April 24, 2025 - Throwback Thursday - Iron Man: Armor Wars
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Hello there,
It's Thursday! Happy Friday's Eve! On Thursdays, we take a look back at a comic or a story from a while back and bring it back up to the surface.
For this week's #ThrowbackThursday, I wanted to take a look at Marvel's #ironman specifically the Armor Wars storyline.
The storyline involved Tony Stark realizing his Iron Man armor technology had gotten away from him, and armored superheroes and supervillains were using his tech. Tony didn't want anyone, ANY ONE, using his tech for any purpose, so he decided he needed to render their tech useless. He comes up with a device that pretty much slags and fries the hardware making the tech unusable.
I guess you could say he was going around bricking everyone's armored suits.
As the story progress, Tony finds himself in conflict with heroes and villains alike. The story features a fight between Tony Stark and Steve Rogers (who was going by "The Captain" at the time because he walked away from being Captain America [which is a completely different story for another Throwback Thursday]).
Eventually, the U.S. military is brought in to take down Tony, and, well, to find out what happens, you'll have to read the story.
Iron Man #219 - #224 set the stage for Armor Wars. The main story kicks off with Iron Man #225 - #231.