Similarly, Iron Man's actions lead to the Avengers expelling him from the team. His old pal Steve Rogers is especially angry at Tony when Tony's attempts to shut down the Guardsmen at the supervillain prison The Vault results in a major prison break.

This naturally puts him into conflict with friend and foe alike. He decides then that NOone can have armor that uses his technology, even past uses that he had authorized (under the theory that he cannot trust anyone to keep his technology from a third party). The highlight of Bob Layton and David Michelinie's return to Iron Man, Armor Wars finds Tony Stark irate that his armor has been used to power a bad guy's armor. Bright, who took over as the regular artist with issue #200 (and stayed on the title for quite a while). Luke McDonnell began the story as penciler (with inks by inking team Ian Akin and Brian Garvey) but the arc is filled with different pencilers, from Rick Buckler to Sal Buscema to Herb Trimpe to finally M.D.

Tony is forced to return to the role of Iron Man, first in an an obsolete armor and later in a brand-new look just in time to take on Stane for one last battle, under Stane's new identity, the Iron Monger! Denny O'Neil is the writer. However, the suit was not MEANT to be worn by someone else for this long, so Rhodey is beginning to crack up a bit. James Rhodes has taken over as Iron Man in Tony's absence and Tony is fine with that. Tony felt into a pit of despair and self-pity but has finally fought his way back to sobriety. The concept of the story is that Obadiah Stane has stolen Tony Stark's company.

This arc could theoretically go back as far as Iron Man #160, but that seems like a stretch for the rules of this feature, so I figured I'd go with the trade paperback plus a couple of issues beforehand.

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