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A.I.M. is an organization of
scientists dedicated to the acquisition of power and the overthrow of
governments by technological means. |
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AIM (Advanced
Idea Mechanics) began as a group of scientists organised during World
War II by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker to develop advanced technological
weaponry for his subversive organization HYDRA. Now AIM is an organisation
of brilliant scientists and their hirelings dedicated to the acquisition
of power and the overthrow of all governments by technological means.
First Appearance: Strange Tales Vol.1 #146 |
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| CRIMSON DYNAMO II |
A Soviet agent who stole the
original Dynamo's armour, in order to discredit him. |
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Anton Vanko
the original Crimson Dynamo defected from the Soviet regime. His superiors
then sent two agents (one, the Black Widow) to assassinate Vanko and complete
his original mission. Boris Turgenov, the other Soviet agent, stole the
Dynamo armour and donned it himself, trying to use it to discredit Vanko
in the eyes of his American friends. First Appearance:
Tales Of Suspense Vol.1 #52 |
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| CRIMSON DYNAMO III |
A Soviet defector, forced by
the KGB to work as the Crimson Dynamo. |
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Alex Nevsky
was the protégé of the original Crimson Dynamo. After Vanko
defected to Stark Industries, Nevsky's career was ruined. He soon defected
to the U.S. to compete with Stark Industries, but was forced to work for
the KGB as the third Crimson Dynamo. First Appearance: Iron
Man Vol.1 #21 |
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| EZEKIEL STANE |
The son of Tony Stark’s
late business rival and archenemy Obadiah Stane. |
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The megalomaniac
son of the late Obadiah Stane, he shares similarities with Tony Stark,
but he is younger, more intelligent and much more ruthless. He has been
described as a kind of sociopathic futurist, an opportunistic super-villain
who exploits the modern corporate run, greed-driven society to further
his own ends. He seeks revenge against Tony Stark for his father's death.
First Appearance: The Order Vol.2 #8 |
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| GHOST |
The son of Tony Stark’s
late business rival and archenemy Obadiah Stane. |
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The man, who
would become Ghost, was a promising data engineer for a major corporation,
and the brainchild behind GhostTech, computer chips that phased into an
intangible state before overheating. The prized employee of the company,
its executives used his genius to make themselves wealthy, spurring his
continued productivity with sexual favours from another employee. When
the GhostTech project was finally completed, they had his lover killed
after she threatened to reveal how the company paid her to date him, causing
him to slide into depression. As a result, he eventually infused his body
with GhostTech and formed a cyberpathic connection with the company's
systems in order to escape the traumas of the real world, discovering
the woman's murder in the process. Surviving an assassination attempt
due to the GhostTech in his body, he killed the company executives, before
eliminating any link to his past life and becoming a full-time corporate
saboteur. First Appearance: Iron Man Vol.1 #219 |
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| JUSTIN HAMMER |
A longtime foe of Iron Man who
as a criminal mastermind employed super-villains and organized criminal
operations. |
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Justin Hammer
is an unscrupulous industrialist and head of various international design
and manufacturing firms. A long-time competitor of Tony Stark, Hammer
amassed a significant part of his fortune through the funding of organized
crime. When a criminal signed on as his minion, they agreed to pay him
half of their profits in exchange for upgrades to their equipment and
getting their bail paid in the event of an arrest. First Appearance:
Iron Man Vol.1 #120 |
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| LIVING LASER |
A brilliant scientist who became
a career criminal using laser technology, and then became a being of pure
living energy. |
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Arthur Parks
was a relatively successful laser research scientist until spurned by
a woman. Deciding he needed power to achieve his aims, Parks creates wrist-mounted
laser units, a costume and used the alias "Living Laser".First
Appearance: Avengers Vol.1 #34 |
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| MADAME MASQUE |
Disfigured criminal mastermind
and ex-lover of Tony Stark. |
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Madame Masque
was born Giulietta Nefaria, the daughter of the criminal Count Luchino
Nefaria. Her mother died giving birth and Count Luchino gave the child
to the Frost family in order to give his daughter a respectable life.
