7/5/2023 0 Comments Marvel Masterworks by Stan Lee![]() ![]() Although identified only as El Presidente, Fidel Castro is presented as a cold-blooded killer, and good and capitalism are equated. ![]() You wouldn't know it from the staunch anti-communist propaganda of this issue, which goes from 1966-1968. Bart Lidofsky on the Howard the Duck Yahoo! group said that Marvel was pretty counter-cultural from 1967-1975, swinging mainstream after that point and far to the right with the Civil War crossover. Half-Face is an interesting character, but since he's only an enemy by war and not by villainous inclination, he won't become a major Iron Man foe. Archie Goodwin takes over for the final story in this volume and will continue with the title for 27 more issues (presumably up through volume 7 in these editions). This is also the end of Stan Lee working on the title. It seems two of Iron Man's supporting cast are leaving as quickly as they came, only to be replaced by Jasper Sitwell, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., which Lee is quickly incorporating references to in nearly every title, as it would be in the 1970s and '80s when espionage stuff was out of fashion. The stories are mostly two-parters as if they're full-length comic books, but the obligatory comic book fight scene aspect makes them still feel too much like a serial and too dependent on hokey plot turns. A definite improvement on the previous volumes. ![]()
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