 The second character first appears in "Iron Man" #156 (March 1982) and was created by David Michelinie; John Romita Jr. and Pablo Marcos.Aaron Soames was an elderly, former employee of Cord Conglomerate deprived of his pension benefits by a computer error.Soames stole the prototype suit of Mauler armor in the hopes of punishing Edwin Cord who was indifferent to Soames' plight.