Steel (John Henry Irons) Steel (John Henry Irons) Steel (John Henry Irons) also known as the Man of Steel is a fictional comic book superhero in DC Comics. Introduced in 1993 as one of several replacement characters for the then-deceased Superman, Steel continued to be an independent superhero after Superman's resurrection. He received his own ongoing series which saw him move from Metropolis to Washington, D.C. and join the Justice League of America in Grant Morrison's "JLA". He later mentored his niece Natasha Irons who became a superheroine herself. First appearing in "The Adventures of Superman" #500 (June 1993), he is the second character
Ant-Man teams such as joining "Avengers: The Initiative" as his first team and then joining "The Thunderbolts" but more recently "Secret Avengers", where the character perished heroically while defending a child against the villain known as Father. Ant-Man Ant-Man is the name of several fictional superheroes appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby, Ant-Man's first appearance was in "Tales to Astonish" #35 (September 1962). The persona was originally the brilliant scientist Hank Pym's superhero alias after inventing a substance that can change size, but Scott Lang and Eric O'Grady also took on