Appearing in "Framing Sequence"
Featured Characters:
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "Framing Sequence"
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in "Iron Man Is Born!"
Tales of Suspense #39
Featured Characters:
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Professor Ho Yinsen (First appearance) (Death)
Antagonists:
- Wong-Chu (First appearance) (Apparent death)
- Viet Cong (First appearance) (Topical Reference)
Other Characters:
- United States Army
- United States Air Force
- Unnamed General
- Rock Hudson (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Numerous unnamed Vietnamese villagers (Topical Reference)
- Army of the Republic of Vietnam (First appearance) (Topical Reference)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Sol
- Earth
- Europe
- France
- French Riviera (First appearance)
- France
- Asia
- Vietnam (First appearance) (Topical Reference)
- South Vietnam (First appearance) (Topical Reference)
- An Thoc (First appearance) (Topical Reference)
- China (Referenced)
- Vietnam (First appearance) (Topical Reference)
- North America (Mentioned)
- United States of America (Mentioned)
- Europe
- Earth
Items:
- Iron Man Armor Model 1 (First appearance)
Events:
Synopsis for "Iron Man Is Born!"
Tales of Suspense #39
In a closely guarded lab, Anthony "Tony" Stark shows off a new invention to US military defense officials. He has developed micro-transistors capable of powering up things such as magnets; turning them into powerful weapons strong enough to pull open a thick metal door from a distance. They increase magnetic force a thousandfold! Stark impresses the military brass with his new inventions, while at the same time impressing the ladies of the international jet set with his dashing good looks and incredible personal wealth.
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Across the globe, the evil Red tyrant Wong-Chu takes over another small village in Vietnam, defeating its strongest men in contests of judo. Meanwhile, Tony Stark has arrived in Vietnam to observe the testing micro-transistor-powered weaponry, which allow heavy items like mortars to be reduced in size no larger or heavier than a flashlight. Accompanying a squad of soldiers equipped with his weaponry on a patrol through the jungle, he accidentally triggers a tripwire that detonates a landmine. The wounded Stark is captured by Wong-Chu's forces and taken to their nearby headquarters. Wong-Chu realizes his prisoner is a "famous Yankee inventor" and decides that he will put him to work in service of the Communist insurgency even though doctors determine the young inventor only has days to live before "shrapnel reaches his heart."
Wong-Chu falsely promises that he will have a surgeon save Stark's life if he will agree to develop new high-tech weapons for him. Even though he saw through Wong-Chu's words to his true intentions, to make him work until his death, Stark agrees, in order to try and save his own life with his technical abilities and Wong-Chu's resources. Given access to scrap metal and tools, Stark promises he will deliver a "fantastic weapon," but sets out in building a mechanism that will help stop the shrapnel from penetrating his heart. He is given an assistant named Professor Yinsen, a famous physicist whom Stark had read about while in college. Working together, the two finalize work on Stark's project: an iron body suit with a chest plate that will keep the shrapnel at bay through use of transistor-powered magnets.
Just as Stark has donned the life-saving suit and begun to power it with electrical current from a generator, Wong-Chu attempts to come check on his prisoners. Professor Yinsen rushes out into the hallway shouting at Wong-Chu and is shot dead by armed guards, buying the precious seconds Stark needed to fully charge the armor. Tony Stark, as Iron Man, hears the murder of his friend and swears he will avenge his death. He tries to rise and steady himself in the Iron Man armor, but discovers it is like learning to walk again. He quickly gets the hang of operating the armor and evades detection from Wong-Chu by leaping to the ceiling and holding himself there using suction cups. After Wong-Chu leaves the room, the tyrant heads outside to "amuse himself" with his favorite sport, challenging the villagers to a duel of judo.
Iron Man descends from the ceiling and finds a coat and hat, with which to cover his armor, and wanders outside to find Wong-Chu tossing people around in the judo arena. Iron Man challenges Wong-Chu, then takes off his coat and hat to reveal the shocking visage of Iron Man! The metal monster walks up to Wong-Chu, picks him up, and twirls him around before tossing him into the brush. Wong-Chu demands that his guards open fire on Iron Man, but the bullets just bounce off the armored figure's metal chest plate. Iron Man then uses "reverse magnetism" to repel the enemy weapons. Wong-Chu tries to get to the speakers of the nearest building, in order to put a bounty on Iron Man, but Stark manages to create electrical interference and switch the radio's channel, telling Wong-Chu's troops through the speaker to flee their leader before the Iron Man "slays [them] all." Iron Man cuts down the building's door using a transistor-powered buzz-saw, but as soon as he enters the Communist menace fells him with a file cabinet loaded with rocks.
Wong-Chu escapes to order the execution of all his prisoners, but Iron Man, low on energy and too weak to continue pursuit, uses his armor's lubrication system to launch a stream of oil towards an ammunition depot near the fleeing Wong-Chu. He then sets fire to the oil stream using a miniature torch in one of the armor's gauntlets, causing the ammo dump to explode, and seemingly killing Wong-Chu. His batteries now recharged, Iron Man dons his coat and hat and walks away into the jungle.
