| Super Name: | Iron Man |
| Real Name: | Anthony Edward Stark |
| Aliases: |
Tony Stark Cobalt Man Iron Knight Invincible Iron Man Director of Shield Shellhead Golden Avenger Armored Avenger Ironheart Iron Maniac |
| Publisher: | Marvel |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Human |
| 1st Appearance: | Tales of Suspense #39 |
| Appears in: | 2328 issues |
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Tony Stark, after being gravely injured and forced to build a devastating weapon, created a powerful suit of armor to free himself and protect the Marvel Universe as the Invincible Iron Man. Edit
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Origin
At the age of 21his parents were tragically killed in a car accident, afterwards Tony inherited Stark Industries, an unparalleled mega-corporation that mostly dealt with weapons for the United States military. One of his first projects as the new CEO was to purchase the manufacturer who designed his parents car and have the faulty break system, which was seemingly the cause of their deaths, redesigned in order to prevent further incidents and to save lives. Unknown to Stark, the true architect of his parents' deaths was a business move by Republic Oil (later changed to Roxxon Oil). Lacking in business skills, Tony promoted secretary Virginia "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.
During the Vietnam War (later retconned as the Gulf War, then later still as the war in Afghanistan), Stark was at one of his munitions plants testing new technology for the military when he was injured by an explosion that lodged shrapnel near 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. The shrapnel was working its way towards Stark's heart and slowly killing him, but he and the physicist created an iron suit in secret that would save Tony's life. The suit contained and iron chest plate with magnetic fields that halted the shrapnel in its place. Yin Sen then created a diversion, sacrificing himself so that Stark could put on
