Probably my first - and the last - cartoon I've watched from this era.
I am yet to get into reading the Iron Man comics, but when I watched the cartoon episodes, I could see how those could have been taken directly from a comic.
If we skip the rather faltering animation (hey, this is a 1966 show we're talking about, and they did things differently back then), we get into what the show is like.
The storytelling is trippy at best. It jumps from one thing to another, explains rather than shows (again, this might be a quirk of the shows of that era). Knowing what kind of stories the writers of Marvel com-ics are able to sketch, it is almost a shame to see them killed this way.
There is no character depth, and each episode seems very hurried.
All in all, this show was a rather amusing thing to watch a horrid comical relief to a modern age's child.moreless
Invincible Iron Man
Other (ended 1966)
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Tony Stark, makes you feel He's the cool exec With a heart of steel As Iron Man all jets a-blaze He's fighting and smiting with repulsor rays Amazing armor, it's Iron Man A blaze of power, It's Iron Man! The Invincible Iron Man follows the adventures of Tony Stark, a playboy and weapons designer who made his fortune designing weapons for the U.S. government. While in Vietnam he was injured in an explosion and shrapnel embedded in his chest near his heart. Captured by a local Communist warlord, Stark managed to design a transistorized suit of armor that not only gave him a portable life support unit for his heart but contained a number of miniaturized weapons, as well as providing him with enhanced strength and protection. After escaping, Stark returned to the U.S. and pretended to be his own anonymous bodyguard. As "Iron Man," Stark battled Ultimo, the Black Knight, and the Crimson Dynamo, but his primary opponent was the Mandarin, a Chinese warlord who wielded ten alien power rings and was a master of karate. As Tony Stark, his assistants were secretary Virginia "Pepper" Potts and bodyguard/chauffeur Harold "Happy" Hogan. The thirteen episodes were adapted from Iron Man's run in Tales of Suspense - various issues from approximately #40 to #88. The animation was similar to the comics and duplicated the artistic style of famed penciller Don Heck. Each episode was made up of three 6-minute segments, and in syndication often aired either on separate days, or on various one-hour afternoon kid shows as filler between the host's regular routines. This series was aired as part of The Marvel Superheroes.moreless
| S 1 : Ep 13 | The Beauty and the Armor | ||
| S 1 : Ep 12 | Dream Master | ||
| S 1 : Ep 11 | My Life for Yours | ||
| S 1 : Ep 10 | Cliffs of Doom | ||
| S 1 : Ep 9 | The Other Iron Man |
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John Vernon
Iron Man
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Paul Soles
Harold "Happy" Hogan
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Peg Dixon
Virginia "Pepper" Potts
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