CRIMSON DYNAMO
Real Name: Dmitri Ivanovitch Bukharin
Identity/Class: Human technology user;
citizen of Russia
Occupation: Colonel, adventurer; former KGB agent
Group Membership: Winter Guard (Chernobog, Darkstar/Laynia Petrovna, Perun, Red Widow, Ursa Major/Mikhail Ursus, Vanguard/Nikolai Krylenko, Vostok);
formerly Legion Accursed, People's Protectorate/Supreme Soviets (Fantasma, Perun, Red Guardian/Josef Petkus, Vostok), Soviet Super-Soldiers (Darkstar/Laynia Petrovna, Titanium Man/Kondrati Topolov, Ursa Major/Mikhail Ursus, Vanguard/Nikolai Krylenko), KGB
Affiliations:
Alpha Flight (Box/Madison Jeffries, Diamond Lil/Lillian Crawley, Guardian/Heather Hudson, Puck/Eugene Judd, Shaman/Michael Twoyoungmen), Avengers (Captain America/Steve Rogers, Quasar/Wendell Vaughn, Sersi, Stingray/Walter Newell, Vision), Beetle (Abner Jenkins), Blacklash (Mark Scarlotti), Blizzard (Donald Gill), Yuri Brevlov, Diablo (Esteban Corazón de Ablo), Doppelganger (Dr. Wolfgang Heinrich),
Gorilla-Man (Kenneth Hale),
Half-Face (Trung Tuan), High Evolutionary (Herbert Wyndham), Jack of Hearts (Jonathan Hart), Inoshiro Kondo, Nikolai Kutzov, Mephisto, New Men, Protectorate (Powersurge/Illarion Ramskov, Starlight/Tania Belinsky, Vanguard/Nikolai Krylenko), Jocasta Pym,
Russian Executive Security Committee, Fyodr Shelkov, S.H.I.E.L.D., S.I.C.K.L.E. (Vassily Rossovich, General Toma Zaslon, others), Space Phantom, Titanium Man (Boris Bullski), Titanium Man (Kondrati Topolov),
Yuri Trifanov, Ulik, Alexi Vazhin, Winter Guard (Crimson Dynamo/Galina Nemirovsky, Darkstar/Reena Stancioff, Red Guardian/Anton, Ursa Major/Mikhail Ursus);
formerly Crimson Dynamo (Boris Vadim), Darkstar (Sasha Roerich), Iron Man (Tony Stark)
Enemies: Arcturus, Atlanteans,
Avengers (Black Panther/T'Challa, Blade/Eric Brooks, Captain America/Steve Rogers, Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers, Ghost Rider/Robbie Reyes, Hulk/Jennifer Walters, Iron Man/Tony Stark, Thor/Odinson),
Beyonder, Black Panther (T'Challa), Black Widow (Natasha Romanova), Boy-Thing, Commander Huyadi, Controller (Basil Sandhurst), Darkstar (Laynia Petrovna),
Defenders of the Deep (Andromeda, Bloodtide, Echidna, King Crab, Manowar, Namor, Orka, Piranhas, Tiger Shark/Todd Arliss),
Deterrence Research Corporation (Moses Magnum, others), Dire Wraiths, a dragon, Igor Drenkov, Emperor Doom (Victor von Doom), Fantasma, Green Liberation Front, H.A.M.M.E.R. (Victoria Hand, Norman Osborn, others), Hercules, Hulk (Bruce Banner), Human Torch (Johnny Storm),
Intelligencia (Awesome Android, Klaw (actually Chameleon/Dmitri Smerdyakov posing as Klaw), Mad Thinker, M.O.D.O.K./George Tarleton, Red Ghost/Ivan Kragoff, Super-Apes, Wizard/Bentley Wittman),
Iron Man (Tony Stark), Cissy Ironwood, Professor Daniel Ironwood,
Legion of the Unliving (Baroness Blood/Lily Cromwell, Carpathian, Rat Bomber, Sarge, Shadow Colonel/Xarus, Snowsnake),
Leviathon, mammoths, Melinda May, Orka, the Pantheon (Ajax, Atalanta, Hector, Ulysses), Peace Corpse, Presence (Sergei Krylov), Psylocke (Elizabeth Braddock), Red Ghost (Ivan Kragoff), Red Guardian (Alexei Shostakov), Rigellians, Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd), Valentin Shatalov, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Thing (Ben Grimm), Thor (Odinson), Tyrak, U-Man, unidentified eScape players, Victorious (Zora Vukovic), Vishte, Warpath (James Proudstar), Weapon X (Domino/Neena Thurman, Lady Deathstrike/Yuriko Oyama, Logan of Earth-21923, Omega Red/Arkady Rossovich, Sabretooth/Victor Creed), White Widow (Yelena Belova), Winter Soldier (James Barnes), X-Factor (Angel/Warren Worthington III, Beast/Henry McCoy, Cyclops/Scott Summers, Iceman/Bobby Drake, Marvel Girl/Jean Grey), X-Men (Dazzler/Alison Blair, Havok/Alex Summers, Magneto/Max Eisenhardt, Rogue/Anna Marie, Storm/Ororo Munroe, Wolverine/James "Logan" Howlett);
formerly Ursa Major (Mikhail Ursus), Vanguard (Nikolai Krylenko)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: Airstrike, "Krashni Denamit" (rough translation into Russian of Crimson Dynamo); impersonated Iron Man
Base of Operations: Mobile in the the Uragan Mobile Command Center (a train);
Winter Guard's headquarters in Moscow, Russia;
formerly the Citadel in Russia;
formerly a military base in Arkhangelsk, Russia;
formerly the People's Protectorate headquarters;
formerly KGB Headquarters, Moscow;
formerly Doppelganger's laboratory complex, Siberia;
place of birth Kuybyshev, Russia
First Appearance: (As Crimson Dynamo) Iron Man I#109 (April, 1978); (as Airstrike) Soviet Super-Soldiers#1 (November, 1992)
Powers/Abilities: The capabilities of the Airstrike armor are not known. It contains blasters in its wrists, and presumably affords Dmitri defense and flight abilities.
