Last Cold War Themed Adventures; stories preferably published circa 1990 or 1991
Enda80
some ideas.
> The fall of the Soviet Union pretty much closed off many plot ideas for thriller writers. My interest here entails charting which thriller series (prose or print) had their last Cold War adventures when.
> Obviously, a comic book or comic strip series presents more a challenge in pinpointing matters than a series of prose novels, though paperback original series such as the Destroyer present challenges (though many of these had started in the 1970's or 1960's did not last to the end of the CW).
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> Iron Man#276-277: guest-starring the Black Widow, with a cover date of January 1992 (however, it would have actually come out a few months earlier, as the month on the cover means the pull date, not the date on sale), even Marvel Review 1992 commented on how close this issue came out to the actual dissolution of the Soviet Union
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> Destroyer#78: Blue Smoke and Mirrors seems to represent one of the latest Destroyer novels published while the Soviet Union existed
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> The Shadow: Was the Return of the Shadow the only Shadow novel reflecting the Cold War? I think he battled Soviet spies before the 1940's
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> The Black Bat: I do not know if the German language adventures reflected the Cold War
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> http://www.mackbolan.com/bookindex.php3?series=ex
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> Modesty Blaise: nailing down her last novel Cold War adventure would get easy to nail down, but her last Cold War comic strip adventure would get hard to nail down
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> Dick Tracy: did he ever have Cold War adventures?
Not typically, no. His World War II exploits aside, Tracy's espionage-
style capers tended to exist in an atmosphere of mysterious
international operators like the war profiteer Karpse and freelance
arms dealer Black Pearl Mr. Intro. Two foes from the early 1970s, the
Pouch and the Chameleon, were more explicitly Russian agents, but the
Pouch swiftly ended up working for the more apolitical Johnny Scorn.
> Master of Kung-Fu: have to check (Shang-Chi series)
Probably the Samisdat storyline in the early 90-ish issues.
> The Batman: NKVDemon storyline? Ten Nights of the Beast?
The NKVDemon was probably the last "proper" Cold War Batman adventure,
though his Soviet-era villains KGBeast and the Dark Rider returned as
post-USSR Communist hardliners in the "Troika" storyline.
> What was Nick Fury's last Cold War themed adventure? Did he ever have many?
Originally, no -- the only two that stand out are the Howling
Commandoes Annuals in which the squad regrouped to fight in Korea and
later Vietnam. There was a story in Incredible Hulk v.1 #107-8 in
which Fury teamed with a Russian counterpart (and wartime ally)
Colonel Yuri Brevlov to battle the Mandarin's schemes.
Since then, writers like Garth Ennis and Howard Chaykin have worked
mightily to make Fury a Cold Warrior (and often a decidedly
anachronistic one).
The Phantom (Lee Falk's): did he have Cold War adventures?
Blackhawk: I know DC did a regular series in the late 1980's and early
1990's and a one-shot around 1992, that would have published toward
the extreme end of the Cold War
Quiller: Elleston Trevor/Adam Hall survived to about 1995, but I do
not know when Quiller's last Cold War adventure took place
November Man: I guess Bill Granger wrote November Man novels at least
up to the mid-1990's
Van Wyck Mason: when did he die?
Green Arrow: doubt he had Cold War related adventures too late in the
CW
Fantastic Four: alternate Earth Stalin robot?
Silver Sable: did not get a solo series till 1992
Enda80
I forgot about Suicide Squad, Checkmate et al.