COMRADE
YURI SPORADNIK
Real
Name: Yuri
Sporadnik (citizen of Russia)
Identity/Class: Normal human
Occupation: Chess
grandmaster
Group
Membership: None
Affiliations: The
Avengers (Captain America
(Steve Rogers), Hawkeye (Clint Barton), Iron Man (Tony Stark),
Quicksilver
(Pietro Maximoff), Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), Thor (Thor Odinson),
Vision
(“Victor Shade”))
Enemies: NIMROD
(the computer he was playing
against in chess), Leonard
Tippit (though he was unaware of Tippit’s involvement)
Known
Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base
of Operations: Russia
First
Appearance: Avengers
I#101 (July, 1972)
Powers/Abilities: Yuri
Sporadnik had no superhuman
powers but was considered a master at the game of chess.
History:
(Avengers
I#101 (fb) – BTS) – With Robert Fisher unable
to attend due to an upcoming chess world title, eastern Europe’s Yuri
Sporadnik
was contacted to play chess against the super-computer NIMROD.
(Avengers
I#101 (fb) – BTS) –
Leonard Tippit was tasked with killing comrade Sporadnik to “save the
Earth” by
the cosmic Watcher.
(Avengers
I#101) - Picked up
by the Avenger Hawkeye, Yuri Sporadnik
was taken to a Stark plant where he was to play chess against NIMROD.
Realizing
that they were already off-schedule, Sporadnik hurried the start of the
chess
match. During the heated match, Sporadnik had to briefly leave for a
bathroom
break and upon his return, he touched a specific pawn and was poisoned
by
Leonard Tippit, who had secretly hidden inside NIMROD to assure his
plot was
successful. Taken immediately to a hospital, Sporadnik became comatose.
Comments: Created by Harlan
Ellison, Roy Thomas, Rich
Buckler and Dan Adkins.
Sporadnik’s
first name was
revealed in the Avengers Assemble one-shot (July, 2010). That book also
revealed that his home country was Russia, whereas in Avengers I#101,
it was only
stated that he was from “eastern Europe.”
Profile
by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Yuri Sporadnik has no
known connections to
- any other "Yuri" or "Sporadnik"
characters
images: (without ads)
Avengers I#101, p3, pan3 (main image)
Avengers I#101, p2, pan4 (headshot)
Other
Appearances:
Avengers I#101 (July, 1972) – Harlan Ellison (plot), Roy Thomas
(script), Rich
Buckler (pencils), Dan Adkins (inks), Stan Lee (editor)
Last
updated:
03/29/13
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