Howard Stark

John Slattery
John Slattery
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Cinematic and Comics

1946, Cinematic: Framed for selling weapons to America's enemies, Stark flees overseas, returns with Peggy Carter's help, and surrenders to the SSR.

Cinematic

Born in 1917 in New York, Howard Stark founded Stark Industries in 1939 and served the Allies in the Strategic Scientific Reserve, building the Rebirth Pod, Captain America's shield, and later joining the Manhattan Project. After the war he was framed as an arms dealer, cleared with Peggy Carter's help, and co-founded S.H.I.E.L.D. in 1949. He fathered Tony in 1970 and was killed by the Winter Soldier in 1991.

Comics

An American inventor and industrialist who founded Stark Industries and worked on the Manhattan Project. He later served the Brotherhood of the Shield, where a time-travel accident threw him far into the future and back, and helped found S.H.I.E.L.D. He also fought hidden threats beside Nick Fury, joined the Stark Seven, fathered Arno, adopted Tony, and died with Maria in a car crash.

Timeline 28 events

  1. Modern · Comics: During World War II the Red Skull abducts Howard and his wife to extract Manhattan Project secrets, and Captain America and the Howling Commandos rescue them.
  2. Modern · Comics: Howard is recruited into Control, a body formed to monitor scientific progress and head off threats.
  3. Modern · Comics: Howard and Nathaniel Richards recover Newton's son Leonid and take him to the Immortal City beneath Rome.
  4. Modern · Comics: An explosion in a rematch with Tesla throws Howard, Richards and Tesla roughly 600,000 years forward in time.
  5. Modern · Comics: With Tesla restored, the group uses Richards' new time ability to return to the Immortal City four years after they left.
  6. Modern · Comics: He meets Maria Carbonell at a casino in Monaco and later marries her.
  7. Modern · Comics: Back in a divided Brotherhood, Newton flees to 2060 to watch the world end, and the Star Child follows him.
  8. Modern · Comics: Howard, as the Mechanism of the Human Machine, joins the Brotherhood in fighting Newton across three versions of 2060 until Leonid ends the conflict.
  9. Modern · Comics: He assembles the Stark Seven to free the Rigellian Recorder 451, which then alters his unborn son Arno.
  10. Modern · Comics: Because his tampering with the Recorder's changes makes newborn Arno fatally ill, the Starks hide Arno and plan to adopt a healthy son.
  11. Modern · Comics: After Woody McCord's death Howard brings in CIA agent Nick Fury, and the two fight hidden threats together.
  12. Secret Wars · Comics: Howard, McCord and Peggy Carter deal with an alien ship that landed in Siberia and stop Hydra from taking it.
  13. Secret Wars · Comics: Howard adopts the baby of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Amanda Armstrong, who becomes Tony Stark.
  14. Fresh Start · Comics: Howard is killed in battle against Isaac Newton and the Star Child, and Leonid later resurrects him.
  15. Fresh Start · Comics: Howard and Maria die in a car crash after the brakes fail, leaving Tony an orphan.
  16. 1917 · Cinematic: Howard Stark is born in Richford, New York, and grows up on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
  17. 1939 · Cinematic: Stark founds Stark Industries.
  18. 1940 · Cinematic: After a Hydra attack at a Los Angeles demonstration, Stark joins the new Strategic Scientific Reserve.
  19. 1943 · Cinematic: Stark hosts the first Stark Expo and flies Steve Rogers to a Hydra factory in Austria, later making him a vibranium shield.
  20. 1944 · Cinematic: Stark's gas, the Midnight Oil, is stolen and used by General McGinnis at Finow, causing a massacre of Soviet troops.
  21. 1945 · Cinematic: Stark's expedition finds the Tesseract on the Atlantic seabed while searching for Rogers, and he then joins the Manhattan Project.
  22. 1946 · Cinematic: Framed for selling weapons to America's enemies, Stark flees overseas, returns with Peggy Carter's help, and surrenders to the SSR.
  23. 1946 · Cinematic: Hypnotized by Johann Fennhoff into flying a plane loaded with Midnight Oil toward New York, Stark is brought back by Carter's plea.
  24. 1949 · Cinematic: Stark founds S.H.I.E.L.D. with Peggy Carter and Chester Phillips, reorganizing the SSR as its scientific division.
  25. 1970 · Cinematic: Stark's son Tony is born.
  26. 1974 · Cinematic: Stark hosts his last Stark Expo and leaves his son a hidden clue to a new element.
  27. 1987 · Cinematic: Stark asks Hank Pym for the Ant-Man suit for a mission in East Berlin, and Pym insists on doing it himself.
  28. 1991 · Cinematic: Hydra, after Stark recreates the Super Soldier Serum, has the Winter Soldier kill him and his wife Maria on Long Island.

allied with

Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, Edwin Jarvis, Obadiah Stane (Iron Monger), Nick Fury, Daniel Sousa, Jack Thompson, Dum Dum Dugan

enemy of

Whitney Frost, Winter Soldier, Red Skull, Ivan Vanko, Dottie Underwood

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