Mantlo/Tuska

John Byrne/JRJR/Ryan

Micheline/JRJR/Bob Layton

I liked the Busiek/Chen run during Heroes Return, as well. 

Wallace, not sure how far you go back but my comic intro to the Mandarin was a story that culminated in #100 where he seemed to be using many of his rings.

Hey, can anyone help me with identifying an Iron Man story?

[... }Iron Man battles the Mandarin. In the story, the Mandarin uses each of rings to attack Iron Man, and may have been operating from a base on an island

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An island, or that:? 

He had previously been used by O'Neill / McDonnell in issues 179 - 181, and Michelinie / Layton in issues 241 - 243, and that was the extent of his use in the 80's as an Iron Man foe. Obviously Michelinie and Layton used Roxxon, Madame Masque, the Maggia and Justin Hammer as foes in their runs, and O'Neill /McDonnell had Obadiah Stane, but the lack of use of the character baffled me until I read an interview with Bob Layton.

Layton said they wanted to use The Mandarin but couldn't come up with a good enough story that would serve both Iron Man and The Mandarin well. When they did use him they felt the story wasn't the best and ended up being overshadowed by Kathy Dare shooting Tony at the end.

Fair play for admitting a short coming. 

Kaminski taking a lot from the Michelinie / Layton plots and Byrne plots in his run while still using his own ideas.