Just a short one today: it's occurred to me that if I was going to do Iron Man week, maybe having the issues I wanted to scan in hand would've been a good idea...Luckily, I had several copies of this, as it's been reprinted a few times, Joe Rubinstein inking and Jim Starlin contributing "Other Manual Labor" for "The Final Threat," Avengers Annual #7, 1977.
Back in those days, Iron Man was definitely second only to Thor as most powerful (regular) Avenger. From the Kree-Skrull War, to this battle against Thanos, Iron Man was able to...apparently, cover huge distances at nigh-relativistic speeds in space, use repulsor rays to deflect ionic cannon fire, fly like a missile to destroy small interstellar space fighters; and all in the same armor that back on earth, he had a hard time using to beat the Termite. Huh.
Nowadays, Marvel is just starting to get back to hijinks in space, with the Annihilation books. But, if Iron Man's going to take it into space, he needs to have his specialized, high-end space armor; since it's more efficient, more powerful, and makes for a neat toy. And fighting Thanos' ships, that would be about four issues itself.
More Iron Man tomorrow, even if I have to go rebuy those issues...
Those are some nice panels.
ReplyDeleteI remember this comic, it was great.
ReplyDeleteNowadays, Tony would instead strike up some compromise with the aliens because, as a "futurist," he can predict the scores and scores of civilian deaths.
Just like the Kree-Skrull war! :)