Books like Essential Iron Man, Vol. 1

I really dig these Marvel Essential books, these thick paperbacks that reprint classic comics stories in black and white. This makes it cheaper than your standard trade paperback since it foregoes and the color and printed on newsprint.I read Essential Iron Man Volume 1 expecting a lot classic superhero action. I got that more and more. Stan Lee was squeezing a lot of ideas. Given the time frame, the Cold War and spying references were expected. The romance angle caught me off guard. You never see these kind of stories anymore in modern comic books.It is always great to revisit the original stories in their original forms, especially when I can read more than twenty issues under one cover.