"IVAN"	BIOGRAPHY
Created by Ron Marz and Cully Hamner

PERSONAL DATA

Occupation: Soviet Government Agent
Status: Deceased
Citizenship: Soviet
Base of Operation: Mobile
Gender: Male
Eyes: Unknown
Hair: Unknown
First Appearance: Green Lantern Secret Files #2 (September 1999): "Keeping Secrets"
Creators: Ron Marz and Cully Hamner

HISTORY

Learning of a possible alien spacecraft crashed in the American Southwest, the Soviet Union dispatched an agent to investigate. Having significantly less metahumans than the United States, the USSR sent an armored human to secure the crash site. The armor gave the wearer superstrength and resistance to injury as well as rocket powered flight. On board weaponry included machine guns mounted inside claw like hands and a pair of rocket propelled grenade launchers housed in the armor's back with eight grenades per launcher.

Tearing into the wreckage of the spacecraft flown by the late Green Lantern Abin Sur, the armored agent came across two Americans which he fired upon. The Americans were Aaron Rayner, posing as FBI agent Ray White and Ferris Aircraft test pilot Hal Jordan. Rayner was struck by machine gun fire but Jordan wielded the power ring of the late Abin Sur as Space Sector 2814's newest Green Lantern. Using the ring, Green Lantern was able to shield himself and ram the Soviet, who they had nicknamed "Ivan," out of the alien wreckage.

A rocket propelled grenade was easily diverted by the Green Lantern but the armor's strength was too much for the ring wielder. Green Lantern flew off and was pursued by the Soviet agent. Unfortunately for "Ivan," the armor was not as maneuverable as the power ring and he crashed into the desert floor, knocking himself unconscious.

Green Lantern peeled open the armor to see his Soviet opponent and turned his back while he thought about what to do next. Though badly wounded, Rayner crawled from the wreckage and shot "Ivan" so as to keep the discovery of the alien starship and Jordan's identity as Green Lantern a secret. - Green Lantern Secret Files #2

In the years to come, the Soviets increased their research into metahumans. It is possible the designs of "Ivan" were used in the development of the Rocket Red Brigade.

CHRONOLOGY

For a definitive list of appearances of "Ivan" in chronological order click here