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Every Missing Iron Man Omnibus, Mapped | 13th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

April 18, 2025 by krisis 3 Comments

Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 2025 Iron Man Omnibus MappingIt’s the most wonderful time of the year for Marvel Omnibus fans – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every Iron Man omnibus that does NOT exist – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.

For the next two weeks, I’ll be covering Marvel’s entire publishing history by mapping missing omnibus volumes to fill in every gap in your Marvel oversize shelf! That’s all leading to the kickoff of the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot on Near Mint Condition on April 28, 2025.

Iron Man has surprisingly few omnibuses compared to Captain America and Thor. While we got an early 2026 announcement of Iron Man: Armor Wars, it’s a hodgepodge of a book that collects three different disconnected runs. It’s looking like we’re at risk at falling into an every-other-year schedule for Iron Man omnis, so let’s get to voting to show Marvel what we want!

If you’re not sure of what to vote for, stick around for a list of books vetted by a gang of the biggest mapping nerds on the internet with explanations from yours truly – keeper of the most-definitive guides to Marvel’s collected editions on the planet.

Or, if you don’t care about omnibuses, just use this post to learn about Marvel’s history and find some great comics to read!

The book titles and mapping in this post were curated with the help of the Invincible BrandXK! BrandXK proudly supports The Hero Initiative, an incredible charity that helps to support comic creators in their times of need – especially with medical expenses.

This post covers the following speculated omnibus volumes:

  • Bronze Age Iron Man
    • Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man Vol. 4 (1974 – 1978) [MMW 10-12 + some 13, fits before Michelinie / Layton / JRJR]
    • Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man by Dennis O’Neil Vol. 1 (1982 & on) [AKA Vol. 6]
    • Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man by Michelinie & Layton (Vol. 2) (1987 – 1989) [AKA Vol. 8]
  • Iron Man in the 2000s
    • Iron Man: Disassembled by Grell, Laws, & Miller (2002 – 2004)
    • Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2005 – 2008)
    • Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man by Fraction & Larocca (2008 – 2012)
  • Iron Man from 2013 to Present
    • Iron Man: Marvel Now by Gillen & Taylor (2012 – 2015)
    • Iron Man by Brian Michael Bendis (2015 – 2018)
    • Iron Man by Christopher Cantwell & Cafu (2020 – 2022)
    • Iron Man by Gerry Duggan (2023 – 2024) [includes I Am Iron Man]
  • War Machine & Ironheart
    • War Machine (1994 – 1996)
    • War Machine (2003 – 2014) [includes The Crew, Greg Pak, Iron Man 2.0, Iron Patriot]
    • Ironheart: Riri Williams (2016 – 2020) [AKA Ironheart by Bendis & Ewing]

Remember: These titles and mappings are a suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to help you decide on your votes on the Tigereyes poll. Your vote on the poll is a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period, NOT an endorsement of a specific map. Maps are presented as a proof of concept and to help you build your personal reading list.

Want to check out all of the other voting options for the 2025 Tigereyes Poll? Check out my 2025 Tigereyes poll options overview page that explains the poll, how to vote, and every title that will appear – including links to all of the posts in this series.

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Iron Man Omnibus Mapping: Bronze Age Iron Man

We have three Invincible Iron Man classic omnibuses to cover Iron Man’s Silver Age beginnings and his first few years of Bronze Age material, which is where we pick up with these poll options. See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark for details.

Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man Vol. 4 (1974 – 1978) [MMW 10-12 + some 13, fits before Michelinie / Layton / JRJR]

Iron Man’s omnibus line has perfectly obeyed the “3 Masterworks” rule for the first three volumes. Why should this one be any different?

It’s only going to be a little bit different. That’s because it needs to dip a few issues into the next Masterwork so that it lines up perfectly before Iron Man by David Michelinie, Bob Layton and John Romita Jr. on the other side.

The brilliant thing about Iron Man by David Michelinie, Bob Layton and John Romita Jr. is that it’s almost perfectly attuned to Masterworks mapping, so it can later be rebranded as Volume 5 without any tinkering! It isn’t missing a single issue, because Marvel Premiere (1972) #44 (which is in Masterworks Vol. 13) continues from issue #113 for Jack of Hearts, which fits just a hair before the omni.

