Iron Man (Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark) is a fictional comic book superhero in the
Marvel Comics universe. Created by writer-editor
Stan Lee, writer
Larry Lieber, and artists
Don Heck and
Jack Kirby, he first appeared in
Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963). Tony Stark, after being gravely injured and forced to build a devastating weapon, instead created a suit of power armor to save his life and help protect the world as Iron Man. He is a wealthy industrialist and genius inventor whose suit of armor is laden with technological devices that enable him to fight crime.
The
Repulsor-Power Iron Man 12" figure photographed here is part of the toy-line from the 2008 Movie from Marvel Entertainment & Paramount Pictures. It features Iron Man in his Mark 3 armor with motion-activated supersonic flight & combat sounds, electronic speech, glowing repulsors and launching missiles. Articulation is very limited with this figure so I decided to just enhance the photos with lighting effects for the eyes and repulsors to resemble the look in the movie. Just for kicks, I re-colored the same toy in Photoshop to make it resemble the Mark 2 armor.