In the original Iron Man, when Stark and reporter Christine Everhart’s dalliance begins, his goatee is rather sparse. The mustache is barely even there. The next morning however, when he’s ...

He first appeared in Iron Man #118 in 1979 as a military pilot who ... Even though he was a new character, Marvel retconned him as an old buddy of Tony’s from the Vietnam War era.

That’s all to say that Victor von Doom and Tony Stark have had a long history together, even before Marvel Studios set former Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. to play Doctor Doom in next summer ...