Iron Man Vol 1 324

Part of the "Crossing" event Iron Man Vol 1 #324 Published Released January, 1996 November 21, 1995 Issue Details Pages 32 Original Price $1.50 US $2.10 CAN Editor-in-Chief Mark Gruenwald Cover Artist Jim Cheung Mark McKenna Publisher Stan Lee President Gerard Calabrese "So Far to Fall" Writer Terry Kavanagh Dan Abnett Penciler James Calafiore Mark Bright Inker Peter Palmiotti Steve Moncuse Sergio Cariello Sam de la Rosa Colourist John Kalisz Letterer Phil Felix Editor Nelson Yomtov Mike Marts Previous Issue Next Issue War Machine #22 (Story) Iron Man #323 (Title) Force Works #20 (Story) Iron Man #325 (Title)

I could never... confess. There was no one to turn to all these years, knowing how it would go... where the long, slow fall into the dark would take me... what it would cost me. But I had no choice. He broke me. He broke me from the very beginning.

-- Iron Man

Appearing in "So Far to Fall"

Featured Characters:

•  Iron Man (Tony Stark) 

Supporting Characters:

•  Machinesmith (Sam Saxon) 
•  Marianne Rodgers 
•  Mantis 
•  Kang the Conqueror (Nathaniel Richards) 

Antagonists:

• Avengers
  •  Crystal Maximoff 
  •  Vision 
  •  Swordsman (Philip Javert) 
  •  Hercules 
  •  Hawkeye (Clint Barton) 
  •  Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) 
  •  Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) 
•  Masque (Bethany Cabe) 
• Force Works
  •  Moonraker (Gustav Brandt / "Slade Truman") 
  •  Century 

Other Characters:

• Luna Maximoff (Mentioned)
• Masque (Whitney Frost) (Mentioned)
• Priests of Pama (Mentioned)
• Swordsman (Jacques Duquesne) (Mentioned)
• Force Works (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
  •  Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter)  (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
  •  Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)  (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
  •  U.S. Agent (Jack Daniels)  (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
•  War Machine (Jim Rhodes)  (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
• V.I.R.G.I.L. (Mentioned)
• P.L.A.T.O. (Mentioned)
• Amanda Chaney (Mentioned) (Deceased)
• Avengers (Cameo)
  •  Janet van Dyne  (Comatose)
  •  Giant-Man (Hank Pym)  (Cameo)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Robots
• Inhumans
• Synthezoids
• Olympians
• Angels (Mentioned)
• Space Phantoms

Locations:

• Earth
  • Arctic Circle
    • Stark Arctic Bunker
  • United States of America
    • New York
      • Long Island
        • Suffolk County
          • Southampton
            • Van Dyne Estate
    • California (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
      • Ventura (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
        • Ventura Highway (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
          • The Works (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
  • Norway (Mentioned)
• Chronopolis

Items:

• Iron Man Armor Model 15
• Hawkeye's Suit
• Quicksilver's Suit
• Black Widow's Suit and Gauntlets
• Spider-Woman's Suit (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
• Scarlet Witch's Suit (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
• Eidolon Warwear (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
• Giant-Man's Suit
• Kang Armor

Vehicles:

• Quinjet
  
  

Synopsis for "So Far to Fall"

In Stark's Arctic bunker, Marianne Rodgers watches Iron Man repair the damaged Machinesmith. At the Wasp's home, the Avengers recover from Iron Man's attack, while the recently arrived Masque tries to convince them Stark is no longer the man they knew. Century teleports in with the Black Widow and Moonraker, and they inform the Avengers that Moonraker is actually Libra, Mantis' father, and that Kang and Mantis are trying to tear the Avengers apart.

They contact Force Works, who are busy trying to disarm a temporal bomb Stark hid beneath their base, and tell them Stark has murdered Amanda Chaney, Force's Works publicist, for seeing too much. Marianne attempts to talk to Stark in his Arctic bunker, and he tells her despairingly that "he broke me from the very beginning" just before Century teleports Crystal, Vision, and Moonraker to just outside the base. The bunker transforms into a giant tank, and as the heroes futilely battle it, Marianne telepathically contacts them, and informs them that the evil within Tony is not innate, but that it had its claws in him for years. Century teleports the heroes back to the Wasp's home, but Moonraker doesn't make it, intercepted mid-transport by Kang. He finds himself in Immortus' time citadel, to be tortured and taunted by Mantis and Kang.

Publication Notes

• This issue contains a letters page, Printed Circuits. Letters are published from Gregory Varesco, Delmo Walters, Shawn Evans, and Olav Beemer.
• This issue contains a Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation.

See Also

• 3 Image(s) from Iron Man Vol 1 324
  

Recommended Reading

Crossing
Prelude I: Iron Man #319	Prelude II: Avengers #390	Part I: Avengers:The Crossing	Part II: Iron Man #320	Part III: Force Works #16
Part IV: Avengers #391	Part V: Iron Man #321	Part VI: Force Works #17	Part VII: War Machine #20	Part VIII: Avengers #392
Part IX: Iron Man #322	Part X: Force Works #18	Part XI: War Machine #21	Part XII: Iron Man #323	Part XIII: Avengers #393
Part XIV: Force Works #19	Part XV: War Machine #22	Part XVI: Iron Man #324	Part XVII: Force Works #20	Part XVIII: Avengers #394
Part XIX: Avengers: Timeslide	Part XX: War Machine #23	Part XXI: Iron Man #325	Part XXII: Avengers #395	Aftermath: Age of Innocence - The Rebirth of Iron Man

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