The suits of Crimson Dynamo armor that Dmitri wore granted him superhuman strength and durability, could fly, contained hand-blasters, missiles, and radio equipment.
Height: 6'2"; (Airstrike armor) 6'6"; (Dynamo Mark III) 6'5"; (Dynamo Mark IV) 6'10"; (Dynamo Mark IV-X) 9'3"
Weight: 200 lbs.; (Airstrike armor) 390 lbs.; (Dynamo Mark III) 575 lbs.; (Dynamo Mark IV) 420 lbs.; (Dynamo Mark IV-X) 1250 lbs.
Eyes: Brown (or blue; depending on the artist)
Hair: Bald (brown mustache)
History:
(Iron Man I#109 (fb) - BTS) - After Yuri Petrovitch was retired as the
Crimson Dynamo, the Russian government selected KGB operative Dmitri
Bukharin as the new wearer of the armor, and he was sent to work
alongside their superhuman agents Vanguard and Darkstar.
(Iron Man I#110 (fb)) - The Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar and Vanguard took a ship to Earth's moon to investigate a signal coming from the Blue Area of the Moon. They were shot by members of the extraterrestrial Rigellian race, who mistook them for their enemies, the Knights of Wundagore. They crashed on the moon.
(Iron Man I#109) - Three days later, Jack of Hearts and Iron Man arrived on the moon, also investigating the signal. The Crimson Dynamo mistakenly thought they were responsible for attacking them, and began a fight. Iron Man in turn mistook Bukharin for his predecessor, Alex Nevsky. When Darkstar realized that a mistake had been made, she had Bukharin unmask to prove to Iron Man that he was not Nevsky. Iron Man and Jack of Hearts went on to investigate the Rigellian vessel orbiting the moon.
(Iron Man I#110-111) - The Crimson Dynamo repaired their communications equipment from their craft, and they received a transmission from their superiors in Russia, asking them to work alongside Tony Stark and S.H.I.E.L.D. against the Rigellian menace.
(Iron Man I#112) - The three Russians aided Jack of Hearts against the Rigellians until the battle finally came to an end when Recorder#211 relieved the Rigellian fleet commander Arcturus of his command.
(Marvel Team-Up Annual I#2) - The Crimson Dynamo, Vanguard and Darkstar invaded the U.S. to kidnap Dr. Daniel Ironwood on behalf of the KGB's Nikolai Kutzov, who wanted Ironwood to build an anti-matter bomb. They wound up taking Dr. Ironwood's daughter Cissy captive as well. When Alexi Vazhin, Spider-Man and Bruce Banner came to the site of the bomb's construction, the three Russian heroes fought them, and the Crimson Dynamo was beaten unconscious by Spider-Man.
(Incredible Hulk II#250) - When the Silver Surfer passed through Russian airspace, the Crimson Dynamo and Darkstar monitored him from the air.
(Incredible Hulk II#258) - The Soviet Super-Soldiers were brought together by Colonel Yuri Brevlov and had Ursa Major added to their ranks for a mission to the "Forbidden Zone," the site of a nuclear detonation by the Presence. They were to investigate what was causing the radiation to spread. When they were teleported there by Darkstar, they found themselves face-to-face with the Hulk, and attacked him, thinking he was somehow responsible. The Hulk resisted all of the Crimson Dynamo's weaponry, and knocked him unconscious.
(Incredible Hulk II#259) - Darkstar teleported the Crimson Dynamo to a hospital where he could be treated for his injuries.
(Marvel Super-Hero Contest of Champions#1) - The Soviet Super-Soldiers attacked the Red Ghost in Novaya Zemlya to prevent him from starting tremors that would topple Russia's cities, but they were suddenly teleported away by the Grandmaster as potential participants in his game with Death.
(Marvel Super-Hero Contest of Champions#2-3 - BTS) - The Crimson Dynamo and the other Soviet Super-Soldiers remained in stasis while the game was played out, and were finally returned home when it concluded.
(Marvel Team-Up Annual#7/2) - The Crimson Dynamo fought the Human Torch and Black Panther for unknown reasons, and was ultimately defeated by them and turned over to the FBI.
(Secret Wars II#7) - The Crimson Dynamo was among the super-villains gathered by Mephisto as the Legion Accursed to attack the Beyonder in an attempt to kill him, but they were prevented from attacking him by the Thing.
(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition#5 - Crimson Dynamo) - Bukharin was given new armor designed by the Gremlin.
(X-Factor Annual#1) - The Crimson Dynamo was employed as defense at Doppelganger's laboratory in Siberia where mutants were being held for experiments. He fought X-Factor when they entered the complex, and was defeated when Iceman gave him Doppelganger's surrender code.
(X-Men Vs. Avengers#1) - The Crimson Dynamo helped the other Soviet Super-Soldiers (who had quit working for the government and teamed up with the Gremlin as the Titanium Man), in battling a fire at a railroad yard. The Soviet Super-Soldiers no longer trusted Bukharin because he was KGB, but he convinced them to aid him on a mission to investigate the crash of Magneto's Asteroid M base in Russian territory. When they caught up to Magneto in Kampuchea, they found the Avengers and the X-Men standing alongside him. When they refused to turn Magneto over, they attacked.
