All articles, interviews, write-ups, photographs, etc. After running seventy issues, most of which he shared with Captain America, Iron Man made a brief masthead change, appearing in the one-shot: Soon, though, the Armored Avenger finally received his own self-titled book, which for more than issues and now four volumes has chronicled the adventures of playboy Tony Stark and his alter-ego, Iron Man.
In addition, Iron Man has appeared in several other books including: He also found himself victim of his own inner demons.
Succumbing to alcoholism at one point, Tony lost his factory and even gave up being Iron Man. Tony eventually made his triumphant return. After one of the greatest story runs in the character's history, he was replaced with a teen version of himself a.
It seemed that even the power of Iron Man couldn't defeat bad writers and even worse artists, not to mention poor editorial choices And so Volume I came to an ignominious end. Iron Man was remade and relaunched in the Heroes Reborn saga, which restarted the book at issue 1 and began Volume II.
He retained the identity of billionaire industrialist Tony Stark, existing in a parrallel universe, similar to, although darker than, the original Marvel Universe This alternate universe reflected the changes in style and tone that had begun to seep into the comics industry at the time. Heroes were now dark.
And they really weren't good--at least not always. Even though the Heroes Reborn Iron Man's world was as different from his old world, as ours is from the world in which Stan Lee created Iron Man, the essence of the hero remained relatively unchanged.
Fan backlash in the wake of Civil War —a story that pitted hero against hero, with Stark serving as the primary antagonist—led to the rebooting of the Iron Man franchise, and writer Matt Fraction and artist Salvador Larroca redefined the character with their award-winning run on Invincible Iron Man — When Stark was beaten into a coma during the second Civil War event , the Iron Man persona was assumed by Riri Williams, a brilliant African American teenager who had reverse engineered an Iron Man suit. She eventually adopted the crime-fighting name Ironheart.
Marvel Studios and Paramount released the live-action Iron Man in The film, an enormous commercial and critical success, was directed by Jon Favreau and starred Robert Downey, Jr.
Favreau and Downey returned for the sequel Iron Man 2 Age of Ultron , Captain America: Civil War , Spider-Man: Homecoming , and Avengers: We welcome suggested improvements to any of our articles. You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind. Your contribution may be further edited by our staff, and its publication is subject to our final approval.
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