![]() ![]() He set out to make the new character a wealthy, glamorous ladies' man, but one with a secret that would plague and torment him as well. I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him. ![]() He was a weapons manufacturer, he was providing weapons for the Army, he was rich, he was an industrialist. So I got a hero who represented that to the hundredth degree. The readers, the young readers, if there was one thing they hated, it was war, it was the military. He wanted to create the "quintessential capitalist", a character that would go against the spirit of the times and Marvel's readership. In 1963, Lee had been toying with the idea of a businessman superhero. Iron Man's Marvel Comics premiere in Tales of Suspense #39 ( cover dated March 1963) was a collaboration among editor and story-plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, story-artist Don Heck, and cover-artist and character-designer Jack Kirby.
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