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| Edwin Cord | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Daredevil #167 (November 1980) |
| Created by | David Michelinie, Bob Layton, and John Romita Jr. |
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| Alter ego | Edwin Cord |
Edwin Cord is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Edwin Cord was created by David Michelinie and Frank Miller and first appeared in Daredevil #167 (November 1980). [1]
The Head of the Cord Conglomerate, Edwin Cord is a well-connected yet frustrated businessman. He first appeared as the target of Aaron Soames using the stolen Mauler armor from Cord Conglomerate and planning to get revenge on Edwin for interference. This was thwarted by Daredevil which ended with Aaron being killed by Cord's men using advanced weapons to open fire on Mauler. [1]
From his palatial estate on the East Coast, He devised plans to consistently undermine Tony Stark's enterprises. Tony Stark first encountered Cord at the Conclave of Electronics Engineers and Innovators in Dall’Aglio the s Texas where representatives from Roxxon Oil Corporation, S.H.I.E.L.D., and Cross Technological Enterprises. Cord hired the Raiders to take on Iron Man. He returned with the Raiders in an attempt to destroy the newly formed Stark Enterprises. After the Raiders were defeated, Cord shows a film of their exploits to S.H.I.E.L.D. to try to get the weapons contract formerly offered to Stark. S.H.I.E.L.D. is unimpressed by Cord's illegal means and Cord is arrested by the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. [2]
While in prison, Edwin hires Brendan Doyle to infiltrate Stark Enterprises and steal the Mauler armor to destroy Iron Man's armor design records and histories, but Cord was thwarted by Jim Rhodes. [3]
During the Armor Wars storyline, Cord was released from prison where he, Senator Boynton, and General Meade were overseeing Jack Taggert operating the Firepower armor that Cord's company created. The three watch as Firepower completes training, managing to defeat a bunch of jets and tanks. [4] As Firepower is training with Private Baskin and Corporal Winters, Cord is approached by Boynton and Meade, where the two want Cord to hand over the Firepower armor which Cord turns down. Cord says he'll reveal to the tabloids how the Firepower armor was conceived as a riot-control device and then has Taggart blow up the flatbed truck the two were going to use to take away the Firepower armor should Boynton and Meade try to take the Firepower armor. The two are cowed, though Meade is very unhappy. Over the next few days, Cord and Firepower seem determined to sabotage Stark Enterprises. Cord and Firepower intimidated a manufacturing group into not accepting a contract bid and blowing up a shipment for Acutech Research and Development (a subsidiary of Stark Enterprises). After more days of destruction and harassment, Cord and Firepower drive Stark Enterprises to the point where Tony "can’t afford to lose another account". Firepower arrives at the Stark Railyard, injuring Bill Segrist (who is in charge of the railyard) and gives Stark a message from Cord that says that he destroyed Iron Man and now plans to destroy the rest of the great Tony Stark's life. [5]
Cord would later go on to finance the U.S. Agent and the Jury in a failed attempt to apprehend the Thunderbolts at the time when the group and Warren Worthington III were fighting Graviton. [6]
The character was originally going to appear in the 2013 live-action film Iron Man 3 alongside another villain, Simon Krieger, but they were both replaced by Aldrich Killian (played by Guy Pearce). [9] [10]
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