When was iron man created

I make my mistakes, and I make my success. They wanted to turn it into a large company. It was almost comical for me. One morning, I looked around, and I said, I think this baby is in good shape. I think everybody will be happier if they have creative committees, which I was allergic to. But giving the baby the birth, it takes one mommy, and that started moving away from me. I said, you know what? Favreau: When we wanted to bring Nick Fury in, we thought it would be really fun to reach out to Sam Jackson because he was the person the character was based on in the Ultimates.

Feige: Even though the notion of The Avengers came up at that Comic-Con—how could it not—the goal for was deliver two movies that we hope are profitable so we can do it again. Favreau: For me it was just a fun Easter egg for the fans who would sit around until the credits were over.

But at that point Kevin was definitely involved in all of that. Because specifically what Sam Jackson says about the Avengers initiative is a way to light that fuse. But it was more about getting a reaction from the crowd. Kevin had other plans. That blew up much faster than I was anticipating.

Favreau: By the second [ Iron Man ] it was coming in more and more. The tag of the second film was delivered from the set of Thor. More bowling balls to juggle. At the time it was hard to understand the full scope of it, but by the time I saw Avengers I understood how sophisticated the scope was. How difficult it is to juggle.

When I was there we were just carving our way through the wilderness. Favreau: It was wonderful but also disorienting. Everything shifts. Everything changes a bit for everybody. I felt that Kevin was coming into his own then. He adjusted the Hulk to make it feel more like Iron Man and worked Robert Downey into that film on the fly.

Trying to use that as the wellspring for all of the other decisions that were going on. The genre, which some people were giving last rites to, was re-invigorated. The Marvel brand and tone, which was unique to Marvel, also created a template that he understood and embraced. Also, he was now running a studio and he had not been when we first launched.

Kevin started moving chess pieces around in a way that was more ambitious, but in the beginning I think it was more about survival. I knew he liked what I had done and he knew I was a Marvel fan. Stan made it very much an in-your-face wound, you know, his heart was broken, you know, literally broken. But there's a metaphor going on there. And that's, I think, what made that character interesting".

Lee based this playboy's looks and personality on Howard Hughes, explaining, "Howard Hughes was one of the most colorful men of our time. He was an inventor, an adventurer, a multi-billionaire, a ladies' man and finally a nutcase". While Lee intended to write the story himself, he eventually handed the premier issue over to Lieber, who fleshed out the story. The covers were always done first. The character's original costume was a bulky gray armored suit, replaced by a golden version in the second story issue 40, April It was redesigned as sleeker, red-and-golden armor in issue 48 Dec.

Many heroes balked at this, not wanting to give up their identities or become pawns of the government and so went underground. The heroes eventually split into two groups. There were those for the registration, led by Tony Stark himself, where he was made the director of S.

The war split the Marvel universe down the middle and climaxed in a giant battle in New York City, but when Captain America saw the carnage this was causing the American people, he called a cease-fire and turned himself in.

He was later assassinated going to the courthouse for trial, a thing that Tony himself feels responsible for. Lately, Tony Stark is concerned with the fact that there have been Skrulls that have infiltrated agencies and super-powered groups.

The main problem is that these Skrulls are undetectable to anyone, and therefore everyone is suspect. He is working against the Skrulls, bringing in the brightest that the world has to offer to find a way to stop this secret invasion. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile.

Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. The physicist became a mentor to Stark, and taught him values beyond the importance of science, like the significance of guiding the search for knowledge with an ethical compass, [69] and carrying an open mind. Tony's mental dexterity caused him to drift into his 20's as shiftless thrill-seeker in the search for the challenges mundane life lacked.

However, he would also lose interest in the dangerous hobbies he mastered, like skiing, parachuting, and hang-gliding. When he was twenty-one, Tony's parents died in a car crash and he inherited his father's business, Stark Industries.

Within a few years, he turned it from solely a munitions firm to a multinational corporation with a range of interests covering virtually all types of contemporary scientific industry, and the leader at the cutting edge of electronics.

Tony also bought the company that built the car his parents were driving when they lost their lives and fixed the flaws in their brake system. Tony's new life as a CEO provided him with new challenges. But as the company grew bigger, his job became less exciting, and Tony fell into self-indulgence once again. While overseeing a military demonstration of his technology in Siancong , Tony tripped a booby trap that killed his escort and lodged shrapnel in his chest.

Wong-Chu falsely promised Stark that if he built a powerful weapon, he would be allowed to undergo an operation to save his life. Even though Stark realized the tyrant was lying, he agreed, hoping to gain time and access to tools.

Stark was given access to a small laboratory with another captive, the renowned Asian physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Professor Ho Yinsen , whose work Stark admired in college. With Yinsen acting as his assistant, Stark designed and built an electrically powered suit of armor with a pacemaker-like device that enabled Stark's heart to keep beating, the armor was also equipped with heavy offensive weaponry.

Donning the suit, Stark connected it to its power source, an electrical generator. Lying on a table Stark was helpless until the suit was fully charged. In the least fortunate turn of events, Wong-Chu decided to check on his prisoners.

