Iron Man Annual #5 (1982) Co-plot: Ralph Macchio Pencils: Jerry Bingham Inks: Dan Green Don McGregor was a big influence and mentor to Peter Gillis in his early Marvel days. This likable, if overly familiar romp, is essentially a straight sequel to McGregor's classic Black Panther run, with Iron Man playing a peripheral role from the outset. T'Challa is apparently killed and usurped by a revived Killmonger, resulting in a climatic battle for the crown over a precipice. Stop me if you've heard this one before, from the pages of Jungle Action which was later revisited in the first movie. It reads like a nostalgic highlights reel of McGregor's original. Stark gets the B plot, rescuing Rhodey who's tied up next to a bomb like in some old movie serial. Turns out the Mandarin was behind it all, for Iron Man reasons. On the whole it's fun fan fiction, with effective art. Green's inks really bring out the best in Bingham. Iron Man Annual #6 (1983) Pencils: Luke M...
Being a reasonably chronological retrospective re-read of writer Peter B. Gillis' published comic books.