Appearances The
Avengers (3): 32
Captain America (1): 100-104, 108, 113-116,122, 124, 127,132, 135-137,
139-163, 165-167, 169,176-182, 184-186, 202, 204, 206-207, 209-212, 217-218,
231-233, 445-453
Captain America (3): 1, 3-4, 9-13, 15-17, 19-21, 25-41, 45-48-50
Captain America (4): 31-32
Captain America (5): 1-9,12-14,16-17,22-26, 31-32, 35-36
Captain America Annual: 2000
Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty: 1
Captain America 65th Anniversary Special
Elektra: 4
Fury/Agent 13: 1-2
Iron Fist/ Wolverine: 2-4
Marvel Knights (1): 14-15
Marvel Two-In-One: 4-5
New Avengers: 18
Spider-Man/Marrow: 1
Tales of Suspense (1): 75-76, 85, 92-95, 97-99
Thunderbolts: 48-49, 51
Wolverine (1): 162, 164
Wolverine/Captain America: 1-4
X-Men (2): 106, 111
Life Model Decoy
Appearance
Highlights
Tales
of Suspense (1) #75:
First appearance
Captain America
(1) #237:
Captain America learns of Carter's supposed death
Captain America (1) #445:
Carter returns
Fury/Agent 13 #1-2:
Carter's search for Nick Fury
Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #1:
First appearance as director of SHIELD
Captain America (3) #31:
Sharon Carter becomes director of SHIELD
Captain America (3) #45:
Returns directorship to Nick Fury
Wolverine/Captain
America 1-4
Tries to cover up the anti-mutant Contingency Project at SHIELD
Captain
America (5) #22
Sharon's loyalty to Captain America is tested amidst the 'civil war' that takes
place in the aftermath of the Registration Act.
Captain America (5) #25
Brainwashed by the Red Skull, Sharon Carter shoots and kills Steve Rogers while
in SHIELD custody.
Select
Cover Appearances
Captain
America (1): 127, 446, 452
Captain America (3): 10-11, 19-20, 31, 49
Captain America (5): 1-2,
9, 16-17, 22,
26, 36
Captain America: Sentinel
of Liberty: 1
Captain
America: Sentinel of Liberty Rough Cut
Fury/Agent 13: 1-2
Notable
Alternate appearances
Captain
America (2): 1, 3, 5
Marvel Zombies/Army of Darkness: 4
New Marvel Mangaverse: 1, 4-5
Ultimate Spider-Man: 15, 19, 21, 46, 90, 105
Ultimate Six: 1-2
What If? (1): 38
Non-Narrative
Appearances
Handbook
of the Marvel Universe (1): 10
Handbook of the Marvel
Universe Deluxe Edition: 16
Handbook
of the Marvel Universe: Women of Marvel 2005
The Marvel Encyclopedia (DK) 2006
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The
daughter of Harrison and Amanda Carter, two wealthy Virginians, Sharon
Carter followed in her older sister Peggy Carter's footsteps twice
fold; first in joining SHIELD and second in falling in love with Steve
Rogers,
aka
Captain America.
On her first major assignment, Sharon Carter, code-named
Agent 13, was chosen to pick up a cylinder containing the powerful
explosive called Inferno 42 from a SHIELD agent who had stolen it from
THEM, the governing body of the subversive organization HYDRA. By coincidence,
Captain America, in his secret identity of Steve Rogers, saw Carter
on her way to receive the cylinder, and was struck by her close resemblance
to her sister Peggy, whom he knew from the war. Captain America eventually
learned that Carter's sister Peggy was the woman he had loved during
World War
II.
Making an unofficial
team, Carter as Agent 13 and Steve Rogers as Captain America helped
stop the plans of the Red Skull, AIM, and others during the early years
of SHIELD. However, in time, specializing in deep-cover assignments
put a strain on her relationship with Rogers and at one point even
resigned from SHIELD in order to work on their relationship. However
Carter soon returned to SHIELD where she continued to be one of its
leading agents. Carter put
her PH.D in meta psychology to use as head of SHIELD's secret psyche
squad and later as one of the principal members of SHIELD's Femme
Force, an all-women squad of commandos.
