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Iron Man has been constantly fighting, without a break, He can't find a moment of relaxation and the only thing that calms him is alcohol, While he's in an airplane, a tank is thrown at it and he needs to save the day again, He saves everyone, but the plain crashes next to an island that a corporation named Roxxon, disguised as the military, wants, to extract vibranium, Coincidentally, Namor is also there and he has been saved by the only inhabitant of the island, a man who left the big city with his wife, to live in this island by themselves.
This man's wife died years ago, so now he's been living there alone, Roxxon wants Iron Man and Namor to fight with each other, but they figure things out and they destroy Roxxon's ships, Eventually the actual military comes and Roxxon's owner blows up the island, because he's selfish and he believes that if he doesn't have the Vibranium, no one should.
Iron Man returns to Long Island after a hard journey, since his armor has been malfunctioning, due to some people controlling it, in order to control Iron Man.
After many tests he finds no problem and he goes to a luxurious hotel/casino with Bethany, The casino gets attacked byB list or even C list villains and once again, Tony can't rest, because he has to fight them, After he defeats them, he returns to his headquarters, The next day, after a lot of drinking, he tries to work, but he's unable to do so, so he just goes out to help some people, before he has to go protect a foreign ambassador.
There, while they are taking photos, his suit malfunctions again, killing the ambassador, I will skip the next issues because I don't want to spoil what happens with the people who wanted to control Iron Man and all that, but I'll present to you some things that happen in the last issue collected in this volume.
In that issue, Tony Stark, overweighted from all the work and the pressure, starts drinking more and more, leading into him going out drunk as Iron Man and causing problems, instead of fixing them.
With the help of Bethany he understands that he's addicted to alcohol and he tries to overcome his addiction,
This is considered as one of the most important, if not THE most important Iron Man stories ever written and that's for a reason, First of all, this is a great story and I'll come back to that later, but most importantly, this story really made Iron Man a very relatable character and it actually helped many people.
I saw a short interview with Bob Layton where he was talking about this story and it was very touching to hear him talk about how even now, so many years after this story was published, people still send him emails and letters, telling him how this story helped them.
This story really helped people overcome their own addictions, or understand people close to them that have an addiction themselves, I believe that a comic that helps people in such a way should never be forgotten,
Now, about the comic itself, The comic is very good, but it's definitely flawed, Because it came out as a monthly comic back in the lates, in almost every issue they need to give a short recap of the things that happened in the previous issues.
That was very important back then, but now it makes it feel a bit repetitive, Also, the first issues collected in this volume were not THAT great, They certainly weren't bad, but they had too much action for my taste, Although, all this action made the comic very enjoyable and a fun and a quick read, The story, other than alcoholism, tackles issues like the overpopulation of cities and the pollution of the environment,
The writing in this comic is great, Iron Man is a very relatable characters, "thanks" to his many problems and his addiction, Iron Man's greatest enemy here isn't the guy who tries to control his suit, nor are the super villains who attack him, His greatest enemy in this story is him, himself, I really liked the humor in this comic, It's certainly not a light story, but it has a lot of humor and some of the jokes actually made me laugh, Another great thing in this comic was the beautifully written narration, Narration is usually the most dull part of a comic, but in this case it certainly wasn't, Finally, I think that the most important thing that the writers of this comic needed to do is write addiction right, since it's a real problem that needs to be treated with respect.
I believe that they really nailed that in every way possible, Addiction here feels very realistic, The reasons why Tony Stark gets addicted to alcohol feel very real and understandable,
Overall, I believe that this is a very good comic and an essential read for every fan of Iron Man or superhero comics in general, It's the first Iron Man comic I've ever read and I believe that it's a great place to start with the characters, because it dedicates an entire issue in retelling Iron Man's origin.
This was a fun read,

Tony teams up with Namor to save some man and its fun talking about environmentalism and shows that he is a good guy while in another story he is fighting his villains Blizzard, Melter and Whiplash and that was so fun, the way he defeats them and finally the origin of it all and how some people in SHIELD are slowly acquiring his company and all and maybe he is being addicted to drinking and how that impacts his relationship with his friends and Jarvis and that was such a good and solid story and does a great messaging and also one of those stories that defines his character.
The art was great and the themes the book plays around with just brilliant, ltsitelinkSwimming Pools by Kendrick Lamar

This is one of the most famous Iron Man stories ever written for many people and the crazy thing is that the thing it is most known for and justly remembered for stays in the background until the superheroics is out of the way.
This story is coming at the mid to late point of sitelinkThe Bronze Age of Comic Books where the focus on reallife social issues was very much inplay and this story uses Tony Stark as a commentary on alcohol addiction.
Stark's character since his creation was always known as a billionaire playboy with a drink nearby, After almostyears of the character's existence, the team working on Iron Man decided to see what the natural outcome of Stark's alcohol dependency would be if logical reallife consequences were allowed to panout.
This story came out before Tony Stark revealed that he was Iron Man publicly so we see a story in which Stark's company is being bought out from him by S.
H. I. E. L. D. while Iron Man is being targeted by the man who would eventually become his biggest foe, Justin Hammer this story is his first appearance in Marvel Comics, Stark is failing to take on either of these problems well and as he fails his dependency on alcohol becomes stronger which causes him to make even more bad decisions that could have been easilysolved if he was sober.


