So, I just got Essential IM Vol. 1 for X-Mas...

[Agent 333]

And I powered through it yesterday and today. Some of the stories were downright corny, especially the earlier ones, but some of them... wow! And what a place to end on! Now I have to buy Vol. 2 just to see what happens next!

[Typhon]

Don't speed through Volume #2 too quickly.  If you do then the anger that comes with the knowledge that there is no Volume #3 will kick in  full blast and there is no cure for it yet.  Enjoy Volume #2 as long as you can.

[IMJ]

Don't speed through Volume #2 too quickly.  If you do then the anger that comes with the knowledge that there is no Volume #3 will kick in  full blast and there is no cure for it yet.  Enjoy Volume #2 as long as you can.

Just go buy the back issues and start an Iron Man run!  It's great to be into the character and read the stories, but honestly, each individual issue even in VF- isn't too much cash in the long run.

[Bethany Cabe]

I love volume one! I think my favourite moments were "Great scott! My appearance is terrifying to women and children!", and one Black Widow story where, appropos of nothing, our 'Tasha spends a single panel using the disintegration beam she's just stolen to break into a jewellery shop, a move that has absolutely no effect on the rest of the story in any way. And why? As Stan himself helpfully writes into the caption box: "the Widow is a woman, and women like pretty things!"

Priceless.

[Roger A Ott II]

Ya gotta love Stan Lee.  His 85th birthday was on December 28th.  Here's hoping "The Man" has many more years to do cameo appearances in Marvel movies.