Tuesday, January 4, 2011

What were they thinking? Roller skating...

Iron Man roller skating...
Granted, roller skates were a brand new thing back in those days. But, seriously?

Avengers #94 (Thomas/Adams/Palmer) - December 1971:























Iron Man 56 (Gerber/Starlin/Esposito)- March 1973: 


Passing cars and almost missing his exit !

More insanity here:



















It is also worth noting that Stark tried to sell his junk to the US Army, as seen in Tales of Suspense #40 (Lee-Bernstein/Kirby/Heck) published in April 1963
In those Cold War days, you could sell those generals anything: