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Issue: Iron Man Epic Collection #6
Publication Date: January 2003
 
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Title: The War of the Super-Villains
Variant: unnamed
Rating: T
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/29/2023
Volume: 6
Pages: 484
ISBN: 9781302948801
UPC/EAN: 978130294880154499
Price: $56.25 CAD
$44.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: T
Content Items: 66 (24 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Collects Iron Man (Marvel, 1968 series) #68-91 and Iron Man Annual (Marvel, 1976 series) #3.
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; glossy interior
Binding: softcover; trade paperback
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Epic Collection

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Promo ad for other issues in the Epic Collection series of titles.
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The Invincible Iron Man: The War of the Super Villains

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The War of the Super Villains

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Iron Man #68

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Sunfire; Unicorn
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Inker credit from Kirk Cekada via the GCD Errors List (2 February 2006).
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Night of the Rising Sun!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark] (origin retold); Roxie Gilbert; Sunfire (villain); Mandarin (villain); Unicorn (villain); Major Arlington
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Iron Man’s mask gets an upgrade(!) with the addition of a nose.
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Confrontation!

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Confrontation!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Pepper Potts; Eddie March; Happy Hogan; Roxie Gilbert; Marty March (introduction); Sunfire (villain); Mandarin (villain); Yellow Claw (villain); Ultimo (villain); Loc Do (introduction, villain)
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Ultimo Lives!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Sunfire; Ultimo
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Romita cover penciler credit provided 2006 by Nick Caputo.
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Who Shall Stop...Ultimo? - Confrontation! Part Two

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Sunfire; Eddie March; Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan; Roxie Gilbert; Ultimo (villain); Yellow Claw (villain); Mandarin (villain); Loc Do (villain)
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And Now it Begins--!

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Cover colorist identified in the letters page to Iron Man #73.
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Battle: Tooth and Yellow Claw! (Confrontation: Part 3)

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Yellow Claw (villain); Loc Do (villain); Black Lama (villain); Eddie March; Roxie Gilbert; Chief Kuon Set; Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan
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Death Squad!

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Convention of Fear!

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Mike Friedrich; Tom Orzechowski; Frank Brunner; Jan Brunner
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Most of this story takes place at the San Diego Comicon. Page 14 features cameo appearances by Roy Thomas and Mike Friedrich (drawn by Neal Adams), Tom Orzechowski (by Alan Kupperberg), Frank and Jan Brunner (by Frank Brunner). Info from the letters page to Iron Man #74.

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Fury in a Far-Off Land!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Crimson Dynamo [Alex Nevsky [as Alex Niven]]
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Cover inker credit provided 2006 by Nick Caputo.
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Turnabout: A Most Foul Play!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Titanic Three [Crimson Dynamo [Alex Nevsky [as Alex Niven]]; Radioactive Man; Titanium Man [Boris Bullski]] (villain); Kuon Set (death); Happy Hogan; Pepper Potts; Eddie March; Roxie Gilbert; Shara
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Iron Man #74

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; M.O.D.O.K.
The war of the super-villains has begun...
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Cover inker credit confirmed by Al Milgrom.
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The MODOK Machine!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; the Avengers [Hawkeye; Thor; Scarlet Witch; Vision] (cameo); Pepper Potts; Roxie Gilbert; M.O.D.O.K. (villain); A.I.M. (villains); Black Lama (villain); Thinker (villain); Firebrand [Gary Gilbert] (villain); Titanic Three [Crimson Dynamo [Alex Nevsky; as Alex Niven]; Radioactive Man; Titanium Man [Boris Bullski]] (villains); Doctor Doom (villain, cameo); Red Skull (villain, cameo); Yellow Claw (villain, flashback)
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Slave to the Power Imperious!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; M.O.D.O.K.; Black Lama
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Giacoia inks and Crespi letters per Nick Caputo, August 2012. Previous indexer credited Al Milgrom with inks and Gaspar Saladino with letters.
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Slave to the Power Imperious!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; M.O.D.O.K.; Black Lama; A.I.M.; Thinker; Awesome Android; Black Lama; Firebrand [Gary Gilbert]; Yellow Claw; Princess Susan (First appearance, not named); Marianne Rodgers
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Now Comes the Green Goliath!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Hulk (robot)
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The War of the Super-Villains Is Over-- And Wait'll You See Who the Winner Is!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thinker
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I Cry: Revenge!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mad Thinker (villain); Awesome Android (villain); Black Lama (villain); Yellow Claw (villain); Firebrand [Gary Gilbert] (villain)
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Vengeance in Vietnam!

