Clean-up for 2/5/2022 update

[Gregory Hecht]

The latest update added the title 2020 Iron Manual to the Books category.  I am not familiar with this item.  Is it an actual book that was a giveaway?  Or is this something that is similar to Marvel's "Official Handbook" publications, meaning that it should be placed in the Magazine category?

[Doug MedicAR]

I think magazines would be more appropriate solely based on my memory of it.  I believe it is slightly larger than digest sized, probably 8-12 pages.  I will try to pull it out today to verify.

[Steven L. Dasinger]

While you are at it, do you happen to have 'Iron Manual'? It also moved from Comic Books to Books.

[Fred Slota]

I have both, but oddly, the more recent one is hiding at the moment...

 

Iron Manual, (1993), one-shot, 32 pages, no adds.

Cover Price $1.75, sold in stores, not a giveaway.

No story, no sequential art

Done in the style of looking through a computer archive with personal noted by Tony Stark, shows illustrations, schematics and exploded views of suits, tech and buildings/labs.

 

The cover includes the statement "The Ultimate Operations Handbook of the Golden Avenger's(tm) Armor"

[Fred Slota]

Ahhh, had a pair of earlier not-yet-consolidated boxes...

 

2020 Iron Manual, one-shot, 4"x6.5", 28 pages, no adds

Cover price FREE, IIRC my store had a stack of them at the counter...

first page is a reproduction of the cover for Iron Man 2020 (2nd Series) and a 4 page sneak peak of the same, followed by single page handbook-style character sheets for related characters and teams.

So, mostly no story or sequential art.

[Gregory Hecht]

This week's content update re-created the 2020 Iron Manual comic book title (the correct magazine title remains in the database).