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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2018 7:58:44 GMT -5
This one:
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 9, 2018 8:07:32 GMT -5
I always thought that version was too clunky. I like them when they are sleeker these days, with the exception of the Original Gold version.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 9, 2018 8:42:26 GMT -5
Any love for the "New Coke" armour, anyone? Sure. "Silver Centurion" is fine. To me (and many others, I assume), Iron Man is about ingenuity and innovation. Stark has been tinkering, modifying, and improving the armor since day one. And as Icctrombone pointed out, none of the armors need ever be "retired." They can be brought out again and again as the story permits. I also liked the Hulkbuster armor and the stealth armor from IM 152.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 9, 2018 8:44:17 GMT -5
This one: I quite liked that suit. The red and silver worked well together.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 9, 2018 9:09:03 GMT -5
I had a problem with the headpiece. It doesn't quite fit with the rest of the suit. And the shoulder pads are goofy looking.
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Post by MDG on Dec 9, 2018 10:22:32 GMT -5
What about Iron Man with a nose?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2018 10:25:53 GMT -5
The "New Coke" armour is also "my" armour as this is the first Iron Man comic I bought:
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 9, 2018 10:56:50 GMT -5
What about Iron Man with a nose? Ugh. Not a fan of the nose. Although it was quickly and wisely corrected, what I hate most about it is that it infected the MEGO line, preventing us from having a proper Iron Man figure until Secret Wars.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 9, 2018 11:54:28 GMT -5
I liked the Black and Gold one alot, as far as modern takes go.
If you're going classic, I definitely liked the Red and White alot, and hated the nose. The 90s armor (after he came back from the dead in the late 80s) was really nice too.
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 9, 2018 15:20:47 GMT -5
I got into Iron Man most when David Michelinie, John Romita Jr. or Jerry Bingham, and Bob Layton were the team. I still remember the wonder of scenes with all the different armors in view behind Tony Stark in his workshop, and that outer space suit when it debuted. Red and white are wrong though... because he's "The Golden Avenger"! The nose period didn't last too long, but it was still too long. Someone probably thought it seemed logical but did it look goofy!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2018 15:33:41 GMT -5
It's all relative. Since my first two Iron Man comics had the nose... and the first issue of Avengers I read with him in it... it just seemed natural to me and I was never bothered by it, or the nose on my Mego. The red and gold is still "my" Iron Man armor though. My first exposure to him without the nose was this... and I though he looked strange without it. My first exposure to the golden armor was Avengers #1 in Son of Origins and in the pages of Rampaging Hulk #8 though he got the cover with #9... as for the silver centurion armor starting in #200, I never liked it. It was too bulky and clunky-technology always gets smaller and sleeker as it improves and it just seemed odd to me that a brilliant inventor would consider something bulkier and less sleek as an improvement when it went against all standards of technological development from that time (and currently). As for the color scheme, symbolically gold to silver also seems a regression is value. The Golden Age is always seen as better than the silver when they are used symbolically (and that symbolic trope is what went into the initial naming of the ages of comics). So why would you go form a gold standard to silver and see it as a step up? There was no seeming logic behind that particular armor evolution. -M
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2018 16:41:21 GMT -5
I'm sure I had the poster: Before I had the figure: And that was 5 years before I actually bought an Iron Man Comic: Luckily, his armor didn't change much in those five years (or at least it was back by the time I picked up #250).
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 9, 2018 17:57:52 GMT -5
I love that cover, if I ran across that I'd have to buy it! Looks like the story takes place around the time of Avengers #1-2. One of my favorite one-shots is that #1 1/2 Avengers.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 9, 2018 18:17:29 GMT -5
IIRC, the in-story reason for the bulkier armor when they when to the Red and White was more power... I missed that it got rid of the disks on the sides that he would tinker with during a fight to do stuff, though.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 9, 2018 18:38:50 GMT -5
My first issue of Iron Man was #80, and I quickly had a few issues (from used-book stores) from the previous year or so. The nose has always looked perfectly natural to me. And I love the War of the Super-Villains that was going on through much of that period. I'm not sure I don't prefer the nose! I've long had a fondness for this design:
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