A vote for this book is a vote for Marvel to keep Iron Man’s classic omnibus line on a semi-Annual schedule in 2026, and to have this book perfectly fill the gap between Volume 3 and the existing Michelinie / Layton / JRJR Omnibus.

This would collect Iron Man (1968) #68-114 & Annual 3-4 and Marvel Premiere (1972) #44

Iron Man by David Michelinie, Bob Layton and John Romita Jr. fits here, which almost exactly collects Masterworks Vol. 13-15! See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark for details.

Iron Man (1968) #187Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man by Dennis O’Neil Vol. 1 (1982 & on) [AKA Vol. 6]

Since the Michelinie / Layton / JRJR Omnibus stays consistent with the “3 Masterworks” rule, we know exactly what will follow… right?

Well… not quite. That’s because as the volume numbers of these books creep ever higher, it might make sense to start centering them on creator runs to make them more marketable – a tactic Marvel is starting to look at for any book beyond a Volume 1. There’s no guarantee every classic Omnibus line will keep numbering sequentially, and this one already has a good excuse not to thanks to that Michelinie / Layton / JRJR Omnibus.

Luckily, Dennis O’Neil wrote Iron Man (1968) literally from the first issue after that prior omni – issue #158! But, his run continues to issue #208. That would mean this would have to collect 4+ Masterworks to fit into one volume – a major “NO” for classic Marvel omnis.

But, there is a solution. This run is simply going to have to be two books. That’s because it will also pick up a brief run of non-O’Neil issues from #209-214 before the next run by Bob Layton begins. While we don’t have Masterworks for all of these issues yet, it’s very likely this run will cover existing Masterworks Vol. 16-19 and yet-to-be-announced Vol. 20-21.

A vote for this book is a vote for Marvel to quickly press ahead with its Iron Man classic line, which is lagging behind some of the other Silver Age lines.

This would collect most of Iron Man (1968) #158-192 & Annual 5-7, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #134, Jack of Hearts (1984) #1-4, and material from Marvel Fanfare (1982) #4.

It would likely cut off a few issues early to balance the contents of a second volume, which would collect Iron Man (1968) #193-214 & Annual 8.

Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man by Michelinie & Layton (Vol. 2) (1987 – 1989) [AKA Vol. 8]

Marvel announced that one of the first omnibuses of 2026 is Iron Man: Armor Wars, which is almost this book but not quite.

This has been demanded by fans on the poll from 2014 to 2023 until we messed up the title last year (oops!). It would collect David Michelinie & Bob Layton’s second run writing Iron Man (1968), which contained the original “Armor Wars” story.

This is over three volumes past where Masterworks currently end, but it has been completely covered by the Epic Collection line, so we know exactly how to map it.

A vote for this book is a vote to inform Marvel that they seriously messed up with the contents of that Armor Wars book. In fact, if y’all can get this back into the Top 20 of the poll maybe there’s even a chance for Marvel to reverse course on that 2026 book before it arrives!

This would collect Iron Man (1968) #215-250 & Annual 9-10; Iron Man: Crash (1987) OGN; and material from Marvel Fanfare (1982) #44 and Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #8 & 22-23.

Layton returns for issues #254 & 256, so the could be included here, but it’s also fine to hold them for the next volume

Those two books means we’ve reached our limit of only mapping two volumes into the future in a long run. After the second Michelinie/Layton run there’s a John Byrne & John Romita Jr. run that isn’t quite long enough for an omnibus followed by a Len Kaminski run that is too long for an omnibus. There’s no obvious way to break it up, and we have no way of knowing if Marvel is ever going to “fix” their map of this second Michelinie/Layton run, so it’s not productive to keep mapping from here at this time.

After Iron Man (1968) concludes, Tony Stark is off to the Heroes Reborn universe. See Guide to Marvel Universe Events for details.

Iron Man Omnibus Mapping: Iron Man in the 00s

When it comes to 2000s-era Iron Man, we have just a tiny beachhead at the beginning of the decade with Iron Man by Kurt Busiek and Sean Chen and Iron Man: The Mask in the Iron Man collecting not-quite two thirds of the Iron Man (1998) series. That gets us to 2001, and from there onward it’s all wilderness! See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark for details of those two existing books.