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Possible Janson inks per Nick Caputo, August 2016. Previous indexer credited Vince Colletta. In a thread on Tom Palmer's Facebook, Palmer, denied inking this cover, as did Don Perlin and Bob Wiacek. Other possible inkers suggested included Frank Giacoia, Mike Esposito, Dave Cockrum, or a group effort. (Info submitted by Billyd75 via the GCD Error Tracker.)
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Long Time Gone

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Viet Cong
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Flashback story, takes place in Vietnam, probably in TALES OF SUSPENSE #50.
Creator credits are on the last page of the story.
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Midnight on Murder Mountain!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Doctor Kurarkill; Quasar (Ape)
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Midnite On Murder Mountain!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Quasar (villain, not the hero, introduction, death); Professor Kurarkill (villain, introduction, death); Carrie; Keith
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Story takes place between issues #73 / 74.
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Mission Into Madness!

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Mission Into Madness!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Firebrand [Gary Gilbert] (villain); Black Lama (villain); Baron Rockler (villain, introduction); Baroness Rockler (villain, introduction); Princess Susan
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continued from issue #77
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War of the Mind Dragons!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Firebrand [Gary Gilbert]; Black Lama
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Wilson/Sinnott cover credits confirmed 2011 by Al Milgrom. Previous indexer listed Frank Giacoia.
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War of the Mind-Dragons!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Black Lama (villain); Baron Rockler (villain); Baroness Rockler (villain); Firebrand [Gary Gilbert] (villain)
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Peril of the Apes!

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Iron Man; Tony Stark; Red Ghost's Super-Apes
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Danny Crespi cover letters credit from Todd Klein via The Crespi Files, page 51 posted on his Facebook page on 1 August 2017.
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Plunder of the Apes!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Happy Hogan; Pepper Potts; Abraham Klein; Roxie Gilbert; Michael O'Brien (introduction); Red Ghost (villain); Super-Apes (villains)
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JV138
Although Marie Severin is listed as one of the artists this issue, she actually only inked the four background figures on the splash page.
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The Rage of the Red Ghost!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Red Ghost; Super-Apes
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Credits per Nick Caputo 2006, updated April 2018.
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The Rage of the Red Ghost!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Iron Man [Happy Hogan]; Pepper Potts; Michael O'Brien; Red Ghost (villain); Super Apes (villain)
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Night of the Walking Bomb!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; The Freak [Happy Hogan]
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Night of the Walking Bomb!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Pepper Potts; Dr. Ritter; Michael O'Brien; The Freak [Happy Hogan] (villain)
To save Happy's life, Iron Man brings his Enervator invention to the hospital, but, once again, it turns his best friend into the Freak, who begins a dangerous rampage through New York.
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JV166
Happy Hogan was previously transformed into the Freak in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #74 and Iron Man (Marvel, 1968 series) #3.
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...And the Freak Shall Inherit the Earth!

