Howling Commandos

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Howling Commandos
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #1 (March 1964)
Created by	Stan Lee Jack Kirby

The Howling Commandos is the name of several fictional groups appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Fictional team history[]

World War II[]

The first group of Howling Commandos was an elite unit of the United States Army Rangers formed in World War II. The original team consisted of:

• Sergeant Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Fury
• Corporal Timothy Aloysius Cadwallader "Dum Dum" Dugan
• Private Isadore "Izzy" Cohen
• Private Gabriel Jones
• Private Dino Manelli
• Private Robert "Rebel" Ralston
• Private Jonathan "Junior" Juniper
• Private Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton: A British soldier, in issue #8.
• Private Eric Koenig: A defector from Nazi Germany. He joined the squad in issue #27.

Occasional other members would join for an issue or two before being killed, transferred, or otherwise leaving (such as Fred Jones in issue #81). Also daringly for the time, the series killed Fury's girlfriend, British nurse Pamela Hawley, introduced in issue #4 and killed in a London air raid in #18.

Nick Fury's Howling Commandos[]

A second Howling Commandos team was introduced in the 2005 series Nick Fury's Howling Commandos as a supernatural unit that works for S.H.I.E.L.D. Its members were:

• Clay Quartermain: The commanding officer of Area 13. He takes over in the first issue from Dum Dum Dugan.
• Warwolf (real name Vince Marcus): The field leader. He is a werewolf who can transform voluntarily whenever Mars is in the night sky.
• Nina Price, Vampire by Night: A woman who is half-vampire and half-werewolf.
• N'Kantu, the Living Mummy: A previously existing character. N'Kantu is an undead prince of Ancient Egypt.
• Frankenstein: An intelligent clone of the original Frankenstein's Monster. How this process did not produce different clones of the various individual body parts making up the original Monster was briefly mentioned in issue #1. The response was "Don't go there".
• Gorilla-Man I: A previously existing character. Kenneth Hale is a man trapped in a gorilla's body. He is now a member of the Agents of Atlas.
• John Doe: A zombie depicted as having normal human-level intelligence, in contrast to other zombie characters in the Marvel universe.

Secret Invasion[]

A third group of "Commandos" are introduced in Mighty Avengers #13. After discovering the Skrull invasion, Nick Fury assembles a team made up of the offspring of various superheroes and supervillains. This team members are:

• Quake: Former S.H.I.E.L.D. member and daughter of Mister Hyde. She possesses the power to create earthquake like vibrations.
• Phobos: The ten-year-old son of Ares. He possesses the power to cause fear in others by looking in their eyes.
• Druid: The son of Doctor Druid who has inherited some of his father's skill with magic.
• Yo-Yo: The daughter of the Griffin. She can run at superhuman speed and bounces back to the point where she began running.
• Hellfire: The grandson of the Phantom Rider. He is able to charge a chain with fire to wield as a weapon.
• Stonewall: Son of the Absorbing Man. Daisy Johnson bails him out of jail after he is imprisoned for hitting a cop. Possesses superhuman strength. Very little so far has been revealed about the character.

Dark Reign[]

In Secret Warriors #4 and #5 as seen during the Dark Reign storyline, it is revealed that 1200 S.H.I.E.L.D. agents refused to join H.A.M.M.E.R. following Norman Osborn's rise to power. Under the leadership of Dum Dum Dugan and Gabe Jones, they became a private military company which is hired by Nick Fury to fight against both HYDRA and H.A.M.M.E.R.

