How Tony Stark Met Your Mother

Decades before Barney Stinson created The Playbook, Tony Stark was the master of schemes to get more than his fair share of women.

For example, many readers in the 1960s wondered:

Oh, you naive younglings. The answer is so obvious:

Ahhh, "The I'm Dying So I Can't Commit (For Your Own Protection)." A classic. What woman could resist? Hell, that's even better than "The Ted Mosby".

From Tales Of Suspense #55 (1964).