The Mandarin Archives

Such severe corporate punishment resulted in the studios reshooting, editing, and using VFX work to alter all images of a "Chinese Army" to one that was North Korean instead. It comes up, as Marvel was suggesting that The Mandarin be the villain of Iron Man 3, which DMG were approaching as a co-production deal with Marvel[...]

That would give us a chance to tease a potential character, either The Mandarin or Shang-Chi It's our decision as to which." The development team in Beijing felt Shang-Chi was the safer role to promote since he was a "good guy" and a hero, while The Mandarin was clearly a nemesis to Iron Man Strictly thinking[...]

  Don't let the big #1 fool you, the cover is for Iron Man #23… the first part of the new Rings Of The Mandarin story The five-issue arc is being written by Kieron Gillen and with art by Luke Ross The cover is by Mike Del Mundo and will be on sale this March. Tony battles[...]