by Matt Peters   Content Advisory: References to addiction. If you are struggling with addiction, please call the SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) National Hotline at 1-800-662-HELP or text 988.   For obvious reasons, origin stories have an enduring power to define a superhero character. They weave together the events and circumstances that shaped the character’s identity, calling, strengths, and challenges. For Marvel’s Iron Man, though, his origin story has a serious contender in another story that took place much later, both in terms of publication history and in-universe chronology. That story ran in nine issues of… Read More