(X-Men Vs. Avengers#2) - The Crimson Dynamo's armor was badly damaged by Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), and he was incapacitated along with his comrades when Dr. Druid took over Darkstar's mind and made her bind them in her Darkforce.
(X-Men Vs. Avengers#3) - The Titanium Man managed to snap Darkstar out of Dr. Druid's control, and they pursued Magneto's trail to Singapore. They again fought the Avengers and X-Men aboard a ship Magneto was traveling on, and the Crimson Dynamo blasted a hole in the ship's side, nearly sinking it. After performing a rescue operation, the Avengers revealed to the Soviet Super-Soldiers that the Crimson Dynamo was responsible, and they swore off the pursuit of Magneto so that they could turn Bukharin over to maritime authorities.
(Iron Man I#229) - The Crimson Dynamo and Titanium Man were summoned together by the Russian government, who informed them of how Iron Man had been attacking armored people in the United States, and was certain to pursue them sooner or later. Bukharin had only one more week of service to the state as the Crimson Dynamo, but was committed to aid them against Iron Man. However, the Titanium Man refused to cooperate with the government. The government decided to use the Titanium Man as bait, and waited for Iron Man to come after him at his base, Bitterfrost. When Iron Man arrived, the Crimson Dynamo joined the fray, but Iron Man used a negator pack to short out his armor, rendering it useless.
(Captain America I#353 (fb) - BTS) - The Crimson Dynamo's armor was repaired and he remained in active service, now alongside the Supreme Soviets.
(Captain America I#353) - As a member of the Supreme Soviets, the Crimson Dynamo was disguised by Fantasia as Iron Man as they stole onto Avengers Island to assassinate Darkstar, Vanguard and Ursa Major, who were attempting to defect. When the three defectors appeared dead, they teleported away.
(Captain America I#354) - When "the Great Beast" created by Darkstar, Vanguard and Ursa Major's subconsciousness attacked Moscow, the Supreme Soviets responded, and were absorbed into the creature, where the three defectors intended to have revenge by killing them, but Captain America convinced the trio to let the Supreme Soviets live.
(Iron Man Annual I#10/2) - Dmitri visited a bar in the United States, and alongside Half-Face, the Space Phantom, Inoshiro Kondo, Blizzard, Beetle and Blacklash, swapped stories about battling Iron Man. They all fled when Iron Man suddenly entered the bar.
(Soviet Super-Soldiers#1) - After halting some environmental activists in Yvborg with the Supreme Soviets, the Crimson Dynamo met with Fyodr Shelkov who told him that his army service extension to the Supreme Soviets had been rescinded, and either he or the armor would have to be turned over. Three days later they met with Colonel-General Valentin Shatalov, who ordered Bukharin to recover the original Titanium Man, who had been lost in New York City when a card he had electronically transferred his essence to had been torn into pieces. Dmitri began to retrieve the card fragments so that he could be re-integrated, but the Titanium Man's one-time allies in the Green Liberation Front were accidentally reactivated, and being anti-Russian, attacked the Crimson Dynamo. He was forced to bring the Titanium Man back for aid, and because parts of his body were missing, the Titanium Man went on a rampage, killing all of the Green Liberation Front. Bukharin drew Titanium Man over the Atlantic Ocean, then returned him to card form.
By the time Bukharin brought the Titanium Man to Shatalov, the scandal over the massacre in the U.S. was enough to force Bukharin to turn over the Crimson Dynamo armor. He realized that this was what Shatalov had wanted all along. He returned to his teammates, now calling themselves the People's Protectorate, and told them that he could no longer be the Crimson Dynamo, but they refused to accept his resignation -- they had already fashioned a new identity for him in the Protectorate as Airstrike, and he attended the team's first press conference.
(Avengers I#319) - The People's Protectorate were sent after the British submarine Waterwind, which had been captured by the Russian terrorists Peace Corpse. When the Avengers came after the submarine as well, the two teams quarreled over jurisdictions. Their fight was interrupted by the arrival of Atlanteans led by Tyrak, Orka and U-Man.
(Avengers I#320) - The two teams fought off the Atlanteans together, then agreed to cooperate in pursuing the Waterwind as it surfaced in St. John's, Newfoundland. They were confronted there by Alpha Flight, who claimed jurisdiction over both teams.
(Avengers I#321-322) - While some of the heroes confronted the Peace Corpse within the Waterwind, the Atlanteans attacked St. John's, and the Crimson Dynamo joined in the fight against them. Battling U-Man, he generated heat from his armor to quickly dehydrate him. He finally turned U-Man over to Alpha Flight's Guardian to deal with.
(Avengers I#323) - When the nuclear missiles aboard Waterwind were set off, Shaman teleported all of the bystanders into alien dimensions, including the Crimson Dynamo, who appeared in a dimension of black skies and purple water alongside Tyrak, Madison Jeffries, Orka, Puck, Quasar and Perun. They made psychic contact with Fantasma, and gradually linked up to the heroes scattered in all of the dimensions. Suddenly, the leaders of the Peace Corpse appeared, mutated into the superhuman Combine.
(Avengers I#324) - The heroes fought the Combine until the other four members of Peace Corpse were able to merge with the Combine, rendering the entity benign, and it departed. All of the heroes were returned to St. John's by Shaman, and departed in peace.
(X-Men: To Serve & Protect#4/4 (fb)) - Hercules and Psylocke beat up Crimson Dynamo and armed Russian operatives in London.
(Infinity Gauntlet I#2) - The Avengers were in contact with superhumans all over the world when natural disasters ravaged Earth. Among them was Crimson Dynamo.
