Position of SMTU 4 and IM 327-328

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Position of SMTU 4 and IM 327-328

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Teen Tony Stark only has chestplate and gauntlets in IM 327 where he faces Frostbite. To fight back in IM 328 he creates the full armour.
He has the full armour in SMTU 4 so it must be after IM 328.

At the end of IM 328 it's Fresher's Week and in SMTU 4 Tony's in classes. Both he and Kris DeGann think SMTU 4 is after IM 328 for this reason.

Both of these chars currently have SMTU 4 *before* IM 327-328, so their order must switched.

Giant-Man and Wasp already have SMTU 4 after IM 327 (and aren't in IM 328).

3 other chars share the 3 issues and have the order SMTU 4, IM 327-328, but I think they are only following Tony's lead. The apps of Edwin Jarvis, Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan don't imply a specific order, with the possible exception that Tony seems to know Pepper a bit by SMTU 4. So they would all be quite happy to change to the sequence IM 327-328, SMTU 4.

For all but Jarvis the change is that simple.

IRON MAN V/TONY STARK | EARTH-96020
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AOI:RIM
IM 326
A 396
IM 327
IM 328 (1 - 20)
A@ '01/2 (3:3)-FB
IM 328 (21 - 22)
SMTU 4 ** moved from before IM 327
IM 329
IM 330-FB
IM 330
----

DEGANN, KRIS
IM 326
IM 328
SMTU 4 ** moved from before IM 328
IM 329
IM 330-FB
IM 330
IM 331

POTTS, VIRGINIA "PEPPER"
----
AOI:RIM
IM 327
IM 328
SMTU 4 ** moved from before IM 327
IM 329
IM3 4-FB
----

HOGAN, HAROLD J. "HAPPY"
----
AOI:RIM
IM 327
IM 328
SMTU 4-BTS ** moved from before IM 327
IM 329
IM3 4-FB
----

Jarvis is more complicated because of his entanglement with the Avengers as well.

GIANT-MAN/DR. HENRY JONATHAN PYM
----
IM 326
A 396
IH2 440-FB
IH2 440
A 397
IM 327
AUP 4
A 399
SMTU 4
A 400
ONS:X
----

WASP/JANET VAN DYNE PYM
----
IM 326
A 396
A 397
IM 327
A 398
A 399
AUP 6
SMTU 4
A 400
ONS:X
----

Note that this pair have some Avengery issues between IM 327 and SMTU 4. Other Avengers, who aren't in IM 327, also put SMTU 4 after various combinations of AUP 4, A 398, A 397 and AUP 6.

Jarvis has

JARVIS, EDWIN
----
IM 326
A 397
SMTU 4
IM 327
A 399
AUP 6
IM 328 (1 - 20)
A@ '01/2 (3:3)-FB
IM 328 (21 - 22)
IM 330
A 400
ONS:M/U-FB
----

He's positioned IM 327 to match the chronology of Giant-Man and Wasp, but he's got SMTU 4 above it to match Teen Tony and friends. But this means SMTU 4 is out of line with the Avengers.
Moving SMTU 4 beyond IM 328 sorts all that.

JARVIS, EDWIN
----
IM 326
A 397
IM 327
A 399
AUP 6
IM 328 (1 - 20)
A@ '01/2 (3:3)-FB
IM 328 (21 - 22)
SMTU 4 ** moved from before IM 327
IM 330
A 400
ONS:M/U-FB
----

The question is are the IM 328 parts in the right place, because IM 328 follows on directly from the end of IM 327.
My answer is that it can be alright, because IM 327 can be split into 2 parts. The 2nd half involves Frostbite and continues into 328. But Jarvis is only in the 1st half which contains the reading of Tony Stark's will. Teen Tony doesn't appear anywhere in between, and all other chars keep to one half or the other.
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