Maxim Ivanov


 * This article is about the PDS, Inc. vice president. For his son, please see Maxim Ivanov, Jr.

Maxim Ivanov, Sr. is the vice president of Paper & Document Supplies.

In "Suffer", Maxim, along with Pete Bosley, searched for Maxim Ivanov, Jr. and Zack Yorkinson, who were the victims of a kidnapping by Mr. Pain. Junior and Zack were injected with a lethal toxin and bound to a chair, where his father and Pete Bosley found them. They were given the antidote to the toxin that was found in a piano and in the elder Maxim's back pocket. Maxim Ivanov gave Pete a job by the end of the chapter.

In "Convincing", he has a meeting in his office with Pete Bosley and Lily Pickaway, where Maxim warns them on their unsatisfying progress in the workplace.

In "A Second Scott", Maxim addresses Patrick Boggsley as Pete and instructed him to call the owner of Jim Bob's BBQ because they had not paid their past due invoices for a recent supply of receipt paper. Patrick's odd behavior makes Maxim question his well-being before Patrick smashed him into a desk. Maxim never reveals this information back to Pete in later chapters of the volume. He goes about acting as if nothing ever happened.

In "Silenced", Pete finds an envelope that comes through the mail for Maxim that carries a bunch of information about the Dunn Project, Bacteria 1940, and various other things linked to Super Scott. When questioned about these materials, Maxim says he has an interest in the hero. He then goes on to offer Pete a full-time job to find more information on Super Scott, which Pete politely declines.