Winter Guard

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Winter Guard
Textless cover of Darkstar and the Winter Guard #1 (June 2010). Art by Clayton Henry
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Iron Man (vol. 2) #9 (October 1998)
Created by	Kurt Busiek Sean Chen
In-story information
Member(s)	Crimson Dynamo Darkstar Red Guardian Ursa Major Fantasma Powersurge Sibercat Sputnik Vanguard Red Widow

The Winter Guard (Russian: Зимняя Гвардия, romanized: Zimnyaya Gvardiya) is a fictional team of Russian superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

The Winter Guard are noted for being "Russia's answer to the Avengers".^[1] Several members of the group formerly belonged to the Soviet Super-Soldiers, the People's Protectorate and the Supreme Soviets. Unlike those teams, which were often adversarial towards other costumed superheroes, the Winter Guard is much more heroic and representative in nature.

Unlike other superhero teams, the Winter Guard currently has a rotating pool of candidates to fill one of three roles on the team: Darkstar, Crimson Dynamo and Red Guardian.^{[citation needed]}