TME 2

Q FACTFILE _J NOTABLE MEMBERS NICK FURY (Second director) — CONTESSA VALENTINA X ALLEGRA Df FONTAINE (J) YELENA BELOVA (Black Widów) G. W. BRIOGE (fourth director) SHARON CARTER (Agent 13). frfth director iiaison officer to Captain America.

JESSICA DREW

I(Sptder-Woman)

THADDEUS “DUGAN".

(third director)

MARIA HILL (current director)

GABRIEL JONES AL MACKENZIE (CIA Iiaison)

ALI MORALES CLAY OUARTERMA1N NATASHA ROMANOYA (Black Widów)

JASPER SITWELL JIMMY WOO

BASE The Helicarrier; mobile

FIRST

APPEARANCE

Strange Tales 8135 (August 1965)

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SHIELD (Supremę Headquarcers International Espionage Law-Enforcement Division; later changed to Strategie Hazard Intervention, Espionage and Logisties I )ircetorate) is a counter-terroristn, intelligence, espionage, and pcace-keeping organization. SHIELD runs covert as well as military operations, and Works with governments and their military forces around the world.

S H I ELD'S FORMATION

i•    SHIELD was estabhshcd to counter the threat poscd by the

technologically advanccd neo-fascist subversive organization known as 1 IYDKA.The identity ot SI ULI l)s tounders \ Ntck Fury wns one J    rcmains classified. as docs the identity ofits first executive

SHCLDfc top i    director, who was assassinated bv HYDRA operatiws.

operatwes.    I

J Sł IILI.Ds sccond and longcst-scrving leader was Nick Fury, a Colonel in the US ar my, who had also bccn a top (MA operativ Other important SHIELD members includeTimothy “Dum Dum" Duc.AN.Vnlentin. Allegro Dc Fontaine. and Jasper Sitwell.

For many years. SHIELD s headquartcrs was the Helicarrier. a huge flying aireraft carrier chat was kept airbornc at all times. It carried a squadron of jet łighters and an ICBM.The Helicarrier was destroyed. but SHIELD maintaim its many regional headquarters throughout the world. SI IIELL) also keeps elose ties to the Super Hero community and has called upon Captain America, the Avi;NGlrs. and the Fantastic Folk for help; other allies have included Mockingmird, Quasar, and Anthony Stark

ESSENTIAL STORYLINES

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ALLIES AND ENEMIES

Over the years SHIELDs main advcrsaries have included HYDRA, AIM. Zodiac. the Corporation, the Ylllow Claw, the Viim:r. the Red Skull, Centurius. and Doctor Demonicus. SHIELD providcd intelligence and technical support to the Avengers and the Fantastic Four during the Kree-Skrull War, when a battle of the aliens took place very ^! close to Larth. MT

SHIELD has a fomwiabte Ngh-tech arsenał at its tfsposal roody to ciepłoy at troubte spots anywhere in the worid.

The subvorsiw terronst orgamration HYDRA, dodicated to worki dontinatton, is one of SHIELD^ most dangerous threats.