STALNOIVOLK (Ivan Illyich Gort)	BIOGRAPHY
Created by John Ostrander and J.J. Birch

Stalnoivolk (Ivan Illyich Gort)

PERSONAL DATA

Real Name: Ivan Illyich Gort
Aliases: Steel Wolf
Occupation: former agent of the Soviet Union
Place of Birth: presumed somewhere in the Soviet Union
Citizenship: Soviet Union, now Russian citizen
Marital Status: unrevealed
Base of Operation: Moscow
Group Affiliation(s): Red Shadows; Suicide Squad
Gender: Male
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 275 lbs
Eyes: blue
Hair: Dark gray
First Appearance: Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #67 (January 1988): "Dialogues"
Creators: John Ostrander and J.J. Birch

HISTORY

During World War II, Ivan Illyich Gort was one of at least two people transformed by the Russian government into a superhuman being, intending him to be a symbol of Russia's resistance of Nazi Germany. After the war, he became a fanatical follower of Stalin, participating in purging the Ukraine of any opposition to his leader. When Stalin fell from power, he was exiled to Siberia, returning recently when the Russian government grew concerned about Firestorm and sent him to America to oppose him. Here, during a battle, he killed Richard Dare, who had been the wartime hero Captain X, and has since clashed with a number of super-humans, both alone and during his short tenure on the Suicide Squad.

POWERS AND WEAPONS

Gort's super-human strength is only slightly diminished in the seventy years he has been operating as a Soviet agent. He is invulnerable to small arms fire and can leap nearly an eighth of a mile. It is not known his relationship to other metahumans such as Iron Munro or Ubermench, who possess the same abilities from the same era.

CHRONOLOGY

For a definitive list of appearances of Stalnoivolk in chronological order click here

PROFILE REFERENCES

Who's Who Update '88 #3 (October 1988)