- Script
- Cefn Ridout (credited)
- Pencils
- various
- Inks
- various
- Colors
- various
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Script
- Mark Gruenwald (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Iron Man's adaptability and intelligence are his real strengths.
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited)
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (credited as Barry Smith)
- Inks
- Jim Mooney (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- Editing
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Job Number
- 859Z
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Marianne Rodgers; Wong-Chu (flashback); Professor Yinsen (flashback); Simon Gilbert (villain)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- After Kevin O'Brien's funeral Tony reflects on his origin and ponders his future.
- Reprints
Splash page notes: "Based in part on a story by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber from Tales of Suspense #39."
- Script
- Bob Layton (credited); David Michelinie (credited)
- Pencils
- Joe Brozowski (credited); Bob Layton (credited)
- Inks
- Bob Layton (credited)
- Colors
- Bob Sharen (credited)
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited)
- Editing
- Jim Salicrup (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There comes a time in the life of everyone famous when he must face a gathering of his admirers and detractors.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Iron Man [Tony Stark]; James Rhodes; Wong-Chu (flashback); Professor Yinsen (flashback)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Escaping from Wong-Chu, Iron Man encounters James Rhodes of the US Marines and enlists his help getting out of enemy territory.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Vietnam
Flashback story telling how Rhodes met Tony Stark and came to be employed by him; takes place between Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #39 & 40
- Script
- David Michelinie (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The key to Tony Stark's character is that he's a technological hero...
- Script
- Bob Layton (credited); David Michelinie (credited)
- Pencils
- Bob Layton (credited); John Romita Jr. (credited)
- Inks
- Bob Layton (credited)
- Colors
- Bob Sharen (credited)
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited)
- Editing
- Jim Salicrup (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Monday morning, 9:00 am, as an elevator door hisses open in the administration building...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- S.H.I.E.L.D.: Nick Fury
Bethany Cabe; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Edwin Jarvis; Scott Lang; James Rhodes; Bambi Arbogast; Vic Martinelli; Ling McPherson; Roxxon Oil (villain); Senator Glen Mountebank (villain); Mike Trudeau (villain)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- After a radiation surge kills hundreds of people in a small town Iron Man ventures into space to investigate the source: Roxxon's new solar energy station.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Roxxon; space armor
First appearance of the Iron Man Space Armor.
The sequence of Iron Man approaching a shielded/cloaked space station in a slow reveal similar to one in the James Bond movie Moonraker (released in 1979).
- Script
- Bob Layton (credited); David Michelinie (credited)
- Pencils
- Bob Layton (credited); John Romita Jr. (credited)
- Inks
- Bob Layton (credited)
- Colors
- Bob Sharen (credited)
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited)
- Editing
- Jim Salicrup (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ebony on black: The impenetrable darkness of shadows in space.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Bethany Cabe; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Sunturion [Arthur Dearborn] (villain, introduction); Jonas Hale (villain); Ludwig Schmidt; Wolfgang Kuhn; Ivan
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Iron Man encounters the Roxxon station's defender, Sunturion, and finds him a reasonable man - but unwilling to halt Roxxon's plans.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Roxxon; space armor
- Script
- Bob Layton (credited); David Michelinie (credited)
- Pencils
- Bob Layton (credited); John Romita Jr. (credited)
- Inks
- Bob Layton (credited)
- Colors
- Bob Sharen (credited)
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited)
- Editing
- Jim Salicrup (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Two days ago, several hundred inhabitants of the small midwestern hamlet of Allantown, Iowa,
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Bambi Arbogast; Sunturion (villain, death)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Roxxon's station falls from orbit and Sunturion seems to die helping Iron Man contain the damage.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Roxxon; space armor
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The changes to Iron Man's armor were necessary to make the stories contemporary.
- Script
- David Michelinie (credited); Bob Layton (credited)
- Pencils
- John Romita Jr. (credited)
- Inks
- Bob Layton (credited)
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
- Letters
- Joe Rosen (credited)
- Editing
- Jim Salicrup (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- High above the midnight mountains of East Germany flies a man.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Bethany Cabe; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Living Laser [Arthur Parks]; James Rhodes; Anatol Dubrov (villain, introduction)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- To liberate Bethany Cabe from East Germany, Iron Man dons his stealth armor.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- East Germany; stealth armor
First appearance of Iron Man's Stealth Armor.
- Script
- Bob Layton (credited); David Michelinie (credited)
- Pencils
- Bob Layton (credited); John Romita Jr. (credited)
- Inks
- Bob Layton (credited)
- Colors
- Bob Sharen (credited)
- Letters
- Joe Rosen (credited)
- Editing
- Jim Salicrup (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At Heaven's Hand, the top-secret Communist research installation hidden deep within a mountain...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Beast [Hank McCoy] (flashback) (cameo); Black Panther [T'Challa] (flashback) (cameo); Bethany Cabe; Captain America [Steve Rogers] (flashback) (cameo); Count Nefaria [Luchino Nefaria] (flashback) (cameo); Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Living Laser [Arthur Parks]; James Rhodes; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff] (flashback) (cameo); Thor [Thor Odinson] (flashback) (cameo); Wonder Man [Simon Williams] (flashback) (cameo); Yellowjacket [Hank Pym] (flashback) (cameo)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The East Germans have increased Living Laser's power to the nth degree - but in battle with Iron Man it proves more power than the Living Laser can survive.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- East Germany; Heaven's Hand; stealth armor
- Script
- Denny O'Neil (credited)
- Pencils
- M. D. Bright (credited as Mark Bright)
- Inks
- Ian Akin (credited); Brian Garvey (credited)
- Colors
- Bob Sharen (credited)
- Letters
- Rick Parker (credited)
- Editing
- Mark Gruenwald (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Nobody on Earth could have survived that bomb blast, Mr. Stark.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Avengers West Coast: Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Mockingbird [Bobbi Morse]
Bethany Cabe; Happy Hogan; Pepper Hogan; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Iron Monger [Obadiah Stane] (death); James Rhodes; Dr. Clytemnestra Erwin; Bambi Arbogast; Timothy Anders; Dr. Theron Atlanta (villain); Chessmen (villains)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Following the death of Morley Erwin, Tony Stark resumes the identity of Iron Man and defeats Obadiah Stane. Unable to cope with losing, Stane kills himself.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Avengers Compound; Stane International
First appearance of new "Silver Centurion" armor.
- Script
- Bob Layton (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The use of different armors is comparable to the way things work...
- Script
- David Michelinie (credited); Bob Layton (credited)
- Pencils
- Bob Layton (credited); John Romita (credited)
- Inks
- Bob Layton (credited); John Romita (credited)
- Colors
- Bob Sharen (credited)
- Letters
- Janice Chiang (credited)
- Editing
- Mark Gruenwald (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In England, the ability to maintain one's dignity under stress...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Irina Tarasova; Carter Hastings (introduction, death); Mr. Kuttner (flashback)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Iron Man uses his deep sea armor to retrieve undersea chemical weapons before their casings deteriorate.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- chemical weapons; deep sea armor
First appearance of Iron Man's Deep Sea Armor.
John Romita Sr. redrew Carter Hastings' head/face in many panels. Original Bob Layton art under paste-up shows him with a full head of hair.