Fred Van Lente

As Tony Stark battles an Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) siege engine, he reflects on how he became Iron Man following his capture six months earlier by A.I.M., who planned to force him to create weapons for them. To escape he teams up with Professor Gia-Bao Yinsen. The two build special iron suits to protect them on their way out of the A.I.M. facility.

Tony Stark deals with his difficult board of directors and fights Spymaster, the industrial sabateur who takes over the armor and tries to give Iron Man a bad name.

Iron Man dons his space armor to rescue a Stark orbital platform from his old enemy, the Living Laser, but during their zero-G battle they unleash an even deadlier threat: the all-new, all-terrifying swarm!

Avast, ye swabs! Commander Kraken and his techno-pirates have captured Iron Man, stripped him of his deep-sea armor, and are attacking hydrobase with it! Unarmed and unarmored, can Tony Stark take out Kraken's scurvy crew all by himself?

Iron Man battles Commander Kraken and his group of pirates who are trying to destroy the platform where they test experimental marine technology.

Iron Man defeats Mandarin and restores the Stark employees to the Stark China facility.

"1873. Arizona. An era when all a man could count on was his horse and his six-gun, and Indians fought a losing battle with European settlers. Until somebody else entered the fight-- an invader who saw all humans as slaves, and was determined to conquer our world."--Jacket flap.

Spider-Man defeats the Green Goblin and a thief who tried to become Hobgoblin, using Green Goblin's gear.

Tony Stark hires Jessica Drew, a.k.a. Spider-Woman, to find his father Howard Stark. She succeeds in finding someone who appears to be Howard but turns out to be Chameleon. Chameleon locks Tony up and begins transfering Stark's patents to Advanced Idea Mechanics before his identity is discovered.

Collects "X-Men Noir" no. 1-4, in which homicide detectives investigate a murder that points to the involvement of Wolverine and brings attention to Xavier's school.