y _ sah ea —iee Td Mea 7 " A 0 Le NoTO = ARS Yo aNATASHA ROMANOVA IS AN AVENGER, AN-AGENT-OF-S-H-LE-t-0- AND AN EX-KGB ASSASSIN, BUT ON HER OWN TIME SHE USES HER UNIQUE SKILL SET TO ATONE FOR HER PAST. SHE IS: BLACK WIDOW AFTER BRINGING DOWN THE INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATION CHAOS, NATASHA QUIT S.H.I.E.L.D., REJOINED THE AVENGERS ON AN AS-NEEDED BASIS, AND PLANNED TO LIVE THE QUIET LIFE FOR A WHILE WITH HER CAT LIHO. BUT AS EARTHS COLLIDE AND THE END OF THE WORLD DRAWS NIGH, NATASHA IS ONCE AGAIN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO ERASE SOME OF THE RED IN HER LEDGER. “JANUARY: PART ONE” NATHAN EDMONDSON PHILNOTO VC's CLAYTON COWLES WRITER ARTIST & COVER — LETTERER & PRODUCTION DAN JAKE AXEL JOE DAN ALAN HIPP THOMAS — ALONSO QUESADA BUCKLEY FINE VAR. COV.ARTIST EDITOR =— EDITOR INCHIEF CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER © PUBLISHER EXEC. PRODUCER © 2015 Marvel Characters, Inc. Al rights reserved. All characters featured inthis issue and the distinctive names and likenesses thereof, and all related indicia are trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions inthis magazine with ‘those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental, WWW.MARVEL.COMwe COULD NEVER SAVE THEM ALL, ‘THAT'S NEVER BEEN ‘PART OF THE ‘DEAL. Bur SOME MUST BE SAVED. AND YOU'VE GOT TO SAVE THEM, 18 READY. GO. “LAST THING YOULL THES { [ARE THE ONES WHO WILL) DO WHAT YOU , EVER DO ON THIS” ARE THE ONES WHO WILL IW EXCHANGE FOR ‘OUR PAST. IF I'S THE LAST THING TUL DO ON SOMETHING Good.THEN. ‘THE RED ROOM. coop. MORNING, NATALIA ROMAHOVA, oop. MORKING, GENTLEMEN, THIS 1S MISTER YULOV. ‘YOU KNOW HN? YES, WE HAVE. I SPOKE TO YOUR CLASS, YOU WERE IMPRESSIVE. THE RED ROOM IS FORTUNATE TO HAVE YOU. AND NOW MEANS TO USE YOU, NATALIA IF YOU'VE BEEN READING THE NEWS, YOU MIGHT KNOW THAT THE CLIMATE IS STORMY IN CUBA THIS FAMILY. Is NOT FRIENDLY TO CASTRO AND WiLL, FLEE BEFORE THE POLICE FIND AND KILL THEN FOR BEING WESTERN DISSENTERS FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY. T SHALL, BE YOUR CASE OFFICER. THE COMIENZA FAMILY. THEY ARE THE flISSION. THEY ARE IN CUBA, THEY May HAVE INFORMATION THAT 1S HELPFUL TO MOSCOW, MOSCOW ASKS. THAT WE RETRIEVE ‘THE FAMILY BEFORE BEEN TRAINED IN EXTRACTION AND DISGUISE, AS YOU ARE AWARE. T CAN HANDLE THIS. YOU WILL HAVE HELP. Your CLASSMATE MARINA IS THERE ON THE GROUND. SHE HAS ‘CULTIVATED A FRIENDSHIP WITH THE COMENZAS. SHE WILL. INTRODUCE YOU AS A PERSON OF BUSINESS FROM RUSSIA WHO ‘CAN BE VERY HELPFUL IN SOLVING PROBLENS, DO You UNDERSTAKD, NATALIA?EX, DAR. WILLER, ri ‘SHE WILL NOT SOULE Bee DISAPPOINT. ZoS °)We must ADINIT, RUSSIA HAS NO VIEWS LIKE THIS, DOES 11?THIS IS A BUSY PLACE, EXCELLENT ‘COCKTAILS, IVE MET THE COMIENZAS HERE TWICE BEFORE. OFTEN WE JUST GO TOGETHER TO THE MARKET, T IMAGINE MANY ARE AFRAID IN CUBA RIGHT NOW, PARTICULARLY INTHE CITY. EVEN A WHISPER (OF DISSENT AND HERE COME THE POLICE... our POSITION 1S SAFE. JENA AND TARE FRIENDS. ‘OF CASTRO, We HAVE FAMILY HERE. PARENTS. COUSINS 1 IS HOME. ‘AS THE ROOM, INSTRUCTED ME. ‘YOUVE INHERITED A SHIPPING BUSINESS FROM ‘YOUR LATE HUSBAND. YOU HAVE EUROPEAN INDEED. WE KWOw OF SEVERAL FAMILIES WHO WERE TAKEN RIGHT OUT OF THEIR. HOMES, SIMPLY BECAUSE ‘OTHERS REPORTED THEM AS REBELS. FAMILY 1S ESSENTIAL." HOW ARE THINGS FOR YOUR HOME 1S IMPORTANT. 