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...And the Freak Shall Inherit the Earth!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Freak [Happy Hogan] (villain); Pepper Potts; Roxie Gilbert; Michael O'Brien; Marie Severin; Len Wein; John Verpoorten; Ron Wilson; Irene Vartanoff; Roy Thomas; Stan Lee; Glynis Wein
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JV292
Numerous Marvel staffers and creators appear in pages 1-3, including Marie Severin, Len Wein, John Verpoorten, Ron Wilson, Irene Vartanoff, Glynis Wein, Roy Thomas, Stu Schwartzberg, Archie Goodwin, Morrie Kuramoto, Herb Trimpe and Stan Lee.
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Call My Killer... Blizzard!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Blizzard [Gregor Shapanka]; Pepper Potts
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The Gentleman's Name Is Blizzard!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan; Michael O'Brien; Blizzard [Gregor Shapanka] (introduction; formerly Jack Frost)
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The Icy Hand of Death!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Blizzard [Gregor Shapanka]
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The Icy Hand of Death!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Blizzard [Gregor Shapanka] (origin); Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan; Michael O'Brien
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The Armored Avenger! Battles the Menacing Molecule Man and the Macabre Man-Thing!

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More or Less... The Return of the Molecule Man!

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Paul Benton; Dr. Marshall; Sanford; Boyd; Cynthia (also in flashback); Molecule Person (Molecule Man's persona/Cynthia's persona); Cynthia's mother; Cynthia's father (cameo)
Caveat: You are presently ogling the most misleading frontpiece of 1976.
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JV280
Story takes place between Iron Man (Marvel, 1968 series) #87 and #88. This story is broken into three chapters: Chapter I The Ashes of the Sun! (14 pages), Chapter II The Daughter Also Rises! (10 pages), and Chapter III The War Within! (10 pages).
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Fear Wears Two Faces!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Blood Brothers
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Cover inker credit provided 2006 by Nick Caputo.
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Fear Wears Two Faces!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan; C. W. Crenshaw; Abe Klein; Roxie Gilbert; Harry Key (villain, introduction); Scrounger (villain, introduction); Blood Brothers (villains); Micheal O'Brien (villain); Thanos (flashback); Drax the Destroyer (flashback)
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Beware the Raging Battle!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Blood Brothers; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]
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Brute Fury!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Blood Brothers; Scrounger; Harry Key; Michael O'Brien; The Controller; Roxie Gilbert
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Power Versus Power!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; The Controller
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Abel inker credit provided 2006 by Nick Caputo confirmed by a photo of the pencil art taken at Abel's Continuity studio:

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=286043573613&id=607223613&set=a.52963823613.60838.607223613
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When Calls the Controller

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Beast; The Controller (villain); Scrounger (villain); Blood Brothers (villain); Harry Key (villain); Michael O'Brien (villain); Captain America [Steve Rogers] (cameo flashback); Vision (cameo flashback); Scarlet Witch (cameo flashback); Thanos (cameo flashback); Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell] (cameo flashback)
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C-05
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Iron Man #91

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; The Controller
The Controller Strikes Again!
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Breakout!

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Abe Klein; Krissy Longfellow; The Controller (villain); Blood Brothers (villains); Scrounger (villain)
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C-64
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Giant-Size Iron Man #1

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Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Angel; Hawkeye; Captain America [Steve Rogers]
The golden Avenger vs. the Angel! Hawkeye! and Captain America!
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Corrected credits provided by Andrew Krieg (June 18, 2003). Giacoia credit per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Mike Esposito.
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Giant-Size Iron Man #1 Production Cover Original Version Photostat

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Iron Man #73 Page 1 Original Art

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Iron Man #74 Page 1 Original Art

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Iron Man #68 Cover Original Art

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Iron Man #75 Cover Original Art

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Iron Man #78 Production Cover Original Version Photostat

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Iron Man #84 Cover Original Art

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Iron Man #86 Cover Original Art

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Iron Man Annual #3 Page 1 Original Art

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Iron Man Annual #3 and Fantastic Four Annual #11 House Ad from July 1976 Titles

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Epic Collection

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When War Breaks Out Between His Deadliest Enemies, Iron Man is Caught in the Crossfire!

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