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Issue: Essential Iron Man #3
Publication Date: January 2011
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Worldwide, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 3
Pages: 580
ISBN: 9780785127642
UPC/EAN: 978078512764251999
Price: $22.50 CAD
$19.99 USD
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61 (28 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Stan Lee (Original Editor); Mark D. Beazley (Collection Editor); John Denning (Assistant Editor); Cory Levine (Assistant Editor); Jennifer Grünwald (Editor Special Projects); Jeff Youngquist (Senior Editor Special Projects)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Squarebound Trade Paperback
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Iron Man
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Graphic Novels

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Spider-Man; Daredevil; Iron-Man; Thor, Wolverine; Avengers; Fantastic Four
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House ad for Marvel Essentials with indicia and Direct Edition Barcode.
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Title page and credits

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Red Ghost; Unicorn; Namor, the Sub-Mariner
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Iron Man #12

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; The Controller; Janice Cord
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The Coming of the Controller

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Tony Stark LMD; Janice Cord; Jasper Sitwell; The Controller [Basil Sandhurst] (villain, introduction)
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Iron Man #13

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; The Controller
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Captives of the Controller!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Nick Fury; S.H.I.E.L.D.; Janice Cord; Jasper Sitwell; Controller (villain)
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Iron Man #14

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; The Night Phantom [Travis Hoyt]; Janice Cord
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The Night Phantom Walks!

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Iron Man #15

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Red Ghost; Unicorn
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Said the Unicorn to the Ghost...!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Alex Niven [Alex Nevsky] (introduction); Unicorn (villain); Red Ghost (villain); Janice Cord; Jasper Sitwell
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Iron Man #16

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Unicorn
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Of Beasts and Men!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Unicorn (villain); Red Ghost (villain); Nick Fury; Jasper Sitwell; Gabe Jones; S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Iron Man #17

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The Beginning of the End!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Tony Stark LMD (villain); Midas (villain, introduction); Madame Masque [Whitney Frost] (introduction); Morgan Stark; Janice Cord; Alex Niven [Alex Nevsky]; Miss Greer; Edwin Jarvis
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Iron Man #18

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; The Avengers [Goliath [Clint Barton]; Yellowjacket [Hank Pym]; Wasp; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Vision]; Madam Masque
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Bob Cooley listed John Buscema as drawing Wasp's face, but Nick Caputo disagrees, noting that Tuska was likely using a Buscema face for reference.
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Even Heroes Die!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Madame Masque; The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Goliath [Clint Barton]; Yellowjacket [Hank Pym]; Vision; Wasp]; Nick Fury; Tony Stark LMD (villain, death); Morgan Stark (villain); Midas (villain); Hydra; Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan; Alex Niven [Alex Nevsky]
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Continued in The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #69.
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Iron Man #19

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the Black Knight [Nathan Garrett]; the Crimson Dynamo [Alex Niven]; Death; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; the Mandarin; the Unicorn
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What Price Life?!

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Attuma (in dream); Captain America [Steve Rogers]; the Crimson Dynamo [Alex Niven; Alex Nevsky] (in dream); the Crusher (in dream); Death (in dream); Dr. Jose Santini; Happy Hogan; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Janice Cord; Madame Masque; the Mandarin (in dream); Midas; the Mole Man (in dream); Pepper Potts; the Unicorn (in dream); Whiplash (in dream)
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Continued between The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #69 (October 1969) and The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #70 (November 1969).
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Iron Man #20

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Lucifer
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Who Serves Lucifer?

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Charlie Gray; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Lucifer; Wilma Gray
Lucifer concedes power to a discontented Charlie Gray in order to capture the inventor Tony Stark.
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Iron Man #21

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]
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The Replacement!

