- Witness the life and times of Ol" Shell-head - past, present and future... and as seen through the eyes of his greatest foe! The Mandarin is a collection of lies, stories, myths and legends. But two things are true: He wears, upon each finger, an alien weapon of unimaginable power - and he"s going to kill Tony Stark. Is he a violent street crook born in a brothel? The scion of an aristocratic dynasty? Was his father was a petty criminal or an ambassador? Was his mother a British noblewoman or a dragon-chasing wastrel lost in the underbelly of the world? He"s a murderer, a businessman, an artist, a terrorist, a hero. And this is the story of his life. Tony Stark takes his first steps into the future! The Armored Avenger soars to never before seen heights, and he"s not going alone. Learn what it means to be Iron Man in the 21st century! Three generations of Starks face their ultimate foe, seventy-some years in the future - while in the present, Spider-Man joins Iron Man as he tries to fill in the blanks of his missing memory. What if amnesia was a weapon? What if the smartest man in the land had ten nightmares that all came true? Who is the son of Tony Stark? What"s inside of the rings? The future starts now for the Marvel Universe"s favorite futurist.