Avengers: Age Of Ultron Primer – The Hulkbuster Armor
By Steve Lam
Avengers: Age of Ultron is said to be the most ambitious Marvel Studios project to-date. With a huge cast and even bigger action scenes, it’ll be easy to get lost in this giant playground known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Here at Bam Smack Pow, we thought we’d give you a primer on important facts that you’ll need to know before it releases on May 1, 2015. Or April 30, 2015 for people who go to the special early premieres.
So join us as we give you a brain dump on various characters and items appearing in Avengers: Age of Ultron. For our first lesson, we give you …
The Hulkbuster Armor
Officially called the Hulkbuster Armor (Modular Add-on) Iron Man Armor Model 14, the armor made its first appearance in Iron Man #304 (May 1994). It was created by Tony Stark to face off against the Hulk, who was angered at the production of Gamma bombs by Stane International, a company formed by Obidiah Stane when he took over Stark International.
Later, both Hulk and Tony were able to settle their differences. Together, they dismantled Stane International’s plant.
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