Posted: 09 August 2022 at 11:07am | IP Logged | 11
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Wallace:it's from Iron Man #69 by Mike Friedrich and George Tuska; it's the central part of a 3 parts story-arc that is part of the War of the Super-Villains. It's in the next issue that the Mandarin falls in the trap of the Yellow Claw and "dies" (his rings -where, we will later learn, he transfered his mind- being collected by a servant, that will become the host/new body of the Mandarin, as seen in the Bill Mantlo run) While later issues of the War of the Super-Villains may be the worst Iron Man stuff published before the 90s, at this point it is still good. It will continue to be good up to the moment George Tuska leave for a time the series. The end of the War Of The Super-Villains/Black Lama story is almost unreadable, but the Mike Friedrich run wasn't awful from the start.
Now, Kirby drawing the Mandarin, i mean drawing the story, not just plotting and doing covers covers for Iron Man or the Avengers, i see only The Inhumans feature in Amazing Adventures, and he isn't on an Island.
For the Mandarin using all his rings, his early stories by Stan Lee and Don Heck are what comes to mind.
Edited by Stéphane Garrelie on 09 August 2022 at 11:16am
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