Knowing that if they were found all of their work was for nothing, Yinsen decided to sacrifice his own life by distracting Wong-Chu, giving Stark the extra time he needed to charge the armored suit fully. Then, still clad in his armor, which was necessary to keep his heart beating, Stark made his way toward the front lines, trying to escape enemy territory. James Rhodes , a pilot with the United States Marines , had been shot down by rockets while he was on a reconnaissance mission.

Rhodes managed to land safely and was attempting to get his helicopter air-worthy when he encountered the wandering Iron Man. After Iron Man helped Rhodes fight off an attack by enemy forces, Rhodes allowed him to drain the helicopter's batteries to recharge his armor.

The two continued to make their way back to American forces and stumbled upon a hidden rocket base. Stealing an enemy helicopter, they destroyed the site and flew to the nearest American base. Back in the United States , Stark redesigned his chest plate, which contained a pacemaker-like device, reducing the chest plate's size and weight so he could wear it under his normal clothing. Required to wear the armor's chest plate at all times to keep his heart alive and beating, Stark decided to put the rest of the armor to regular use as well.

After redesigning the entire armored suit to match the lighter chest plate, Stark made the existence of the suit public. He concealed the suit's true origin, as well as the fact that he himself had to wear the chest plate to live. Stark made it known that he would soon manufacture the suit, which he called "the human machine," for sale to be then public. Soon afterward, Stark donned one of his battle suits in order to prevent thieves from stealing parts from the other copies of it.

This experience made him realize that the suit was too dangerous to be made available to the public. Stark brought along his armor, which he was taking to a nearby laboratory for tests. Terrorists who threatened to kill everyone present with a bomb invaded the match.

Joanna urged Stark to don the armor to stop the terrorists. Stark did so, captured the terrorists and saved the spectators by throwing himself atop the bomb. Iron Man thus publicly became a hero, and Stark had a new sense of purpose, having decided to combat evildoers as Iron Man. Wishing to retain some degree of anonymity, Stark established the fiction that Iron Man was his paid bodyguard wearing a suit of armor that he had invented.

Only his most trusted aides learned Stark and Iron Man were one and the same. One of these early confidantes was "Happy" Hogan , whom Tony hired as his chauffeur. At first, Stark used his Iron Man identity mostly to combat spies, like the Actor , [1] and criminals who threatened Stark Industries, like the Melter or Mr.

Later, he expanded the scope of his alter ego's activities to battle any force or person who threatened the security of America or the world. Stark was instrumental in the organization and armament of the original global intelligence and law-enforcement agency known as S. As Iron Man, he became an founding member of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the team of super-human champions known as the Avengers. As an Avenger, Stark would go on to participate in many missions over the years, although he sometimes had trouble reconciling his private affairs with his responsibilities in the Avengers.

Hawkeye was one of the new Avengers who joined when Stark and the other founders decided to take leaves of absence. Over the years Stark constantly refined and modified the design of his armor. From a bulky, transistorized iron suit, he eventually built a relatively lightweight, integrated circuit, magnetically-polarized suit with more human-looking articulated musculature. Stark eventually underwent heart transplant surgery so that he was no longer obligated to wear his metallic chest plate.

For moral reasons, Stark eventually decided to stop manufacturing armaments and devoted his company to other areas of technology. In the wake of the Kree-Skrull War , Stark initiated a meeting in Wakanda with Professor X , Mister Fantastic , Black Bolt , Doctor Strange , and Namor to form a clandestine, unnamed group to devise strategy and policy regarding overarching menaces the " Illuminati ".

Stark's original goal was to create a governing body for all super heroes in the world to answer to. However, the different beliefs and philosophies, besides the fact that many heroes chose to conceal their real identities, made Stark's plan impractical. Despite this, the group agreed to share vital information. In recent years Tony Stark's greatest nemesis has been alcoholism. When his company, which had changed its name from Stark Industries to Stark International , was threatened with the takeover at the same time he was experiencing oppressive personal problems, Stark began to abuse alcohol.

Although he managed to recover quickly from his first serious bout, the compulsion to drink remained a constant temptation. The second time he succumbed to alcoholism, due to even more devastating personal problems than the first time, Tony Stark went on a several month binge during which he was cheated out of Stark International, had all Iron Man suits destroyed except one , lost the leases on his various apartments, and had his personal assets frozen so that he could not touch his fortune.

All of this was the result of the machinations of the mysterious entrepreneur Obadiah Stane , who took over Stark's company, renaming it Stane International. During this time, Stark's friend James Rhodes, who had gone to work for Stark after leaving the military, assumed custody of the Iron Man armor and operated as Iron Man in his stead. When Stark finally regained his sobriety, he joined with Rhodes and two of his friends, Morley Erwin late of Stark International and his sister Clytemnestra Erwin of Richmond Enterprises, to set up a new electronics firm in California named Circuits Maximus.

