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It's humbling when you suit up, do your best, and it all goes wrong... and you end up flat on your ass, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. When you're a guy like me with a disease... you just gotta put one foot in front of the other and keep going. I'm not done fighting... Not by a long shot. I just... I... need help.

—Tony Stark

Appearing in "The Autobiography of Tony Stark: Chapter One"

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Synopsis for "The Autobiography of Tony Stark: Chapter One"

In his narration, Tony Stark drafts up his autobiography. He goes over his corporate success, his vices, the places where he has lived, and how he is starting to feel his age, so he has decided to write his autobiography. He recalls how he bankrupted himself buying up Source Control's weapons catalog, and his attendance at the Hellfire Gala, where he butted heads with Feilong. As Tony is tinkering with his Iron Man Armor Model 70 in the laboratory at his brownstone, the arc reactor generator suddenly glimmers red and explodes, blowing up the building. Tony survives and is hospitalized, but a neighbor of his has died. At the hospital, Tony is visited by Jim Rhodes, Riri Williams and Captain America. They couldn't find anything wrong with the arc reactor, but Tony suspects he was sabotaged. After being discharged, Tony pays off the funeral of his neighbor, Marielle Marcus, and swears to avenge her.

Later, Tony meets up with Jen Walters to settle the legal fallout of the incident. People are suing Tony for damages from the explosion, including people weren't in the city that day. Tony is on edge, and decides to pay them all off, even if it means further sinking his bank account. Tony settles in a depot for Bronson's Cabs in Jersey City, where he rests and makes repairs to the Model 70, changing its faceplate as well. He suits up and takes the suit for a ride, ordering B.O.S.S. to pull up real estate listings to peruse. As he flies above Midtown Manhattan, Iron Man is suddenly attacked by an armored individual, and he realizes that the person behind his troubles must be somebody new. The attacker professes to be only "a messenger," but doesn't appear to be involved in the brownstone's explosion, since he assumes Tony caused it. They trade blows, and the "messenger" throws Stark into a new helicopter. Iron Man catches the helicopter, he hits the "messenger" with its rotors, and then restrains him with a sludge deployed from his armor. After taking the helicopter to safety, much to the ingratitude of its passengers, Iron Man dropkicks the "messenger" into the ground. The "messenger" threatens to kill Riri, and insinuates Tony has an improper relationship with her. In retaliation, Stark crushes the "messenger"'s arm, but it breaks in such a way it leads Tony to believe he's an unmanned drone. As he prepares to blast the "messenger" to pieces with a group of bystanders behind watching, Tony gets a hunch and decides to instead spray his attacker's faceplate with liquid nitrogen to tear it off. Stark cracks it open to see a man sedated and intubated inside, one his armor's facial recognition identifies as Elliot Buoncristiano, the owner of a messenger service reported kidnapping two days prior. B.O.S.S. warns Tony the padding in the suit is actually plastic explosive. Iron Man rushes to remove Buoncristiano from the armor seconds before it explodes, and takes him to a hospital. Stark realizes he was set up to kill Buoncristiano. In a TV nearby, Tony notices how the stock price of Stark Unlimited keeps plummeting.

Tony winds down at the ruins of his brownstone with Chinese food and root beer. Now he is sure that somebody is targeting him. A pedestrian calls him out for littering, but Tony flies away, pointing out that the ruins will be cleaned up and sold off the next day. Tony next visits a church to join an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, wher he drinks coffee. He leaves a few minutes early in a daze. He next leaves a bar, McAlexander's Pub, after waking up in the men's restroom, unsure of how he got there. As he walks down the street, Tony trips on a branch. He gets up and staggers into a light pole. Two bystanders recognize him and film him as Tony throws up on the street. He falls into a heap for trash, and faintly calls out for help as two other bystanders surround him.

Solicit Synopsis

IT ALL ENDS!

Tony Stark, the genius-billionaire-playboy-philanthropist, has lost it all: his wealth…his fame…his friends. But Stark doesn't realize he still has so much more to lose, especially when the assassins start to come for him! It's the beginning of the end, as the Golden Avenger must fight for his life and find out what it really means to hit rock bottom. Join Gerry Duggan (X-MEN) and Juan Frigeri (AVENGERS) as they take Iron Man to the darkest corners of the Marvel Universe yet!

