The Marvel Comics character Iron Man has appeared in various other media since his debut in Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963). Iron Man has been the focus of three animated series, two Japanese animated projects, and a direct-to-DVD animated feature. An Iron Man live-action feature film starring Robert Downey Jr. as the character and directed by Jon Favreau was released in 2008, with Downey also appearing as the character in the two sequels Iron Man 2 and 3, in a cameo in The Incredible Hulk, and as a main character in several other films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe including The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame.
Adaptations of Iron Man in other media | |
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Created by | Stan Lee Larry Lieber Don Heck Jack Kirby |
Original source | Comics published by Marvel Comics |
First appearance | Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963) |
Films and television | |
Film(s) | The Invincible Iron Man (2007) Iron Man (2008) Iron Man 2 (2010) Iron Man: Rise of Technovore (2013) Iron Man 3 (2013) Avengers Confidential: Black Widow and Punisher (2014) Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Captain America: Civil War (2016) Avengers: Infinity War (2018) Avengers: Endgame (2019) |
Television show(s) | The Marvel Super Heroes (1966) Iron Man (1994) Iron Man: Armored Adventures (2009) Marvel Anime: Iron Man (2010) Ironheart (2023) |
Games | |
Video game(s) | Iron Man and X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal (1996) The Invincible Iron Man (2002) Iron Man (2008) Iron Man 2 (2010) Iron Man 3: The Official Game (2013) |
Iron Man appears as one of the main protagonists in The Marvel Super Heroes, voiced by John Vernon.[1][2]
Robert Downey Jr. portrays Tony Stark in Iron Man (2008),[26] Iron Man 2 (2010), The Avengers (2012),[27] Iron Man 3 (2013),[28] Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015),[29] Captain America: Civil War (2016),[30] Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017),[31] Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019),[29][31] as well as having a cameo in The Incredible Hulk (2008)[26] that is also shown via archive footage in the Marvel One-Shot, The Consultant (2011).[32] Davin Ransom portrayed a young Tony Stark in Iron Man 2.
Iron Man is featured in several video games.
The Iron Man armor is prominently featured in the book Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine by E. Paul Zehr, which explores the hard science fiction aspects of Iron Man and the possibility of building an Iron Man-like armor.[41]
Iron Man has appeared in the following novels:
Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Release Date |
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Iron Man: And Call My Killer... MODOK! | William Rotsler | Pocket Books | 0671820893 / 9780671820893 | May 1979 |
Iron Man: The Armor Trap | Greg Cox | Berkley Boulevard/BPMC | 1572970081 / 9781572970083 | July 1995 |
Iron Man: Steel Terror | Dean Wesley Smith | Pocket Books/BPMC | 0671003216 / 9780671003210 | October 1996 |
Iron Man: Operation A.I.M. | Greg Cox | Berkley Boulevard/BPMC | 1572971959 / 9781572971950 | December 1996 |
Spider-Man and Iron Man: Doom's Day Book Two: Sabotage | Pierce Askegren Danny Fingeroth |
Berkley Boulevard/BPMC | 1572972351 / 9781572972353 | March 1997 |
Iron Man | Peter David | Del Rey Books | 034550609X / 9780345506092 | April 2008 |
Iron Man: Femme Fatales | Robert Greenberger | Del Rey Books | 0345506855 / 9780345506856 | September 29, 2009 |
Iron Man: Virus | Alexander C. Irvine | Del Rey Books | 0345506847 / 9780345506849 | January 26, 2010 |
Iron Man: Extremis | Marie Javins | Marvel Comics | 978-0785165187 | April 16, 2013 |
Iron Man: The Gauntlet | Eoin Colfer | Marvel Comics | 978-1484741603 | October 25, 2016 |
Iron Man appears in the Marvel Universe Live! stage show.[42]
In 1989, while the third TV-film sequel to The Incredible Hulk live-action television series was expected to co-star She-Hulk, Iron Man was being considered for both a follow-up or a solo film of his own.[43] One year later, a film from Universal Studios to be directed by Stuart Gordon was being negotiated.[44] This was still on the table ten months later,[45] and also another two years on, this time with no specific director or studio attached.[46]
In 1966, television production company Grantray-Lawrence produced a series of five half-hour semi-animated shows under the banner title Marvel Superheroes. Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, The Mighty Thor, and Sub-Mariner all made their television debuts.
There are some stalwarts there, including a swank Iron Man, a Six Million Dollar Man-esque Ant-Man, and a Daredevil show that pairs the blind attorney with a dog named Lightning.