Black Ops version[]

A new incarnation of the Howling Commandos is ordered to apprehend the Punisher after he relocates to Los Angeles. The black ops version is led by Sidewinder and its members include Ruby Red, Myers, and Buzzkill.^[1]

Phil Coulson's Howling Commandos[]

Phil Coulson later formed his version of the Howling Commandos to combat Dormammu's Mindless Plague. The team consisted of:

• Frankenstein's Monster^[2]
• Man-Thing^[3]
• N'Kantu, the Living Mummy^[4]
• Zombie^[5]

Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D[]

A new team of Howling Commandos under the command of S.T.A.K.E. were part of the All-New All-Different Marvel led by the rebuilt LMD of Dum Dum Dugan and under the supervision of Warwolf. It consists of:

• Jasper Sitwell (zombie form)
• Vampire by Night
• Man-Thing
• Manphibian
• Orrgo
• Teen Abomination
• Hit-Monkey^[6]

Other versions[]

MAX[]

In Garth Ennis' Fury and Fury: Peacemaker, the Howling Commandos were an OSS special operations unit created by Fury and modeled after the SAS. Most of the unit's lineup were wiped out following D-Day, and only Fury and two other members survived (one of whom is most likely Dum-Dum Dugan, who appears in Fury MAX).

Ultimate Marvel[]

In the Ultimate universe, Howling Commandos were a US Army Ranger unit, escorting an imprisoned Wolverine during the Gulf War. The convoy was attacked by the Iraqi Republican Guard, killing all but Fury. Dum-Dum Dugan appears in the present day, hinting that he was elsewhere at the time.^{[citation needed]}

During the Ultimate X-Men comic, Nick Fury dispatches a special S.H.I.E.L.D. unit to protect the Triskelion from elements of the Academy of Tomorrow, who came to break out one of their own.^{[citation needed]}

A new version of the Howling Commandos appeared in Ultimate Comics: Ultimates #20; S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Monica Chang grants Nick Fury and ex-HYDRA soldier Abigail Brand to take on the growing power of Hydra.^[7]

The full team finally makes its debut during the Dark Ultimates' attack on Earth. Besides Nick Fury, Monica Chang and Abigail Brand, the roster consists of Punisher, Falcon, Stature, Dum Dum Dugan, Danny "The Ghost" Ketch, Emil "The Abomination" Blonsky, and Hercules^[8]

Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos[]

During the Secret Wars storyline, a variation of the Howling Commandos resides in the Battleworld domain of Monster Metropolis which is located beneath the Kingdom of Manhattan. It consists of Frankenstein's Monster, Invisible Man, Man-Thing, Marcus the Centaur, N'Kantu the Living Mummy, and Werewolf by Night.^[9]

In other media[]

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• Nick Fury's Howling Commandos appear in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated TV series.^{[citation needed]} In the episodes "Blade" and "The Howling Commandos", the Howling Commandos consist of Werewolf by Night, N'Kantu, the Living Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster, Man-Thing and The Invisible Man.
• Nick Fury's Howling Commandos appear in Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.. In the episode "Hulking Commandos", the Howling Commandos consist of Blade, Werewolf by Night, N'Kantu, the Living Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster and Man-Thing.
• The Howling Commandos appear in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. In the episode "Meet Captain America", the Howling Commandos consist of Jack Fury, Dum Dum Dugan, Dino Manelli, Pinky Pinkerton, Rebel Ralston, Gabe Jones, Izzy Cohen and James "Logan" Howlett.^{[citation needed]}
• The World War II Howling Commandos are first introduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain America: The First Avenger. There they were led by Captain America who freed the group from a Hydra prisoner camp. Their number includes Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Dum Dum Dugan (Neal McDonough), Gabe Jones (Derek Luke), Montgomery Falsworth (J. J. Feild), Jim Morita (Kenneth Choi) and Jacques Dernier (Bruno Ricci).
• In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the team uses old Howling Commandos' equipment provided by Agent Antoine Triplett who is the grandson of one of the Howling Commandos. Commandos Dugan and Morita also return in a flashback, led by Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell). to arrest one of HYDRA Heads, Daniel Whitehall.
• The Howling Commandos appears on Agent Carter. Along with Dum Dum Dugan, the other members that appear include Happy Sam Sawyer (Leonard Roberts), Junior Juniper (James Austin Kerr) and Pinky Pinkerton (Richard Short).^[10]

See also[]

• List of Marvel Comics superhero debuts

References[]