Iron Man Timeline: List of Milestones
Welcome to the new and revised Iron Man Timeline! Here you'll find all of the major events in the life of Tony Stark laid down in published order. A special tip of the helmet goes out to Mike Connelly and Dave Huber for their diligence in compiling the original list! Obviously, this is a continual work in progress, and as always, additions and corrections are welcome. --Roger Ott
This list is from Advanced Iron. I'm preserving it because it has been a help over the years to me.
Tales of Suspense #16 - Iron Man prototype story
Tales of Suspense #39 - First Iron Man/Tony Stark; First Mark 1 armor ; First Wong-Chu ; First Professor Yinsen
Tales of Suspense #40 - First Mark 2 armor ; First Stark Industries (laboratory only)
Avengers (vol.1) #1 - Iron Man helps found the Avengers
Tales of Suspense #45 - First Happy Hogan; First Pepper Potts; First Jack Frost (later Blizzard)
Tales of Suspense #46 - First Crimson Dynamo (Anton Vanko)
Tales of Suspense #47 - First Melter
Tales of Suspense #48 - First Mark 3 armor (horned helmet)
Avengers (vol.1) #4 - With Avengers, finds Captain America
Tales of Suspense #50 - First Mandarin
Tales of Suspense #52 - First Black Widow; First Crimson Dynamo (Boris Turgenov)
Tales of Suspense #54 - First Mark 4 armor (riveted helmet)
Tales of Suspense #56 - First Unicorn
Tales of Suspense #57 - First Hawkeye
Tales of Suspense #62 - Origin of the Mandarin
Avengers (vol.1) #16 - Iron Man leaves the Avengers
Tales of Suspense #68 - First Morgan Stark
Tales of Suspense #69 - First Titanium Man; First Countess Stephanie De La Spirosa
Tales of Suspense #70 - Happy Hogan learns Iron Man’s identity
Tales of Suspense #74 - Happy Hogan becomes The Freak
Tales of Suspense #76 - First Ultimo
Tales of Suspense #91 - First Crusher
Tales of Suspense #97 - First Whiplash
Tales of Suspense #98 - First Whitney Frost as Big M
Iron Man (vol.1) #1 - Big Premiere Issue!
Iron Man (vol.1) #2 - First Janice Cord
Iron Man (vol.1) #3 - “Happy” Hogan becomes the Freak again
Iron Man (vol.1) #11 - First Tony Stark LMD
Iron Man (vol.1) #12 - First Controller
Iron Man (vol.1) #17 - First Madame Masque; First Midas
Avengers (vol.1) #69 - Tony Stark gets a heart transplant
Iron Man (vol.1) #21 - First Eddie March; First Crimson Dynamo (Alex Nevsky)
Iron Man (vol.1) #22 - Death of Janice Cord
Iron Man (vol.1) #27 - First Firebrand
Iron Man (vol.1) #28 - First Howard Stark; First Maria Stark (unnamed); First Meredith McCall
Iron Man (vol.1) #31 - First Kevin O’Brien
Iron Man (vol.1) #33 - First Spymaster and the Espionage Elite
Iron Man (vol.1) #36 - First Marianne Rodgers
Iron Man (vol.1) #37 - Kevin O’Brien learns Iron Man’s identity
Iron Man (vol.1) #43 - Kevin O’Brien becomes the Guardsman
Iron Man (vol.1) #46 - Death of Kevin O’Brien
Iron Man (vol.1) #48 - Origin of Firebrand
Iron Man (vol.1) #53 - First Black Lama
Iron Man (vol.1) #54 - First Moondragon
Iron Man (vol.1) #55 - First Thanos, Starfox, Drax, Chronos, Mentor, Blood Brothers
Iron Man (vol.1) #67 - Eddie March becomes the Freak
