As a Kid I grew up watching the 90s animated show and always thought Tony Stark was so cool. This is one of the first pieces where I decided to do the background and take it from the Comics to highlight the history from the comic books to the big screen.
Tony Stark is based on a real person
Stan Lee apparently based Tony Stark on Howard Hughes, a famous billionaire and aviator who was famous in the first half of the 20th century. Like Tony, Hughes was multitalented and had lots of money to spend on his extravagant life style, which included inventing, film directing, engineering and flying planes and being a bit of a ladies man. Unfortunately, there's no evidence that he also invented an iron super suit, but you never know!