4 CHILDREN? ARE THE ‘SCHOOLS OKAY? THE SCHOOLS ARE FINE, CASTRO'S GOVERNMENT IS VERY INTERESTED IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM, 'S IMPORTANT TO HM,DO YOU FIND cuBA? T'S SO PEACEFUL 1 HOPE 7 8 THAT Ir STAYS THAT WAY. IMPORT AKD EXPORT. I HELP i ONPANIES MAKE BuSiESS, 1 NEAN, SENSE OF FOREIGN INSTABILTY 1S NOT . LAWS, OCCASIONAL = FAVORABLE. HELP THEN END so pope - LOOPHOLES, Ike YOU ARE VALUABLE TO ME. WHAT YOU AND YOUR WIFE DO IN ‘THE GOVERNMENT, YOU HAVE INSIDE KNOWLEDGE THAT CAN HELP NE.IN TURN, I BRING MONEY AND GOODS INTO CUBA, MISUNDERSTAND ME. T EXPECT NOTHING UNTOWARD NEEDN'T ALL BE BUSINESS, RIGHT? SIMPLY LIKE TO MEET YoU SOCIALLY BEFORE MY BUSINESS BEGINS. AND, OF ‘COURSE, IF THERE is ANYTHING. TCAN DO FOR BOTH OF YOU ‘PERSONALLY AS WELL-- TM HERE AT YOUR SERVICE,THEY'RE DEFINITELY SCARED, ‘THEY'VE BEEN TALKING TO. THE AMERICANS. IVE FEARED THAT. T HAVEN'T 7 ‘BEEN ABLE TO 1 ne ‘CATCH THEM, / cA Q Il a THOUGH, a r _-L THINK ‘THE COMIENZA, FAMILY NEEDS A MAYBE LITTLE PUSH, You DONT NEED TO. Ler ME DO SOME WORK TOMORROW, ‘YOU MAINTAIN COVER.NUN 00 you remenser wuen = ges TO HUNT THE Lo RABBITS? YOU snip YOu WERE GOING TO BECOME A VEGETARIAN! 7 SO WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT THE COMIENZAS?, THEY'RE GOING TO RECONSIDER THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH ANY AMERICANS. dTHE COMIENZAS’ HOUSE.oe TTS IMPORTANT Tat Tals MORK. 1 ™ ye agour THe re Ghotce BUTT DAMNED HOT HERE. “EGMIENZAS Rust 10U.. BEFORE LIKE HELL. THEY ARE CASTRO BECOMES Ear NeRvoUS DON fivaRe OF TE TN HEY SEE HANA AS SOMEONE 10 TRUST. 1 DONT HAVE TE TO CULTIVATE TRUST MYSELF $0 THE est OFTiOw is 7 WAKE TE BESPERATE HAS SHE PERFORMED WELL? Ir SEEMS $0. SHE HAS, ENBRACED HER COVER, SHE IS STILL SHARP. SHE'S READY FOR THE NEXT STEP. READY BY THIS WEEKEND.THIS COLOR WILL LOOK’ SHE WAS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE CUBAN GIRLS, NAT, YOU MUST LEAVE witHouT YBa ‘ONE OF THESE ISLAND SCARVES, THEY'RE SO COLORFUL, NOT LIKE A BABUSHKA, WE MEY HERE IN THIS MARKET IT THINK THIS 1S WHY SHE LIKES TO COME BACK HERE SO ‘OFTEN THINK, RAUL, YOU HAVEN'T SPENT’ MUCH TIME IN RUSSIA, SHE'S cerraincy ) YJ HARD TO miss. .\e THIS 1S PY test coMract EXACTLY WHY WE Hl BUT THE MUST RISK IT. WE HAVE FLAG. SOMEONE TO GET OUT OF THE 15 WE CANNOT ‘COUNTRY. WE MUST. WE MUST RISK iT. IT'S Not JUST US. YOU'RE RIGHT. WE MUST RISK fT. 2 WILL PUT OUT THE SIGNAL, Pur, EMILIANO TO BED. TUL STAY UP AND WaIr FOR Hil“THEIR ESCAPE BOAT IS SECRET.”THEN You MUST ACT QUICKLY. THERE'S NARROW TINE BETWEEN THE WATER RISING AND THE BOAT SINKING, @ YOU'RE PROVING YOURSELF (QUITE EFFECTIVE, NATASHA, ‘OVERLY BOLD, PERHAPS, THE ROOM. VALUES EFFECT ‘ABOVE ALL, HOWEVER, THE ‘ROOM IS CONCERNED ABOUT MARINA'S EFFECTIVENESS, SHE HAS BLENDED IN WELL WITH HER ENVIRONNENT, JUST LIKE HER TRAINING, ‘SHE WEARS. THE COSTUME TOO EAGERLY, NATASHA, WELL NEED YOU TO REMOVE HER WHEN THIS OPERATION 18 FINISHED,