One important note: a pair of Iron Man by Matt Fraction slim oversize hardcovers were sometimes marketed as omnibuses, but were never actually omnibuses, so we need to remap them here!

Iron Man: Disassembled by Grell, Laws, & Miller (2002 – 2004)

This is a very obvious next book in collecting Iron Man’s main title, since we have the obvious stopping point of the end of his 1998 series to act as the boundary for the collection.

A vote for this book is a vote to finish collecting Iron Man (1998), including his tie-in to Avengers Disassembled.

This would collect Iron Man (1998) #50-89 and Crimson Dynamo (2003) #1-6.

It could also include Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan (2005) #1-4, release later but which reads directly following issue #89. It could optionally pick up Iron Man: Bad Blood (2000) #1-4, which was abandoned by the earlier pair of omnibuses.

Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2005 – 2008)Iron Man: Director of SHIELD (2007) #31

We deliberately leave these title a bit loose on the poll, because people have a lot of opinions about what it should collect.

The tricky issue is that Invincible Iron Man (2004) began with the singularly explosive and influential “Extremis” by Warren Ellis & Adi Granov. It’s a story so seismic it almost feels weird to include it in an omnibus with other, more regular arcs of this book, which transitions to the title Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. after Civil War with issue #15 and runs for a total of 35 issues… further complicated by War Machine taking over for the final three issues.

Plus, this period has a lot of random mini-series. While we placed Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan (2005) #1-4 with the prior book for continuity reasons, this could reasonably include Iron Man: Hypervelocity (2007) #1-6, Iron Man: Inevitable (2006) #1-6, and Iron Man: Legacy of Doom (2008) #1-4.

Also, there are a number of short series, mini-series, and one-shots that occur just after this concludes that are absolutely ignored by the Matt Fraction run and wouldn’t be likely to be collected there. They include Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas (2008) #1-2 (an abandoned mini-series by Jon Favreau), Iron Man: Iron Protocols (2009) #1 (set during this run), Indomitable Iron Man Black and White (2010) #1 (set during this run), Iron Man vs. Whiplash (2010) #1-4 (set early in Fraction’s run), and Iron Man: Legacy (2010) #1-11 (all set deep in past continuity).

That’s 75 total issues, which means this could in fact be two different books – one book of Ellis through Civil War with a number of mini-series, and a second book of the “Director” era with some material released during Fraction’s run.

Or maybe it’s just this series by itself. Or maybe it’s some other thing.

A vote for this book is a vote for Marvel to start figuring out how they’d like to collect this 2005 ongoing series in one or more volumes.

This could collect The Invincible Iron Man (2005) #1-14 and Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2007) #15-35 & Annual 1. Note that War Machine is the lead character of issues #33-35, not Tony Stark.

It should also collect two later one-shots set just after issue #32 of this run (and prior to the next omnibus), They include Iron Man: Iron Protocols (2009) #1 and Indomitable Iron Man Black and White (2010) #1.

It could also add some or all of Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan (2005) #1-4, Iron Man: Hypervelocity (2007) #1-6, Iron Man: Inevitable (2006) #1-6, and Iron Man: Legacy of Doom (2008) #1-4, all released during this run, plus the unfinished Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas (2008) #1-2 as bonus material.

It could also collect some series likely to be abandoned by a subsequent Matt Fraction omnibus, including Iron Man vs. Whiplash (2010) #1-4 and Iron Man: Legacy (2010) #1-11 (all set deep in past continuity).

Invincible Iron Man (2008) #527Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man by Fraction & Larocca (2008 – 2012)

This was a massive run for the character of Iron Man. It’s hard to extricate the impact of Matt Fraction’s writing and Salvador Larroca’s stylish artwork from the sudden massive boost in popularity from the first Iron Man film.

It’s not like this series won Eisner awards because of the film – it was just that good. But, its profile was certainly boosted beyond the visibility of any Iron Man run of the prior 20 years, aside from perhaps Ellis’s “Extremis.”

Ultimately, this is a satisfying run that examines Tony’s identity, does a bit of disassembling, and then puts him back together for some flashy superhero action. In a way, it did Iron Man so well and so thoroughly that it ruined the curve for Iron Man books over the next decade – which often spent a lot of time trying to reinvent the wheel.

