Iron Man #9

Two armored figures clash at close quarters on Terry Shoemaker and John Dickenson's cover — Iron Man in his red suit grapples with a larger, bulkier armored opponent, a blazing energy beam erupting between them as machinery and fire fill the background. The tagline "Brothers in Armor!" hints at a charged, complicated dynamic between the two combatants that Jeph Loeb and Ryan Benjamin are clearly leaning into hard. This July 1997 installment of The Invincible Iron Man looks like a genuinely thrilling chapter in the series' early Heroes Reborn run.