Iron Man (vol.1) #68 - First Nose faceplate
Iron Man (vol.1) #73 - First Stark International
Iron Man (vol.1) #78 - Vietnam flashback issue
Iron Man (vol.1) #82 - First Michael O’Brien
Iron Man (vol.1) #85 - New suit-up system; Nose faceplate removed
Iron Man (vol.1) #86 - First Blizzard (formerly Jack Frost)
Iron Man (vol.1) #91 - First Krissy Longfellow; First Bob Layton inks
Iron Man (vol.1) #96 - Michael O’Brien becomes Guardsman
Iron Man (vol.1) #100 - Iron Man vs. Mandarin
Iron Man (vol.1) #103 - Madame Masque revealed to have been Krissy Longfellow
Iron Man (vol.1) #114 - First Arsenal
Iron Man (vol.1) #115 - Vs. Ani-Men; First John Romita Jr art on IM
Iron Man (vol.1) #116 - Death of Ani-Men; Death of Count Nefaria; First Michelinie and Layton
Iron Man (vol.1) #117 - First Bethany Cabe
Iron Man (vol.1) #118 - First Jim Rhodes and Mrs. Arbogast
Iron Man (vol.1) #119 - First Yvette Avril
Iron Man (vol.1) #120 - First Justin Hammer
Iron Man (vol.1) #124 - First Artemus Pithins; Iron Man accidentally kills Carnelian ambassador
Iron Man (vol.1) #125 - Captain America trains Tony Stark
Iron Man (vol.1) #127 - Iron Man battles Justin Hammer’s Super-Army
Iron Man (vol.1) #128 - Tony Stark beats alcoholism
Iron Man (vol.1) #132 - First Vic Martinelli
Iron Man (vol.1) #142 - First Space Armor
Iron Man (vol.1) #143 - First Sunturion
Iron Man (vol.1) #144 - First meeting between Rhodey and Iron Man recounted
Iron Man (vol.1) #145 - First Raiders
Iron Man (vol.1) #149 & #150 - First Dr. Doom time travel yarn
Iron Man (vol.1) #152 - First Stealth Armor
Iron Man (vol.1) #156 - First Mauler (Doyle)
Iron Man (vol.1) #163 - First Obadiah Stane (in shadow); First Chessmen; First Indries Moomji
Iron Man (vol.1) #166 - Obadiah Stane (face and name revealed)
Iron Man (vol.1) #167 - Tony Stark begins drinking again
Iron Man (vol.1) #168 - First Morley Erwin (unnamed in story)
Iron Man (vol.1) #169 - Jim Rhodes becomes Iron Man; Morley Erwin named
Iron Man (vol.1) #170 - Tony Stark gives up being Iron Man
Iron Man (vol.1) #171 - First Clytemnestra Erwin
Iron Man (vol.1) #172 - Obadiah Stane takes control of Stark International
Secret Wars #1 - Iron Man/Rhodey joins other heroes on Battleworld
Secret Wars #8 - Mr Fantastic upgrades Iron Man armor
Iron Man (vol.1) #182 - Tony Stark beats alcohol; Iron Man/Rhodey returns from Secret Wars
Iron Man (vol.1) #186 - First Vibro
West Coast Avengers (vol. 1) #1 - Iron Man/Rhodey joins West Coast Avengers
Iron Man (vol.1) #188 - First Circuits Maximus; Tony Stark begins working on therapy armor
Iron Man (vol.1) #191 - Tony Stark dons therapy armor
Iron Man (vol.1) #192 - Tony vs. Rhodey
Iron Man (vol.1) #199 - Death of Morley Erwin (not revealed until #200)
Iron Man (vol.1) #200 - Tony Stark returns as Iron Man; Death of Obadiah Stane; First Silver Centurion Armor ;
First Iron Monger armor
Iron Man (vol.1) #203 - Tony Stark regains his fortune
Iron Man (vol.1) #212 - First Iron Monger II
Iron Man (vol.1) #215 - First Stark Space Station; Michelinie and Layton return!