(Incredible Hulk II#393) - The People's Protectorate were sent to retrieve former KGB agent Igor Drenkov from the U.S., but ran into the Pantheon, led by the Hulk. The Crimson Dynamo fought the Hulk, but was defeated when he was thrown into an electrified Perun. Vostok used his unconscious body to attack the Hulk, manipulating the armor, but the Hulk managed to incapacitate Vostok. The Hulk finally revealed that he had only wanted to teach Drenkov a lesson for having turned him into the Hulk years ago.
(Darkstar and the Winter Guard#1 (fb)) - The People's Protectorate split up after Darkstar died while working for the X-Corporation.
(Darkstar and the Winter Guard#2 (fb) - BTS) - The problem between the team members was that a new Darkstar was created after Vanguard's sister had died.
(Darkstar and the Winter Guard#1 (fb)) - Crimson Dynamo and Vanguard nearly got into a fight over it. Fantasma, Powersurge, Steel Guardian and Vanguard left the team.
(Invincible Iron Man II#14) - Bukharin was stationed at a base in Arkhangelsk, Russia and fired missiles at someone wearing an old Iron Man armor. He then put on his current Crimson Dynamo armor and attacked this Iron Man. Tony had shaved his head, but ultimately was able to convince Dmitri that he was his old friend Tony and needed Dmitri's help. Inside the base Bukharin realized that Tony would not be able to use this old armor again after he had completely broken it. Tony explained that he was in the process of deleting all his memories by hooking himself up to repulsor generators he had hidden around the world and he needed to get to a workshop he had set up in Kirensk, Russia. Dmitri loaned his Crimson Dynamo armor to Tony so he could get to where he needed to be and not get stopped by the Russian military.
Colonel Bukharin later received a call from H.A.M.M.E.R. and U.S. National Security director Norman Osborn, who was on the hunt for Rescue (Pepper Pott) and Tony Stark. He knew that Rescue had entered Russian airspace and asked Bukharin for permission to enter it as well to apprehend her and maybe even Stark if he was there as well. Bukharin denied him permission, but was okay with Potts flying around Russia. He didn't trust Osborn at all and told him to go to Hell.
(Invincible Iron Man II#17) - Osborn flew the H.A.M.M.E.R. Helicarrier without permission into Russian airspace and gave Bukharin a courtesy call to inform him that Victoria Hand would send down agents within the next seven minutes. Bukharin called it an act of aggression against Russia, but Osborn claimed that he had intel on a Chchnyan splinter cell from purchasing fissionable material from a disgruntled ex-Soviet military group. In return Osborn wanted Stark and Bukharin caved because he could save millions and his own job with the info provided by Osborn. As soon as the call was over, Osborn ordered Hand to fabricate someone Bukharin could actually arrest.
(Hulk: Winter Guard#1/3 (fb) - BTS) - The Russian Executive Security Committee appointed Bukharin as the Winter Guard's strategic liaison.
(Hulk: Winter Guard#1/3) - Sasha Roerich, the current Darkstar, reported to Bukharin that she had memories of the original Darkstar floating around her head and believed it had something to do with the DNA of the original being used to grant her the powers of Darkstar. Bukharin believed it to be a mere side effect of over-exerting her powers and no reason to decommission her. She was healthy according to her physical and psychological tests, but he ordered some more tests just to make sure.
Bukharin informed the rest of the team that Roerich was in recovery and then sent the Winter Guard without her to stop the Soviet Revolutionaries Remont Six, who had raided an A.I.M. facility outside the Forbidden Zone. While they were already out fighting Remont Six, Bukharin told Darkstar where they were because she insisted to help her teammates. She died during the mission and Bukharin had to replace her as Darkstar with Reena Stancioff.
(Darkstar and the Winter Guard#1 (fb)) - Bukharin welcomed the Winter Guard (Crimson Dynamo/Galina Nemirovsky, Darkstar/Reena Stancioff, Red Guardian/Anton and Ursa Major) back in the Citadel, a former Dire Wraith base turned into the Winter Guard's headquarter. He congratulated them on their successful mission and told them to rest up. Colonel Vazhin had Colonel Bukharin review the team and was concerned about Presence still being locked up in the facility. Vazhin gave Bukharin the file for the Winter Guard's next mission in St. Petersburg where they picked up former People's Protectorate member Fantasma falling through a tear in reality. They brought her back to the Citadel where Bukharin was shocked to see her because she had not been seen since the People's Protectorate split up. Fantasma suddenly awakened and warned Bukharin about an undefined threat that would bring death to them before passing out again.
(Darkstar and the Winter Guard#2 (fb)) - Bukharin and Ursus talked to Fantasma to see what she remembered, but she claimed she only remembered cloudy images from her past with them though she knew that the Citadel was the place where she was supposed to be. She couldn't tell them anything new about the threat she had told about earlier. Galina and Anton informed Bukharin and the and the rest of the team that something else had come through the reality tear that led to some king of Limbo and it was other lost members of the Protectorate (Powersurge, Starlight and Vanguard). The Winter Guard decided to just introduce themselves to the Protectorate, but Bukharin wanted Fantasma to stay behind after all she had gone through to recover.
Bukharin gave Fantasma a tour of the Citadel and told her that most of their prisoners were transferred to the Mantlov Facility except for the Presence. Fantasma suddenly ran away screaming that she had to save them all when she was confronted with Presence. Bukharin went looking for her and found her with the computer's help in a restricted area of the sub-basement filled with eggs. Fantasma finally realized that she was a Dire Wraith herself and was there to help the unfertilized eggs get born and then raise them. Bukharin fled and told the computer to contact the Winter Guard and support staff while he rushed to the armory with Fantasma close behind him.
