Tim Gunn is a busy man – mentoring aspiring designers on Project Runway, advising the fashion-challenged on Tim Gunn’s Guide To Style – but life is about to get a little busier now that he’s playing the literal fashion police in a four-issue Marvel Comics series.

“The Loaded Gunn” storyline will appear in Marvel’s revival of their 1960s comic Models Inc.  In the story, Tim helps save superhero suits from evil villains.  Marvel editor Charlie Beckerman calls it “a little `America’s Next Top Model’ — without Tyra (Banks) — and a little `Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.’”

Of starring in a comic, Tim said:

“It’s exciting and exhilarating, but bizarre. When they came to me, I said, ‘I’m about to turn 56 years old. Are they crazy?’ But it kept revealing itself in layers and next thing, I’m wearing the `Iron Man’ suit. I was dumbstruck. Most superheroes are fighting the same thing  — good vs. evil — but who’s taking on crimes against fashion? Me!”

Tim Gunn in the Iron Man suit?  I’d like to see that in real life!  Keep up the fight, Tim!

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