Jordan and Jonathan really did seem to worship Tony.
Their excitement practically burst from their eyes.
Leon spread his hands. "All right, I won't say anything. For the kids' sake."
The two brothers stared at Tony with shining eyes. "So you really are Tony! Iron Man!"
"Of course. Why not?" Tony spread his arms. "Come on, kids. Autographs or photos, anything goes."
Tilting his head, he whispered to Leon, "What's going on? Has Iron Man's reputation really spread across all worlds?"
Leon merely smiled without answering.
Jordan and Jonathan, on the other hand, were genuinely beside themselves with excitement.
Cheering, they ran upstairs. A few seconds later, they thundered back down and held a huge stack of comic books out to Tony.
"Sorry for the trouble, but could you sign all of these?"
"Oh, right, right! We want one signature as Tony Stark and one as Iron Man! Both!"
Tony stared blankly at those comic books.
"Invincible Iron Man"
"Iron Age"
"I Am Iron Man"
"Iron Man Vol. 1"
They were all Iron Man trade paperbacks.
Above the large titles on the covers were Marvel logos.
Tony opened "Iron Man Vol. 1" and found that it told a story remarkably similar to his own.
He checked the others, only to find that they too contained Iron Man comic stories.
Some of those stories even featured Spider-Man and Thor.
After looking through them for quite a while,
Tony turned back to Leon with a dazed look. "Marvel is a comic book company, so... our world is a comic too?"
"Mm... more or less." Leon patted Tony's shoulder while using World Power to soothe his mind.
Finding out that you were a comic book character was still a huge psychological blow.
In the comics, there had once been a storyline where