For the most part, these stories deliver the goods.įor the most part, the running background story consists of communist Russian spies attempting to sabotage Tony Stark and steal his military plans. While others such as the Mandarin would return for two epic showdowns, and Black Widow and Hawkeye, two future Avengers, would develop a very heated grudge with Iron Man. The only real weakness in this TPB is the villain of the month formula occasionally creeping up through some lame villains, whom never really went on to become that notable villains such as Unicorn and Scarecrow come to mind. Captain America’s stories can be found in his own Marvel Masterworks TPB titled Marvel Masterworks: Captain America. It’s also worth noting that during this series original run in 1964 issue 58 would introduce Captain America with his own adventures and the two heroes would share the title for quite some time. Marvel Masterworks: Iron Man Volume Two collects Tales of Suspense issues 51 – 65. He even dabbles with some very down to Earth themes that reads so well in this day. This is because like Spider-Man, Stan Lee was able to make both Iron Man and Tony Stark’s lives interesting to read. Iron Man doesn’t seem to suffer from these ailments after its rocky start in volume one I found this batch of issues to be just as easy to get through as Spider-Man. While revisiting these titles some of them would be pretty hard to get through due to their outdated feel (Fantastic Four & X-Men), while others seemed to be lacking some form of identity and are just difficult reads (The Mighty Thor). Stan Lee indeed had a lot on his table when he decided to pick up writing duties for his various Marvel comics creations back in the early 60’s.

One of his robbery attempts brings him to blows with Iron Man, while he attempts to burglarize Stark’s home. Realizing that he has some type of talent, Umberto decides to turn to a life of crime as the Scarecrow. Iron Man aka Tony Stark attempts to stop a robbery which leads to another man beating him to the punch by the name of Umberto. Pros: Some very interesting stories at times with action packed artworkĬons: Somewhat stale villain of the month formula at times Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man – Volume 2

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