Future"
Script: Matt Fraction
Norman Osborn continues to give his press conference as head of HAMMER. He is mostly evasive, and dismissive of hostile questions. But continues to suggest that Tony Stark and Maria Hill were complicit in the Skrull invasion. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #11
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #11

March 2009
"World's Most Wanted Part 4: Breach"
Script: Matt Fraction
Pepper Potts is wearing the Iron Man suit Tony Stark left for her. It includes an onboard computer presence called JARVIS, which tells her the suit is designated 1616, and has been designed specifically for her. It is powered by the implant in her chest. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #12
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #12

April 2009
"World's Most Wanted Part 5: The High-End Technology of Ultramodern Destruction"
Script: Matt Fraction
Tony Stark, Pepper Potts and Maria Hill continue their individual odysseys through the world of Norman Osborn's Dark Reign.Pepper is practicing with her new Iron Man suit when she rescues children from a school struck by an earthquake. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #13
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #13

May 2009
"World's Most Wanted Part 6: Some King of the World"
Script: Matt Fraction
Iron Man comes ashore in France, and ditches the deep sea armour, which is found by HAMMER troops. A civilian spots Tony Stark at an electronics fair in Bayeux, and notifies HAMMER for a reward.Shockwave comes after unarmoured Tony, for the reward offered by Norman Osborn to Hood's gang last issue. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #14
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #14

June 2009
"World's Most Wanted Part 7: The Shape of the World these Days"
Script: Matt Fraction
Tony Stark, Pepper Potts and Maria Hill have been pursuing individual courses in their resistance to Norman Osborn's Dark Reign. In this issue Tony and Pepper will reunite.Tony has been moving between his secret armouries, switching to ever-older versions of the Iron Man armour. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #15
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #15

July 2009
"World's Most Wanted Part 8: The Danger We're All In"
Script: Matt Fraction
We rejoin Tony Stark (in Crimson Dynamo armour) and Pepper Potts (in Rescue armour) in Kirensk. Tony is about to blow Pepper's head off, but his deteriorating brain recognises who she is in time. He apologises profusely, and kisses her. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #16
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #16

August 2009
"World's Most Wanted Part 9: Titan of the Nuclear Age"
Script: Matt Fraction
Madame Masque has Tony Stark and Pepper Potts captive in Tony's base under the Tunguska crater in Russia. The insanely jealous Whitney Frost wants Tony to say he loves her, despite her scarred face. Tony tells her that he did love her, after she was disfigured, a long time ago. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #17
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #17

September 2009
"World's Most Wanted Part 10: Ashes and Snow"
Script: Matt Fraction
In Kirensk Madame Masque drags the Rescue armour from the ruins of Tony Stark's base. She finds the communicator discarded in #15, and tells Norman Osborn that Iron Man escaped. But she killed Pepper Potts and has her Stark-tech armour. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #18
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #18

September 2009
"World's Most Wanted Part 11: Kids with Guns vs. The Eternal Angel of Death"
Script: Matt Fraction
After having his old Iron Man suit shot down in Afghanistan last issue, Tony Stark walks the rest of the way to the abandoned terrorist camp where he built the Model 0 Iron Man armour which saved his life. He remembers that he took that armour back to the US and improved it. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #19
5 stars

Invincible Iron Man #19

October 2009
"World's Most Wanted Conclusion: Into the White (Einstein on the Beach)"
Script: Matt Fraction
Victoria Hand has discovered the real Madame Masque trapped inside the Crimson Dynamo armour that HAMMER retrieved from Tony Stark's destroyed Tunguska base. She now realises that it must be Pepper Potts behind Masque's mask. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #20
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #20

November 2009
"Start: Disassembled Part 1: Counting Up from Zero"
Script: Matt Fraction
Tony Stark has wiped his own brain clear to keep his secrets safe from Norman Osborn. Now he's in a persistent vegetative state in the care of Dr Donald Blake (Thor). With them are Pepper Potts, Maria Hill, Black Widow and Captain America (Bucky). [...]
Invincible Iron Man #21
5 stars

Invincible Iron Man #21

December 2009
"Stark: Disassembled Part 2: Digging in the Dirt"
Script: Matt Fraction
Tony Stark, in his persistent vegetative state, is still having his recurring dream where he's trying to unearth an Iron Man chestplate in a desert, accompanied by his long-dead parents. Some of his robotic creations keep stopping him, but eventually they get the armour out. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #22
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #22

January 2010
"Stark: Disassembled Part 3 - Is It Safe?"
Script: Matt Fraction
Tony Stark wiped his own brain clean to stop Norman Osborn getting access to his repulsor power secrets and the Superhero Registration Database. Also he now needed a repulsor power source to run his body.A gathering of his allies have followed a recorded plan to reboot him. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #23
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #23

February 2010
"Stark: Disassembled Part 4: Ghosts in the Machine"
Script: Matt Fraction
Doctor Strange meets Tony Stark in his subconscious to help him revive after the profound and traumatic brain injury he suffered. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #24
5 stars

Invincible Iron Man #24

March 2010
"Stark: Disassembled Part 5 ....."
Script: Matt Fraction
Tony Stark, still trapped in his subconscious, waking along Doctor Strange finally reaches the castle of the Bureaucrat. Suddenly Strange leaves, and Tony sees that people he knew but died like Happy and Yinsen are standing on the steps of the castle; there's blood all around. [...]
Invincible Iron Man #25
4 stars

Invincible Iron Man #25

April 2010
"Stark Resilient Part 1: Hammer Girls"
Script: Matt Fraction
Justine Hammer of Hammer Industries, daughter of the late Justin Hammer, unveils Detroit Steel in a presentation to US military brass. It is a large armoured suit worn by Doug Johnson III, who is also training other wearers to form Steelcorps. [...]