Iron Man (1968) #285
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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.
When Janet Van Dyne's father died, she convinced her father's associate Hank Pym to give her a supply of "Pym particles"; Pym also subjected her to a procedure which granted her the ability to, upon shrinking, grow wings and fire blasts of energy, which she called her "wasp's stings."
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.