Notes

  • Two trailers were released by Marvel on YouTube to promote this issue:
  • This issue marks the beginning of Gerry Duggan's run as writer of Iron Man, and he is joined by artist Juan Frigeri.
  • Like most Marvel comic books released on December 2022, this comic opens with an illustrated tribute to Stan Lee for the 100th anniversary of his birthday, December 28th, 1922. The piece is penciled by Humberto Ramos, in which Lee is surrounded by a crowd of characters he had co-created, including Iron Man.
  • The one-panel flashback of Tony Stark showing off the Iron Man Armor Model 9 to Jim Rhodes would take place during Iron Man #233–256, the issues when Tony sported both the Model 9 Armor and a mullet, and Rhodey a flattop.
  • The one-panel flashback of Tony Stark drinking while partially wearing the Iron Man Armor Model 4 would take place either between Iron Man #127 and Iron Man #128 or during Iron Man #167–169.
  • In his narration, Tony Stark revisits numerous places where he has lived:
  • The one-panel flashback of Wonder Man punching Iron Man while Hawkeye watches is an Easter egg / teaser for the subsequent issue 6 of this run, which is an untold story set during the Silver Centurion era.
  • Tony recalls spending his fortune buying up an assortment of dangerous weapons. This happened in Iron Man (Vol. 5) #23. He mentions it is secured in an undisclosed location. This is a warehouse located in Long Island.
  • Stark's eyes are miscolored brown for most of the issue. They only appear blue in the panel when he is walking away from his secret cache of weapons.
  • Another flashback revisits Tony's encounter with Feilong and Emma Frost at the Hellfire Gala in Krakoa from X-Men: Hellfire Gala #1. In this panel, Feilong points out that Tony and the Avengers abandoned Mars. An editor's note cites Avengers (Vol. 5) #1–3. In these issues, the Avengers confronted the Gardener Ex Nihilo, who had partially terraformed Mars, and let him stay in the planet.
  • Stark is shown keeping a medieval knight's armor in his laboratory. Tony's fascination for medieval knights and Arthurian legends was established in Iron Man #287; he met King Arthur himself in Iron Man #150.
  • When Iron Man is punched into a building by the "messenger" and thrashes an office, he remarks that its employees will need to go back to remote working. This is a topical reference to the mass adoption of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, even though the phenomenon was not reflected in Marvel comic books.

Trivia

  • Pepe Larraz's original thumbnail sketch for his variant cover to this issue featured a slightly different pose, in which Iron Man's legs weren't visible. Marvel asked him to make the suit more visible.[1]
  • The artwork of John Romita Jr.'s Hidden Gem variant cover for this issue is repurposed from the cover of a reprint of Iron Man #1 published in 2010 as part of the Collector's Edition of the album AC/DC: Iron Man 2 that was released as a promotion between the rock band AC/DC and Iron Man 2.
  • As it can be seen here, between layouts and the finished art, Tony Stark's pose in the first panel of the first page was changed.[2] Ho Yinsen was also redrawn from his original appearance to Invincible Iron Man #1's reinterpretation. As it can be seen here, Yinsen's original appearance was kept past layout stage, and he was redrawn between the issue's unlettered preview and release.
  • When Tony is describing his Lower East Side brownstone in his narration, he states that, "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts." He walks back on this comment since he doesn't want pop culture references in his autobiography. He is quoting Han Solo describing his starship, the Millennium Falcon, from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope.

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  1. ↑ Larraz, Pepe (15 November 2022) Pepe Larraz on Instagram: "Inks for #invincibleIronMan #1 #variantcove... Instagram. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Originally retrieved on 30 December 2022.
  2. ↑ Ayodele, Murewa (15 December 2022) Juan M Frigeri on Twitter: "#invincibleIronman issue #1 , is ou... Twitter. Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Originally retrieved on 29 December 2022.
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