Doctor Mikhail Sergeyevich Cossack appears in Archie Comics' Mega Man comic series in the fourth story arc/graphic novel, Spiritus Ex Machina. According to this continuity, he had traveled to America as a college student while undergoing his thesis in robotics research, and was likewise an old friend and colleague of both Dr. Thomas Light and Dr. Noele Lalinde because of this. He also made the acquaintance of Dr. Albert Wily, whom he evidently mistrusted very early on. Cossack's work in robotics was apparently esteemed enough that he started receiving funding for his research.