We know that Tony Stark's a player. Hell, he can't go on a jaunt into outer space without sleeping with Thanos' estranged daughter.

But thanks to the Village Voice's Alan Scherstuhl's review of the new Marvel "chick-lit" novels, Rogue Touch by Christine Woodward and The She-Hulk Diaries By Marta Acosta, we have these pearls of… wisdom.

While not a key figure here, Stark, an ex of Jennifer's, figures into Acosta's two choicest pieces of Marvel Universe gossip: 1. He is an "amazing" lover but "he's always more interested in the real-time hologram display over his bed than in his lovely partner"; 2. He invented nanobots to "retrieve wayward sperm."

Of course, Stark knows of what he speaks. As we are discovering in Iron Man, he's getting to grips with his own genetic engineering, and exactly what it is intended that he do with it.

But we also get the first, honest to goodness, appearance of Tony Stark in today's Iron Man.

Everybody say "awwww." And try not to think about the nanobot retrieval system.