Faced with a PR nightmare and multiple lawsuits for Iron Man’s reckless actions, Tony Stark is left with only one option: He has to fire Iron Man! Boy, I bet Iron Man is going to be surprised when he finds out! #marvel #ironman

Iron Man still has a few unknown parties using stolen Stark technologies, so he confronts Stingray about his armor. Iron Man finally overpowers him, but then learns that he was mistaken. And now there’s another problem, since he attacked a government employee…! #marvel #ironman

Picking up from the earlier issue, Iron Man is still tracing his stolen technology to the people who stole it, and disabling the powered suits as soon as he finds them! Hopefully all of them will be this easy to catch. #marvel #ironman

Tony Stark’s lawyers feel they have a solid case, and they have a hearing scheduled…for August 1989! (Back in 1987, that was two years away!) The system has failed, and now Tony is determined to destroy his stolen technology by any means, legal or otherwise! #marvel #ironman

Iron Man goes after the Controller, who uses stolen Stark tech to create an army of brainwashed zombies. An innocent kid gets crushed to death during the fight, which just enrages Iron Man even further! #marvel #ironman

Using his advanced tracking technology, Iron Man finds Brendan Doyle, who freelances using an advanced suit of body armor as the Mauler. But Doyle knows when he’s beaten, and gives up the stolen technology without a fight! If only all opponents were this easy…. #marvel #ironman

Iron Man has to destroy all of his leaked technology, so he begins with the most menacing opponent: Stilt-Man! #marvel #ironman

The hack is successful, and Tony puts in the floppy disk (!) and finds out that his technology was stolen by Spymaster, who then sold it to Hammer! But while his legal team pursues justice through the courts, Iron Man is enacting his own kind of justice…! #marvel #ironman

When Scott Lang breaks in to a computer system, he’s breaking in, literally! Also, is Whitmore the first ant named by Ant-Man?? I really should have been paying closer attention! #marvel #ironman #whitmore

Tony needs help hacking into Hammer’s computer systems, so he turns to expert hacker and former employee Scott Lang. “I’m an ex-con, remember? I spent five years of my daughter’s life in prison! I can’t let that happen again!” Sounds an awful lot like the movie! #marvel #ironman

Tony Stark is wracked with guilt over all the people killed using his technology, and he’s taking it out on everyone around him. And even after offering Clay Wilson a fresh start, he’s still grilling Clay on how many people he killed as Force. #marvel #ironman

Now that his advanced circuitry has leaked, Tony Stark brainstorms about what other supervillains could be using his technology. I feel like Doctor Doom would bristle at the suggestion that he’s using someone else’s tech! #marvel #ironman

“I was checking Force’s armor. Some of the devices, some of the most essential technology--is mine!” Tony Stark discovers that some of his advanced circuitry has somehow leaked out and is being used by others. Hopefully they haven’t discovered transistors! #marvel #ironman

The issue opens in media res with Iron Man dodging and destroying multiple missiles…but the entire thing turns out to be a training exercise. I get that they want an exciting start to the issue, but training exercises and Danger Room practices just seem cheap. #marvel #ironman

Invincible Iron Man #9 preview. Tony Stark: Black King of the Hellfire Club! #comics #comicbooks #fallofx #ironman

https://graphicpolicy.com/2023/08/20/preview-invincible-iron-man-9-2/

Today’s con finds! #XMen #Avengers #StarWars #IronMan #transformers

Emma Frost and Tony Stark's big wedding day in X-Men #26 and Invincible Iron Man #10 gets a trailer #comics #comicbooks #fallofx #ironman #xmen

https://graphicpolicy.com/2023/08/19/emma-frost-and-tony-starks-big-wedding-day-in-x-men-26-and-invincible-iron-man-10-gets-a-trailer/

As a bonus for this annual, we get a description and layout of Stark Enterprises, “nestled on an impressive number of acres of prime real estate between Santa Monica and Malibu.” That would take you along the Pacific Coast Highway, so the geography checks out! #marvel #ironman

The issue ends as Sunturion foils Stratosfire’s plan to destroy the Space Shuttle—this issue takes place after the Challenger incident, and references it by name. Stratosfire dies, and Sunturion loses his powers. I guess that’s the last we’ll hear of them! #marvel #ironman

When Roxxon’s agents kill Babs, Stratosfire goes on a rampage to destroy all of Roxxon’s facilities…along with other parts of the military-industrial complex which could threaten humanity! Iron Man is sent to stop her, and he is joined by Roxxon’s Sunturion. #marvel #ironman