Iron Man Vol 1 100

Iron Man #100
Previous Issue	Iron Man #99
Next Issue	Iron Man #101
Art by: Jim Starlin
Release Date	April 26, 1977
Cover Date	July, 1977
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Archie Goodwin
Original Price	30c US Variant 35c US
Pages	32

1. "Ten Rings to Rule the World!"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Bill Mantlo
Penciler(s)	George Tuska
Inker(s)	Mike Esposito
Colorist(s)	Janice Cohen
Letterer(s)	John Costanza Ray Holloway
Editor(s)	Archie Goodwin

 Enter at the bidding of the Mandarin! 

—The Mandarin

Appearing in "Ten Rings to Rule the World!"

Featured Characters:

• Iron Man

Supporting Characters:

• Michael O'Brien (also appears as Iron Man)
• Krissy Longfellow
• S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Jasper Sitwell

Antagonists:

• Mandarin
• Mandarin's Death Squad

Other Characters:

• Yellow Claw (Only in flashback)
• Loc Do (Only in flashback)
• Senator Byrd
• Senator Andrew Jackson Hawk
• Jonathan Rich (Death)

Locations:

• China
  • Mandarin's Castle
• United States of America
  • New York City
    • Long Island
      • Stark International
  • Washington, D.C.

Items:

• Iron Man Armor MK V
• Electro-swords
• Iron Man Armor MK III
• Mandarin's Rings

Vehicles:

• Avengers Quinjet

Synopsis for "Ten Rings to Rule the World!"

Having traveled to China to rescue Michael O'Brien from Mandarin, who believed him to be Iron Man, Tony Stark now orders O'Brien to return to the States aboard an Avengers Quinjet. O'Brien does so, thinking how wrong he was in his earlier assumption that Stark was a villain.

Iron Man invades the Mandarin's castle lair. He encounters and defeats his Death-Squad and eventually confronts the Mandarin himself. The villain freezes Iron Man with his rings and explains how he survived his apparent death at the hands of the Yellow Claw in an earlier battle. The Mandarin had transferred his consciousness into his rings, and when the Claw's servant Loc Do placed the rings on his hands, the Mandarin took over his form.

Iron Man turns on his heat inducer and thaws his frozen body. He eventually defeats the Mandarin by seizing his rings and de-magnetizing them. In a last act, the Mandarin remotely assassinates his agent, Jonathan Rich, in Washington D.C. for failing him. Iron Man destroys the Mandarin's machinery, as well as his castle but spares the villain's life. The Golden Avenger then leaves the Mandarin, asking him to remember his act of altruism.

Notes

• Letters (story pages): Costanza (pag 1, uncredited), Holloway (pages 2-17).
• This issue is dedicated to Iron Man's creators Stan Lee and Don Heck.
• This issue presents a new letters page Printed Circuits. Letters are published from Jim Trzeciak, Kevin Beile, Roger Klorese, and John O'Connor. The letters page has been titled Sock It To Shell-Head for all previous Volume One issues. In past months, several letter-writing fans had requested a new name for the letters page.

See Also

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• 2 reprint(s) of Iron Man Vol 1 100

Links and References

• The Grand Comics Database: Iron Man Vol 1 Covers [1]