Ivan Petrovich (Marvel)

Ivan Petrovich is a male comic character that features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

In 1928, he was a soldier in the Red Army when they were dispatched to Stalingrad after the Imperialists destroyed several buildings. Petrovich arrived at the scene in order to look for his younger sister but she was not found. Instead, he found a woman sheltering a baby in a destroyed building where she passed the girl to Ivan asking him to look after her and stating that she was a Romanoff. Ivan managed to take the baby girl but the building collapsed on the woman thus killing her. Petrovich took the girl and began to care for her whilst looking into her background. By 1938, the young Natalia Romanoff became his ward where by this point he had left military service. Ivan was looking for someone to take a paternal interest in the girls care rather than have her at an orphanage in the USSR. During the meeting with a colleague, they encountered General Secretary Stalin who was present at the scene and decided that Natalia Romanova was to be taken to a school that was suitable for her. She thus went under the brutal training of Taras Romanoff and encountered a man called Logan. This remained the case until 1940 with Ivan not having any contact with Natalia but this changed when Logan killed Taras and fled with Romanova allowing him to escape. She fled the scene with Ivan learning of this and going AWOL from his unit to eventually find her. Thus, they went rogue from the Soviet government and went on the run but continued their war against the Nazi's in an effort to become free. (Black Widow: Deadly Origin v1 #1)

At Berlin in 1956, Petrovich was fatally wounded and was on the verge of dying with him urging Natalia to leave him. They were approached by Soviet super-agent known as the Winter Soldier who offered a chemical that would heal wounds and allow them to live longer in exchange for continued service to the Soviet Union. Despite Ivan's pleas to refuse, Natalia accepted the deal leading to Petrovich's life being saved. (Black Widow: Deadly Origin v1 #1) In 1957, he met with Natasha after hearing that she was due to marry Alexei Shostakov with her confiding in Ivan that she could no longer trust her memories. Afterwards, in 1963, Alexei was killed with Romanova seeking to be deployed on missions against the West. Petrovich met with Premier Kruschiev who agreed for Ivan and Natasha to be deployed on the assignments. Several years ago, he accompanied her to America where Natasha was engaged in numerous missions against the countries superheroes and was manipulating Hawkeye to help her on such missions. Ivan often met with her to dissuade her from being a femme fatale and from finding employers that had her make the superheroes fight one another. (Black Widow: Deadly Origin v1 #2)

Notes

• Ivan Petrovich was created by Mike Friedrich and John Buscema where he made his first appearance in Amazing Adventures v2 #1 (August, 1970).

Appearances

• Amazing Adventures v2:
• Daredevil v1:
• Champions v1:
• Black Widow: Deadly Origin:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry

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