Appearing in "Apocoplypse Then"
Iron Man #144
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Captain Hays (First appearance)
- Backlash (Mark Scarlotti) (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- Constrictor (Frank Schlichting) (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- Beetle (Abner Jenkins) (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- Roxxon (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- United States of America
- Stark International Airport
- Texas
- Dallas
- Sheraton Hotel
- Dallas
- Vietnam
- Hanoi (Mentioned)
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Saigon
Items:
Vehicles:
- S.I.-1 (Stark's plane)
Synopsis for "Apocoplypse Then"
Iron Man #144
A daydreaming Tony Stark flying to Dallas with his trusted pilot and confindant Jim Rhodes recalls how he first Jim Rhodes in Vietnam. Shortly after donning the Iron Man Armor for the first time, Stark meets and injured Rhodes. Rhodey helps charge Stark's armor with the aid of his damaged helicopter. In return, Stark helps Rhodes escape the Vietcong and return safely to Ho Chi Minh City. Stark offers a position to Rhodes in his company, Stark Enterprises. However, Rhodes politely declines at this time citing his need to finish his military tour as well as pursue some other endeavors.
Appearing in "Featured Profiles"
All-New Iron Manual #1
Featured Profiles:
- Bambi Arbogast
- Bethany Cabe
- Crimson Dynamo
- Dum-Dum Dugan
- Firepower
- Force
- Friday
- Rumiko Fujikawa
- Guardsmen
- Justin Hammer
- Maya Hansen
- Happy Hogan
- Pepper Hogan
- HOMER
- Iron Man
- Iron Monger
- Sal Kennedy
- Mandarin
- Mandarin (Temujin)
- Eddie March
- Maria Stark Foundation
- Mordecai Midas
- Michael O'Brien
- The Order
- PLATO
- Raiders
- Marianne Rodgers
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
- Jasper Sitwell
- Sons of Yinsen
- Stark Industries
- Morgan Stark
- Titanium Man
- VIRGIL
- War Machine
- Wong-Chu
- Ho Yinsen
- Abraham Zimmer
Items:
- Iron Man Armors
- Iron Man Armor Model 1
- Iron Man Armor Model 2
- Iron Man Armor Model 3
- Iron Man Armor Model 4
- Iron Man Armor Model 5
- Iron Man Armor Model 6
- Iron Man Armor Model 7
- Iron Man Armor Model 8
- Iron Man Armor Model 9
- Iron Man Armor Model 10
- Iron Man Armor Model 11
- Iron Man Armor Model 12
- Iron Man Armor Model 13
- Iron Man Armor Model 14 (Misnamed "Model 15")
- Iron Man Armor Model 15 (Misnamed "Model 16")
- Iron Man Armor Model 16 (Misnamed "Model 17")
- Iron Man Armor Model 17 (Misnamed "Model 18")
- Iron Man Armor Model 18 (Misnamed "Model 19")
- Iron Man Armor Model 19 (Misnamed "Model 20")
- Iron Man Armor Model 20 (Misnamed "Model 21")
- Iron Man Armor Model 21 (Misnamed "Model 22")
- Iron Man Armor Model 22 (Misnamed "Model 23")
- Iron Man Armor Model 23 (Misnamed "Model 24")
- Iron Man Armor Model 24 (Misnamed "Model 25")
- Iron Man Armor Model 25 (Misnamed "Model 26")
- Iron Man Armor Model 26 (Misnamed "Model 27")
- Iron Man Armor Model 27 (Misnamed "Model 28")
- Iron Man Armor Model 28 (Misnamed "Model 29")
- Iron Man Armor Model 29 (Misnamed "Model 30")
- Iron Man Armor Model 30 (Misnamed "Model 31")
- Iron Man Armor Model 31 (Misnamed "Model 32")
- Iron Man Armor Model 32 (Misnamed "Model 33")
- Iron Man Armor Model 33 (Misnamed "Model 34")
- Iron Man Armor Model 34 (Misnamed "Model 35")
- Iron Man Armor Model 35 (Misnamed "Model 36")
- Iron Man Armor Model 36 (Misnamed "Model 37")
- Iron Man Armor Model YT1
- Iron Man Armor Model CE1
Synopsis for "Featured Profiles"
All-New Iron Manual #1
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in 5th story
Iron Manual #1
Featured Characters:
Items:
- Iron Man Armor Model 1
- Iron Man Armor Model 1 (Gold finish)
- Iron Man Armor Model 2
- Iron Man Armor Model 3
- Iron Man Armor Model 4
- Iron Man Armor Model 8
- Iron Man Armor Model 9
- Iron Man Armor Model 6
- Iron Man Armor Model 5
- Iron Man Armor Model 10
- Iron Man Armor Model 7
- Iron Man Armor Model 13
- Iron Man Armor Model 12
- Iron Man Armor Model 11
Synopsis for 5th story
Iron Manual #1
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
See Also
Links and References
http://marvel.com/catalog/?id= 13402