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Appearing in "The New Iron Age"
Featured Characters:
- Iron Man (Tony Stark)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Earth-113500) (First appearance; dies)
Supporting Characters:
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
- Black Widows (Earth-113500) (First appearance) (Disbands)
- Madame Masque (Ginny Stark) (Earth-113500) (First appearance)
- Joe (First appearance; dies)
Antagonists:
- Bastard Sons of Wilbur Day (First appearance)
- Mandarin (Earth-113500) (First appearance; dies)
- Titan Four (Earth-113500) (First appearance) (Destruction)
- Raider Squad (Earth-113500) (First appearance) (Death)
- War Machine (Howard Stark III) (Earth-113500) (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Horizon Labs (Mentioned)
- Norman Osborn (Mentioned)
- Stark Resilient (Referenced)
- Hammer Industries (Mentioned)
- A.I.M. (Mentioned)
- Stilt-Man (Wilbur Day) (Mentioned)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- Pepper Potts-Stark (Earth-113500) (Cameo) (First appearance)
- Al-Qaeda (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth-113500 (First appearance) (Alternate reality)
Items:
- Bleeding Edge Armor
- Spider-Man's Web-Shooters
- R.T. node
- Mandarin's Rings
- Titanomech Prototpye (Only appearance, destruction)
- War Machine Armor (Earth-113500) (Only appearance, destruction)
- Titanomechs (Earth-113500) (Only appearance, destruction)
- Iron Man Armor (Earth-113500) (Only appearance)
Synopsis for "The New Iron Age"
We open on Peter Parker riding on the subway in Queens. Tony Stark, as of late, has been trying to remember some of the more dangerous things that his recent brain reboot has caused him to forget, and enlists Peter to help. They track down a dangerous weapon in the hands of Stilt-Man Extremists and we follow the seeds of that technology into the future, where the Mandarin has used it to basically murder the whole planet.
Solicit Synopsis
GIANT-SIZED ANNIVERSARY ISSUE! Three generations of Starks face their ultimate foe, seventy-some years in the future while, in the present, Spider-Man joins Iron Man as he tries to fill in the blanks of his missing memory. What if amnesia was a weapon? What if the smartest man in the land had ten nightmares that all came true? Who is the son of Tony Stark? What's inside of the rings? The future starts now, for the Marvel Universe's favorite futurist. The Eisner-award-winning series makes a four-hundred-something-issue leap and raises a glass of non-alcoholic champale in salute to Ol' Shell-head! By Matt Fraction (THOR, UNCANNY X-MEN, CASANOVA) and Salvador Larroca (UNCANNY X-MEN, FANTASTIC FOUR), with special guests Howard X, Y and Z!
Notes
- Multiple variant covers were made for this anniversary issue. All cover artists are listed in above credits.
- Interior art credits are as follows:
- Salvador Larroca did the art segments for the Iron Man and Spider-Man segments.
- Kano did the art segments for Ginny Stark
- Nathan Fox did the art segments for Howard Stark II
- Carmine Di Giandomenico did the art segments for Tony Stark and the Mandarin.
- Interior art credits are as follows:
- This issue also contains fingernail cover scans of the first 500 issues of Iron Man.
- This issue contains a letters page, Sock It To Shell-Head. It reprints a letters from Iron Man #1 from Chris Barth with reponses from Iron Man editor Alejandro Arbona.
- This issue reveals that Tony is 35 years old.
- A launch was released by Marvel on YouTube to promote this issue:
Invincible Iron Man 500 Trailer
Legacy Numbering[]
- Based on the Marvel Legacy renumbering infographic, this issue is Iron Man #503
