Iron Man at Comic Con 1974

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59405

https://bookriot.com/iron-man-at-comic-con/

The article at the link above wrote:

San Diego Comic-Con has been a little weird the past couple of years. In 2020 and 2021, they hosted a special event, Comic-Con@Home, consisting of prerecorded panels that anyone could watch online. Thanks to the pandemic, the usual, in-person conventions — large halls crammed with fans hoping to catch a trailer, meet a favorite creator, or buy exclusive merch — were just too dangerous.

If you ask Iron Man, however, he’d probably say that conventions were already plenty dangerous. Just look at what happened to him in Iron Man #72, published in 1974.

Not only does Iron Man have a nose here, but he's cruelly mocked for it whilst being mistaken for a cosplayer. Irrelevant and schnozzified, surely Iron Man was never more WAN than he is here?

I felt this article deserved to have a thread dedicated to it....right here...on IMWAN....

(Here's the front cover of the issue being discussed, for the sake of completeness)

Marcus · 27 Nov 2004

What a great cover! And George Tuska almost makes the nose work.

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59405

The Tuska nose is almost relevant...almost...

Todd · 14 Apr 2005

I agree Marcus, Gil Kane was a master.

That meddlin kid · 26 Mar 2007

That's a weird assortment of villains on the cover, even by 1970s standards.

Jason Czeskleba · **Joined:** 03 Jan 2007 **Posts:** 1645

Strangely, the guy who is insulting Iron Man's nose (and saying his current comic stories are too dull) happens to be Mike Friedrich himself, the current writer of Iron Man. He appears in an earlier panel with Roy Thomas, Frank Brunner, and Tom Orzechowski:

Friedrich's face appears to have been retouched by Neal Adams in both panels.

Iron Man at Comic Con 1974

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