![]() Major Story Arcs James RhodesĪfter fleeing from enemy territory Tony met and befriended the pilot James Rhodes who had been shot down in his helicopter. Over the course of his publication history, he has had to deal with both aspects of his life. He had to battle alcoholism and re-organize his company so as not to be a war profiteer any longer. In the case of Tony Stark, this took on essentially two different aspects. When it came to portraying more mature characters, there was still an emphasis on portraying the character's humanity as much as their heroics. In many cases, this took the form of a teenage hero for whom others felt some empathy (as at the time readership was primarily for those of a younger age.) Such heroes included the X-Men and Spider-Man. When Marvel re-emerged on the comic book scene in the Silver Age (some say Marvel's re-emergence signaled the beginning of the Silver Age of Comics) a big factor in their popularity was making easily relatable characters. Not only did Iron Man fight communists and people from the Eastern Block, but he sent the message that great things could be achieved through thrift, risk and hard work, as opposed to Spider-Man's origin story a year previous whereby Peter Parker gained powers from being bitten by a spider. In the 1960's when Iron Man was created, the threat of Communism from the USSR was huge. It may be argued that Iron Man symbolized the meritocracy of capitalism. ![]() Tony's character was loosely based on the life of the rich and successful playboy Howard Hughes. He was created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck, and Jack Kirby. Tony Stark made his first appearance in Tales of Suspense #39 in 1963. In the suit, Stark took on the warlord and his men and avenged Yin Sen's death, thus Iron Man was born. In response, Tony built a suit of armor to help himself escape captivity. The shrapnel was going to enter his heart and kill him, but he and the physicist created an arc reactor which kept the shrapnel away from his heart. Tony was then captured by a local warlord named Wong-Chu (a lackey of the Mandarin) and forced under threat of death to create a doomsday weapon for him with another captive, the famed Nobel award-winning physicist, Yin Sen. Lacking in business skills, Tony promoted secretary Pepper Potts to be his executive assistant and left the majority of his workload on her so that he could avoid what he saw as a burden.ĭuring the war in Afghanistan, Stark was at one of his munitions plants testing new technology for the military when he was injured by his own land mine that lodged shrapnel near his heart. Unknown to Stark, the true architect of his parents' deaths was a business move by Republic Oil (later renamed Roxxon Oil). One of his first projects as the new CEO was to purchase the manufacturer who designed his parents' car and have the faulty brake system, which was seemingly the cause of their deaths, redesigned in order to prevent any further incidents, thus saving lives. Afterwards, Tony inherited Stark Industries, an unparalleled mega-conglomerate that mostly manufactured weapons for the United States military. He graduated at the top of his class at age 19 with double masters in physics and engineering.Īt the age of 21, his parents were tragically killed in a car accident. ![]() By the age of 15 Tony had enrolled in MIT (The Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Boston, Massachusetts. This was when he became fascinated by machines. ![]() When Tony was 7 he was sent to a boarding school, and during this experience he found people difficult to relate to. In his youth, Tony Stark was a precociously intelligent young boy. Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark was born in Long Island, New York, to Howard Anthony Stark and Maria Collins Carbonell Stark. ![]()
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