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 Soviet Super Soldiers #1 (November 1992) Cover art byAngel Medina and Jeff Albrecht | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #258 (April 1981) |
| Created by | Bill Mantlo Sal Buscema |
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TheSoviet Super-Soldiers (Russian:Советкие Суперсолдаты,romanized: Sovetskiye Supersoldaty) are a fictional team ofsuper heroes appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. The team first appeared inThe Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #258 (April 1981).[1] The team's storylines are a reflection of the American public's understanding of US/Soviet relations during theCold War era.[2]
The Soviet Super-Soldiers were a superteam that was brought together by the Soviet government of Russia to be the counterpart of American teams such as theAvengers and theFantastic Four.[1]Professor Phobos founded this government program to locate and train superhuman beings in service of the state.[3] The school's first student wasMikhail Ursus, who became known as Ursa Major. He was soon followed by siblingsLaynia Petrovna andNikolai Krylenko, who became known as Darkstar and Vanguard, respectively. These threemutants joined withDmitri Bukharin, the fifthCrimson Dynamo, to form the initial lineup of the Soviet Super-Soldiers.[4][5]
The Super-Soldiers played an active role as a pawn in a competition betweenGrandmaster andDeath.[6][7][8] The Soviet government sent the Super-Soldiers to Khystym to battle theGremlin, and then foughtRom andStarshine.[9] Allied with Rom and Starshine, the Soviet Super-Soldiers fought theDire Wraiths. The team became allies of the Gremlin, and took over the Dire Wraith base in Khystym as the new Soviet Super-Soldiers headquarters.[10] The Soviet Super-Soldiers later agreed to bringMagneto to justice. They fought theAvengers, and expelled the Crimson Dynamo as he was still loyal to the KGB.[11][12][13] The Gremlin joined the team for a time while wearing theTitanium Man armor, but he was killed in action by (Tony Stark)Iron Man.[14]
The three mutants Vanguard, Darkstar, and Ursa Major later decided to sever their ties with the Soviet government, and arrived atAvengers Island, and askedCaptain America to help them seek political asylum in America. However, the three were beaten nearly to death, captured and returned to the Soviet states by the government-sponsored Supreme Soviets, who had been joined by the Crimson Dynamo.[15] The comatose subconscious minds of the injured Vanguard, Darkstar, and Ursa Major formed a "Great Beast" that attempted to drain the life energies of the Supreme Soviets. Captain America stopped the Beast, and Vanguard, Darkstar, and Ursa Major regained consciousness and began recovering from their injuries.[16]
Eventually, the team took on new members Blind Faith,Stencil,Sibercat and added former members of the Supreme Soviets: the thirdRed Guardian,Fantasia,Perun,Sputnik and the returning Crimson Dynamo.[17] This team became known as theWinter Guard not long afterwards.[18]
The Soviet Super-Soldiers, the Russian equivalent of the Avengers, were a team of super-powered individuals assembled by the Soviet government in this issue by writer Bill Mantlo and artist Sal Buscema.
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