Iron Man V8 Issue 1 - We open with a person seemingly reliving Tony Stark's kidnapped days in Asia where he built his first full Iron Man armor. A.I.M. soldiers fire at him and wound him. Madame Masque removes the mask and see that it is a man, not Tony Stark who built the flawed armor. He asks to try again, and she says no armor is needed but another Tony Stark as she finishes him off. We break to see Iron Man in his Mysterium armor fighting Blizzard who stole a Roxxon battery to power his armor. IM takes him down. Tony is late to a ceremony where the Tony Stark award will be given to the best and brightest student. Stark shows up in a hoverbike. He awards the honor to Adam Ware. We see Citizen V in the shadows. Madame Masque kidnaps Pepper Potts and the hoverbike turns into Iron Man armor. Melinda May calls and says that the kidnapping of Pepper was a red herring to get Adam Ware. Tony goes to work and Pepper and Melinda show up at the Gamma bunker where the Hulk was born. He suits up in his latest armor. IM makes a call to Cap to meet him, but ends with Cap and a team of Avengers going to go after Iron Man.