(Darkstar and the Winter Guard#3 (fb)) - Bukharin in the Ultra-Dynamo armor welcomed the Winter Guard and Protectorate back at the Citadel. The Protectorate had already told the Winter Guard about Fantasma being a threat and Bukharin gave them an update on the base's Dire Wraith infestation and that Fantasma and Presence were heading to the reactor room. Ultra-Dynamo joined the battle against the newly born Dire Wraiths, but had a hard time dealing with them. Red Guardian got killed, Starlight got pulled to Limbo when Fantasma held on to her and Darkstar got killed and replaced by a Dire Wraith, but her amulet transformed the alien into a reborn Laynia Petrovna, who slew all remaining Dire Wraiths. Powersurge then sacrificed himself to take out the Presence and the base exploded. Ultra-Dynamo escaped the base at the last second with Crimson Dynamo (Galina), Darkstar, Ursa Major and Vanguard.
(Darkstar and the Winter Guard#1) - Crimson Dynamo (Bukharin) officially rejoined the Winter Guard and weeks later was presented on behalf of the Russian Executive Security Committee to the public in St. Petersburg alongside his teammates Darkstar (Laynia Petrovna), Red Guardian (Nikolai Krylenko), Ursa Major.
(Iron Man/Thor#1 (fb) - BTS) - Crimson Dynamo came under the influence of Diablo and had his armor enhanced with alchemy while working for him and the High Evolutionary.
(Iron Man/Thor#1 (fb)) - Crimson Dynamo destroyed the Deterrence Research Corporation's orbital weapons in Earth's orbit and stole some of its parts.
(Iron Man/Thor#1) - Iron Man was lured to the Forbidden Zone in Russia where an accident at the decommissioned Soviet Super-Soldiers base seemingly created a miniature black hole. It was actually a trap set up by Crimson Dynamo, who captured Iron Man with the help of the High Evolutionary.
(Iron Man/Thor#2) - Inside Diablo's Hermetica Crimson Dynamo stood by while the High Evolutionary explained the immobilized Iron Man that he would be part of a new god the High Evolutionary wanted to create for the 21st century. They watched the Evolutionary's New Men work on an esoteric machine to create this new god until Diablo and Ulik returned with the Destroyer armor, another component for their new god. When Thor found the entrance to Diablo's Hermetica in a book at the Smithsonian, Crimson Dynamo tried to stop him. Ulik wanted to join him, but was stopped by Iron Man, who had finally gotten rid of the device that kept him immobilized.
(Iron Man/Thor#3) - Crimson Dynamo fought Thor at the Smithsonian. Volstagg's dragon hit Crimson Dynamo with fire to give Thor the advantage. Thor then forced Crimson Dynamo to show him how to get to the Hermetica. Thor blasted his way inside the Hermetica by using Crimson Dynamo to access it. Diablo used a special gas to turn Thor and Iron Man against each other and then sent Crimson Dynamo and Ulik to knock them out while they were engaged in battle. Diablo had them put into the machine along with the Destroyer and then tricked the High Evolutionary to become the vessel for the godhood granted by the machine.
(Iron Man/Thor#4) - Diablo offered Crimson Dynamo and Ulik a chance to serve him after attaining godhood. They tried to protect Diablo from Iron Man and Thor, but failed. Diablo was turned back into a mortal by the combined efforts of the High Evolutionary, Iron Man and Thor.
(Amazing Spider-Man I#676) - The Winter Guard (Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar, Red Guardian and Ursa Major) tracked down the Intelligencia to an abandoned automobile factory in Promyshlennyi, Russia. Via video the Intelligencia informed the Winter Guard that they were miles away and then blasted the Winter Guard into Earth's outer orbit using their Zero Cannon.
SECRET WARS III HAPPENED
(Monsters Unleashed II#2) - The Winter Guard (Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar and Red Guardian) fought a Leviathon in Moscow.
(Avengers VIII#10 (fb) - BTS) - Bukharin resigned from the Winter Guard and moved to the Ural Mountains.
(Avengers VIII#10) - Bukharin agreed to rejoin the Winter Guard despite having reservations after his old teammates Darkstar and Red Guardian talked to him. They told him that he would leave the whole operation as the Minister of Superhuman Defense, a new position specifically created for Bukharin. He questioned why the Red Room's Red Widow was there with them, but she was apparently a requirement from the Executive Security Committee. They needed him because of Antlantean attacks in the Black Sea and he knew that they didn't need him as Bukharin, but as the Crimson Dynamo.
The Winter Guard attempted to arrest Namor in the South Pacific the underwater base Hydropolis, which wasn't underwater at the time because it was raised to the surface by Namor and his Defenders of the Deep. A massive brawl between the Avengers, the Winter Guard and the Defenders of the Deep erupted. Crimson Dynamo flew right through Manowar and was quite annoyed that Red Widow was not helping at all. Iron Man stopped Crimson Dynamo from blasting Hulk (Walters) with an energy blast after she had knocked out Perun and Chernobog. Namor and the Defenders of the Deep escaped while the Avengers fought the Winter Guard.
(Weapon X III#20) - The Winter Guard (Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar, Red Guardian and Ursa Major) were called in by S.I.C.K.L.E. to deal with the mutant Warpath, who had violated the Russian airspace. They failed to capture him.
(Weapon X III#21) - The Winter Guard fought Weapon X aboard S.I.C.K.L.E.'s Mothercarrier until they were ordered to stand down by General Toma Zaslon, who had just been appointed the new director of S.I.C.K.L.E. to replace Vassily Rossovich. Weapon X were allowed to leave Russia after that.
(Uncanny X-Men V#2) - Crimson Dynamo and Red Guardian fought mammoths stampeding through Moscow.
