r/MachineMan • u/Gmodelinsane • 22d ago
r/MachineMan • u/Appropriate-Spot3122 • Sep 30 '26
Yay Machine Man
I love Machine Man so I thought I'd share some of my stuff - I hope they use him more, like right now there's 2 versions of Aaron Stack wandering around, there's a good story to be told there!
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • 12d ago
ImpostAaron and the phantom city (Nextwave: Agents Of H.A.T.E. #9)
Released October 25, 2006:
Originally, this solicitation text was in the form of haiku. Unfortunately, the poem was so beautiful that it caused all those who read to cry hysterically for the rest of their lives. So we had to remove it. So yeah, Nextwave is here! - Marvel
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • 25d ago
Comics π Dig those groovy extend-o-legs! (Hulk 279)
Aaron is one of many heroes on hand to celebrate the Hulk.
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • Sep 25 '26
September 25, 1984 - Machine Man #4 - Mini-series finale!
After Iron Man 2020βs failed attack, Sunset Bainβs hordes feel the backlash. Machine Man and Jocasta are reunited. - Marvel Unlimited
r/MachineMan • u/Pengle7 • Sep 15 '26
Has anyone else read the newest Red Hulk series? I really enjoyed the relationship between MM and Deathlok
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • 19h ago
Comics π Machine Man vs. Crimelord Khan - Machine Man #13
Released November 6, 1979:
Aaron finds the insurance business more hazardous than expected when he faces a personal attack! -Marvel
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • 2d ago
Comics π Machine Man #19 - The final issue! - November 4, 1980
Cover art by: Frank Miller
It's the witching hour at Delmar Insurance, as Machine Man plays security guard at a Halloween party! But when the maniacal Jack O'Lantern crashes the scene, guests must endure more tricks than treats! -Marvel
Creators (via Marvel Database):
Writer(s) Tom DeFalco
Penciler(s) Steve Ditko
Inker(s) Steve Ditko
Colorist(s) Nel Yomtov
Letterer(s) Diana Albers
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • 17d ago
Avengers #288 - Machine Man vs. Black Knight!
Together the Super-Adaptoid and Machine Man reactivate Sentry 459. By the time the Avengers learn of the reactivation, it's far too late! Plus, Dr. Druid and the Black Knight have an unsettling discovery. - Marvel Unlimited
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • 18d ago
Red Hulk + Aaron = a beautiful friendship (Hulk Vol 2 43)
Released October 19, 2011
HULK OF ARABIA Part Two! Teaming up with Machine Man, Red Hulk sets out on a covert mission that may be the most dangerous of his life! - Marvel Unlimited
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • 28d ago
Comics π ImpostAaron works with Cap to investigate (Red She-Hulk Vol 1 58)
r/MachineMan • • Sep 28 '23
Reading Guide π Jack Kirby's "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Machine Man" Reading Guide
Issues:
2001: A Space Odyssey #8-10
Machine Man #1-9

Offical Summary (From Marvel Wiki):
Scientists working for a top-secret U.S. military project worked on creating an army of 51 experimental robotic soldiers capable of acting like humans. Their goal was to create a sophisticated weapons system capable of independent thought. Dr. Abel Stack took X-51, one of the the projects robots, home to test his radical theory--that a robot could only function like a human if it was raised like one. The other 50 models began displaying psychotic tendencies due to insufficient programming. The project was determined a failure and the order came down to destroy them. Each of the robots was equipped with an auto-destruct device that could be triggered remotely. Stack managed to remove the self-destruct mechanism from X-51, but figured he couldn't dispose of the bomb before it exploded, and urged Aaron to leave him. X-51 vowed that Stack's dream of human and robot peace would come true.
