Don’t believe the hype. Armor Wars is a whole lot more like Armor Training Missions With Cheat Codes. This is how Tony throws down with his supposed arch-enemy Justin Hammer? A whole lotta paint-by-numbers one-round fights with rando armoured types, one after another, like he was performing story missions on easy mode with a checklist handed to him by Pepper Potts?At least the 80s silliness was on full display to keep us entertained - from barely-contained-for-Comics-Code one-night stands to Ton...

Whenever anyone criticizes the 80s, show'em the page where Tony Stark goes to the hairdresser and gets a mullet perm and just say, "checkmate." I always thought Iron Man should be written as one of the few, clear Republican superheroes. (Back when Republicanism was more like "hey, we don't like unions" and less like "hey, Jewish space lasers stole the election.") He's super-Republican here. This is so Reagan 80s, I'm surprised it doesn't end with Tony getting back his armor tech from the governm...

Long ago, before the interwebz, the Stan Lee reader acquisition philosophy was that if a reader picked up a comic for the first time then he/she should be able to jump in anywhere with some sort of exposition or footnotes or something and know what the hell is going on in his/her funny book.Well f**k that, newbs!! Here, the modern reader pays a heavy price by reading 10 expository panels every issue of Tony Stark talking to himself, deep in thought, talking in his sleep while the hooker he shack...

Iron Man: Armor Wars is unnecessarily wordy and expository, but it is still an interesting story dealing with guilt and paranoia, that actually builds up Tony Stark's character.

Okay read....hated the beginning of this and thought it was boring.

This is pure, classic Iron Man -- and pure, classic Irondickery. It's fascinating to watch Tony Stark pursue a misguided quest with such intensity, knocking aside friends and causing more harm than good. He's trying to recover his armor so that no one can be hurt by his technology, but he hurts -- even kills -- others to accomplish that. And the writing doesn't shy away from his hypocrisy, or how pathetic his self-pitying "this is so HARD for me!" is. Yet, in the end, you can't help but like Ton...

Thoroughly unnecessary purchase. I remember this story when it was originally released and I had no interest in it then. Now it comes packaged in this pretty collection and Tony Stark is way more interesting than I ever found him in the 80s and I picked this up cheaply from eBay. The story is perfectly fine but it's dreadfully wordy with excessive and repetitive exposition. 1980s Iron Man is about as rubbish as I remember, as he has to remember to seal off his eye holes before going underwater.

when i was a kid i liked the idea of iron man taking his technology back from all the various armored peole in the marvel universe, but this thing didnt really withstand the test of time....

Armor Wars is a book that left me with mixed feelings. On one hand, the writing is usually good with plenty of twists and lots of action. The plot simply put is that Tony Stark realizes his arm specs have been stolen. Driven by guilt, he decides to reclaim his stolen technology. Good as far as it goes when taking on bad guys such as the Stiltman and the Controller. It begins far more problematic when Stark decides that he's going to take on armor that Stark has sold legitimately to the governmen...

I'm not a particular Iron Man fan, and I bought this volume at a low price because I like reading source material for MCU projects before release. That being said, this was a fun 80's story. Plenty of Marvel-ous political intrigue and moral hand-wringing. I enjoyed it.

This was good back in the day, as it was a product of its era, but I find that it did not age well. Still, as Iron Man storylines go, this was (and probably still is) one of the better ones.

I think the story was quite good overall I enjoyed the book a lot. But it definitely proofs again, that these older comics feel a bit dated nowadays. The fight scenes are way too wordy, with every move explained in text and also the exposition at the beginning of almost all issues about the story so far can get exhausting. How often does Tony want to explain to Rhodey what has happened even that he'd been there anyway?On the upside, I just loved the last chapter (epilogue). This was so different...

Reprints Iron Man (1) #225-232 (December 1987-July 1988).  Tony Stark has just discovered that his inventions have led to the creation of horror that have hurt people all over the world.  His technology has been hacked and used to build armor like the Beetle, Titanium Man, and other villains.  Unfortunately, Tony’s technology has also been used to build technology used by S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Vault to protect people.  Tony realizes that he cannot pick and choose who uses his armor and that to st...

I enjoy this story arc for the art and the action. Also, Tony Stark's motivation (destroying armored supervillains who are using technology stolen Iron Man technology) makes him a very interesting protagonist.The minor flaw is too many meaningless shout-outs to then-current pop culture icons. I don't mind them because they date the story, but because even in 1988 they were silly and awkward. The major flaw is having Tony's obsession with recovering his technology driving him to attack good guys

There's probably no greater proof my taste has changed than the fact that I could barely finish this one this time around, after it being an iconic Iron Man story in my eyes.It's iconically bad, as things turn out. the dialogue is horrendously overwritten and overly dramatic and the side characters, especially Rhodey, really suffer for it. The entire premise doesn't hold up if you think about it for more than two seconds--I'm good at suspending disbelief but this is beyond the pale--and remindin...

Oh, 1980s Marvel... what a time!Still, I'm glad I got around to reading the famous "Armor Wars" storyline that clearly influenced the MCU version of Old Shellhead, though thank the Maker that the Marvel Studios folks and RDJ ditched Tony's appalling Jerry-curl 'do.Look, there's even the beginnings of what would decades-later become Civil War!My main takeaway was a reminder of just how wordy these comics used to be, each issue felt like a novella as exposition and internal monologuing from Tony a...

Iron ManArmor WarsDavid Michelinie wrote itBob Layton and Mark Bright drew it.This book is not very good. The plot is ok: Iron Man's tech is stolen and sold to criminals, he has to get it all back or destroy it. But Michelinie is an awful script writer. His characters are wooden, they make inexplicable decisions and their dialogue is clunky and unnatural. In the forward he admits that the overall plot of the story wasn't even his idea, that credit goes to one of the editors. Layton and Bright's

How exactly did Iron Man survive Dave Michelinie's late 80's run without being cancelled? It is, with the exception of the recent work on the book by Matt Fraction, the most god-awful and boring trash the series ever had to offer. Here we just get more of the same from 'Prologue', nothing spectacular, no great villain, no great imagination, no devilish machinations. For a good 3/4 of the book, we get terrible exposition and a Tony Stark inner monologue about how 'woe is me'. Damned terrible unti...

Armor Wars (cutely called "Stark Wars" inside the issues) is an eight issue sequence of Iron Man from 1987-88 that I've seen mentioned as an essential Iron Man story. Tony Stark discovers that due to a surveillance bug placed by an agent of Justin Hammer, a piece of the Iron Man suit technology has been stolen and used in several villains' metal suits. Tony feels responsible for the destruction they caused and takes it upon himself to personally go destroy all of the tech that he didn't sanction...

3.0 stars. I read these issues when they originally came out so it has been a while. I remember really liking the idea of Tony Stark taking responsibility for the fact that his Iron Man technology was being used too often by nefarious individuals and going on a one man crusade to "repossess" the tech from the people using it. Good storyline and decent writing.