Iron Man

Real name: Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark

Identity/Class: Human technology user

Occupation: CEO of Stark Industries, adventurer

Group membership: The Avengers

Affiliations: The Avengers [Captain America (Steve Rogers), the Hulk (Betty Ross), Ant-Man (Hank Pym), the Wasp (Maria Pym), Giant Girl (Janet Van Dyne), Thor, Thunderstrike (Jane Blake), Rick Jones], Black Widow (Natasha Romanova), Harold "Happy" Hogan, Hawkeye (Clint Barton), Iron Man (James Rhodes), Edward Jarvis, Virginia "Pepper" Potts, Professor Ho Yinsen (deceased)

Enemies: Blizzard (Gregor Shapanka), Count Nerfaria (Luchino Nefaria), the Controller (Basil Sandhurst), Crimson Dynamo (Anton Vanko), Crimson Dynamo (Boris Turgenov), Crimson Dynamo (Alexander Nevsky, Firebrand (Gary Gilbert), the Ghost, Iron Monger (Obadiah Stane), Justin Hammer, Living Laser (Arthur Parks), Madame Masque (Whitney Frost), the Mandarin, the Melter (Bruno Horgan), Titanium Man (Boris Bullski), Ultimo, the Unicorn (Milos Masaryk), Whiplash (Mark Scarlotti)

Known Relatives: Howard Stark (father, deceased), Maria Stark (mother, deceased), Morgan Stark (cousin)

Aliases: "Shell head"

Base of Operations: New York City, NY

First Appearance: The Avengers#1

Powers/Abilities: Tony Stark possesses a genius level IQ. His main field is electrical engineering, but he is equally gifted in the fields of mathematics, physics, and chemistry. His armor is his main weapon, each suit more streamlined than the previous model. Aside from his current model, he also has several models for specific environments or situations (deep space, underwater, etc.). He also received some combat training from Captain America.

Height: 6'5

Weight: 340 lbs.

Eyes: Blue

Hair: Black

History: Tony Stark was the only child of Howard and Maria Stark. Even at a young age, he showed signs of genius, graduating from college at the age of 17. Upon the deaths of his parents, he inherited the company Stark Industries, a multinational corporation.

He might have stayed in the boardroom or the lab, but Stark insisted on testing his gear in the field. He was in Vietnam testing new weapons for the army when the men of Wong Chu attacked, critically wounding him.

Stark was thrown in with the captured Professor Yinsen and ordered to make weapons for Chu, but the two men instead built a crude live support system to keep Stark's heart beating and enable them to escape the bandit's camp. Yinsen died in the escape, but Stark smashed Chu's operations and made his way to the American line.

From there Stark swore to use his gifts and company to help humanity, battling various foes and threats. He did this as Iron Man, officially a Stark Industries employee working as his bodyguard. He was part of the founding of the Avengers and stayed with the team for many years, but outside forces forced him to reveal his identity to the team.

Some time later under different circumstances, Stark decided to make the Iron Man cover story real and brought in James Rhodes to act as Iron Man while he devoted more time to the company.

He is semi-retired now but consults on various cases that interest him.

Comments: Created by me, based on ideas created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Don Heck, and Larry Lieber

I did consider making Pepper Potts Iron Woman, but I decided to leave Mr. Stark well enough alone. Not to say I won't do any stories with him, but as I've enough on my plate already and Iron Man was never a priority to me character wise.

Iron Man has no known connections to:

Iron Man (Anthony Stark, 616 counterpart) Tales of Suspense I#39 (March 1963)

Iron Man 2020 (Arno Stark) Machine Man 2020#2 (November 1984)

Any other armored versions of the character, inventors, or business men