Over the past eleven years, a remarkable series of movies have been produced based on comic book characters from Marvel Comics. Marvel had attempted to produce movies prior to their release of Iron Man in 2008, but had failed to find much commercial success in their endeavors (in fact, they sometimes failed rather spectacularly). In casting the actor Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, the man who develops the armor and becomes the superhero Iron Man, Marvel Studios hit a […]