''Iron Man'' (vol. 4) is a

comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...

series published from January 2005 to January 2009 by

Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is an American comic book publishing, publisher and the flagship property of Marvel Entertainment, a divsion of The Walt Disney Company since September 1, 2009. Evolving from Timely Comics in 1939, ''Magazine Management/Atlas Co ...

. It featured the superhero Iron Man for the first 32 issues and War Machine for the final three. It was the fourth series with this title to be published, following series that ran 1968–1996, 1996–1997, and 1998–2004. Over the course of its run, it was also published under different titles: ''The Invincible Iron Man'' (#1–12), and ''Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' (#15–35), with the change in indicia occurring after the events of Marvel's ''Civil War''. The first six issues comprised the "

Extremis ''Extremis'' is a six-issue story arc from the comic book series ''Iron Man'' (vol. 4), published in issues one through six in 2005 and 2006 by Marvel Comics. It was written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Adi Granov. ''Extremis'' elevat ...

" storyline, which updated Iron Man's origin story and introduced the Extremis virus.

Creators

Writers

Warren Ellis Warren Girard Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is a British comic book writer, novelist, and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-creator of several original comics series, including ''Transmetropolitan'' (1997–2002), ''Global Frequency'' ( ...

: #1–6 * Daniel and Charles Knauf: #7–18, 21–28 *

Christos Gage Christos N. Gage is an American screenwriter and comic book writer. He is known for his work on the TV series ''Daredevil'', '' Hawaii Five-0'', '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', '' Numbers'' and the films '' The Breed'' and '' Teenage Cavem ...

: #19–20, 33–35 *

Stuart Moore Stuart Moore is an American writer and editor of comic books and novels. Career Stuart Moore's writing includes ''Civil War'', the first in a line of prose novels from Marvel Comics, and two stories for Amazon's Kindle Worlds program: ''X-O M ...

: #29–32

Artists

Adi Granov Adi Granov (;) is a Bosnian-American comic book artist and conceptual designer. He is best known for his painted work with Marvel Comics, for whom most of his comics work is produced, in particular his work on Iron Man. He is especially known f ...

: #1–6 *

Patrick Zircher Patrick Zircher () is an American comic book artist and penciller. Career Zircher's early career as an illustrator began with production of several completed works for '' Villains and Vigilantes'', ''Champions'' and other pen-and-paper role-pla ...

: #7–14 * Robert de la Torre: #15–18, 21–22, 25–26, 29–30 *

Jackson Guice Jackson "Butch" Guice (born June 27, 1961) is an American comics artist who has worked in the comics industry since the 1980s. Biography Guice was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.. Retrieved March 21, 2008. Growing up in the 1960s, Guice was fond o ...

: #19–20, 23–24 *

Carlo Pagulayan Carlo Pagulayan (born June 24, 1978) is a Filipino freelance comic book artist. Early life He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from the Santo Tomas branch campus of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Sa ...

: #27, 29–32 * Steve Kurth: #30 * Sean Chen: #33–35

Collected editions

The series has been collected into a number of individual volumes: * ''Iron Man: Extremis'' (#1–6) * ''Iron Man: Execute Program'' (#7–12) * ''Civil War: Iron Man'' (#13–14; other ''Civil War'' tie–ins included) * ''Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' (#15–18) * ''World War Hulk: Marvel Universe'' (#19–20; other ''World War Hulk'' tie–ins included) * ''Iron Man: Haunted'' (#21–28 and ''Annual'' #1) * ''Iron Man: With Iron Hands'' (#29–32) * ''Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete Collection'' (#15–32) * ''Secret Invasion: War Machine'' (#33–35) {{Warren Ellis, type=comic Iron Man