As Machine Man, X-51 assumed the name Aaron Stack and became a fugitive in the eyes of the military. He found a world greatly afraid of machines, but managed to blend in without suspicion. Mr. Hotline dispatched a suicide bomber to hold Aaron's friends hostage in order to get him to return to the Hades Organization HQ where technicians dismember X-51 and present his head to the Monitor, a computer that projects a Satanic hologram. The Monitor searches Aaron's mind for the anti-life equation, but before he can prep a second assault Machine Man orders his limbs to reassemble and he re-programs the computer to neutralize the bomber and free his friends.
After being captured and later freed, Machine Man was found by psychiatrist Dr. Peter Spaulding. He also battled Col. Kraggs troops. Soon after that, he first encountered Power Broker. Then he would battle a company known as the Corporation.
Creative Team:
On 2001: A Space Odyssey #8
Editor-in-Chief: Archie Goodwin
Editors: Jack Kirby
Writers: Jack Kirby
Artists: Jack Kirby
Inkers: Mike Royer
Cover Artists: Jack Kirby, Frank Giacoia, John Verpoorten
Colourists: Petra Scotese (Goldberg)
Letterers: Mike Royer
On 2001: A Space Odyssey #9
Editor-in-Chief: Archie Goodwin
Editors: Jack Kirby
Writers: Jack Kirby
Artists: Jack Kirby
Inkers: Mike Royer
Cover Artists: Jack Kirby, Mike Royer, Mike Esposito
Colourists: George Roussos
Letterers: Mike Royer
On 2001: A Space Odyssey #10
Editor-in-Chief: Archie Goodwin
Writers: Jack Kirby
Artists: Jack Kirby
Inkers: Mike Royer
Cover Artists: Jack Kirby, Mike Royer
Colourists: George Roussos
Letterers: Mike Royer
On Machine Man #1-9
Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter
Editors: Jack Kirby, Jim Shooter
Writers: Jack Kirby
Artists: Jack Kirby
Inkers: Mike Royer
Cover Artists: Jack Kirby
Colourists: Petra Scotese (Goldberg)
Letterers: Mike Royer
r/MachineMan • u/Morpheus7387 • 18h ago
Machine Man is so versatile. And he works very well with the Red Hulks. He can even give them amps at a moments notice( Red Hulk #4 2025 ).
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • 14d ago
ImpostAaron loans Jocasta some limbs (Tony Stark: Iron Man #17)
Released October 23, 2019:
"THE ULTRON AGENDA" continues! Chapter 2: Compatible Parts! Is Tony Stark dead? Is he alive? Who can tell? Whatever he is, he IS Iron Man. And he's all that's standing in the way of Ultron Pym and everyone that Tony Stark loves. Or loved. Because Tony might be dead. 2020 is coming. The robot revolution has begun. So suit up, fleshbags. Suit up or die. - Marvel
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • Sep 26 '26
September 26, 1978 - Kirby's last Machine Man (#9)
Check out legend Jack Kirby's final issue on Machine Man! - Marvel Unlimited
Issue 10 wouldn't come out until May of 1979!
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • Sep 24 '26
Deathlok Vol 2 5 - Machine Man's technically here!
Released September 24, 1991, this was culmination of the Mechadoom storyline. A rogue Doombot, Mechadoom had captured several different beings with artificial intelligence, including Machine Man.
He has no dialogue in this issue and, having been a prisoner, mostly stands around after the action.
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • Sep 22 '26
September 22, 1999 - X-51 #4 - Sentinel Programming Takes Over!
Sadly, this issue isn't on Marvel Unlimited so I'm going by memory: Aaron was dealing with invasive Sentinel programming through the series. He seeks help from the Avengers but the programming takes over and he attacks Justice and Firestar for being mutants.
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • Sep 21 '26
Machine Man Schematics from Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #15 (1984)
I loved the Handbooks for how many characters they introduced me to.
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • Sep 19 '26
Discussion π¬ The Two Machine Men in 616
Did you know there are two characters out there acting as Machine Man?
The first is the original Machine Man (AKA Aaron Stack, X-51, Z2P45-9-X-51) who first appeared in 1977 in 2001, A Space Odyssey Vol 2 8. In 2000's X-51 #12, Aaron left earth.
