When Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck, and Jack Kirby, created Iron Man in the early 1960s, they initially based his character on the American tycoon, Howard Hughes, because they wanted him to appear like a wealthy, eccentric, philanthropist, with a bold personality and a business-minded mentality. But in reality, would Iron Man's alter ego, Tony Stark, be a wealthy, eccentric, businessman? Or would he be something else? Something a little more grounded than his comic book counterpart!
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