Iron Man: Heroes Return The Complete Collection Vol 1 First/1st (Marvel) TPB

Collects Iron Man (1998) #1-14, Captain America (1998) #8, Quicksilver #10, Avengers (1998) #7, Iron Man/Captain America Annual 1998 And Fantastic Four (1998) #15. Kurt Busiek and Sean Chen return Tony Stark to the Marvel Universe - and restore the shine to Iron Man! As Tony rebuilds his corporation from the ground up, enemies old and new remind him his work is never done! With romance, rivalry and robots to keep Tony busy, can he help his Avengers teammate Warbird in her own struggle against his worst enemy…the one in a bottle? Plus: Shell-Head must deal with a cold, calculated and very personal attack from his archnemesis - the Mandarin! Iron Man teams with Captain America to face the menace of M.O.D.O.K., and joins the Fantastic Four in an adventure to the moon! Guest-starring the Black Widow, and James Rhodes: War Machine!

    "Iron Man was the Marvel book I always wanted to write, but it wasn't because I was a huge fan of the series. There are runs I like enormously, notably Archie Goodwin's run on the character, but what made me want to write Iron Man was that I saw so much potential in the character, potential that I thought was only partly-realized in the various runs of the past.     "I was very lucky to get to work with Sean [Chen], and with Patrick Zircher as well. Sean's work had an incredible style, a slick, polished look that really served Tony's world well ... Patrick is just a great storyteller, with a lot of power and energy to his work.   
    "Roger Stern joined me as co-writer when I was over-committed and getting sick. On Avengers Forever, we'd co-plot the stories and I'd dialogue them, on Iron Man we'd co-plot and Roger would dialogue them, and it's always a treat to work with Roger, who has a great depth of knowledge of Marvel history and a great sense of story structure and character."   
    "I'm a little surprised at just how much of what I did with Iron Man turned up in the movies. I don't think Jon Favreau was looking to my run as source material, really -- just that we were drawing on the same inspirations for a lot of what we did. I brought back Happy and Pepper after years of disuse, and so did he. I used Whiplash and War Machine, so did he. That's just us having similar tastes in cool Iron Man material. Some of the stuff, I introduced -- the smart house, Stark Tower in Avengers, the flying armor-pod --  and it was nice to see stuff like that turn up onscreen. 
   "But mainly, I think the guys doing the movies and I were simply appreciating the great strengths of the character and cast, and we drew from a lot of the same stuff. It was fun to see such a familiar-feeling Iron Man, whatever the reason." -- Kurt Busiek