Essential Series: Iron Man Vol 1 1

Essential Series: Iron Man #1
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Cover Date	September, 2000

1. "Iron Man Volume 1"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Stan Lee
Penciler(s)	Don Heck

 The stronger I make my armor, the longer I live! And I must live on! There is so much unfinshed work to be done! 

—Anthony Stark (Iron Man)

Appearing in "Iron Man Volume 1"

Featured Characters:

• Iron Man (Tony Stark)

Supporting Characters:

• Professor Yinsen
• Stark Industries
  • Happy Hogan
  • Pepper Potts

Villains:

• Wong-Chu
• Wong-Chu's Red Guerillas
• Professor Ford
• Gargantus (Alien Robot)
• Unidentified Alien Race
• Released animals
• Unnamed gangsters
• Doctor Strange (Evil Scientist)
• The Red Barbarian (Andre Rostov)
• The Actor (Impersonates Nikita Khrushchev)
• Kala
• The Mad Pharaoh
• Jack Frost (Gregor Shapanka)
• Crimson Dynamo (Anton Vanko)
• The Melter
• Mister Doll
• The Angel
• The Mandarin

Other Characters:

• South Vietnamese villagers
• Tony Stark's admirers
• United States Army
  • Unnamed officer
  • Unnamed soliders
• United States Air Force
  • Unnamed general
• Jeanne
• Marion
• The Exiles
• Carla Strange
• President John F. Kennedy
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Gregori and his band of spies
• FBI Agents
• Baxu
• Jim
• Evans
• Cleopatra
• Paul (Archeologist)
• The Roman Legions
• Mike (mechanic in Tony's pit crew)
• Senator Harrington Byrd
• Charlie
• Chuck
• Ms. Glitter
• Several Unnamed politicians
• Joe
• Bill
• Charleton Carter
• X-Men
  • Cyclops
  • Beast
  • Marvel Girl
  • Ice Man
  • Professor X
• Avengers
  • Bruce Banner
  • Don Blake
  • Henry Pym
  • Janet van Dyne
• Charlie
• Rocco
• Several High level US Military and CIA officers
• The Red Chinese Army
  • General Ho Lee
• Bill

Locations:

• France
  • French Riviera
• "US Defense Perimeter"
• Vietnam
  • An Thoc
• United States Of America
  • New York State
    • New York City
      • Queens
        • Flushing
          • Stark Enterprises Main Plant
        • Shea Stadium
      • The National Hospital for Orphans
    • Westchester
      • Weapons Test Facility
      • Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
    • Long Island
      • Missile Launch Facility
      • La Guardia Airport
    • Unnamed Prison
  • Washington, D.C.
    • Capitol Building
    • The Pentagon
  • Indiana
    • Indianapolis
      • Indianapolis Motor Speedway
• An unidentified location somewhere in the USSR
• Atlantic Ocean
  • Dr Strange's Island Base
  • Granville
• Switzerland
  • Geneva
• Monaco
  • Monte Carlo
• Netherworld
• Egypt
  • Cairo
  • Hatap's Tomb
• Russia
  • Moscow
• The People's Republic of China

• Valley of Spirits
• The Mandarin's Castle

Items:

• Iron Man Armor MK I
• Iron Man's tools
  • Suction Cups
  • Magnetic Turbo-Insulator
  • Miniature buzz saw
  • Miniature flamethrower
  • Small transistor-powered drill
  • Small public-address speakers
  • Transistor magnets
  • Tiny, transistor-powered magnifyer
  • Electronic Reverse Energy Beam
  • Concentrated chemical crystals
  • Transistor-powered magnets
  • Tiny, illusion mirrors
  • Nuclear Clippers
  • Tiny, transistor fluoroscope
  • Diamond drill
  • Miniature furnace
  • Tiny, ultra-sensitive tape recorder
  • Mechanic ear plugs
  • Magnets
• Tony Stark's Disintegrator Ray
• Iron Man's Briefcase
• Jet-Powered Roller Skates
• The Granville Beacon - Newspaper
• Lightweight mortars
• Blizzard Armor
• Crimson Dynamo Armor Mark I
• Melting Ray MK I
• Iron Man Armor Model 2
• Mister Doll's Voodoo Doll
• Cyclops' Visor
• Mjolnir
• Makluan Power Rings

Vehicles:

• The Chariot of Time
• The Stark Industries Y-69 Rocket

Synopsis for "Iron Man Volume 1"

Reprints:

Tales of Suspense #39
"Iron Man Is Born!"
(December, 1962)

Tales of Suspense #40
"Iron Man Versus Gargantus!"
(January, 1963)

Tales of Suspense #41
"The Stronghold of Doctor Strange!"
(February, 1963)

Tales of Suspense #42
"Trapped by the Red Barbarian"
(March, 1963)

Tales of Suspense #43
"Iron Man Versus Kala, Queen of the Netherworld!"
(April, 1963)

Tales of Suspense #44
"Iron Man Faces the Menace of the Mad Pharaoh!"
(May, 1963)

Tales of Suspense #45
"The Icy Fingers of Jack Frost!"
(June, 1963)

Tales of Suspense #46
"Iron Man Faces the Crimson Dynamo!"
(July, 1963)

Tales of Suspense #47
"Iron Man Battles the Melter!"
(August, 1963)

Tales of Suspense #48
"The New Iron Man Battles... The Mysterious Mr. Doll!"
(September, 1963)

Tales of Suspense #49
"The New Iron Man Meets the Angel!"
(October, 1963)

Tales of Suspense #50
"The Hands of the Mandarin!"
(November, 1963)

Tales of Suspense #51
"Face-to-Face with The Sinister Scarecrow"
(December, 1963)

Tales of Suspense #52
"The Crimson Dynamo Strikes Again!"
(January, 1964)

Tales of Suspense #53
"The Black Widow Strikes Again!"
(February, 1964)

Tales of Suspense #54
"The Mandarin's Revenge!"
(March, 1964)

Tales of Suspense #55
"No One Escapes the Mandarin!"
(April, 1964)

Tales of Suspense #56
"The Uncanny Unicorn"
(May, 1964)

Tales of Suspense #57
"Hawkeye, the Marksman!"
(June, 1964)

Tales of Suspense #58
"In Mortal Combat with Captain America!"
(July, 1964)

Tales of Suspense #59
"The Black Knight!"
(August, 1964)

Tales of Suspense #60
"Suspected of Murder!"
(September, 1964)

Tales of Suspense #61
"The Death of Tony Stark!"
(October, 1964)

Tales of Suspense #62
"The Origin of the Mandarin!"
(November, 1964)

Tales of Suspense #63
"Somewhere Lurks the Phantom!"
(December, 1964)

Tales of Suspense #64
"Hawkeye and the New Black Widow Strike Again!"
(January, 1965)

Tales of Suspense #65
"When Titans Clash"
(February, 1965)

Tales of Suspense #66
"If I Fail, a World is Lost!"
(March, 1965)

Tales of Suspense #67
"Where Walks the Villains!"
(April, 1965)

Tales of Suspense #68
"If a Man Be Mad!"
(May, 1965)

Tales of Suspense #69
"If I Must Die, Let It Be With Honor!"
(June, 1965)

Tales of Suspense #70
"Fight On! For a World is Watching!"
(July, 1965)

Tales of Suspense #71
"What Price Victory?"
(August, 1965)

Tales of Suspense #72
"Hoorah For the Conquering Hero!"
(September, 1965)

Trivia

• The Anthony Stark quotation listed above is from Tales of Suspense #64.

See Also

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