User blog comment:Gemnist/Characters that NEED to return/@comment-4651179-20130702233727/@comment-4651179-20130703001933

Don't really think it would take place before.

Also, the Mandarin along Crimson Dynamo are the only villains not explicitily identified, and Hawkeye #4 was written by Matt Fraction, the same writer who killed both Justine Hammer and Mandarin, I'm pretty sure he did that on purpose.