Comic Book: Black Widow: Pale Little Spider (2002 series)

Black Widow: Pale Little Spider #1

June 2002
"Pale Little Spider Part the First"
Script: Greg Rucka
In Moscow, two police detectives, Val Dobrova (a woman) and Maks Golitsyn (a man) arrive at a sex club called Fabrika to check reports of a murder on the premises. They find a masked corpse chained to a huge cross in a torture chamber. [...]

Black Widow: Pale Little Spider #2

July 2002
"Pale Little Spider Part the Second"
Script: Greg Rucka
Police Detective Maks Golitsyn returns to the Fabrika sex club, following up on the murder of Lt. Col. Pyotr Starkovsky. His partner, Detective Val Dobrova, knows it’s because he is fascinated with the woman from the G.R.U., warning him that she is the Black Widow. [...]

Black Widow: Pale Little Spider #3

August 2002
"Pale Little Spider Part the Third"
Script: Greg Rucka
Flashback: Yelena Belova is in combat training with Lt. Col. Pyotr Starkovsky when he suddenly overpowers her and gets her in a hold. Yelena is upset, rebuking herself because Natasha Romanova would not have made that mistake. [...]