IRON MAN #316-317: Russian and Russian rush an' Attack

[starwolf_oakley]

In IRON MAN #315, Tony Stark and Natasha Romanov traveled to Russia to open a new Stark Enterprises factory. The Titanium Man, bummed that Communism fell, attacked the ceremony.



Seven pages from each issue.

A big fight between the Titanium Man and Iron Man and Black Widow doesn't go unnoticed, so...



Iron Man seems to be holding his own.



Time to try to reason with the crazed guy in the powerful armor. Even with her "Widow's Bite," Natasha isn't much more than a distraction.

Not *that* kind of distraction, you pervs!

The Crimson Dynamo shows up.



"C'mon, I'm trying to destroy the capitalist pigdog out of love!"



No instant-translate in his armor? Well, it was written in 1995.



The Titanium Man gets away, and Crimson Dynamo is hurt.



And that better idea? Tony says, "I know what it's like to have nothing left but your pride. As far as the Russian People will ever know, this situation will have been handled..."




And in issue #317, Boris gives Crimson Tony (or Stark Dynamo) part of an old Bela Legosi speech.



Check out Legosi's speech here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cE1fzfOogo





It's interesting how Tony is getting the body language right to match what Shatalov is saying to Bullski



Shatalov uses the remote on the armor to nail Bullski, much to Tony's surprise.



Other "Titanium Men" have shown up since this, but they have not been established as Bullski.

Shatalov gets a dressing down from his superiors over killing Bullski. And speaking of dressing down...





Is that the first time Tony and Natasha were romantically involved? Of course, its hard to think of a Marvel female Tony *hasn't* been romantically involved with.



tags: char: tony stark/iron man, char: natasha romanov/black widow, char: boris bullski/titanium man, char: valentin shatalov/crimson dynamo, creator: len kaminski

Comments

[foxhack]

"Of course, its hard to think of a Marvel female Tony *hasn't* been romantically involved with."

May Parker.

[starwolf_oakley]

Okay.

"Of course, its hard to think of a Marvel female Tony *hasn't* been romantically involved with, outside of all the females in the Spider-books." That looks better.

[stolisomancer.insanejournal.com]

All the X-Women who aren't Emma Frost. I'm pretty sure Elektra's not on the list yet, either.

Of course, to be absolutely fair, and as "Wizard" once pointed out, you can get most if not all of the Marvel Universe together on a chart that involves who's banged Tony, and Natasha has almost as many spokes on that wheel.

[stolisomancer.insanejournal.com]

Ah, here it is.

http://images.wizarduniverse.com/WizardUniverse/magazinepics/ironmanspread2.jpg

[falseaesop]

Hercules doesn't have nearly enough spokes on that chart.

[stolisomancer.insanejournal.com]

He was a party animal in 2003, but didn't have the full dance card that he got in Incredible Hercules.

[proteus_lives]

Oh, that's excellent.

[foxhack]

Magik.

:)

[falseaesop]

Now if only there were some (maybe Canadian) heroes with the code names Moose and Squirrel.

[his-spiffyness.livejournal.com]

Well, Squirrel Girl lives in Milwaukee, which is a Great Lake away from Canada.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Ya know, I really liked this Crimson Dynamo. He was a bit of a bastard, but he knew it and was ashamed of it, even while he pulled crap. Shame he's disappeared as just another Dynamo.

[terra]

It was the first and only time they were ever romantically involved.

They were sort of setting her up with Steve over in the Avengers at the time, iirc. Not that that ever went anywhere.

[keeva]

i love it when superheroes do sexy cosplay... AS THEMSELVES

[kirayoshi]

"I thought I'd satisfy your craving for nostalgia."

Uh, Tasha, didn't you get the message?

"I have been called many things, Pepper. Nostalgic isn't one of them."