(Avengers VIII#15 (fb) - BTS) - Bukharin told the government to stake Dracula and not just imprison him.
(Avengers VIII#15) - At Federal Penal Colony No. 9 in Sol-Iletsk, Russia Crimson Dynamo and Iron Man, who had broken into the prison to talk to Dracula, fought the crazed inmates. Iron Man was sure Dracula was responsible.
After the prisoner had been returned to their cells, Crimson Dynamo, Iron Man and his teammates Darkstar and Red Guardian watched in surprise that Dracula had not tried to escape during the chaos. Iron Man received a gut punch from Crimson Dynamo for calling them idiots and telling them that there was no way that he would allow them to arrest him. Crimson Dynamo then told him to leave the prison immediately.
(Avengers VIII#16) - With the problems at the Penal Colony solved and Dracula in Red Widow's custody, Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar and Red Guardian were ready to head back to Moscow, but then vampire blood bombs sent into the colony by the Rat Bomber turned many of the prisoners into vampires.
(Avengers VIII#17) - The Federal Penal Colony No. 9 was overrun by the vampire prisoners and the vampire Legion of the Unliving, who defeated the Winter Guard. The Avengers (Black Panther, Blade, Captain America, Hulk and Iron Man) came to the rescue.
(Tony Stark: Iron Man#8) - The Winter Guard (Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar, Red Guardian and Ursa Major) dealt with eScape players in Moscow that were armed by the Controller and believed they were still in the virtual reality of eScape instead of the real world.
(Tony Stark: Iron Man#10) - Jocasta provided a signal to the Winter Guard they could use to shut down the eScape interfaces in their region. Crimson Dynamo broadcast it in Moscow to stop the threat posed by the eScape players.
(Avengers VIII#32) - Crimson Dynamo returned to Moscow with the rest of the Winter Guard after another mission.
(Winter Guard#4 (fb) - BTS) - The Executive Security Committee was afraid Crimson Dynamo would side with Shostakov and came up with a plan to take him out of the equation by remote controlling his armor.
(Winter Guard#1 (fb)) - On the Uragan Mobile Command Center Red Widow informed the rest of the Winter Guard that the Executive Security Committee wants them to hunt down Red Guardian (Shostakov) and White Widow (Belova). Dynamo was not happy that Red Widow was giving orders because he was put in charge of the team and he never agreed to lead a hit squad. The Winter Guard (Chernobog, Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar, Perun, Red Widow, Vanguard and Vostok) tracked Shostakov and Belova down at the Koschei Air Station. Dynamo saved Vanguard from a booby trap and later found Red Guardian with the rest of the team, but Red Guardian (Shostakov) used the remote control (it remained a mystery whether Red Widow directly gave it to him or not) to take over Bukharin's armor and attack the rest of the Winter Guard. Bukharin was unable to stop his armor from shooting at every teammate and rip apart Vostok before his armor's power core had a meltdown. It exploded before Darkstar could pull him out. Bukharin was seriously injured.
(Winter Guard#2 (fb)) - Bukharin remained in intensive care after the incident.
(Winter Guard#4 (fb)) - Weeks later Bukharin had recovered and put on the Crimson Dynamo armor again. Vostok was also okay again. Vanguard, who had received a commendation for helping destroy the Snowblind drives, was glad that they were both doing well again. Crimson Dynamo made it clear that he believed there were no traitors on their team. Red Widow kept it secret that she was behind the remote that for some time.
(Avengers VIII#44) - The Winter Guard (Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar and Vostok) were called in to deal with the Phoenix-powered Hulk (Walters) and Namor in Moscow, but were pretty useless against them.
(Avengers VIII#46) - Gorilla-Man betrayed the Avengers and teleported the Winter Guard (Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar, Red Guardian, Red Widow, Ursa Major and Vostok) into Avengers Mountain. He told them that only five members were presents and Crimson Dynamo and Darkstar dealt with Captain Marvel and Hulk. Crimson Dynamo actually captured Hulk as part of their plan, but Hulk broke free. Red Guardian, Red Widow and Ursa Major recaptured her and the whole team carried her back to the teleporter. Gorilla-Man sent them back to Russia were Hulk was put in front of a court for her attack on Moscow while empowered by the Phoenix Force.
(Avengers VIII#47) - Captain America and Iron Man tried to free Hulk from a prison in the Siberian tundra, but Crimson Dynamo and Red Guardian opposed them. Crimson Dynamo immediately informed the Kremlin about the American heroes' illegal invasion. Hulk, who had been brainwashed and turned into the red Winter Hulk, broke free and punched Crimson Dynamo so hard that most of his bones were broken despite his armor.
(Avengers VIII#50) - With most of his bones broken Bukharin testified in front of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and didn't blame She-Hulk for his injuries but the Red Widow, who had forced the Winter Guard to become kidnappers and murderers. She-Hulk was fine with it and only demanded a formal apology and an immediate dismissal of all the criminal charges against her.
(The Marvels II#5) - The Winter Guard (Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar, Red Guardian and Ursa Major) fought a monster in Istanbul.
(The Marvels II#12) - The Winter Guard joined many other heroes aboard a Wakandan Sky-Carrier to work on a plan to deal with Lotus' monsters and then shatter the barrier around Siancong. Crimson Dynamo saved many civilians in Siancong alongside Mr. Fantastic.
(Iron Man VI#6) - During Emperor Doom's reign the Winter Guard (Crimson Dynamo, Red Widow, Ursa Major and Vanguard) was sent to deal with Iron Man after he collaborated with terrorists and invading Russia. Crimson Dynamo failed to stop Stark from putting on his armor and the fight was on. Black Widow shot Red Widow while she intimidated Commander Hunyadi, who had worked with Stark, and then escaped on the back of Iron Man with the young mystic Vishte from Crimson Dynamo and Vanguard.
