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1 THE BIG IDEA Los Angeles the 1980s which were not as bad as people think Tony Stark paced the lacquered wooden floor outside his father's office chewing one stick of gum after another For three hours he'd had to hang around waiting for a meeting with his own dad It was ridiculous Forcing your only son to wait on a sunny day was teenage teenage Tony felt sure against some universal good parenting guidelines Especially since Tony was about to change the face of Stark Industries forever All his life Howard Stark had griped that nobody ever brought him the big idea and he had to think of everything himself Now Tony had that big idea in his backpack and dear old dad was making him