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While it was surprising to see the main topic of the story only gradually come to the fore, it made since in retrospect.
The superhero parts of the book are not that remarkable when first reading until you think about the fact that it all goes on so long because Iron Man was too wasted to realize what was happening until it was nearly all too late.
Likewise, being drunk as Tony Stark also makes it hard to stay alert at what is happening all around him and one key drunken blowup comes back to cost him dearly.
This is one of the very rare stories where a status quo was changedsomething very rare in superhero comics which loves resetting to the status quo, Tony Stark being a recovering alcoholic is a very big part of the character in the modern day and it is something that I think is one of the most interesting twist on a character like this.
It is very much a story of its time in the dialogue, but making the main character struggle like this and have his normal life so taken apart by addiction despite supposedly being so powerful is interesting.


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A successful business man and a superhero, Tony Stark is used to win his battles in both fields, This time he has to face his worst enemy yet, cause it's an enemy that money and the iron suit cannot help him defeat, Tony Stark must find the mental strength to defeat the demon in the bottle,

A great premise, unfortunately we get only glimpses of Tony's alcohol problem in most of the time and only the last issue dives deep into it.
On the other hand, the rest of the story is interesting too, we see how Tony tries to not to lose his company and of course fights villains as Iron Man.
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As good as its reputation, JRJr's art is some of the best I have seen from him, before he developed his cartoony look which I love but doesn't work for every title he draws.


Storywise, there's a lot going on here, Tony's struggling with the possible hostile takeover of Stark Industries by SHIELD, as well as troubles with his armor, And though the story doesn't specifically mention it, I felt like he's also dealing with the strain of lying to some of his best friends Rhodey and Bethany about his dual identity.
There's a murder and also a neardeath at the hands of Namor, Finally, some goofy villains seems to be teaming up, making his life much more hellish than they normally would, So the bplot is that Tony seems to be drinking a lot more than normal, and it causes trouble, see some great scenes with Jarvis on this subject

The alcoholism aspect of Tony Stark's character will play a bigger role in later tales here the serious breakdown and recovery only takes one issue.
I thought about removing a star for that, but it's such a good book across the board that I decided not to do, A classic in the Marvel canon, but I'd never read it until a month ago, The most surprising thing to me was that John Romita Jr, did the pencils for almost the whole story until after I'd finished the first issue, After reading him on books like Daredevil and the more recent World War Hulk, I can't see what I've come to identify as JRJR's style in here ANYWHERE.
It's amazing to see the change, although I have a feeling that quite a bit of the visual style comes from Bob Layton's inks: if pencils by John Romita Jr.
and Carmine Infantino look almost identical, then the inker definitely has a very strong style, This is one of the rare books that I liked the art and story much more than the dialogue or plot: Layton, JRJR, and Infantino are all great artists and I like their take on Iron Man and his crew.
I can see why the story was so importantyears ago, and I'm glad I read it, but it's not as compelling as it once was,
I had heard quite a lot about this story line, Mostly good, some bad.
I will say that even though it was a slow burn, I felt that watching Tony's life slowly dissolve around him, causing him to run away and hide through the use of alcohol was really well done.


In the earlier issues, the subject was kind of brushed under the rug besides a few serious comments here or there,
It wasn't until we reached the half way point where it was clearly shown Tony abusing alcohol and sinking further into addiction,

That journey from 'oh, I'll just have an extra drink or two' to 'I have a serious problem' was very real and sort of understandable with everything else that was going on in Tony's life.


My favourite issue was the last one however, I don't think that it would have been quite as good if we hadn't seen Tony's struggle,
The final pages where we see Tony resist the temptation to drink again was powerful and a wonderful pay off to the journey we've just been through.
Bit of a hard one to review, . . I really need to stop trying to read stuff from thes, its a totally different era, with writing styles that are foreign, to me at least, So Demon in a bottle is celebrated as one of the best iron man stories, as it has

Tony Stark battling his alcohol addiction sounds good right It would have been if the story wasn't a few pages at the end, and that's it! Basically its a week in the life of Tony Stark, as he's battling with villains, dealing with corporate espionage etc.
. . One thing I will give this comic, is that the Alcohol is always present, it starts with Tony having one two many martinis, and then it builds up from there but in the end, his addiction is only acknowledged, and dealt with in the last issue, this trade collects.
It overall makes this book disappointing, because the way people talk about it, and the cover, you kind of expect "Demon in a Bottle", to be the whole thing and while the build up of the addiction is cool, its not really enough to be satisfied! In the end, this is fine I guess, but don't expect the timeless masterpiecefor that time, to hit you dramatically now in!.