After Stark’s return to the role of Iron Man, Rhodes continued as the superhero War Machine and made his solo series debut in an eponymous title after being featured as a supporting character in the superhero-team series Avengers West Coast. The character would continue in a supporting role and later resume the role of Iron Man following Stark’s purported death in issue #284 (Sept.
Initially a supporting character in volume one of Iron Man, Rhodes later assumed the mantle of Iron Man after Tony Stark’s relapse into alcoholism in issue #170 (May 1983).
