Howard Stark

Howard Stark is a fictional person in the Marvel Comics Universe. He is the father of Tony Stark and the founder of Stark Industries. He is named after Howard Hughes. Howard Anthony Walter Stark was a brilliant inventor throughout his life. He and his father worked on various projects, and later founded Stark Industries. Throughout his young adulthood, Stark worked on various government projects dating back to the World War I and World War II era, like the World War I Captain America project with John Crowe Ransom which came to completion during World War II. The World War II Manhattan Project and the "Arsenal" robots in a hidden subbasement in his mansion. The robots were only supposed to be activated if the US was overrun during a...