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Crimson Dynamo [Alex Niven; Alex Nevsky]; Eddie March [also as Iron Man]; Hammer; Happy Hogan; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Janice Cord
Tony Stark, with an ailing heart, seeks a replacement. Boxer Eddie March becomes the new Iron Man but he also has potentially life-threatening health problems. In a battle with the powerful Crimson Dynamo the "old" Iron Man has to come to the rescue of the "new" one.
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Iron Man #22

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Titanium Man; Crimson Dynamo [Alex Nevsky]
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From This Conflict... Death!

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ron Man [Tony Stark]; Janice Cord (death); Titanium Man (villain); Crimson Dynamo [Alex Nevsky] (villain, origin); Eddie March [also as Iron Man]; Crimson Dynamo [Professor Anton Vanko] (flashback)
Herb Trimpe apparently penciled page 19. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2014.
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Iron Man #23

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]
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The splash page was used as the cover to this story.
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The Man Who Killed Tony Stark

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Jasper Sitwell; Cheryl Porter; The Mercenary (introduction, villain, death); Vincent Sandhurst (villain, death); Titanium Man (flashback); Janice Cord (flashback)
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Since the splash page was used as the cover an additional page was needed to raise the page count to 20. Marie Severin drew page 15. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2014.
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Iron Man #24

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; The Minotaur; Madame Masque [Whitney Frost]; Dr. Vryolak
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My Son... the Minotaur!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Madame Masque [Whitney Frost]; The Minotaur [Miklos Vryolak] (villain, introduction, death); Dr. Vryolak (villain, introduction, death); Jasper Sitwell
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Iron Man #25

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Namor, the Sub-Mariner
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This Doomed Land- This Dying Sea!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Namor, the Sub-Mariner; Blane Ordway (villain, introduction, death); June
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Iron Man #26

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Val-Larr
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Duel in a Dark Dimension!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Val-Larr (first appearance); The Collector; Shar-Khan (first appearance, villain); Happy Hogan; Pepper Potts; Shadow-Horde Demons
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Iron Man #27

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Firebrand [Gary Gilbert]
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The Fury of the Firebrand!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Firebrand [Gary Gilbert] (introduction); Lyle Bradshaw (introduction); Eddie March; Helen Davis
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Iron Man #28

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; The Controller
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The Controller Lives!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark] (origin details); Howard Anthony Stark (first appearance, Tony's father); Meredith McCall (first appearance); The Controller (villain); Jasper Sitwel
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Iron Man #29

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]
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Save the People-- Save the Country!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; A dictator (first appearance, villain); Myrmidon (first appearance, villain); Overseer (first appearance, villain); Sandy; Maria
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Iron Man #30

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Monster-Master [Toru Tarakato]
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The Menace of the Monster-Master!!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Monster-Master [Toru Tarakato] (introduction, villain, death); Fujiko Watanabe; Professor Watanabe; Zoga
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Iron Man #31

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]
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Anything-- For the Cause!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; The Mastermind [Bowers] (first appearance, villain, not the evil mutant); Smashers (first appearance, villain); Bullwhip Grogan (first appearance, villain); Kevin O'Brien [as Kevin O'Brian] (first appearance); Kathy Acushla
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Iron Man #32

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Beware the Mechanoid

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Baldy Kolak (first appearance, villain); Rasko (first appearance, villain); Mechanoid Scout MK-5 (first appearance, death); Baldy (first appearance, villain); Luke (first appearance); Belinda Thomkins (first appearance)
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Iron Man #33

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Jasper Sitwell; Nick Fury (impersonated)
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Their Mission: Destroy Stark Industries!!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; The Spymaster; Espionage Elite [Number One [Marya Penskiyov]; Samson Washington; Farley London; Godfried Herter; Roger Philips] (first appearance; villains); Nick Fury (impersonated by the Spymaster?); Thor (cameo, flashback); Hulk (cameo, flashback); Ant-Man (cameo, flashback); Giant-Man (cameo, flashback); The Wasp (cameo, flashback); Captain America (cameo, flashback); Quicksilver (cameo, flashback); Scarlet Witch (cameo, flashback); Dr. Doom (cameo, flashback); Mole Man (cameo, flashback); Controller (cameo, flashback); Monster-Master (cameo, flashback); Myrmidon (cameo, flashback); Jasper Sitwell; Kevin O'Brien
Tony Stark reflects on his past experiences fighting villains and serving as an Avenger. Meanwhile the Spymaster and his Espionage Elite are infiltrating Stark Industries and Stark is lured into an ambush.
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Iron Man #34

