Maria Stark Maria Stark Maria Stark is a fictional character appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. She is Howard Stark's wife and Tony Stark's mother. Maria Stark was born Maria Collins Carbonell. In her adulthood, Maria married Howard, and together they had a son that was not her biological son Anthony "Tony" Stark. Maria was unsuccessful in preventing Tony from seeing Howard's alcoholism, something Tony would later face on his own. Howard secretly programmed the Mistress AI that controlled the Arsenal robots with Maria's brain patterns. On the Ides of March, Maria and Howard were killed in a 'planned' car accident
Mabel Stark Mabel Stark Mabel Stark, whose real name was Mary Haynie (December 10, 1889 – April 20, 1968), was a renowned tiger trainer of the 1920s and she was referred to as one of the world's first women tiger trainers/tamers. Stark was born on Dec. 9, 1888 (or 1889) in Smith County Tennessee. In a letter to her niece she listed her birthday as Dec. 9, 1888 but some records show the date as 1889.Her real name was Mary Ann Haynie. Her parents moved to Cobb near Princeton, KY with her and her brother Sam, where her mother's parents were located