The Ages of Iron Man: Essays on the Armored Avenger in Changing Times

The Ages of Iron Man: Essays on the Armored Avenger in Changing Times. Joseph J. Darowski, editor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015.

Anthology of critical essays.

Reviewed by Kristen Koopman, SFRA Review #322 (Fall 2017): pp. 17-19, our source here.[1]

Joseph Darowski notes in his introduction to The Ages of Iron Man [...] that the character and the world he inhabits have had to respond to changes in social norms, political structures, and the technological bleeding-edge." 
Some of the essays "focus on Tony Stark’s relationships to warfare, technology, and/or business. Stark’s relationship to the military-industrial complex, for example, is thoroughly interrogated through different eras and different analytical lenses. [... Especially important, and relevant here, the] Cold War represented [...] a major turning point in the character (shifting him from a weapons manufacturer to a more technologically fluid industrialist) ...]. (Koopman, p. 18)

RDE, finishing 8Oct.20