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Spymaster
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Crisis-- and Calamity!!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Spymaster (villain); Espionage Elite (villain); Nick Fury; Jasper Sitwell; Kevin O'Brien [as Kevin O'Brian]
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Iron Man #35

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Nick Fury; Zodiac [Aquarius [Darren Bentley]; Capricorn [Willard Weir]; Saggitarius [Harlan Vargas]]
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Revenge!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; SHIELD [Nick Fury; Dum Dum Dugan; Jasper Sitwell] ; Madame Masque [Whitney Frost]; Kevin O'Brien; Zodiac [Aquarius [Darren Bentley]; Capricorn [Willard Weir]; Saggitarius [Harlan Vargas]; Libra [Gustav Brandt]] (villain); Spymaster (villain)
Trying to keep the Zodiac Key out of the hands of Spymaster, Iron Man and his allies are captured along with the Key once Zodiac gets involved.
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Allyn Brodsky as plotter per note by Stan Lee in Daredevil #73.
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Daredevil #73

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Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Nick Fury; Madame Masque [Whitney Frost]; Zodiac [Capricorn [Willard Weir]; Aquarius [Darren Bentley]]; Lawholder; Spymaster
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Art credits from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (24 February 2005). The original indexer credited the pencils to Herb Trimpe and the inks to Bill Everett.
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Behold... The Brotherhood!

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Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Madame Masque [Whitney Frost]; Nick Fury; Kevin O'Brian; Zodiac [Aquarius [Darren Bentley]; Capricorn [Willard Weir]; Saggitarius [Harlan Vargas]] (villains); Spymaster; Brotherhood of the Ankh (villains, introduction); Lawholder (villain, introduction); Captain America [Steve Rogers] (cameo, flashback); Thor (cameo, flashback); Aries (cameo, flashback)
The Scorpio Key transports our cast of heroes and villains to another dimension, where the Brotherhood of the Ankh forces them to battle to replenish the power of the key.
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Iron Man #36

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Ramrod
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...Among Men Stalks the Ramrod!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Nick Fury; Madame Masque [Whitney Frost]; Kevin O'Brien [as Kevin O'Brian]; Marianne Rodgers (introduction); Ramrod (introduction, an android, not the later super-villain, villain); Spymaster; Zodiac [Aquarius [Darren Bentley]; Capricorn [Willard Weir]; Saggitarius [Harlan Vargas]] (villain); Jasper Sitwell (cameo flashback)
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Iron Man #37

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Kevin O'Brien [as Kevin O'Brian]
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In This Hour of Earthdoom!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Ramrod (villain); Doom-Carriers (first appearance, villain); Foreman (first appearance, villain); Worldform, Inc. (first appearance, villain); Kevin O'Brien [as Kevin O'Brian]; Marianne Rogers; Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan
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Iron Man #38

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]
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When Calls Jonah..!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Jonah [Anthony Gardenia] (first appearance, villain); Kevin O'Brien [as Kevin O'Brian]; Frankie Majors; Frizzo
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Allyn Brodsky credited with the plot per Gerry Conway on the last panel of the story.
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The Marvel Essentials Library

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Hulk; Iron Man; Spider-Man; X-Men
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House ad for Marvel Essentials.
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[untitled]

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]
Shellhead's rogues' gallery grows during the first face-offs...
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Back cover contains artwork from Iron Man (Marvel, 1968 series) #21 (January 1970) synopsis of book, ISBN, price, and barcode.

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