{"id":780819,"date":"2026-07-24T00:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780819\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T00:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:10:11","slug":"marvel-is-fast-tracking-iron-man-to-its-landmark-700th-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780819\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel is fast-tracking Iron Man to its landmark 700th issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvel will begin double-shipping the current Iron Man series by writer Joshua Williamson beginning in December 2026, which will, in the publisher’s words, “accelerates towards #700.” This comes after series artist Carmen Carnero had to step away from the book midway through April’s Iron Man #4 due to an injury and is set to return with August’s issue<\/a>. Carnero is feeling better and back on the book, but to meet this accelerated schedule, Marvel is bringing in a second series artist, Gleb Melnikov, and they’ll each simultaneously be drawing an arc at a time.<\/p>\n

Related: Iron Man origin comic art has broken the record for most expensive original comic art ever sold at $3.875 million dollars<\/a><\/p>\n

In December, Carnero will launch into a new ‘Incarnerated Iron Man’ arc beginning with Iron Man #12, in which Tony Stark is imprisoned in the Vault, which is now overseen by Moonstone.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoonstone is going to be the new warden of The Vault\u2026 she\u2019s very psychological, she\u2019s very much a femme fatale character\u2026 her going up against Tony really changed what I was building,\u201d says Williamson<\/p>\n

To push the series bi-weekly, each issue will jump between two arcs, with Melnikov’s arc, ‘War Machines,’ starting in Iron Man #13 and running on the odd-numbered issues. This arc will feature\u00a0two\u00a0War Machines, one of which is Melinda May.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis story is nuts, I think you\u2019ll be really surprised about where this story goes,\u201d says Williamson.<\/p>\n

While this strategy might seem new, it has been used before, such as in the ‘DC Rebirth’ era Wonder Woman series that begin in 2016.<\/p>\n

At this pace and presuming no unfortunate delays, Marvel Comics’ Iron Man will hit its 700th issue with April’s Iron Man #20.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel will begin double-shipping the current Iron Man series by writer Joshua Williamson beginning in December 2026, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[332511,332478,5577,88,332512,55550,332510,24783,332482,206],"class_list":["post-780819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-carmen-carnero","tag-comic-con-international-san-diego","tag-comics","tag-entertainment","tag-gleb-melnikov","tag-iron-man","tag-joshua-williamson","tag-marvel-comics","tag-marvel-comics-universe","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}