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S o v i et Super Soldiers    Sons of the Serpent

FACTRLE

KEY MEMBERS GENERAL CHEN

The first Supreme Serpent;

A grossły overambrtious indńridual.

DAN DUNN

Co-teader. talk-show host. whłte nght-winger.

MONTAGUE HALE Co-leader and black. Ieft-w»nger. J.C. PENNYSWORTH Head of Richmond Enterprises: sponsor of Sons of the Satan HATE-MONGER Foments hatred and anger. RUSSELL OABOIA MystiC powers.

SKINHEAD Superhuman neo-Nazi.

BASE Califomia

FIRST APPEARANCE

Avengers Vol. 1 #32 (September 1966)

Sons of the Serpent

“As the first serpent drów Adam and Ew front Eden. so shall %ve driw all foreigners trom [his land." This ts the mantra ot* the Sons of the Serpent—an organizntion fuelcd by hatred and sponsored by a lew wealths busincssincn. Target i ng non-wliites. immigrants. and the infirm. the Sons of the Serpent is dedicated to niakntg the US a eitadel of w htte racial supremacy.

During their first bid for power. tltey took Capiain America Itostage to tr\ to lorce the Avengers into publicly supporting their evil cause. Wlten this failed, the Sons dewloped furiher plots ainted at dividing America and black against white. one of wltich actually culntinated itt a mind-controlled Captain America fighting against łtis black partner, the Fai con.

After repeated knock backs. their plans have l>econte nicreasingly desperate. Tltey ltaw even resorted to crudc mysticism. perhaps a sign of their waning influence. At

Lima morc thon a gang of tłmgs. tho Sons of the Serpent wiH attack any imarmod odwluai.

FACTFILE NOTABLE MEMBERS CRIMSON DYNAMO (5)

In armor, has superhuman strength. durability and can fly. URSA MAJOR (3)

Transforms into a largo bear; retains his intelligence whiłe in bear form.

VANGUARD (8)

Foncefield repels virtually all etectromagnetic and kmetic eoergy. By Crossing his hammer and sickle in front of his body. ho can redirect eoergy repeiled by his natura! force field DARKSTAR (6)

Manipulates extradimen$ional eoergy called the Darkforce. TITANIUM MAN (Gremlm) (9) Armor provtded superhuman strength. durability flight; fired force blasts from hands.

BASE

The former Soviet Union, now Russia

Created to be the Soviet Union s answer to the Avenc.kr$. the Soviet Super-Soldiers fiinctioned as that naiion $ defenders through much of" the Luter part of the ColdWar. Bur ewntually, questioning sonie of the order* given to them by the State, tltey rcbclled. and began to operate independently.The Russian goecrnment later sent their replaccment team. the Supreme Soviets, to reclaim the mentbers of the Soviet Super Soldiers and bring them back into linę—-an attempt that met with failure.

Thereafter, with the fali of communism and the dissolurion of the Soviet Union, the surviving mentbers of botlt the Soviet Super Soldiers and the Supreme Soviet joined forccs with other new heroes to become first the Feople s Protectorate, then the Winter Guard. still dedicated to using their great powers to defend their homeland. no matter wito mled it. TB

FIRST APPEARANCE

Increćibte Hułk #258 (Aphl 1981)

Soldiers

Soyiet Super

SOVIET SUPER SOLDIERS

1 Rod Guardian 2 Unidcntifiod 3 Ursa Mafcr 4 Uiwdentifiod B Crimson Dynamo B Darkstar 7 Urndentified 8 Vangu>ird 9 Titaniurn Man (Tho Gromłn) 10 Unidcntifiod 11 Uridontifiod | 12 ' Jrndor.tV.j 13    14 ■

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