Fury / Black Widow: Death Duty Vol 1 1

Fury / Black Widow: Death Duty #1

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Art by: Charlie Adlard

Release Date

February 14, 1995

Cover Date

February, 1995

Issue Details

Editor-in-Chief

Mark Gruenwald

Original Price

$5.95

The money we can recover... but the Russian earth loves blood.

—Black Widow

Appearing in 1st story

Featured Characters:

S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff)
- Nick Fury
- Ivan
- Numerous unnamed agents

Supporting Characters:

"Blackbird" / Night Raven (Main story and flashback) (Apparent death)
Moscow City Police
- Yuri Petrov (Death)
- Gregor (First appearance)
- Numerous unnamed officers
Angela Cleaver (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Antagonists:

Molina (Main story and flashback)
Dragon Tong (Main story and flashback)
- Yi Yang (Main story and flashback) (Apparent death)
- Snow Leopards (First appearance)
  - Issa Koblev (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)
  - Ilya Koblev (First appearance; unnamed)
  - Ioakim Koblev (First appearance; unnamed)
- Sasha (First appearance)
- Numerous unnamed others (Main story and flashback)

Other Characters:

U.S. Government (Mentioned)
I.M.F. (Mentioned)
Russian Military (Mentioned)
Leonid Kostoev (Only appearance; corpse)
Tsar Nicholas (Mentioned)
T.R.A.C.E. (Mentioned)
Devil (Satan) (Mentioned)
Bonnie and Clyde (Mentioned)
Vladimir Lenin (Mentioned)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Mentioned)
Sabre (First appearance; dies)
Methuselah (Mentioned)
U.S. Secret Service (Mentioned)
Cochise (Mentioned)
Night Raven's grandfather (Only in recap)
U.S. Army (Only in recap)
Death (Mentioned)
KGB (Mentioned)
Professor Piotr Phobos (Referenced)
Charles Atlas (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)

Races and Species:

Humans (Main story and flashback)
Ravens
Birds (Mentioned)
Mutants
Dogs
Wolves (Only in flashback)
Demons (Mentioned)
Pigeons (Mentioned)
Turkeys (Mentioned)

Locations:

Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Russia (Main story and flashback)
  - Moscow Oblast (Main story and flashback)
    - Moscow (Main story and flashback)
      - Moscow University (First appearance)
      - Red Square
        Saint Basil's Cathedral (Cameo)
        
        Kremlin (Mentioned)
      - Mayakovskaya (First appearance)
      - Moscow's Central Law Courts (First appearance)
  - Siberia (Main story and flashback)
    - Xanadu (First appearance)
    - Khystym (Mentioned)
- Afghanistan (Mentioned)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
  - Illinois (Only in recap)
    - Chicago (Only in recap)
  - New York (Only in flashback)
    - New York City (Only in flashback)
      - Manhattan (Only in flashback)
        Chinatown (Only in recap)
      - East River (Only in recap)
        Midtown (Only in flashback)
        Kips Bay (Only in flashback)
        Office of Chief Medical Examiner (Only in flashback)
  - Louisiana
    - Lafitte (First appearance)
    - Mississippi River (Referenced)
  - Wisconsin (Only in recap)
- Cuba (Mentioned)
- Canada (Only in recap)
  - Alberta (Only in recap)
    - Medicine Hat (Mentioned)
- Belgium (Only in recap)
  - Ypres (Only in recap)
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Only in flashback)
- Chernobyl, Ukraine (Mentioned)
- China (Mentioned)
Hell (Invoked)
Hades (Mentioned)

Items:

Black Widow's Gauntlets

Vehicles:

Quinjet

Events:

Russian-Afghan War (Mentioned)
Thanksgiving (Mentioned)

Synopsis for 1st story

The Black Widow investigates an international crime lord, and uncovers a decades old vendetta between the crime boss, Yi Yang, and the seemingly immortal vigilante named Night Raven.

Notes

Night Raven was originally a Marvel UK character. This was his first American appearance.

Links and References

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