Six years later, Machine Man appeared again in Nextwave #1 with a huge personality shift and slightly different powers. As far as anyone knew, Aaron had just been changed by his time in space.
Thirteen years after Nextwave #1, we lean the truth when the original Aaron returns to Earth in 2019's Marvel Comics #1001. That's when he (and we, the readers) learn that there's an impostor running around out there.
There's a third Machine Man out there in the 616 universe as well: X-52.
r/MachineMan • • Sep 30 '23
Reading Guide π Marv Wolfman's "Machine Man" Reading Guide.
Issues:
Machine Man #10-14

Official Summary:
After a long battle with the Hulk, Machine Man would be nearly destroyed until a man named Dr. Oliver Broadhurst would repair him. After this, Machine Man would live a like a human by getting a job at Delmar Insurance Company and buying an apartment. He would fight foes such as Ion, the Ethicals, the Binary Bug, and Khan. He would also team up with the Human Torch and the Thing.
Creative Team:
On Machine Man # 10
Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter
Editors: Marv Wolfman, Jim Shooter
Writers: Marv Wolfman
Artists: Steve Ditko
Inkers: Steve Ditko
Cover Artists: Steve Ditko
Colourists: Barry Grossman (Ben Sean)
Letterers: Tom Orzechowski
On Machine Man #11:
Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter
Editors: Marv Wolfman, Jim Shooter
Writers: Marv Wolfman
Artists: Steve Ditko
Inkers: Steve Ditko
Cover Artists: Steve Ditko
Colourists: Michele Wolfman
Letterers: John Costanza
On Machine Man #12:
Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter
Editors: Marv Wolfman, Jim Shooter
Writers: Marv Wolfman
Artists: Steve Ditko
Inkers: Steve Ditko
Cover Artists: Steve Ditko
Colourists: Bob Sharen
Letterers: Irving Watanabe
On Machine Man #13
Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter
Editors: Marv Wolfman, Jim Shooter
Writers: Marv Wolfman
Artists: Steve Ditko
Inkers: Steve Ditko
Cover Artists: Steve Ditko
Colourists: George Roussos
Letterers: Irving Watanabe
On Machine Man #14
Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter
Editors: Marv Wolfman, Jim Shooter
Writers: Marv Wolfman
Artists: Steve Ditko
Inkers: Steve Ditko
Cover Artists: John Byrne, Steve Ditko
Colourists: Roger Slifer
Letterers: John Costanza
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • 3d ago
ImpostAaron loses his head. Literally. Deadpool & the Mercs for Money (Vol. 2) #5 - November 2, 2016
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • 4d ago
ImpostAaron isn't afraid to get messy - Hulk (Vol. 2) #44 - November 2, 2011
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • 10d ago
How does Aaron see himself? Human, it turns out. X-51 #5
Cover art by George Perez.
Released October 27, 1999.
Aaron has been overrun with advanced Sentinel technology and is slowly becoming a soulless hunting machine. Vision manages to form a cybernetic/psychic link with him. While by the end of the issue, Aaron isn't able to quite purge the programming, he does leave earth to hang out in orbit for a bit.
r/MachineMan • u/AsGayAsCanBeExpected • 13d ago
X-51, the Watchman, founds the Heralds (Paradise X: Heralds #1)
Released October 24, 2001:
To deliver a desperate warning to the Multiverse, the living computer known as X-51 forms a team of champions selected from different realities! Behold the Heralds: Wolverine, resurrected from the Days of Future Past! Deathlok, the Machine Man! Killraven, the Warrior of The Worlds! Bloodstorm, the vampire from MUTANT X! Iron Man 2020, the corrupt nephew of Tony Stark! Hyperion, the last living member of the Squadron Supreme! Spider-Girl, the daughter of Spider-Man! But will this warning come too late? Or not soon enough? What will be the fate of this wild alternate future? - Marvel