Tales of Suspense (1959) #97
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Vowing to serve his country any way he could, young Steve Rogers took the super soldier serum to become America's one-man army. Fighting for the red, white and blue for over 60 years, Captain America is the living, breathing symbol of freedom and liberty.
Wounded, captured and forced to build a weapon by his enemies, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark instead created an advanced suit of armor to save his life and escape captivity. Now with a new outlook on life, Tony uses his money and intelligence to make the world a safer, better place as Iron Man.
Filled with dreams of grandeur, Mark Scarlotti was a brilliant young man with a bright future who graduated with top honors from college and immediately had a promising job at Stark International, but it all went south, however, when he became friends with the wrong people who wanted him to develop weapons, which Scarlotti used to become the first Whiplash.