With all this DC talk and the Commander's Marvel Quiz Challenge, some thoughts about Marvel secret identities came to me so....

  1. How many "different" Iron Men were there? By that, I mean the public believed Shell-Head to be an employee of Tony Stark. I know there were at least two stories where Iron Man got "fired" and "replaced". Did this happen in the Silver Age? I remember one in the 70s. Did they ever give any "info" on who the "original" Iron Man was?
  2. Similarly, I think it was Daredevil #100 where Matt Murdock was interviewed and he said that his "twin brother" Mike was the first DD, then he "died" and someone else took over the role. Lawyers....but was there any mention of this "second" DD or acknowledgement of him? And did anyone discover DD was blind but not that he was Matt?
  3. When was Professor X "outed" as guiding the X-Men and being a mutant? To the super-heroes and the public?
  4. Some parts of the public knew about Doctor Strange. When did the other heroes?
  5. When did Hank Pym's secret identity (and Janet Van Dyne's) become not-secret? I know that Giant-Man was visited by his fan club once where he greeted them unmasked but when he returned to the Avengers as Goliath, they had no idea of his real name.

 

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  • Depending on your definition of Silver Age, there were two men who wore the Iron Man suit that didn't steal it.  One was Tony Stark, and the other was Happy Hogan (who I think only wore the armor once). I don't know exactly when Jim Rhodes showed up, but as far as I know, those were the only two in the Silver Age.

     

    Regarding Daredevil, I can't recall anyone prying into his secret identity once Mike was killed off.  However, Dr. Doom discovered he was blind when he switched bodies with him.

     

    As far as Professor X's outing goes, I'm sure someone can speak better to it, but I think that happened off panel if at all.  I think Xavier wasn't outed as a mutant well into the 1980's.

     

    Dr. Strange mainly worked on his own.  In fact, I think the first Marvel superhero turly aware of him was Spider-Man, who assisted him in recovering the Wand of Watoomb.

     

    I want to say that the public outing of the Wasp and Mr. Pym happened off panel again.  I'm not so sure of that one.

     

    Of course, I could be totally off base with all of these answers, although I'm pretty sure about Iron Man.

  • Let's try this again:

    Jim Rhodes first showed up in Iron Man at the end of the 1970s, when David Michelinie was writing the book, in a backup tale that explained something that had never been explained before: After the events of Iron Man's origin story, how did he get home?

     

    Rhodes was presented as a Marine helicopter pilot in Vietnam Afghanistan a war-torn land who, after a certain amount of adventure and shenanigans -- gives Iron Man a lift to an air base and went on his way. We are told that after the war years later, Rhodes looked Stark up and got a job as his pilot. From there, he became a bigger and bigger presence in the title, eventually taking over as Iron Man for a while.

     

    That first appearance was in Iron Man #118 (1968 series), January 1979.
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