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4. Tony Stark (Ironman)
Howard Hughes & Elon Musk

We’ve already revealed that Stan Lee’s inspiration for Iron Man’s altar ego, Tony Stark, was Howard Hughes. The similarities between Stark and Hughes are striking: Both inherited their fortune from their father, both were industrialists and inventors, and both were playboys. Both provided military hardware to the US during the Cold War. Lee even gave a nod to the real-life millionaire when he named Tony’s father Howard. The duality of Hughes’s life appealed to Lee. “Hughes was one of the most colorful men of the time,” he said. “He was an inventor, an adventurer, a ladies’ man, and a nutcase.” It’s not surprising that Lee describes Tony Stark in a similar manner. “[He is] rich, handsome, known as a glamorous playboy, constantly in the company of beautiful, adoring women . . . Anthony Stark is both a sophisticate and a scientist! A millionaire bachelor, as much at home in the laboratory as in high society!” Hughes died in 1976, so when Robert Downey Jr. agreed to play Tony Stark in 2008′s Iron Man, he wanted to meet a modern version of Hughes to glean what it was like to be a billionaire, entrepreneur, and tech innovator. He turned to Elon Musk, who’d co-founded what later became PayPal and is now CEO and CTO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the private space agency tasked with delivering supplies to the International Space Station. Downey even watched Musk’s mannerisms to make his depiction of Tony Stark believable. Iron Man director Jon Favreau met Musk as well and was so impressed that he tweaked the Iron Man script to make Tony Stark a flamboyant Elon Musk. Favreau borrowed further aspects of Tony Stark from Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle. Elon Musk received a cameo in 2010′s Iron Man 2.

3. Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto)
Malcolm X
When Stan Lee and Jack Kirby debuted the first issue of X-Men in September 1963, they drew their inspiration for their opus about mutants fighting discrimination from the civil rights movement. And the inspirations for the two most powerful mutants they introduced were the two most prominent civil rights leaders of the day.Professor X (Charles Xavier) was a gentle teacher who eschewed violence (although he wasn’t always successful) and fought prejudice by demonstrating that mutants threatened no one and could help society. He was based on Martin Luther King Jr. Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr) was blunter, advocating intimidation—even hate—and strength to combat intolerance. He was based on Malcolm X. “[I] did not think of Magneto as a bad guy,” Stan Lee wrote. “He was just trying to strike back at the people who were so bigoted and racist. He was trying to defend mutants, and because society was not treating them fairly, he decided to teach society a lesson. He was a danger of course, but I never thought of him as a villain.”

2. Lois Lane
Glenda Farrell
While we are discussing Clark Kent, we should talk about the origins of his love interest, Lois Lane. There has long been an urban legend that Jerry Siegel modeled Lois after a girl he liked while he was attending Glenville High School in Cleveland. Siegel wrote that this was untrue. He said that his girlfriend, Joanne, modeled Lane’s look for artist Joe Shuster to draw. “Our heroine was, of course, a working girl whose priority was grabbing scoops,” Siegel wrote. “What inspired me was Glenda Farrell, the movie star who portrayed Torchy Blane, a gutsy, beautiful, headline-hunting reporter, in a series of exciting motion pictures.” Torchy Blane was a savvy news reporter who appeared in nine films from 1937–1939. Farrell played the title character in seven of them. But as time went on, Siegel said, Lane’s personality became more like Joanne, who later became his wife.And where did the name Lois Lane come from? Actress Lola Lane played Torchy Blane in 1938. “Because the name Lola Lane appealed to me,” Siegel wrote, “I called my character Lois Lane.

The best literary characters are inspired by living, breathing people. It’s the same with comic book characters. Here are 10 real people who inspired the look, the personality, or the backstory of these spandex icons.

1. Clark Kent (Superman)
Harold Lloyd
The origin of Superman was a long and lengthy process. As we’ve already noted, the Man of Steel first appeared as a telepathic villain (and just as bald as Lex Luthor) in the January 1933 issue of the fanzine Science Fiction: The Advance Guard of Future Civilization. Jerry Siegel, 18, was a sci-fi fan inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s idealized man of the future, the Ubermensch, which is variously translated as “Overman” or “Superman.” This Ubermensch would transcend Christian values to create his own morality. Siegel wrote the story that featured this “Super-man” bent on world domination. His friend Joe Shuster illustrated the story. Over the next five years, Siegel and Shuster dropped the hyphen and reworked Superman to be hero. Using biblical figures such as Moses and Samson and fictional heroes such as Hercules, Doc Savage, and Buck Rogers, the two young men tweaked their creation into one of the most iconic characters ever. As avid movie buffs, Siegel and Shuster made Superman look like famous movie star Douglas Fairbanks (minus the pencil-thin mustache). His altar ego, Clark Kent (using the first names of actors Clark Gable and Kent Taylor) was modeled after another actor, Harold Lloyd. Lloyd had made a career of melding a deceptively meek look with strength and athleticism. Recently, comic book historians have speculated that Superman’s loss of his parents and isolation from home originated from Siegel’s home life. His parents were Lithuanian immigrants, and Siegel’s father died in 1932, just six months before Superman made his first appearance. Siegel and Shuster finally sold the rights to Superman to Detective Comics (later DC Comics) for a whopping $130. The two young men never saw another dime for their creation until the 1970s, when DC agreed to provide yearly pensions for life for the duo.

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