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It's taken me quite a while to get around to press-ganging Iron Man into the Thor's Day heroes, but here is the golden Avenger, better late than never! It's no secret that the last thirty years or so of my life are steeped in comic books and this armored guy was one of my favorite of the solo heroes. Yup, there's been a couple of successful Iron Man movies, a couple of character reboots in the comics, cartoons, and more. Me, I'm talking about the comic book Iron Man of the late 70's to the early 90's. The, "This thing kicks like an Arkansas mule!" Iron Man. The guy who built a big, gray suit in the middle of the Vietnam war to save his own life Iron Man. I could go on and on, but suffice it to say Iron Man is easily a Thor's Day hero.
'Nuff said!
We were many mutant men in my house but did look at some of the classics. Seem to remember when we were reading Iron Man was during the first Armor Wars where he was going around deactivating any armor that was based on his designs.
ReplyDeleteArmor Wars was a pretty cool storyline. For my team book it was the X-Men, but Stark was my favorite solo hero for sure. Lots of cool space stories that were grounded more in science than fiction too.
DeleteI will admit that it took the latest movies to really get me into marvel comics and the avengers. I was never much of a comic book reader. But I do love them nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteBeing a big fan I was largely skeptical about the Iron Man movies, but was pleasantly blown away by the first one. The second one was more of an Avengers movie segue, but it was decent enough.
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