Iron Man (vol.1) #216 - Death of Clytemnestra Erwin
Iron Man (vol.1) #217 - Stark Enterprises opens for business; First Marcy Pearson
Iron Man (vol.1) #218 - First Hydro Armor
Iron Man (vol.1) #219 - First Ghost; First Abe Zimmer
Iron Man (vol.1) #220 - Death of Spymaster
Iron Man (vol.1) #223 - First Blizzard II (Donny Gill); First Rae LaCoste
Iron Man (vol.1) #224 - Force becomes Carl Walker and works for Stark
Iron Man (vol.1) #225 - Armor Wars begin
Iron Man (vol.1) #226 - Armor Wars; vs. Stingray; Iron Man “fired” from Stark employ
Iron Man (vol.1) #227 - Armor Wars; vs. SHIELD and Mandroids; Stark invents identity of Randall Pierce for Iron
Man
Iron Man (vol.1) #228 - Armor Wars; vs. Guardsmen and Captain (Steve Rogers)
Iron Man (vol.1) #229 - Armor Wars; First Stealth Armor II; Death of Titanium Man II (Gremlin); Iron Man kicked
out of Avengers
Iron Man (vol.1) #230 - Armor Wars; First Firepower; “Death” of Iron Man
Iron Man (vol.1) #231 - Armor Wars; First New Red and Gold Armor
Iron Man (vol.1) #233 - First Kathy Dare
Iron Man (vol.1) #238 - First Felix Alvarez
Iron Man (vol.1) #242 - Kathy Dare shoots Tony Stark
Iron Man (vol.1) #243 - Tony Stark unable to walk
Iron Man (vol.1) #244 - First Joanna Nivena (in flashback)
Iron Man (vol.1) #248 - Experimental microchip repairs Stark’s spine
Avengers West Coast #51 - Iron Man rejoins the Avengers
Iron Man (vol.1) #249 and #250 - Second Dr. Doom time travel yarn
Iron Man (vol.1) #254 - First New Spymaster
Iron Man (vol.1) #258 - #266 - Armor Wars II
Iron Man (vol.1) #258 - First Encephalo Armor; First Kearson DeWitt
Iron Man (vol.1) #266 - Rhodey back in Iron Man armor
Iron Man (vol.1) #267 & #268 - Updated Iron Man origin
Iron Man (vol.1) #278 - First Space Armor II; Operation: Galactic Storm; First Len Kaminski
Avengers (vol.1) #347 - Operation: Galactic Storm; Iron Man makes the decision to kill the Supreme Intelligence
Iron Man (vol.1) #281 - First Masters of Silence; First War Machine armor
Iron Man (vol.1) #283 - Tony Stark reacquires Stane International from Justin Hammer
Iron Man (vol.1) #284 - Death of Tony Stark; Rhodey takes over Stark Enterprises and becomes War Machine;
Marcy Pearson fired by Rhodey
Iron Man (vol.1) #288 - Tony Stark revived
Iron Man (vol.1) #289 - Jim Rhodes quits!
Iron Man (vol.1) #290 - First NTU-150 Telepresence Armor
Avengers West Coast #102 - Iron Man quits the Avengers
Iron Man (vol.1) #298 - First HOMER
Iron Man (vol.1) #300 - First Modular Armor; First Iron Legion
Iron Man (vol.1) #304 - First Hulk-Buster armor
Force Works #1 - Iron Man starts Force Works
Iron Man (vol.1) #310 - Iron Man vs. War Machine
Iron Man (vol.1) #312 - Tony Stark and Jim Rhodes make amends
Iron Man (vol.1) #318 - First Arctic Armor
Iron Man (vol.1) #319 - First Retro Armor
Avengers: Timeslide - Young Tony Stark is brought to the present
Iron Man (vol.1) #325 - Young Stark armor debuts; Teen Tony vs. Evil Tony
Avengers (vol.1) #395 - Tony Stark killed by Kang
Iron Man (vol.1) #327 - First Frostbite
Iron Man (vol.1) #329 - Fujikawa International buys Stark Enterprises
Iron Man (vol.1) #330 - First Stockpile; Death of Abe Zimmer
Iron Man (vol.1) #332 - End of Volume 1
Onslaught: Marvel Universe - Teen Tony (with others) sacrifices himself to stop Onslaught
Iron Man (vol.2) #1 - Debut of the Prometheum Armor; First Counter-Earth Tony Stark
Iron Man (vol.2) #13 - End of Volume 2
Heroes Reborn: The Return #1-4 - Tony Stark regains his memories and returns to the Marvel Universe
Iron Man (vol.3) #1 - First Heroes Return Armor; First Death-Squad
Iron Man (vol.3) #4 - First Rumiko Fujikawa; First Firebrand (Richard Dennison)
Avengers Forever #8-9 - Revealed that The Crossing was masterminded by Immortus, not Kang
Iron Man: The Iron Age #1 & #2 - More revelations of Iron Man's early days
Iron Man (vol.3) #11 - First Evil War Machine
Iron Man: Bad Blood #4 - "Bad Blood" Space Armor debuts and Justin Hammer is set adrift in space
Iron Man (vol.3) #14 - Prototype "Renaissance" Armor debuts.
