‘Iron Max': Marvel Features Boy With Hemophilia in Comic Book

When 3-year-old Max Levy needed to get a metal disk surgically inserted into his chest to allow easier treatments for his blood disorder, his father struggled with how to tell him the news, NBC News reported.

Then dad got an idea.

"We had just seen the movie 'Iron Man' few days before," said Dan Levy. "I said to him, 'Do you remember the scene where Tony Stark takes the port, takes the arch reactor out of his chest and puts the new one in? ... you're going to get one of those."

"'I get to be Iron Man'" Max responded, according to his father.

And that's when "Iron Max" was born.

When Marvel, the creators of Iron Man, caught wind of Max's story and Zoe's work, which raised $7,000 for CHOP, they reached out to Levy.

Marvel was hoping that other sick children would be encouraged by Max's story too. The comic book that Max appeared in didn't just have a cartoon drawing of him, but his photo was also featured in the back.

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