Appearing in "The Valiant Also Die!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) 
(Appears in flashback and main story)- Hercules
Adversaries:
- Red Guardian (Alexi Shostakov) (Apparent Death)
- Colonel Ling (Death)
- General Brushov
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Asia
- United States of America
- Hawaii (First appearance)
Items:
- Captain America's Shield
- Hawkeye's Bow
- Psychotron
- An advanced polygraph
- Para-sonic thermo-ray
- Stun-ray
Vehicles:
- Aero-car
- "Mechanized Monster"
Synopsis for "The Valiant Also Die!"
- Synopsis not yet written
Notes
- This story continues in part in Avengers Annual 1.
- Although Alexi Shostakov (Earth-616) dies in this issue, other individuals had previously and will later assume the role Red Guardian. The next will be Tania Belinskaya (Earth-616) in Defenders #35.
- credits:
- E Pluribus Marvel! Be It Hereby Known To All True Believers That The Titanic Team Of Stan Lee (editor), Roy Thomas (writer), and John Buscema (artist) Have Co-Created Yet Another Mind-Bending Modern Masterpiece! -Signed- Vince Colletta (Inker) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
- Okay, So We Signed The Thing Already! Now Can We Have Our Paychecks? ... Vince and Sam
- references: Avengers #42