Iron Man (vol.3) #19 - Evil War Machine revealed to be Parnell Jacobs
Iron Man (vol.3) #20 - Jocasta becomes the armor’s OS
Iron Man (vol.3) #24 - Origin of Ultimo
Iron Man (vol.3) #27 - Iron Man armor becomes sentient
Iron Man (vol.3) #28 - Whiplash is killed by the Sentient Armor
Iron Man (vol.3) #30 - Stark gets a heart and the Sentient Armor ‘dies’
Iron Man (vol.3) #37 - First Ty Stone
Iron Man (vol.3) #42 - Prototype S.K.I.N. Armor debuts
Iron Man (vol.3) #44 - S.K.I.N. Armor debuts
Iron Man (vol.3) #48 - Iron Man vs. Ultron; Jocasta gets transferred into a new body
Iron Man (vol.3) #50 - Prometheum II Armor debuts
Iron Man (vol.3) #55 - Iron Man reveals identity to the world; 400th Iron Man issue
Iron Man (vol.3) #58 - Ty Stone becomes trapped in Dreamvision
Iron Man (vol.3) #59 - Tony Stark invents a time machine
Iron Man (vol.3) #64 - First appearance of the Thor-Buster armor
Iron Man (vol.3) #71 - First appearance of the Ablative Armor
Iron Man (vol.3) #73 - Tony Stark nominated for U.S. Secretary of Defense
Iron Man (vol.3) #78 - Tony Stark becomes U.S. Secretary of Defense
Iron Man (vol3) #82 - vs. Carl Walker, aka Force
Iron Man (vol. .3) #83 - First appearance of the High Gravity Armor; vs. Titanium Man
Iron Man (vol.3) #87 - Death of Rumiko Fujikawa
Avengers (vol.3) #500 - Avengers Mansion destroyed; Avengers Disassembled
Iron Man (vol.3) #89 - Tony Stark steps down as Secretary of Defense
Avengers Finale - Iron Man disbands the Avengers
Iron Man (vol.4) #1 - First Extremis
Iron Man (vol.4) #4 - Tony Stark injected with Extremis
New Avengers #3 - Iron Man and Captain America assemble a new team of Avengers
Iron Man: The Inevitable #1 - First New Spymaster
New Avengers: Illuminati - Iron Man revealed to be part of a secret team of super heroes
Civil War #1 - Iron Man supports the Super Hero Registration Act
Iron Man (vol.4) #14 - Death of Happy Hogan
Civil War #7 - Iron Man vs. Captain America; Iron Man named Director of SHIELD
Civil War: The Initiative - Iron Man puts the Initiative into effect
Iron Man (vol.4) #15 - Karim Mahwash Najeeb finds the Mandarin
Mighty Avengers #1 - Iron Man builds a new team of Avengers
World War Hulk #1/Iron Man (vol.4) #19 - Iron Man tackles the Hulk!
Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 July 2007 )
