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
Robert L. Stark Robert L. Stark Robert L. Stark (born 1951) is an American real estate developer and founder and CEO of Stark Enterprises. Born to a Jewish family in Cleveland, Stark is a graduate of Hawken School (1969), the University of Rochester (B.A. 1975), and Case Western Reserve University School of Law (J.D. 1978). He is a member of the Ohio Bar. He started developing real estate in 1974. In 1990, he developed the Promenade of Westlake, one of the first strip malls that featured upscale tenants, expensive finishes, and a $1 million landscaped center. In 2004, he developed the $450 million