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Marvel has a history of taking Greco-Roman characters and remixing them for alt - world storylines . One of those tale was1872,which took popularMarvelheroes and scoundrel and reinvented them for the clock time flow . The serial gifted readers with one of the coolestIron Mandesigns ever , as Tony Stark go full steampunk .
Spinning out of the page ofSecret Wars,1872,by Gerry Duggan and Nik Virella , was inspire by Timely Comics , the company which eventually turned into Marvel Comics . In the serial publication , Marvel fighter lived in the town Timely , where sheriff Steve Rogers fights injustice and corruption . Governor Roxxon and Mayor Wilson Fisk ( aka the Kingpin ) have the townspeople living in concern come Bullseye ’s assassination of Steve Rogers - who lifeless eubstance Fisk feeds to pigs .
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Tony Stark , serving as both an artificer and the town drunk , is inspired to make his own Iron Man armour after see Rogers ' murder - and surveil a unknown encounter with a fortune reader ( Vision ) . Stark smashes his remaining booze ( with a hammer - shaped like Mjolnir ) and proceeds to set out build a suit . Meanwhile , Red Wolf teams up with Bruce Banner and Natasha Barnes ( who ’s husband , deputy Barnes , was slay ) to bring DoJ to Fisk and his gang . The town start an uprising against Fisk and his group of hoodlum ( include Grizzly and Elektra ) and Red Wolf shoots Bullseye dead . As Red Wolf is about to be killed by Grizzly , Tony intervenes with his new armour .
Stark puts the new suit to good use by protecting Red Wolf from incoming bullets , while fight off Fisk ’s work party . Fisk offer local anesthetic a " fine-looking bonus " for shooting Stark dead , but as one of the townspeople say , " but what good is a pistol against that . " The engagement continues as Iron Man accidentally punches a buck ( his masquerade ’s heart are n’t cut in good order ) , crushing the armed gunslinger riding it . Red Wolf present Fisk and the two fight , as the Kingpin ’s virgin big businessman nearly overwhelms him . Red Wolf practice Steve ’s older sheriff ’s badge to stab Fisk in the eye . After Fisk taunts that he wo n’t be put on trial , Natasha gets revenge and shoots him dead . The story ends with Stark Industry ’s being built as Red Wolf is the town ’s new sheriff .
1872was a fun bloodline account for a intimate , but western edition of Tony Stark . In just four - issues , he go bad from stumbling intoxicated to finding his true vocation as an discoverer . By the stories terminate , he gives up crapulence and pursues a life history as an inventor . While it might have been a makeshift innovation , Stark ’s steampunk armor was both cool and impressive . It felt like a mix of Iron Man andBioshock’sBig Daddy Robots . It was bulky and unfinished , but just what the Ithiel Town of Timely postulate . While it wo n’t be remembered as one of Iron Man ’s most powerful causa , it ’s without a doubt one of his coolest .
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