(Iron Man VI#8) - Under Red Widow's command Crimson Dynamo and Vanguard captured Hunyadi, who was still working with Stark despite Red Widow's warnings, and Melinda May. Red Widow later contacted Stark to challenge him to come to her if he wanted to see Hunyadi and May alive again.
(Iron Man VI#9) - Bukharin, Red Widow, Krylenko and Ursa Major kept May and Hunyadi in a Winter Guard safe house in Baku, Azerbaijan. May wouldn't eat and Bukharin made it clear that Red Widow would love to force feed her, but that he would prefer to see her eat voluntarily because he respected her too much. Their hideout was attacked by Black Widow and the Winter Soldier. Bukharin was still in the process of putting on his armor when he got knocked out by the Winter Soldier, who stole his armor. With some subterfuge Iron Man made the Winter Guard look like criminals in the eyes of Emperor Doom and they were arrested Victorious and her new allies Iron Man and Vishte. Victorious wanted to keep them alive to keep the Russian provinces of Latveria in line.
Comments: Created by Bill Mantlo, Carmine Infantino, and Fred Kida.
The Crimson Dynamo was about twice as big as usual when he first appeared in his new armor in X-Factor Annual I#1. He also behaved more like a robot than a human.
A Crimson Dynamo wearing the Gremlin design appeared in JLA/Avengers#4, but since the characters were pulled from different points in time in this story it could another Dynamo wearing the same armor.
Okay, Soviet Super-Soldiers#1 was originally intended for publication as a serial in Marvel Comics Presents. By the time it finally appeared in one shot format, the Supreme Soviets had already made a few appearances as the People's Protectorate...only Dmitri Bukharin was still wearing the Crimson Dynamo armor!
The way I see it, you have two choices in how you read "the Crossing Line" and Hulk II#393:
In Darkstar and the Winter Guard#1 we learn that the Airstrike armor was kept at the Citadel and retrofitted with Dire Wraith technology by the Red Guardian (Anton).
Bukharin has partial entries as part of Crimson Dynamo entries in OHotMU I#3, Deluxe Edition#3, Master Edition and All-New OHotMU Update#2.
Profile by Prime Eternal. Update by Markus Raymond (2009-2025).
CLARIFICATIONS:
Dmitri Bukharin should not be confused with:
images:
Winter Guard#4, p19, pan3 (main)
Avengers VIII#10, p4, pan1 (head shot)
Incredible Hulk II#258, p16, pan5 (Crimson Dynamo Mark III)
Incredible Hulk II#258, p7, pan7 (head shot, no beard)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition#5, Crimson Dynamo entry (Crimson Dynamo Mark IV)
Soviet Super-Soldiers#1, p55, pan4 (upper body)
Soviet Super-Soldiers#1, p60, pan5 (Bukharin in Aistrike armor)
Invincible Iron Man II#14, p5, pan5 (Crimson Dynamo)
Invincible Iron Man II#14, p18, pan1 (head shot, military)
Darkstar and the Winter Guard#1, p2 (Crimson Dynamo, back with Winter Guard)
Iron Man/Thor#1, p22 (High Evolutionary's armor)
Avengers VIII#10, p5, pan4 (first post Secret Wars armor)
Weapon X III#21, p3-4, pan2 (working for S.I.C.K.L.E.)
Avengers VIII#50, p15, pan1 (broken)
Soviet Super-Soldiers#1, p56, pan3 (Airstrike designs)
Appearances:
Iron Man I#109 (April, 1978) - Bill Mantlo (writer), Carmine Infantino (penciler), Fred Kida (inker), Archie Goodwin (editor)
Iron Man I#110-111 (May-June, 1978) - Bill Mantlo (writer), Keith Pollard (penciler), Fred Kida (inker), Archie Goodwin (editor)
Iron Man I#112 (July, 1978) - Bill Mantlo (writer), Keith Pollard (penciler), Alfredo Alcala (inker), Jim Shooter (editor)
Marvel Team-Up Annual I#2 (1979) - Chris Claremont (writer), Sal Buscema, Alan Kupperberg (pencilers), Jack Abel (inkers), Al Milgrom (editor)
Incredible Hulk II#250 (August, 1980) - Bill Mantlo (writer), Sal Buscama (artist), Al Milgrom (editor)
Incredible Hulk II#258 (April, 1981) - Bill Mantlo, Steven Grant (writers), Sal Buscema (artist), Al Milgrom (editor)
Incredible Hulk II#259 (May, 1981) - Bill Mantlo (writer), Sal Buscema (artist), Al Milgrom (editor)
Marvel Super-Hero Contest of Champions#1 (June, 1982) - Mark Gruenwald, Bill Mantlo, Steven Grant (writers), John Romita, Jr. (penciler), Pablo Marcos (inker), Mark Gruenwald, Tom DeFalco (editors)
Marvel Team-Up Annual I#7 (October, 1984) - Bob DeNatale (writer), David Mazzuchelli (penciler), Brett Breeding (inker), Danny Fingeroth (editor)
Secret Wars II#7 (January, 1986) - Jim Shooter (writer), Al Milgrom (penciler), Steve Leiahola (inker)
X-Factor Annual I#1 (October, 1986) - Bob Layton (writer/penciler), Brett Breeding (inker), Bob Harras (editor)
X-Men Vs. Avengers#1-3 (April-June, 1987) - Roger Stern (writer), Marc Silvestri (penciler), Josef Rubinstein (inker), Mark Gruenwald, Ann Nocenti (editors)
Iron Man I#229 (April, 1988) - David Michelinie (writer), Mark Bright (penciler), Bob Layton (writer/inker), Mark Gruenwald (editor)
Captain America I#353-354 (April-May, 1989) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Kieron Dwyer (penciler), Al Milgrom (inker), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Iron Man Annual I#10 (1989) - David Whol (writer), Jackson Guice, Gene Colan, John Byrne, Keith Pollard, Bob Layton, Mark Bright (artists)
Avengers I#319 (July, 1990) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Richard Levins (penciler), Christopher Ivy (inker), Howard Mackie (editor)
