"Iron Man is born!"
Our story starts off at a highly guarded area were Tony Stark (NOT Robert Downey Jr.) is working on a top secret project for the government. Tony has invented transistors, which are so powerful they can rip open a foot thick steel vault. We then find out Tony is not just a scientist but also a Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist. Mean while in southern Vietnam, a communist leader, Wong-Chu, is taking over multiple villages. He says that if any man beats him in a fight he'll free the village, but so far, that has not happened. Around the time this all is happening, Tony stark visits Vietnam to see his transistors in action. They beat back the communists, but Tony sets off a booby trap, and Wong-Chu finds him. They find that he is a weapons inventor and that (Due to shrapnel near his heart) he only has one week left to live. They decide to trick him into making them super weapons until he dies. Tony realizes their plan and plays along until they leave him alone. Then he decides to invent something that will keep him alive, and help him escape Wong-Chu. After a few days they give him a fellow prisoner, Prof. Yinsen to help Tony. Together they invent the original Iron Man armor (Since Wong-Chu is only having Tony design the weapons I'm not sure where they get the supplies to make the armor. My guess is that they made it out of old Tin Cans and Paperclips.) Anyways, when they're almost done, Wong-Chu starts to come. To distract him and give Tony time to put on the armor, Prof. Yinsen attacks Wong-Chu. Wong-Chu shoots him as Tony hides with the armor. Tony swears to avenge the Prof. and leaves. Later when Wong-Chu is once again fighting to keep the villages under his control a mysterious figure challenges him. Wong-Chu accepts and the stranger takes off his Trench coat and Fedora to reveal Iron Man! Wong-Chu freaks out and calls Iron Man a machine. Tony is insulted and throws Wong-Chu into
the forest. Wong-Chu is a sore loser and tells the guards to shoot Iron Man (This should be funny.) All the bullets bounce off him. "Quick get the grenades!" someone yells. Well thats plain unfair so Tony simply reverses the magnetism of the grenades causing them to fire on Wong-Chu's troops. How does he accomplish this amazing feet? With a magnet. A super genius and he uses a magnet to fend off grenades? Beside, can't his armor hold up to an explosion. I know he made it in a cave but still, its bulletproof. Anyways Wong-Chu turns on a loud speaker to tell the troops to destroy Iron Man. Tony interferes and all the Loudspeakers produce is static. Then Tony tells the troops to abandon Wong-Chu and they don't hesitate to. Iron Man chases after Wong-Chu who pins him under a Filing Cabinet. Honestly? He's bulletproof and can divert grenades, but you can trap him under Filing Cabinet? (Note to Self: If ever fighting Iron Man bring Filing Cabinets. Its Iron Man's Kryptonite.) Wong-Chu takes the advantage and tells the Guards to kill all the prisoners. Iron man response is to cover him with oil and light him on fireusing a blowtorch to light him on fire. This results in a huge
explosion that probably killed all the prisoners Iron Man was trying to save in the first place. Iron Man then walks into the jungle wondering what will happen to him.
I have two notes. One, why is Iron Man gray in this issue? Its the color of actual Iron. It makes too much sense! Two, this is a really good origin issue for Tony, but it talks about the Vietnam war. I checked and now Tony's Origin has been upgraded to the War on Terror so he's not 50 years old. Its the same deal with Captain America. Originally he was only trapped for 20 years in Ice but now its been 80 to 90 years. Poor Cap. Anyway tell me what you think of the review and what hero you'd like to see next!
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