 Detroit Steel first appeared in "The Invincible Iron Man" (vol 5) #25 (June 2010), the first part of the nine-part "Stark Resilient" storyline, which depicted Tony Stark's struggle to build the new company Stark Resilient.and to begin by building a car powered by clean repulsor technology (the same technology used to power the arc reactor).Writer Matt Fraction created Detroit Steel to embody jingoistic patriotism in the vein of "", and describes the character thus