Today I wanted to launch a new occasional series (as if I
haven’t got enough of those running) looking at the various armours of Tony
Stark. This is Iron Man’s Armory in the MC2: Model 1.
The very first and famously low-tech armour made its debut
in the pages of Tales of Suspense #39 wherein Tony Stark
built it alongside fellow prisoner Ho Yinsen while held captive as a
means to keep him alive and eventually escape. But I’m sure you all already
know that. Shortly afterwards, Stark would add a gold finish to better
appeal to the public (Tales of Suspense #40).
Now, in the MC2 we see Tony’s original Model
1 armour in the pages of Spider-Girl #95 during a flashback to
events which took place directly following Tales of Suspense #39 as shown
in Iron Man #144 which depicts Stark’s first meeting with James ‘Rhodey’
Rhodes.
We can also see a
replica of the golden version of the Model 1 in Avengers Next #5
when Kevin Masterson
pulls it out of the Avengers
Headquarters armory and uses it as a brief distraction against Ulik
and Sylene.
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Unless I’m mistaken, that’s all the appearances of the
original tin can suit in the MC2. Next time, we’ll move on to another Stark
designed Iron Man Armor, one with a little hot-rod red thrown in…
Until I’m able to build one of these in a cave WITH A BOX OF
SCRAPS, I remain
frogoat