Maria Stark

Maria Stark is a female comic character that features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

At some point, Howard Stark was involved in Project Tomorrow where he created a computer named Mistress that was imprinted with the brain patterns of Maria Stark. (Avengers Annual v1 #9)

She along with her husband Howard attempted to get a child but Maria was unable to become pregnant and the doctors stated she would be unable to bear a healthy offspring. This led to Howard going around the world to people in California, London, Tibet, the Eternal City and even Mount Wundagore but each proved to be a failure. However, at Nevada he met an alien Grey who offered him a solution through a captive Rigellian Recorder. To free the robot, Howard assembled the Stark Seven that consisted of Jimmy Woo, the Bear, Nessa the Kitten, Dum Dum Dugan and Thunderbolt Ross. Together, they helped free the Recorder from his captivity in a Grey crime family. (Iron Man v5 #10) Recorder #451 proceeded with aiding the Starks but on the condition that the child be modified with a goal of accelerating humanity's technological development to withstand the cosmic forces in the universe that had now turned their eye to Earth. (Iron Man v5 #11) Howard, however, did not trust the alien robot and later learnt that the Recorder had engineered a suicide gene into his son so that he would slowly die after reaching 30 years of age. Stark then worked in secret to produce drugs to neutralize the effect but this had the consequence of leading to his son being crippled as a result. To hide the boy from Recorder #451, the Starks placed their son in a private ward and adopted Tony Stark to be their child. (Iron Man v5 #17)

Republic Oil's Simon Krieger after approval from Hugh Jones plotted for the murders of Howard and Maria Stark. (Iron Man: The Iron Age v1 #1)

Within the virtual eScape world, a facsimile of Maria Stark was adopted by Tony Stark's Motherboard system which attempted to claim him as her son. This brought her into Amanda Armstrong who was Stark's biological mother after she became trapped within the virtual reality space. (Tony Stark: Iron Man v1 #8)

Notes

• Maria Stark was created by Bill Mantlo and George Tuska where she made her first appearance in Iron Man v1 #104 (November, 1977).

In other media

Television

• In Iron Man, Maria Stark made an appearance in a flashback sequence in the episode "The Origin of Iron Man" where she was voiced by actor Dimitria Aryls.
• In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Maria Stark was mentioned in the animated series. The episode "Some Assembly Required" mentioned that Avengers Mansion was her home and that the Maria Stark Foundaton was named after her.

Films

• In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Maria Stark was referenced a number of times in the shared continuity of the setting.

Appearances

• Iron Man v1: #104 (1977)
• Iron Man:
• Tony Stark: Iron Man v1:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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