MACHINE MAN (LTD. SERIES) # 2 FN/VF

MACHINE MAN (LTD. SERIES) # 2 FN/VF

1st Appearance of Iron Man 2020 (Arno Stark)

COVER DATE: 11/1984

STORYLINES: If This Be Sanctuary?!

This series begins in the year 2020 when the disassembled body of Machine Man is discarded as refuse by a service robot at the Baintronics Company. It is recovered and reassembled by a group of “midnight wreckers" - scavengers who illegally build and sell robots on the black market. (Baintronics had acquired a government monopoly on robots, following the anti-robot riots of the late 1990s.)

Machine Man lives again, but he soon discovers that he is not alone: Susan Bain, his nemesis from the first series, is now the head of Baintronics. For her, Machine Man is a memory best left buried - permanently. And she’s willing to use her vast army of robotic death-dealers to ensure that her wishes are carried out.

(W) Tom DeFalco (A) Barry Windsor-Smith, Herb Trimpe (CA) Barry Windsor-Smith

GRADING NOTES: Multiple spine stresses; cover dimples

This comic was graded using The Official Overstreet Grading Guide published by Gemstone Publishing, Inc.