ANDREI
GROMYKO
Real
Name: Andrei
Andreyevich Gromyko
Identity/Class: Normal human
Occupation: United
Nations representative
Group
Membership: The
Communist Party
Affiliations: Avengers
(Goliath (Hank Pym),
Hawkeye (Clint Barton), Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), Wasp (Janet Van
Dyne)),
Charlie (UN guard), the
United Nations (including its diplomats, chairman
& guards), presumably Josef
Stalin
Enemies: Magneto
(Max Eisenhardt), Quicksilver
(Pietro Maximoff), Toad (Mortimer Toynbee)
Known
Relatives: Andrei
Matveyevich (father,
deceased), Olga Jevgenyevna (mother, deceased), Marfa (grandmother,
deceased), Lydia
Dmitrievna Grinevich (wife), Anatoly (son), Emilia (daughter)
Aliases: None
Base
of Operations: The United
Nations building, New
York City, USA
Born:
July
18, 1909
First
Appearance: Avengers
I#49 (February, 1968)
Powers/Abilities: Andrei
Gromyko had no superhuman
powers but was a skilled political figure and United Nations
representative.
History:
(Avengers
I#49) –
While giving a speech
to the United Nations, Andrei Gromyko was interrupted by the arrival of
Magneto, who demanded that mutants received their own nation. Gromyko
asked if
Magneto's appearance was some sort of bourgeois trick to halt his
speech but
Magneto soon attacked the UN when one of the diplomats called him a
raving
lunatic. The Avengers soon arrived and during the scuffle with Magneto,
Magneto
used his powers to force the guards' guns to fire, one of the shots
grazing the
Scarlet Witch. Grief stricken, Quicksilver attacked the other Avengers
and
departed with Magneto.
Comments: Created by Roy
Thomas (writer) and John Buscema (pencils & inks).
Andrei
Gromyko was a real life
figure in Soviet politics. In his only Marvel Comics appearance, he was
not
identified (only revealed as "Gromyko" in Official Marvel Index to the
Avengers
I#3 & Official Marvel Index to the Avengers II#1) but due to
Marvel’s
sliding time scale, his appearance will probably be retconned to be
whoever
Russia’s UN representative at the time that Avengers I#49 takes place
within
the sliding time scale. While I tried to focus on his Marvel Comics
(Earth-616)
appearances, I did try to include a bit of real life background
information on
Gromyko (including his relatives, birthdate and ally status with Josef
Stalin)
in this profile but for more in-depth detail on his aliases, enemies,
allies,
relatives, etc., feel free to read Gromyko’s 1989 Memoirs
book,
published a year after his death in 1988. For a summary, see his Wikipedia
entry.
Profile
by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Andrei Gromyko has
no known connections to
- any other "Andrei" or "Gromyko"
characters
Charlie has no known connections to
- · any other "Charlie" characters
Charlie
was a United Nations guard. When Magneto entered the UN building, one
of the
guards stood up to the mutant and one of the other guards told Charlie
to be
ready for anything, drawing a gun. Magneto then magnetically picked up
Charlie
by his holstered gun, prompting the other guard not to shoot. Soon
dropping
Charlie, Magneto entered the main hall of the UN.
--Avengers
I#49
images: (without ads)
Avengers I#49, p11, pan2 (Andrei Gromyko, main image)
Avengers I#49, p10, pan3 (Charlie)
Appearances:
Avengers I#49 (February, 1968) – Roy Thomas (writer), John Buscema
(pencils,
inks), Stan Lee (editor)
Last
updated:
01/09/13
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Additions/Corrections? please
let me know.
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