While the armor was in his custody, Jim Rhodes became increasingly enamored with being Iron Man and, upon Stark's return to sobriety, feared that Stark would ask for it back. The cybernetic helmet had never been properly calibrated to Rhodes' brain patterns; he began to have severe headaches and his thinking was clouded. As a result Rhodes began to manifest hostility toward Stark. As part of his therapy, Stark constructed a simple suit of armor based on his original design with no intention of donning it until he felt in control of his alcoholism.

When Rhodes began acting irrationally, however, Stark felt obligated to put on this crude suit of armor to prevent Rhodes from doing harm. Stark managed to subdue Rhodes and made necessary recalibrations on the cybernetics. For a brief time Stark and Rhodes used their respective suits of armor as Iron Men, although Stark did so reluctantly.

At the suggestion of the West Coast Avengers chairman, Hawkeye, Stark designed and built his most sophisticated armor to date, presumably so that the Avengers could find someone to wear the suit and bolster the team's strength. However, soon after its completion, Obadiah Stane became alarmed at Stark's steps toward recovery. Circuits Maximus was bombed, injuring Rhodes and killing Morley Erwin.

Stane himself put on a suit his engineers had built using Stark's plans, and met Iron Man in battle as the Iron Monger.

Losing the battle against Stark, Stane committed suicide. Stark decided that although one is never truly cured of alcoholism, he could also not deny the responsibility of being Iron Man. Stark also managed to reclaim control of his fortune, although he decided not to claim ownership of the company formerly known as Stark International.

Rather, he founded a new technological design and manufacturing company, Stark Enterprises , based in Silicon Valley in Northern California. Stark Enterprises quickly became a highly successful and innovative company. Stark learned that an industrialist calling himself Spymaster had stolen the plans for the many secret technological innovations found in the Iron Man armor.

These criminals had then incorporated the stolen technological innovations into their own armored battle suits. Outraged that his inventions were being used for criminal activity, and even for killing, Stark determined to deprive these criminals of his secrets. He planted a computer virus in Hammer's computer system that would wipe out all traces of the plans for Stark's Iron Man technology.

As Iron Man, Stark sought out and caught many criminals and others such as the United States government's Guardsmen who wore a battle suit utilizing his technology. He implanted devices called 'negator packs' on their armor to fuse the circuits, rendering the suit useless. With the computer records of the plans for his technology gone, presumably it could not be used in reconstructing the suits.

The United States government branded Iron Man an outlaw as a result of these and other vigilante actions, and his longtime Avengers comrade Captain America was among those opposing him.

Stark publicly claimed that he had fired Iron Man in displeasure over his illegal activity. He even went so far as to create a false history for "Randall Pierce," allegedly the original Iron Man's identity, which he turned over to the government. Shortly afterward, Iron Man was apparently destroyed in combat with government forces. In fact, however, Stark had survived. He created an even more sophisticated armored battle suit to wear as Iron Man using technology far more advanced than that which Spymaster had stolen from him.

Stark continued to go into action as Iron Man, but publicly claimed that the previous Iron Man was dead and that another employee of his whose identity was being kept secret was now wearing the armored suit. Later, Kathy Dare , a former lover of his with an unstable mind, shot Stark. However he could still function normally within his Iron Man armor. A microchip device was later implanted in Stark's spine that enabled him to walk and move normally once again.

During this time, Stark was part of a team of Avengers that traveled into Kree space when Earth's sun was endangered by their attempt to use the sun as a power source for a hypergate in their new conflict with the Shi'ar, which led to Stark leading a group of Avengers to kill the Kree Supreme Intelligence when its actions destroyed a sizeable portion of the Kree empire to try and jumpstart the species evolution. The 'bio-chip' that allowed Stark to walk proved problematic and degenerative nerve damage occurred.

This was aggravated by the attack of Kearson DeWitt , a madman who claimed Stark had stolen his father's designs. DeWitt had Stark's nervous system attacked with a techno-organic virus, but Stark was able to survive. Stark eventually recovered after extensive rehabilitation. Stark was forced to restructure Stark Enterprises when several of Stane's business decisions were leaked to the press. This also caused a number of other heroes to confront Iron Man, such as the Hulk regarding gamma bomb production plants.

Stark also quarreled with Rhodes over several good-intentioned but wrong decisions Jim made as CEO such as selling off nuclear assets to a dummy company secretly operated by A. Rhodes was still angry Stark had lied to him about his nerve damage condition. The two briefly clashed in battle, ultimately repaired their friendship.

Tony agreed to end the West Coast Avengers after internal tensions over past conflicts, [] but formed Force Works instead. Intending for this team to try and preempt natural and man-made disasters rather than just reacting to events, Stark provided his team with full access to his cutting-edge technology.

Later, while under the influence of Immortus , Stark committed a number of horrible acts and was killed. Stark was temporarily replaced by a younger version of himself from another timeline. Shortly after returning he subjected himself to judgment by his fellow Avengers and was exonerated.

Stark declined to challenge the Fujikawa acquisition and formed a new company, Stark Solutions. The armor's power systems and insulation were significantly redesigned to compensate. Jocasta 's AI was recovered from Sunset Bain.