CRIMSON DYNAMO VI

Real Name:

Valentin Shatalov

Universe/Timeline:

Marvel Universe

Status:

Other

Category:

Exotic Technology User

Alias:

Iron Man.

Nationality:

Russian

First Appearance:

Iron Man (1st series) #255

Powers & Abilities:

VankoTech Dynamo armor provides exoskeletal strength and reflexes, armored durability, fusion caster, electrostatic bolts, and boot rockets for flight, armor can be summoned and displaced from a matter-matrix card stored in his belt buckle

Affiliation:

West Coast Avengers III, KGB, Remont-4

Avengers Membership:

Recruited for the Avengers' rehabilitation program behind-the-scenes prior to West Coast Avengers (4th series) #1, as depicted in #4.

Notes:

Colonel-General Valentin Shatalov was the sixth known pilot of the Crimson Dynamo armor series, after its creator Anton Vanko, Boris Turgenov, Ivan Nevsky, Yuri Bezukov, and Dimitri Buhkarin. At least six more known operators of the Dynamo armor exist, sometimes overlapping, leaving the identity of specific Dynamos at times difficult. (Dimitri Buhkarin is the Dynamo of the Winter Guard, and the most seasoned Dynamo in general.)

As the Dynamo during the fall of the Soviet Union, Valentin starred in several very topical political stories. While Buhkarin remained loyal to the new Russian government as the Supreme Soviets team became the People's Protectorate, Valentin went rogue with a team of regressive Soviet patriots called Remont-4.

Last Updated:

3rd March 2025 by Monolith