Dr. Doom has captured Pepper, Rhodey and other employees closest to Tony Stark and given him a simple ultimatum--turn over the one weapon Doom needs to destroy the Fantastic Four in four hours, or his friends' lives are forfeited!

As Tony Stark battles an Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) siege engine, he reflects on how he became Iron Man following his capture six months earlier by A.I.M., who planned to force him to create weapons for them. To escape he teams up with Professor Gia-Bao Yinsen. The two build special iron suits to protect them on their way out of the A.I.M. facility.

Spymaster has seized remote control of Iron Man's armor and sent Shellhead on a rampage of destruction through New York! Can Rhodey figure out how to free the Armored Avenger before Hammer takes over Tony Stark's company along with his alter-ego?

For the first time ever, the inspiring, infuriating, and utterly insane story of comics, graphic novels, and manga is presented in comic book form! The award-winning Action Philosophers team of Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey turn their irreverent-but-accurate eye to the stories of Jack Kirby, R. Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Alan Moore, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Fredric Wertham, Roy Lichtenstein, Art Spiegelman, Herge, Osamu Tezuka - and more! Collects

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"The year is 1861, the eve of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration. For Kate Warn, the first female private detective in American history, the only assignment tougher than exposing a conspiracy to assassinate the new president is training her new mentee, Hattie MacLaughlin, in the art of detection. The two women's mission to save the president takes them from the granges of rural Maryland to the heart of secessionist high society, and sets them on a collision...

Una obra esencial sobre la historia de la animación donde encontrarás curiosidades sobre Disney, Miyazaki, Hanna-Barbera y mucho más. De la mano de Fred van Lente y Ryan Dunlavey, creadores de The Comic Book History of Comic, llega su perfecto compañero, que nos habla de los triunfos y las tragedias de los cineastas y de los personajes de dibujos animados más queridos del último siglo y medio. Esta es una obra esencial tanto para los aficionados...

"When the genius Tony Stark is held captive and forced to make weapons, his best chance of escape lies in building the greatest weapon of all--the very first version of the Iron Man armor! Then, Shellhead meets Web-Head as Iron Man and Spider-Man team up to take down the deadly Radioactive Man! And when Tony Stark makes a dramatic public return to start the next chapter of his business life, a newly-souped up Iron Man finds himself targeted for death!...

Kitty Pryde writes a Dear Diary entry covering August 20, her first day of classes at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. She describes other mutants at the school, how Professor X found her, and her first X-Men mission, accompanying Wolverine to investigate a powerful mutant presence in an isolated town in West Virginia.

We all know that George Washington was our first president and a hero of the American Revolution. But did you also know that he didn't want to be president, never thought he would fight in a war, and had teeth so bad that he hated to smile? Told through bold and hilarious comic-style illustrations, the first Action Presidents book features the all-too-true history of the ultimate Founding Father, prime patriot, and awesome American George Washington....