Drexel Cord

Drexel Cord is a fictional businessman and inventor featured in comic book issues published by Marvel Comics. He made a single appearance in June, 1968 in Iron Man, Volume 1 #2.

Overview
Drexel Cord was a businessman, mad scientist and inventor. He was the father of Janice Cord and an enemy of Iron Man.

Biography
Drexel Cord was an inventor with an unstable mind. He lived in a castle laboratory, not far from Long Island Sound. Cord was a business rival of industrialist Tony Stark and believed himself to be the superior intellect. However, his ego could not allow Stark's success to flourish, so he demonstrated his skill by creating the Demolisher robot, which he believed was strong enough to destroy even Iron Man.

The robot proved victorious at first, attacking Tony Stark aboard his yacht and bringing him back to Cord's castle. However, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jasper Sitwell raided Cord's castle, so the inventor set an auto-destruct sequence. Something went wrong however, and the Demolisher raged out of control, even to the point of threatening Cord's own daughter, Janice. Realizing the error of his ways, Cord decided to work with Iron Man in destroying his creation. While Drexel distracted the Demolisher, Iron Man attacked the robot from behind, mangling it's internal circuitry, rendering it inert.