The big question about this Fraction & Larroca omnibus is… can it all be done in one? This was a lengthy run that did a solid amount of double-shipping along the way, meaning it totals over 60 issues!

Just on page count, I think the contents of this book could just fit into one omnibus, but it would be a massive one. Marvel has shown an appetite for taking that tactic for a number of 00s-era heroic runs that just might not sell through two volumes, including Fracton’s Thor… but that more than 15 issues shorter than this.

Luckily, if we have to split this into two volumes, there’s between 14 and 30+ issues of supporting material we could include to pad them out that would otherwise be orphaned (all detailed below)!

A vote for this book is a vote for Marvel to finally give the best modern run of Iron Man omnibus treatment. And, if needs two volumes to do that, we have plenty of additional material to ad.

This would collect Invincible Iron Man (2008) #1-33, 500-527, 500.1, & Annual 1, Iron Man: Requiem (2009) #1, Rescue (2010) #1, Fear Itself (2010) #7.3 [Iron Man], and material from Free Comic Book Day 2010 Iron Man/Thor.

If this expanded to two volumes, it could add some limited series not by Fraction that are explicitly set in this period, including Iron Man vs. Whiplash (2010) #1-4 (before #8), Iron Man / Thor (2010) #1-4 [AKA “God Complex”] (after #25), Iron Man: Kiss & Kill (2010) #1 (after #25), and The Iron Age (2011) Alpha, #1-3, & Omega.

Iron Man Legacy (2010) #1-11 was released in this period but all set much earlier in continuity, and only makes sense to include if this is two volumes. Avengers Prime (2010) #1-5 will certainly be included in a Bendis Avengers omnibus and doesn’t need to be double-dipped here. Iron Man: Rapture (2010) #1-4 is not in continuity.

Iron Man Omnibus Mapping: Iron Man from 2013 to Present

We have all of ONE Iron Man omnibus from the beginning of Marvel Now at the end of 2013 to the present day. JUST ONE. And, it’s the omnibus of one of the dullest runs of this decade-plus of material – Dan Slott’s Tony Stark: Iron Man (2018).

However, I think that’s exactly why it’s the only omnibus of this period. It’s not a big idea. It’s not a major vision to change how you think about Tony Stark. It’s just Iron Man being Iron Man, dealing with some renegade AI.

By contrast, here are four omnibuses to cover the rest of Iron Man’s modern material that are much higher concept than that.

Iron Man (2012) #27Iron Man: Marvel Now by Gillen & Taylor (2012 – 2015)

Kieron Gillen inherited a decadent phase Iron Man – having already crested in renewed popularity both in comics and film, anchoring Bendis’s new run of Guardians of the Galaxy, and heading into his third film (which would have a some of the softest response of any MCU film to that point).

Luckily, Gillen loves a decadent phase. Gillen took Tony Stark to space, separating him from his existing supporting cast in a way that made him seem small, overpowered, and sometimes overwhelmed by the scope of events around him. Also, there was original flavor Death’s Head.

Gillen also introduced the thread of questioning Tony’s parentage, which would continue to unfurl across this entire decade of series. And, he wrote one of Marvel’s most substantial digital first series to that point, Iron Man: Fatal Frontier (2013).

Gillen ended his title prior to AXIS, and from there Tom Taylor picked up a personality-flipped Tony Stark for a brief sprint to Secret Wars (2015). Taylor was a much, much smaller name at that point, and this was one of his first big swings at a Marvel character.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Iron Man’s Marvel Now solo material in one place!

This would collect Iron Man (2012) #1-27, 20.INH, & Annual 1, Iron Man: Fatal Frontier (2013) #1-13, “No End in Sight” (Uncanny X-Men Special (2014) #1, Iron Man Special (2014) #1, Nova Special (2014) #1), Original Sin (2014) #3.1-3.4 (AKA Iron Man vs. Hulk),  and Superior Iron Man (2015) #1-9.

