| Issue | #258 |
| Published | July 1990 |
| Cover Price | 1.00 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Howard Mackie |
| Notes | "On the Byrne Robotics message board, John Byrne stated that the cover for Iron Man #258 (1968 series) was originally penciled by John Romita Jr as the first page of the issue, but it was decided that it didn't accurately reflect what was going on in the story, so the first page was redrawn and the original was inked by Byrne to be used for the cover." (e-mail from Roger Ott, October 9, 2007) |
| Characters | Iron Man |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | John Romita, Jr. |
| Inks | John Byrne |
| Notes | "On the Byrne Robotics message board, John Byrne stated that the cover for Iron Man #258 (1968 series) was originally penciled by John Romita Jr as the first page of the issue, but it was decided that it didn't accurately reflect what was going on in the story, so the first page was redrawn and the original was inked by Byrne to be used for the cover." (e-mail from Roger Ott, October 9, 2007) |
| Characters | Iron Man |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | John Romita, Jr. |
| Inks | John Byrne |
| Editing | Howard Mackie |
| Notes | [information taken from the STL Gallery and Roger Perez with permission from James Jobe]. Variant cover is a 1992 / 1993 J.C. Penney Marvel "Vintage Pack" reprint. All the issues in the J.C. Penney MVP set have common identifying characteristics. The most obvious is that all have a swinging Spider-Man in the UPC. There is also a blank under the issue number in the price box where the regular edition has the UK price. Secondly, the indicia clearly states Second Printing at the end. Lastly, they all have the same ads from 1992 and back cover which differ from the original printings. The back cover has an X-Men card ad with Wolverine bursting out of it. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | John Byrne |
| Pencils | John Romita, Jr. |
| Inks | Wiacek |
| Notes | Armor Wars II, Part One. "if you take the first letter of each word in the title (and in the next issue), they spell LASER, which was Byrne's sneaky way of telling us who the villain was." (e-mail from Roger Ott, October 9, 2007). |