Wolverine and Black Widow in UX 268-FB and W:O 9-FB
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:37 am
In both Mighty Avengers: Most Wanted Files and the revised OHOTMU A To Z Volume 1 hardcover, they have a very complete history of the Black Widow (Natasha Romanova).
In MA:MWF, Black Widow was "born circa 1939," was orphaned in 1941 "during an early Nazi attack on Stalingrad" and rescued by Ivan Petrovitch Bezukhov (DD 88-FB), surfaced "months later" in Madripoor where they were rescued from Strucker and the Hand by Captain America and Logan (UX 268-FB), and then "circa 1956 or later" she was into the custody of Taras Romanov, who trained Logan "for two years" until Logan killed him (W:O 9-FB), before eventually being recruited in the Black Widow Program "while still at least appearing to be in her teens" (BW:TTTSAH 5).
However in the revised version in OHOTMU A To Z Volume 1, Black Widow was "born circa 1928" (several years earlier than 1939), was orphaned as a child "during an early attack on Stalingrad by enemy forces" (no mention of they were Nazis or not) and rescued by Ivan Petrovitch Bezukhov (DD 88-FB), they were separated "by the late 1930s" when she came into the custody of Tara Romanov, who trained Logan "for nearly two years" until Logan killed him (W:O 9-FB), and then in "August, 1941" she and Ivan were together in Madripoor where they were rescued from Strucker and the Hand by Captain America and Logan (UX 268-FB), and sometime "following the war... while still appearing to be in her teens," she was recruited in the Black Widow Program (BW:TTTSAH 5).
Which interpretation would seem to be the more appropriate one?
In MA:MWF, Black Widow was "born circa 1939," was orphaned in 1941 "during an early Nazi attack on Stalingrad" and rescued by Ivan Petrovitch Bezukhov (DD 88-FB), surfaced "months later" in Madripoor where they were rescued from Strucker and the Hand by Captain America and Logan (UX 268-FB), and then "circa 1956 or later" she was into the custody of Taras Romanov, who trained Logan "for two years" until Logan killed him (W:O 9-FB), before eventually being recruited in the Black Widow Program "while still at least appearing to be in her teens" (BW:TTTSAH 5).
However in the revised version in OHOTMU A To Z Volume 1, Black Widow was "born circa 1928" (several years earlier than 1939), was orphaned as a child "during an early attack on Stalingrad by enemy forces" (no mention of they were Nazis or not) and rescued by Ivan Petrovitch Bezukhov (DD 88-FB), they were separated "by the late 1930s" when she came into the custody of Tara Romanov, who trained Logan "for nearly two years" until Logan killed him (W:O 9-FB), and then in "August, 1941" she and Ivan were together in Madripoor where they were rescued from Strucker and the Hand by Captain America and Logan (UX 268-FB), and sometime "following the war... while still appearing to be in her teens," she was recruited in the Black Widow Program (BW:TTTSAH 5).
Which interpretation would seem to be the more appropriate one?
