Duel of Monaco

The Battle of Monaco was Ivan Vanko's first attempt to kill Tony Stark. Ivan was planing to kill Tony because Tony's father, Howard, had Ivan's father, Anton, deported as a spy.

Background
Anton Vanko died the day Tony Stark told the world he is Iron Man. That day Ivan Vanko, Anton's son prepared to make his own armor, even making an arc reactor to kill Tony with. He took a plane to Monaco 6 months later.

Battle
While racing in Monaco, Stark is attacked by Ivan, useing his homemade armor. After dodging many attacks from Ivan, Tony got his Mark V armor and defeated Ivan. Ivan was arrested and his armor was taken from him. Tony saw Vanko's homemade arc reactor and destroyed it.

Aftermath
Stark discovers that Vanko is the son of Anton Vanko, who collaborated on the first arc reactor with Tony's father Howard. Vanko is promptly broken out of jail by a revenge-seeking Justin Hammer, who puts him to work fashioning a line of armored combat suits that he will use to upstage Stark at his own Expo.