I'm going to have to go back and read the Machine Man mini series that featured Arno Stark, the Iron Man of 2020. Not only to revisit the gorgeous Barry Windsor-Smith artwork, but to see how closely the future depicted resembles the 2020's that have actually come to pass.

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MERLIN: "You are the one they call 'Iron Man,' from the year 2020?"
IRON MAN: "Is that a Yes Arno question...?"
(MERLIN stares for a long, silent moment.) ;)
It wasn't distopian enough to predict what happened.
@Anon638L The Germanic-speaking Saxons would score that a "nein." ;-)
@Ross: I remember reading the trade paperback that reprinted it circa the 1990's. And, in 20/20 hindsight, I'd have to say...frighteningly close!
But, the Midnight Wreckers definitely put the punks in "cyber-punk."
There was a What If comic where Tony Stark was stranded in King Arthur’s time.
Which means this could be King Anthony's 15th-century descendant: King Arno the Iron-hearted.
The prediction made by Hanna-Barbera in SEALAB 2020 still hasn't come to pass, though. Namely; complete lack of any full-functioning undersea colony.
Even more interesting might be teaming him up with Booster Gold, Kamandi, or the Doctor, making him Iron Man 202020.
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