International Iron Man (2016) #3Iron Man by Brian Michael Bendis (2015 – 2018)

After Secret Wars (2015) Marvel had another merry-go-round of writers, which left Brian Bendis in the driver’s seat of Iron Man. Of course, Bendis was no stranger to Iron Man at this point – having written him in his New Avengers (2004), Mighty Avengers (2007), and Guardians of the Galaxy (2013). And, Bendis had an all-star team of artists join him – including David Marquez, Mike Deodato, and Alex Maleev.

Say what you will about Bendis, but he will absolutely look back at recent runs to pick up untied plot threads to continue. He did just that here with Gillen’s parentage thread, which becomes one of the main focuses of this run.

Bendis wrote across two sets of two consecutive series. The first pair built to his Civil War II (2016), and then the second pair and then took a hairpin turn to take Tony Stark out of the starring role – replacing him with Riri Williams as Ironheart and Doctor Doom!

Both threads of plot come to a fine conclusion in time for Invincible Iron Man (2016) #600, and this could read well in one book… but, the reading order will be tricky. In typical Bendis fashion, many of the single issues of these series are thoroughly intertwined with each other and Marvel does not have a great track record of collecting that well.

A vote for this book is a vote for all of Brian Bendis’s Iron Man material to be collected in one place, even if some elements of it may be double-dipped in other books like Ironheart or Doctor Doom.

This would collect Invincible Iron Man (2015) #1-14, International Iron Man (2016) #1-7, Infamous Iron Man (2016) #1-12, Generations: Iron Man & Ironheart (2017) #1, and Invincible Iron Man (2016) #593-600

Tony Stark: Iron Man by Dan Slott fits here, with Tony Stark back in the armor and back at Stark Industries. See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark for details.

Iron Man by Christopher Cantwell & Cafu (2020 – 2022)

For me, this is the first must-read Iron Man run since Matt Fraction. Television writer Christopher Cantwell penned a whole heartfelt, heartbreaking TV series about technology entrepreneurs called Halt and Catch Fire.

Cantwell fundamentally understood the mix of futurist optimism and self-obsessed hubris to bring to a character like Tony Stark, and he did it with a killer creative team of CAFU and Frank D’armata.

Some readers were put off by how quickly Cantwell shirked the continuity of Dan Slott’s run, but he also brought in Hellcat as a spectacular supporting character and mined major elements of Avengers history for his series-long storyarc.

A vote for this vote is a vote to collect this whole-series mega-arc into oversize hardcover for the first time.

This would collect Iron Man (2020) #1-25, Iron Man/Hellcat Annual (2022), King in Black: Iron Man/Doom (2020) #1. It could optionally add Hellcat (2023) #1-5, not written by Cantwell but emerging directly from his run.

Iron Man by Gerry Duggan (2023 – 2024) [includes I Am Iron Man]

Gerry Duggan did double-duty writing both the X-Men (2021) flagship and Invincible Iron Man (2022), and it quickly became apparent that the two runs were joined at the hip. Inexplicably, Duggan turned Iron Man into an X-Men title… and it really worked.

Unfortunately means this is a weird read without X-Men incorporated. At least half of this series ties closely into the “Fall of X” and “Fall of the House of X” stories, to the point that it was basically alternating it’s story with both X-Men (2021) and Fall of the House of of X (2024). However, Marvel has already collected the X-Men (2021) portion of that equation into an omnibus with no helper material, so I suppose it would be no surprise to see them do it again here.

This run was very focused on Tony Stark narrating his experiences and trying to craft his story, so it’s a perfect fit to include the quirky I Am Iron Man (2023) mini-series from Murewa Ayodele & Dotun Akande, who find a way to get beneath the armor in each of their one-shot stories.

A vote for this book is a vote for a standalone Gerry Duggan Iron Man omnibus with no supporting X-Men material, but with a kicker of I Am Iron Man (2023).

This would collect Invincible Iron Man (2023) #1-20 & Annual 1 and I Am Iron Man (2023) #1-5.

Iron Man Omnibus Mapping: War Machine & Ironheart

Iron Man has two major protégés who have both worn his suit and fought alongside him – James “Rhodey” Rhodes as War Machine (and occasionally as Iron Man) and Riri Williams as Ironheart. They’ve both had a handful of their own collections, but never their own omnibuses. Perhaps it’s time to change that!