In what was thought to be her final mission, Sharon Carter was assigned
to be SHIELD liaison to the New York City police department while both
organizations investigated the subversive group called the National
Force, which was secretly controlled by the criminal psychologist known
as Doctor
Faustus. Carter fell under the influence of Faust's mind-influencing
gas during a National Force rally in Central Park, causing her to loose
her free
will and become irrationally violent. Carter was abducted by the National
Force's Grand Director, who was actually the fourth Captain America,
and made to join the National Force in marching on New York City's
Harlem area to burn it down. Carter, still under the gas's influence
control
was made to wear a National Force uniform containing a means of self-incineration
in the event of capture. When the Nation Guard arrived to intervene
in a battle the National Force and Harlem area criminals, the mesmerized
Carter, in accordance with the order given by Faustus, activated the
self-destruct device in her costume and was incinerated. Later, the
original
Captain America, horrified, witnessed her demise on a videotape of
the battle in Harlem.
This
death was in fact staged and Carter was subsequently dispatched on
a secret mission
which left her presumed
dead by SHIELD and Nick Fury. With both Fury and Captain America believing
her dead, Carter was lost and on her own in enemy hands. Carter
spent months at the hands of the dictator Tap-Kwai, eventually escaping.
With everyone
back
home
thinking she was dead, Carter was forced to operate as a freelance
mercenary and eventually found herself paired with The Red Skull
and Captain America years later in an attempt to destroy a Cosmic Cube
and the
Kubekult. Carter
developed into a much more jaded person as a result of being left
out in the cold, affecting her relationship with Rogers at first.
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Upon
returning to the United States, Carter began a hunt for Nick Fury
wanting answers about her being left behind. She discovered
Fury was not dead, but in fact trapped in a pocket dimension created
by Operation Back Slide housed deep under the remnants of SHIELD
Central. Carter entered Back Slide and helped free Fury from the trap. |
Carter
continued some freelance work following Fury's return, including fighting
Count Nefaria in the Savage Land. Despite initial friction with the
agency and Fury, Carter did in fact demonstrate a desire to return
to SHIELD.
Surprisingly,
Nick Fury granted her wish, making her temporary director of SHIELD
during a time he took a short absence. During her tenure
Carter
lead SHIELD against Nightmare and AIM's attacks
with Protocide. Carter also formed the ELITE agents. However
as director, Carter learned the hard lessons Fury had come to know, the rigors
of heading up SHIELD. Agent Brett Jackson proved to be a continuous
thorn in her side. Jackson's formation of the anti-mutant
Contingency project, composed of enhanced agents equipped to take
down mutants would later haunt her. When the team of assassins went rouge
and nearly
killed Wolverine, Carter felt compromised because of
her knowledge of the Contingency. This soured her relationship with Captain
America and left a rare blemish on her SHIELD
career.
After Nick Fury took back command,
Carter teamed up again with Captain America to concentrate on finding the
hijacked helicarrier, stolen by the Red Skull, culminating in a return engagement
with
the Skull and a new Hate-Monger. As Agent 13, Carter has taken center
stage as one of the most visible agents of the agency, both in the public
eye and
in the field.
Her relationship with Rogers cooled to a purely platonic and professional
one, while she became romantically involved with fellow agent Neal Tapper.
As the personal liaison for Captain America, Carter investigated
the
death of the Red Skull and the assassin known as the Winter Soldier. The
mission turned personal when Tapper was killed
in an
explosion detonated by the Winter Solider and his handler, Russian general
Aleksander Lukin. In the wake of the revelation that Bucky Barnes is the
Winter Soldier, the fallout of Nick Fury's 'Secret War', and the passage
of the Hero Registration Act, Sharon Carter has found herself at odds with
herself.
Seen as a liabilty for being a Nick Fury loyalist and because of her involvement
with the renagade Captain America, Sharon Carter was a persona-non-grata
at SHIELD under the directorship of Maria Hill. Carter failed in baiting
Captain
America during a romantic liason and misled a capture team to prevent his
arrest.
Unbeknowest to her, Carter was being controlled by the Red Skull who forced
her to be complicent in the fatal shooting of Steve Rogers while he was in
federal custody. Following the shooting, Sharon Carter, pregnant with Steve
Roger's child, quit SHIELD and joined Roger's former
partner,
the Falcon.
For
the 1991 Captain America film, the character of Sharon Cooperman is
clearly based on some aspects of Sharon Carter
Sharon Carter appeared in the Ultimate
Spider-Man video game, voiced
by Jane Hajduk.
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