Avengers I#320 (August, 1990) - Fabian Nicieza (Writer), Paul Ryan (penciler), Tom Palmer (inker), Howard Mackie (editor)
Avengers I#321 (August, 1990) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Richard Levins (penciler), Christopher Ivy (inker), Howard Mackie (editor)
Avengers I#322 (September, 1990) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Paul Ryan (penciler), Christopher Ivy (inker), Howard Mackie (editor)
Avengers I#323 (September, 1990) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Richard Levins (penciler), Tom Palmer (inker), Howard Mackie (editor)
Avengers I#324 (October, 1990) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Paul Ryan (penciler), Tom Palmer (inker), Howard Mackie (editor)
Infinity Gauntlet I#2 (August, 1991) - Jim Starlin (writer), George Pérez (pencils), Josef Rubinstein (inks), Craig Anderson (editor)
Incredible Hulk II#393 (May, 1992) - Peter David (writer), Dale Keown (penciler), Mark Farmer (inker), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Soviet Super-Soldiers#1 (November, 1992) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Angel Medina, Javier Saltares (pencilers), Jeff Albrecht (inker), Terry Kavanagh (editor)
Invincible Iron Man II#14 (August, 2009) - Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (artist), Warren Simons (editor)
Invincible Iron Man II#17 (November, 2009) - Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (artist), Warren Simons (editor)
Hulk: Winter Guard#1/3 (February, 2010) - David Gallaher (writer), Steve Ellis (artist), Jordan D. White (editor)
Darkstar and the Winter Guard#1-3 (August-October, 2010) - David Gallaher (writer), Steve Ellis (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Jordan D. White (editor)
Iron Man/Thor#1-2 (January-February, 2011) - Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Scot Eaton (pencils), Jaime Mendoza (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Iron Man/Thor#3 (March, 2011) - Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Scot Eaton (pencils), Jaime Mendoza, Jeff Huet & Lorenzo Ruggiero (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Iron Man/Thor#4 (April, 2011) - Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Scot Eaton (pencils), Jaime Mendoza (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
X-Men: To Serve and Protect#4/4 (April, 2011) - James Asmus (writer), Eric Koda (pencils), Sandu Florea (inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Amazing Spider-Man I#676 (February, 2012) - Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Stephen Wacker (editor)
Monsters Unleashed II#2 (April, 2017) - Cullen Bunn (writer), Greg Land (pencils), Jay Leisten (inks), Mark Paniccia (editor)
Weapon X III#20-21 (September-October, 2018) - Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente (writers), Ricardo López Ortiz (artist), Chris Robinson (editor)
Avengers VIII#10 (January, 2019) - Jason Aaron (writer), David Marquez & Ed McGuinness (artists), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Uncanny X-Men V#2 (January, 2019) - Ed Brisson, Matthew Rosenberg & Kelly Thompson (writers), R.B. Silva (pencils), Adriano di Benedetto (inks), Jordan D. White with Darren Shan (editors)
Tony Stark: Iron Man#8 (April, 2019) - Dan Slott (writer), Valerio Schiti (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers VIII#15 (April, 2019) - Jason Aaron (writer), David Marquez (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers VIII#16-17 (May, 2019) - Jason Aaron (writer), David Marquez (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Tony Stark: Iron Man#10 (June, 2019) - Dan Slott & Jim Zub (writers), Valerio Schiti (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers VIII#32 (May, 2020) - Jason Aaron (writer), Ed McGuinness & Francesco Manna (artists), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers VIII#44 (June, 2021) - Jason Aaron (writer), Javier Garrón (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers VIII#46-47 (September-October, 2021) - Jason Aaron (writer), Javier Garrón (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Winter Guard#1 (October, 2021) - Ryan Cady (writer), Djibril Morissette-Phan & Jan Bazaldua (artists), Sarah Brunstad with Alanna Smith (editors)
Winter Guard#2 (November, 2021) - Ryan Cady (writer), Jan Bazaldua (artist), Sarah Brunstad with Alanna Smith (editors)
The Marvels#5 (November, 2021) - Kurt Busiek (writer), Yildiray Cinar (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers VIII#50 (February, 2022) - Jason Aaron (writer), Aaron Kuder, Ed MGuinness, Javier Garrón (artists), Carlos Pacheco (pencils), Rafael Fonteriz (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Winter Guard#4 (February, 2022) - Ryan Cady (writer), Jan Bazaldua (artist), Sarah Brunstad with Alanna Smith (editors)
The Marvels#12 (September, 2022) - Kurt Busiek (writer), Yildiray Cinar (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Iron Man VI#6 (May, 2025) - Spencer Ackerman (writer), Julius Ohta (artist), Sarah Brunstad & Lindsey Cohick (editors)
Iron Man VI#8 (July, 2025) - Spencer Ackerman (writer), Julius Ohta & Michael Dowling (artists), Wil Moss (editor)
Iron Man VI#9 (August, 2025) - Spencer Ackerman (writer), Julius Ohta, Michael Dowling & Guiu Vilanova (artists), Wil Moss (editor)
First Posted: 05/25/2006
Last updated: 11/22/2025
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