War Machine (1994 – 1996)

This book would mostly focus on collecting War Machine’s 24-issue 1994 solo series that ran alongside Iron Man (1968) and Force Works (1994), without delving into his complete comics history. It was penned by longtime Iron Man writer Len Kaminski and Marvel UK transplant and future star Dan Abnett, with pencils from Sandu Florea and Gabriel Hardman among others.

A vote for this book is a vote for a one-and-done omnibus of that mid-90s series.

This would collect War Machine (1994) #1-25 & Ashcan Edition (1993) #1, the “Hands of the Mandarin” crossover (from Iron Man (1968) #310 & 311-312, Force Works (1994) #6-7, and supporting material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #170-172), Iron Man (1968) #317 Force Works (1994) #12, and material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #153-155.

War Machine (2003 – 2014) [includes The Crew, Greg Pak, Iron Man 2.0, Iron Patriot]

War Machine makes many appearances in the 2000s decade, including a solid Greg Pak series and his own Iron Man 2.0 (2011) book, which together account for 24 issues! Add to that Rhodey’s involvement in the original the Crew (2003) and a handful of guest appearances leading to his short-lived Iron Patriot (2014) series and we’ve got a substantial omnibus!

Also, you should you know have been MARKED SAFE from having to worry about Chuck Austen’s US War Machine (2001) and US War Machine 2.0 (2003) appearing in this book, as I’ve had it confirmed for me that those MAX titles are out of continuity!

A vote for this book is a vote for over a decade of War Machine material collected together for the first time.

This would collect The Crew (2003) #1-7, Iron Man (2005) #33-35, Invincible Iron Man (2008) #11, War Machine (2009) #1-12, Iron Man 2.0 (2011) #1-12 & 7.1, Gambit (2013) #13, Iron Patriot (2014) #1-5, and material from Dark Reign: New Nation (2009) #1.

Ironheart: Riri Williams (2016 – 2020) [AKA Ironheart by Bendis & Ewing]

Riri Williams was Bendis’s attempt to create a new, young, black super-genius character as a parting gift to the Marvel Universe before he headed to DC to write Superman.

In retrospect, the best thing he did for Riri was get out of her way. She was fine under Bendis, but flourished under other writers – especially Dr. Eve Ewing.

Ironheart’s story is still unfolding in Marvel’s comics, so it might be slightly premature to collect her material into omnibus. But, she has well over 30 issues of solo material at this point. With her Disney+ show quickly approaching, this might be a surprisingly popular voting option!

A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect Ironheart’s solo material from her debut to 2025 in a single omnibus.

This would collect Invincible Iron Man (2015) #9 (and material from #7), Invincible Iron Man (2017) #1-11, Generations: Iron Man & Ironheart (2017) #1, Invincible Iron Man (2017) #593-600, Ironheart (2019) #1-12, 2020 Ironheart (2020) #1-2, material from Free Comic Book Day 2023 Marvel Voices #1, and Ironheart: Bad Chemistry (2025) #1.

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  1. Dylan says

    April 29, 2025 at 10:53 pm

    Slight correction, but Cantwell did write Hellcat (2023)
    Also I feel like an Iron Man by Duggan book would be appropriate to collect the current West Coast Avengers by Duggan, though I suppose that is dependant on how long that will run for, as it could warrant its own book if it continues long enough.
    Sorry this is all a bit moot as the poll is already underway (catching up on these posts as they are a blast to go through), maybe for next year.

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  2. Rincewind says

    May 2, 2025 at 5:46 pm

    Iron Man by Fraction & Larroca should include The Order (2007) 1-10.
    1. It’s written by Matt Fraction
    2. Pepper Potts is a main character
    3. tony Stark appears in 5 out of 10 issues.
    4. It’s the introduction of Ezekiel Stane and sets him up for appearing in Invincible Iron Man

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  3. Rincewind says

    May 2, 2025 at 5:50 pm

    Iron Man by Fraction & Larroca should include The Order (2007) 1-10
    1. Pepper Potts is a main character in every issue.
    2. Tony Stark appears in half the issues.
    3. It’s written by Matt Fraction.
    4. It sets up plot points that would be used in Invincible Iron Man. This includes the first appearance of Ezekiel Stane and his vendetta against Tony.

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