May 2013 Marvel Solicitations

They came up online last week. Here’s the relevant bits…

Iron Man 9

IRON MAN #9
THE SECRET ORIGIN OF TONY STARK (Prologue)
KIERON GILLEN (W) • DALE EAGLESHAM (A)
Cover by GREG LAND

• Death’s Head and Iron Man team-up to hunt down a genocidal criminal. Not the problem.
• A shipful of dead badoon. Not the problem.
• What Tony finds in the depths of that ship: the problem. Big problem.
• The lead into the biggest Tony Stark story of the year.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Iron Man 10

IRON MAN #10
THE SECRET ORIGIN OF TONY STARK (1/3)
KIERON GILLEN (W) • DALE EAGLESHAM (A)
Cover by GREG LAND

• Many years ago, Howard and Maria Stark had a baby. There’s something you don’t know.
• Learn the truth about Las Vegas and Area 51 as the two great myths of Nevada collide.
• Meanwhile, in a distant galaxy, Tony Stark screams!
• The story that will shake Iron Man to his very core starts here!!!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Young Avengers 5

YOUNG AVENGERS #5
KIERON GILLEN (W) • JAMIE MCKELVIE (A & C)
Variant cover by JIM CHEUNG
• The book where when a character says “I did it half an hour ago” normally means doing “it” half an hour ago reaches its first epic conclusion.
• Why Did Loki Do It? No one kno… okay, we’ll tell you…Well, part of it.
• Miss America probably punches someone. She usually does.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

This should be a fun month. The start of something enormous and the end of Young Avengers’ first movement. I also smirk at getting a very silly (and smutty) Watchmen gag into the Young Avengers solicits. Yay!

When will we know more about the mutant joining YA?

Next issue shows the mutant we’re playing with.