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After the slight detour to explore the origins of the year 2020's Iron Man, we jump back into the Machine Man miniseries from 1984.

This issue: Machine Man and Iron Man face off in the year 2020 and familiar faces return.

By Tom DeFalco, Herb Trimpe and Barry Windsor-Smith.



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After a couple of years in comic book limbo, Machine Man returned, but not in the way many may have expected.

Coming off the back of Blade Runner, the rebooted Machine Man #1 by Tom DeFalco, with art by Herb Trimpe Barry Windsor-Smith saw the introduction of a new take on the Marvel universe - the cyberpunk future of 2020.

I personally think Barry Windsor-Smith was the perfect fit for this assignment, with his hyper detailed art bringing the lived-in, but technologically advanced, world to life. And with it being a limited series, the additional page count gave the story and art space to breath.

It's no doubt a Blade Runner homage, but I have a fondness for the world and just how writers and artists in 1984 believed the future would look.



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In the penultimate issue of Machine Man, Aaron finds himself alone against his enemies, and the greatest threat of all...

CANADA!

By Tom DeFalco and Steve Ditko.



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After the last issue's... issues, we jump into the year 1980 and introduce Baron Brimstone and the Satan Squad, who are just as campy as they sound. This issue is actually pretty fun and heavy on the Silver Age styling. And alliteration abounds!

Also Aaron has an office crush.

Coming to you from Tom Defalco and Steve Ditko.



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Skipping ahead an issue to the culmination of the Kublai Khan storyline.

And also, Aaron discovers alcohol.

Warning for seventies sexism at work.

Coming to you from the pens of Marv Wolfman and Steve Ditko.


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Machine Man's solo title returned in 1979 after it's cancellation the previous year. Sadly, creator Jack Kirby didn't return, his place taken by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Steve Ditko.

And that wasn't the only change...


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Last issue a criminal organisation captured Aaron with the intention of finding stripping him down and making copies of him.

Will his many useful devices enable him to escape and rescue his friend Peter Spalding?

See inside, thanks to Jack Kirby!



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The Autocron Invasion storyline comes to an end this issue as Machine Man springs back into action (literally) with his useful devices and help from a taxi cab ride. And then commits a massive war crime.

Art and script are by Jack Kirby.



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More from Jack Kirby's Machine Man run from 1978.

With the Autocron would-be-world-conquerer Ten-For accidentally unleashed on Earth after Machine Man and his friends tried to aid a spaceman in distress, we pick up the action with him checking out Central City.



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More adventures with The Living Robot courtesy of creator Jack Kirby.

This issue: Machine Man makes tracks for Central City!



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