Stan Lee on Iron Man (comics)

“Black Widow: It is fortunate that he is taken with my beauty. I will be able to twist him around my little finger!”

“Black Widow: What manner of men are these Americans, who risk their lives for their enemies? Iron Man: That's the problem with you commies. You just don't dig us.”

“What if a guy had a suit of armor, but it was a modern suit of armor - not like years ago in the days of King Arthur - and what if the suit of armor made him as strong as any superhero?”

“I think I gave myself a dare. It was the height of the Cold War. The readers, the young readers, if there was one thing they hated, it was war, it was the military. So I got a hero who represented that to the hundredth degree. He was a weapons manufacturer, he was providing weapons for the Army, he was rich, he was an industrialist. I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him ... And he became very popular.”