After her true parentage, was revealed Whitney accepted her father's invitation
to join him in running the Maggia under the codename "Big M".
Her role in the Maggia brought her into conflict with Iron Man and while
trying to flee from him her plane crashed and her face was disfigured.
She was saved however by Mordecai Midas, Midas was obsessed with gold
and gave her a golden mask to hide her disfigurement, thus she became
known by the name "Madame Masque". First Appearance:
Tales of Suspense Vol.1 #97 |
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| MANDARIN |
A brilliant scientist, martial
artist and Iron Man’s arch nemesis |
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The Mandarin's
parents died shortly after he was born. He spent all of his vast inheritance
training in science and martial arts. In doing so he caused himself to
go broke as he reached adulthood. The Chinese government evicted him from
his family estate because he was unable to pay his taxes. The bitter,
broke, homeless, but extremely well trained Mandarin began to wander the
earth. He found an alien space-ship during his wandering. He studied the
ship to gain knowledge of advanced science, and stole rings he found within
it embarking on a long series of attempts to achieve world domination.
First Appearance: Tales of Suspense Vol.1 #50 |
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| MORDECAI MIDAS |
Billionaire business magnate,
whose ‘appetites’ brought him into conflict with Iron Man. |
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Mordecai Midas
was born in Athens, Greece, a starving street urchin forced to beg in
order to survive. He later became involved in various shady business enterprises
and eventually created a base of financial power. He became obsessed with
becoming the richest man in the world and tried to gain control of Stark
Industries from his base in the Aegean Sea. First Appearance:
Iron Man Vol.1 #17 |
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| OBADIAH STANE |
A billionaire industrialist,
business rival and nemesis of Tony Stark. |
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Obadiah Stane
was a ruthless individual who studied his adversaries to find weaknesses
that he could exploit. Ever since he was a child, Stane enjoyed chess,
and handled his life with the same kind of methodical logic that he used
in the game. As a child he saw his father, a degenerate gambler who at
that time was on a "lucky streak", accidentally shoot himself
in the head playing a game of "Russian Roulette." This event
shaped Obadiah Stane for years to come. He would later grow into a wealthy
businessman who attempted to take over Tony Stark's ( Iron Man) company,
Stark International. First Appearance: Iron Man Vol.1
#163 |
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| SASHA HAMMER |
The Grandaughter of Justin Hammer,
left a legacy of hatred for Tony Stark. |
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Sasha Hammer
is the Grandaughter of financier Justin Hammer and the daughter of Justine
Hammer and The Mandarin, with such a family she is naturally an opposer
to Tony Stark. First Appearance: The Invincible Iron
Man Vol.1 #1 |
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| TITANIUM MAN I |
The Titanium man is a Russian
Super Soldier Assassin. |
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Boris Bullski
was a high-level Communist Party official whose unbridled ambition within
the Party, garnered the disfavour of Kremlin officials, who transferred
him to an obscure work camp in Siberia. Angered by the demotion, Bullski
had scientists create a suit of titanium armour to battle and defeat the
American hero Iron Man. First Appearance: Tales of
Suspense Vol.1# 69 |
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| THE UNICORN |
A long time ‘Cold War’
foe of Iron Man’s. |
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Milos Masaryk
was a Soviet agent assigned to security duty at the laboratory of inventor
Anton Vanko. Vanko was engaged in the development of advanced weaponry
and armaments. His first completed project was the Crimson Dynamo armour,
the second was a helmet and harness with a radiation-beam weapon called
a “power horn". Vanko offered this invention to Masaryk, and
with government approval, began to instruct the Soviet agent on its use.
When Vanko defected to the U.S., Masaryk became the Unicorn to avenge
the disgrace of his defection. First Appearance: Tales
of Suspense Vol.1 #56 |
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