Provides background on Tony Stark, a scientific genius and creator of the armor-clad suit that made him the superhero Iron Man, and looks at Tony and Iron Man's friends, enemies, loves, death and rebirth, and related topics.
Millionaire industrialist Tony Stark must use the indestructible suit he has created to stop an evil villain from making a suit of his own and using it to destroy the world.
Iron Man battles Living Laser, who has taken control of the Stark International lab station and has been forcing the crew to make him a new synthetic body.
Collects issues no. 39-72 from the comic series "Iron Man, " in which Tony Stark negotiates in boardrooms as a billionaire genius and fights super villains as his alter ego--Iron Man.
Iron Man investigates his empty industrial facility in China and has an encounter with the Mandarin, who has the factory workers under mind control and attacks Beijing with a giant metal dragon.
Tony Stark goes to attend a meeting with Samuel Smithers, who has developed an organism called Plantman who threatens to take over the world with his vines unless Iron Man stops him.
Describes the birth and childhood of Tony Stark who became Iron Man as an adult when he created his signature armor that gave him powers and saved his life in more ways than one.
