Pepper Potts

Virginia "Pepper" Potts is a fictional character, a supporting character and a romantic love interest of Iron Man in the Marvel Comics Universe. She first appears in Tales of Suspense #45 (September 1963) and was created by Stan Lee and Don Heck.

In 2007, she joined the Fifty State Initiative under the codename Hera, and after being given her own suit of armor by Tony Stark, assumed the identity of Rescue in The Invincible Iron Man #10 (though she first identified herself as such in issue #14).

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