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Super Blog Team-Up Redemption Iron Man: Alcoholic Part III: The Destruction of Tony Stark! "The Empty Shell” Writer – Denny O’Neil Pencils – Luke McConnell Inker – Steve Mitchell Letterer – Rick Parker Colorist – Bob Sharen Editor – Mark Gruenwald Editor-in-Chief – Jim Shooter February 1982 We left off with Tony Stark barely hanging on to his sobriety. Obadiah Stane has managed to shake our hero’s control over himself. Through a carefully arranged gauntlet that denied Tony rest for the past week, Stane orchestrated a series of trials that battered Tony’s body, destroyed his current suit of high-tech armor, and nearly killed him numerous times. Now Stark faces the loss of his company to Stane through dirty business dealings. And to make matter’s worse, Stark’s truest friend, James Rhodes, is missing and assumed dead. In an effort to extinguish whatever spark of resistance might still remain in Tony, Stane has left a bottle of alcohol in his private residence. If Stark drinks it, h

Super Blog Team-Up Redemption Iron Man: Alcoholic Part II: The Gauntlet! Tony Stark’s alcoholism became a background element in all of the Iron Man stories that followed. Michelinie and co-plotter Layton placed Tony in situations where he normally would have a drink and then went out of their way to show that Tony was still on the wagon. Including moments like this one with Nick Fury. IM129 – Michelinie, Layton The able pair of creators took pains to reference the toll both Tony’s lapse in judgement caused and how the subsequent public sentiment at the loss of life impacted Tony. IM134 – Michelinie, Bingham, Layton And since Layton had input on both sides of the storytelling of the book, you started to see things like this cleverly drawn Jerry Bingham visual fake-out bit where Tony looks to be aiming for a drink… IM134 – Michelinie, Bingham, Layton …when instead he is phoning a friend for support. Alcoholics do NOT have to go it alone. In fact, the support of family and friends is vit