THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN Omnibus Volume 2

These tales are the crème de la crème of early Iron Man adventures. To the world, Tony Stark is a debonair scientist leading the jet set life. What they don’t know is that he’s secretly the Armored Avenger, Iron Man. But that secret may not last for long when the U.S. Senate forces Stark to divulge Stark Enterprises’ secrets! Meanwhile, Iron Man faces a host of villains including classic battles against the Mandarin, the Hulk, Crimson Dynamo, Titanium Man and A.I.M. — not to mention the debuts of Whiplash and the sultry Madame Masque! Back in the beginning, Iron Man appeared first in Tales of Suspense #39, formerly a Marvel monster title. Soon Captain America was brought back into the modern Marvel world, so Cap and Iron Man shared Tales of Suspense. Marvel had a contract that restricted their monthly titles to 10-12 a month; hence the shared titles. Tales to Astonish did the same with Ant-Man/Giant-Man, and then they revived Hulk. It made for killer great stories, because Stan and the crew had just this small number of titles to work on each month. The distributor contract expired in 1968. Suddenly Captain America got his own title, as did Iron Man and Sub-Mariner. That's what's going on here, morphing from half-issue stories to his own title beginning in 1968 and still going today. Collects the Iron Man stories from Tales of Suspense #84-99, (1966-68), Iron Man and the Sub-Mariner #1 one-shot from 1968, and Iron Man #1-25 (1968-70). Out of print.