Jul 1978
Moon Wars!
by Bill Mantlo, Keith Pollard, Fred Kida
Iron Man leads the New Men or Knights of Wundagore into battle with the Rigellians. Fleet Commander Arcturus threatens Earth if the Jack of Hearts won’t help him fight the New Men. He makes good on his promise by sending the Punisher Robot through the transporter back to Earth. Iron Man follows the Punisher Robot racing madly to catch up to it.
Madame Masque uses the authority Iron Man gave her to order a missile strike on the two objects headed toward Earth, Iron Man and the Punisher Robot. The robot takes the brunt of the missile’s concussive force. Iron Man chases it back to Earth. They land in Detroit and continue the fight there.
The Jack of Hearts, the Rigellians, and the Knights of Wundagore follow Iron Man and the Punisher Robot through the portal and wind up on the Moon. Fleet Commander Arcturus tries talking the Knights into teaming up with the Rigellians to conquer the Earth. Rigellian Recorder #211 shows up and sets things right.
This Recorder had a number of appearances prior to this one, mostly in Thor. It had also appeared in Incredible Hulk and a couple Warlock comics. It's first appearance was in Thor 132 (Sep 1966) and it's next appearance (after this issue of Iron Man) was in Uncanny X-Men 137 (Sep 1980), the final chapter of the Dark Phoenix Saga. This is not the same recorder that appeared alongside Hercules in his mini-series and other appearances.
I thought the ending was a bit abrupt but I enjoyed the spectacle. I didn’t love every aspect of the art but there are some great panels of the Punisher Robot and Iron Man fighting including the cover.
Marvel Bullpen Bulletins
- Stan announces that Archie Goodwin has decided to step down as Editor-in-Chief and will be replaced by Jim Shooter
- Marvel TV announcements about past Amazing Spider-Man and Incredible Hulk specials and upcoming specials featuring Dr. Strange and the Savage Sub-Mariner (more)
- Roy Thomas, Walt Simonson, and Tony DeZuniga to start working together on Thor (see Thor 260-271)
- Nova by Marv Wolfman
- What is the correct pronunciation of Magneto?
Printed Circuits
The regular letters page includes an ad for Marvel Comics Super Special #4 featuring the Beatles. An additional letters page is a full page comic strip written and drawn by Fred Hembeck. This was at least the second time that Hembeck sent in a comic strip letter. There was mention of another one in the letters page for Iron Man 109 but only the text was printed that time around. The comic strip letter in Iron Man 112 is not included in the Marvel Unlimited or Comixology version of this issue. It has been scanned and can be found at the link below mixed in with a lot of other scans from other comic books.
Link: Cobwebs #24: Beware! It’s Assistant Editor’s Month!
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