What Are the Best Iron Man Runs And/Or Arcs?

[Hi-Fi]

So while I'm an old time Marvel reader (X-Men, Spider-Man, Avengers, Daredevil are some of my favorites) I've never really been into Iron Man comics, but I've been curious to try for a while. I realize these kind of threads pop up every now and them, but here I'm gonna ask for runs or storyarcs focused on Tony's relationships with Pepper, Happy, Rhodey etc... My interest comes straight from the MCU movies, so I'd probably prefer stories that have that particular feel. So mainly stories where the focus is more on Tony than on Iron Man and the villain of the week, if that makes sense.

Thanks.

[Marvell2100]

So while I'm an old time Marvel reader (X-Men, Spider-Man, Avengers, Daredevil are some of my favorites) I've never really been into Iron Man comics, but I've been curious to try for a while. I realize these kind of threads pop up every now and them, but here I'm gonna ask for runs or storyarcs focused on Tony's relationships with Pepper, Happy, Rhodey etc... My interest comes straight from the MCU movies, so I'd probably prefer stories that have that particular feel. So mainly stories where the focus is more on Tony than on Iron Man and the villain of the week, if that makes sense.

Thanks.

Demon in A Bottle
Armor Wars
Armor Wars II
Five Nightmares
World's Most Wanted
Stark Disassembled
Extremis
With Hands of Iron

Just a few off the top of my head.

[ChrisIII]

Most of the Micheline/Layton stuff is good, pretty much one of the classic 80's runs. Denny O'Neill was also very good.

[Mike]

I'm a fan of the Bill Mantlo/George Tuska run myself.
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[TheCape]

Micheline and Dennis O'Neil run are the classics, based in what i heard.

Fraction is divisive but it was also a gateway drug for many Iron Man fans apparently.

[Ultimate Captain America]

Goes without saying.

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Most of the Micheline/Layton stuff is good, pretty much one of the classic 80's runs. Denny O'Neill was also very good.

I second this. Many interesting long lasting elements to the Iron Man mythos came during those runs. Things that went on to feature in the MCU movies as well.

The Micheline/Layton runs introduced Hall of Armors, Tony's Alcoholism, Rhodey's debut, foes like Justin Hammer, Firepower and Ghost.
Denny O'Neill introduced Obadiah Stane and the Silver Centurion armor.

[comicscollector]

Have not read many Iron Man comics but from what i read the best ones were:

1-The David Michelinie and Bob Layton runs in Iron Man.
2-John Byrne and John Romita Jr and Paul Ryan run in Iron Man.
3-Dennis o´Neill and Luke McDonnel and Mark Bright run in Iron Man.

I only picked up one of the Iron Man comics by Kurt Busiek back then and just from that story it looked like a cool run of Iron Man comics.
The Kurt Busiek and Sean Chen run looked cool as well,it´s a run of comics that i will be reading eventually.

[K7P5V]

I only picked up one of the Iron Man comics by Kurt Busiek back then and just from that story it looked like a cool run of Iron Man comics.
The Kurt Busiek and Sean Chen run looked cool as well,it´s a run of comics that i will be reading eventually.

To the utmost, I agree. Also from Kurt Busiek, I would definitely add The Iron Age (1998):

[your_name_here]

Worlds Most Wanted and Stark Disassembled is fantastic

[Mr. White]

Echoing others:

Busiek, Ellis, Knauf and Fraction.

For me, no need to read any others.

Hopefully we can add Cantwell (current writer) to the list…

[Hi-Fi]

Can anyone tell me in which run/arc Pepper first became Rescue? Thanks.

[Bruce Wayne]

Echoing others:

Busiek, Ellis, Knauf and Fraction.

It's weird, Fraction was the last person to have a run that was generally agreed to be good. It's been like eight years and none of the guys since have come close.