Iron Man

Practically everyone has heard of Iron Man since the blockbuster movie staring Robert Downey Jr @ Tony Stark was released in 2008.

Iron Man (Tony Stark) is a Marvel superhero created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Making his first appearance in Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963).

An American billionaire playboy and brilliant engineer, Tony Stark suffers a severe chest injury during a kidnapping whereby, his captors had attempted to force him to build a weapon of mass destruction. He instead creates a powered suit of armor to save his life and escape captivity. Hence, Iron Man Mark I was created.

Subsequently, Stark upgrades his armor and weapons through his company, Stark Industries and uses the suit to combat terrorist.

Iron Man has been a founding member of the Avengers in The Avengers #1 (Sept. 1963).

Iron Man came about in 1963 when Lee had been toying with the idea of a businessman superhero. He wanted to create the "quintessential capitalist", a character that would go against the spirit of the times and Marvel's readership. 

Lee said, 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.

He set out to make the new character a wealthy, glamorous ladies' man, but one with a secret that would plague and torment him as well. Writer Gerry Conway said, "Here you have this character, who on the outside is invulnerable, I mean, just can't be touched, but inside is a wounded figure. Stan made it very much an in-your-face wound, you know, his heart was broken, you know, literally broken. But there's a metaphor going on there. And that's, I think, what made that character interesting. Stan based this playboy's looks and personality on Howard Hughes, explaining, "Howard Hughes was one of the most colorful men of our time. He was an inventor, an adventurer, a billionaire, a ladies' man and finally a nutcase." "Without being crazy, he was Howard Hughes," Stan said.

My son is a true fan, this is the first level of his showcase in his room

After years of exhaustive search, finally managed to get my hands on Iron Man first suite of armor and a copy of Tales of Suspense #39

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My son excited in his room. That is his first Iron Man Poster. Mark IV

Iron Man 3D FX Wall Deco Lights

My son has his own full faced Iron Man helmet

The second shelve of the showcase. Made Ultron and Iron Monger clobber the Iron Man's

Imaginarium Art in Berjaya Times Square. About RM4,000 a piece 

My lovely wife posing. You can get a view how big is this piece

Predator

Predator first originated from the 1987 movie titled "Predator". 

Staring big guns such as Arnold Schwarzenegger (Dutch), Carl Weathers, Bill Duke and Jesse Ventura.

The premise for the movie is simple. An alien species hunt the hunter. Man sits on the primordial chain hence, he becomes the target.

Here is where Dutch asks the alien, "What the hell are you?" as no one had encountered such an extraterritorial being before. 

Predator is more accurately called Yautja. The species is characterized by their hunting of other dangerous species for sport and honor, including humans and Xenomorph (Alien).

Yautja possess a level of technological advancement far in excess of anything available to humans. They stalk and kill their prey (like how a hunter ambushes their prey) using a combination of highly advanced technology, such as light-bending adaptive camouflage, clothing armament, bandoleers whip, razor sharp serrated retractable blades, explosives, energy weapons, plasma bolt, spears, boomerang, shuriken and nets. 

Yautja often ritualistically mutilate their victims and claim their prey's skull as a trophy. 

Capable of interstellar travel, they have hunted on Earth for centuries and have been known to deliberately breed Xenomorphs in order to hunt them, as part of their initiation rituals.

Yautja's natural vision operates mainly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, i.e. they can easily detect heat differentials in their surroundings but are unable to easily distinguish among objects of the same relative temperature. Hence, their Bio-mask helmet has the ability to see in a variety of spectrum's, ranging from the low infrared to the high ultraviolet and also filters the ambient heat from the area, allowing them to see things with greater clarity and detail.

My son with his 2014 San Diego Comic Con exclusive Ahab Predator

My son's showcase

 Skull of the Xenomorph and Yautja

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Xenomorph and Dutch (Thermal vision range)