Iron Man #152 [Direct]
(November 1981)

Marvel, 1968 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.50 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1981-08-18
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [various positions]
Editing
Jim Salicrup (editor); Bob Budiansky (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #3.
This issue has variants:

Don't Miss Shell-Head's New Stealth Armor! (Table of Contents)

Iron Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bob Layton (signed) (figure); Eliot R. Brown (signed) (photo background)
Inks
Bob Layton (signed) (figure); Eliot R. Brown (signed) (photo background)
Colors
Eliot R. Brown (signed) (photo background); ?
Letters
Irv Watanabe
Genre
superhero
Characters
Iron Man [Tony Stark] (Stealth Armor)
Reprints
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Escape from Heaven's Hand! (Table of Contents: 1)

Iron Man / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
David Michelinie (credited) (plot; script); Bob Layton (credited) (plot)
Pencils
John Romita Jr. (credited) (breakdowns)
Inks
Bob Layton (credited) (finished art)
Colors
Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
Letters
Joe Rosen (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.
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Keywords
East Germany; stealth armor

Indexer Notes

First appearance of Iron Man's Stealth Armor.

Enroll in the Marvel Subscriber's Club! (Table of Contents: 2)

Marvel Subscriptions / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob Layton (signed)
Inks
Bob Layton (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Hulk; Iron Man; Spider-Man; Captain America; Black Goliath; Ant-Man; Thor; Nightcrawler; Wolverine; the Thing; Namor, the Sub-Mariner

A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure! [The Green Slime] (Table of Contents: 3)

Dungeons & Dragons / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stephen Sullivan
Pencils
Jeff Dee
Inks
Jeff Dee
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
After encountering a Shambling Mound,
Genre
sword and sorcery; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Grimslade; Indel; Saren; Valerius; a green slime

Indexer Notes

Comic strip ad for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game from TSR Hobbies, Inc.. Continued between [The Shambling Mound] and [Evil Goblins]. On his YouTube channel, Bill Willingham stated that he did not draw the second Dungeons & Dragons ad, it was drawn by Jeff Dee and scripted by Steve Sullivan.

A Lesson to Be Learned! (Table of Contents: 4)

Hostess Cup Cakes; The Thing / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Alan Kupperberg ?; Richard Howell ?; Marie Severin ?; Ron Frenz ?
Inks
John Tartaglione ?
Colors
?
Letters
Irv Watanabe
First Line of Dialogue or Text
To be street wise,
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Thing [Ben Grimm]
Reprints
Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. Don't Miss Shell-Head's New Stealth Armor!
    Iron Man
  2. 1. Escape from Heaven's Hand!
    Iron Man
  3. 2. Enroll in the Marvel Subscriber's Club!
    Marvel Subscriptions
  4. 3. A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure! [The Green Slime]
    Dungeons & Dragons
  5. 4. A Lesson to Be Learned!
    Hostess Cup Cakes; The Thing
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