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Appearances
Agents of Atlas: 1-4, 6
Amazing Spiderman (1): 187
Avengers (1): 38-39, 67, 72, 92, 118, 385, 396
Avengers (3): 502
Avengers
:The Initiative: 17-18**
Cable (1): 33
Cable/Deadpool: 7, 9-10
The Call: 2-3
Captain America/Punisher: Blood & Glory: 2
Captain America/Nick Fury: Blood Truce
Captain America/Nick Fury: The Otherworld War
Captain America (1): 100, 120, 123-124, 127, 132, 135-136, 139-140, 143, 166,
173, 181, 222, 247-248, 250, 273-274, 276, 282-284, 351, 453
Captain America (3): 3, 5, 10, 12, 20, 25 33-35, 38-41, 45-46, 48, 50
Captain America (4): 10, 31-32
Captain America (5): 22, 26
Captain America Annual 2000
Captain America-Sentinel of Liberty: 12
Captain America 65th Anniversary Special
Combat Kelly and the Deadly Dozen: 1, 4
Conspiracy: 2
Daredevil (1):122-123, 298-299
Deathlok (1):20
Deathlok (3): 8, 10-11
Double Edge: Omega
Elektra: 2-5
Fallen Son, The Death of Captain America: Iron Man
Fantastic Four (1): 84, 214, 240-241, 290
Fantastic Four Annual: 3
Fantastic Four World's Greatest Comics Magazine: 6-7
Gambit (2): 10
Godzilla: King of Monsters: 1-24
Identity Disc: 5
Incredible Hulk (2): 106-107, 279, 434, 437, 440
Invaders (1): 35
Iron Man (1): 1, 35
Iron Man (4): 7-13, 15-20
Jack of Hearts: 2
Journey Into Suspense: Men & Machines
Kazar: 10-11
Kitty Pride, Agent of SHIELD: 1-3
Marvel Boy: 2, 6
Marvel Comic Presents: 77-79, 173
Marvel Fanfare: 49
Marvel Holiday Special 1994
Marvel Premiere: 56
Marvel Team-Up: 71
Marvel Two-In-One : 34, 51
Micronauts (1): 12, 26-29
(Marvel UK) Motormouth: 1
New Avengers: 17,19
Nick Fury, Agent Of SHIELD (1):1-2, 5, 7-9, 12-15
Nick Fury, Agent Of SHIELD (2):1,14, 21, 25-29, 33-37, 42-44, 46-47
Nick Fury's Howling Commandos: 1
Nick Fury Vs SHIELD: 1-6
The Order: 6
Punisher (1): 7,11
Rom: Space Knight: 53
The Scorpio Connection
Secret Invasion: 1**
Secret War: 1
Sgt Fury & His Howling Commandos: 1-167
Silver Sable: 24
Silver Surfer (1): 16-17
Spiderman (1): 21
Spiderman Dead Man's Hands: 1
Strange Tales:137-141, 143-153
Tales of Suspense (1): 95-96, 98
The Transformers (1): 3
Thor (1): 341
Thunderbolts (1): 71
Thunderstrike: 6-7
USAgent (2): 1, 3
Uncanny X-Men (1): 26
Uncanny X-Men Annual: 7
War Machine: 16-17
Wolverine (1): 163
Wolverine (2): 30-31, 39
Wolverine Origins: 1-3, 6-10
X-Force (1): 55
X-men Unlimited: 48
** Life
Model Decoy
** Skrull
Appearance Highlights
Sgt
Fury & His Howling Commandoes #34
Dugan's first meeting with Nick Fury
Sgt Fury & His
Howling Commandoes #1
First appearance
Sgt Fury &
His Howling Commandoes #26
Dum Dum leads a contingent of prisoners against the crew of a Nazi sea
destroyer.
Sgt Fury &
His Howling Commandoes #59-60
Dum Dum goes in Fury's place to face off against Col. Klaue and is later put
on court-martial.
Sgt Fury &
His Howling Commandoes #94, 96-97
Dum Dum takes command of the Howlers behind enemy lines after Fury is
injured.
Sgt Fury & His Howling Commandoes
#98
Heads up the training for the Deadly Dozen and is promoted to sergeant
Strange Tales
#137
First appearances as a SHIELD agent
Captain America
#247
Battles an android Baron Strucker alongside Captain America
Godzilla: King of
Monsters #2
Dugan is assigned the capture of Godzilla
Godzilla: King of Monsters #3
The helicarrier crashes in San
Francisco bay.
Captain America (1)
#283-284
Suffers heart attack on eve of SHIELD assault. Fury appoints him deputy
director.
Marvel Fanfare
#49
Dugan and Nick Fury travel back in time to the 1880s American Southwest
Nick Fury: Agent
Of SHIELD (2) #1
A retired Dugan is killed alongside his wife by the Death's Head Commandos
Nick Fury: Agent
Of SHIELD (2) #14
Dugan is found in a HYDRA base, brought back from the 'dead' by the Yellow
Claw for unknown reasons.
Nick Fury: Agent
Of SHIELD (2) #35-47
Dugan serves as director of SHIELD
Marvel Holiday Special 1994
Dum Dum gives Fury some holiday advice
The Incredible
Hulk #434
Attends Nick Fury's funeral.
Wolverine Origins #10
Following his capture of Wolverine, Dugan is brutally maimed by Logan's mysterious
son.
Iron Man (4)
#20
Sub-director Dugan faces down the Hulk while Director Tony Stark is AWOL.
Secret Invasion #1:
Director's Cut
Dugan is seemingly killed and then replaced by a Skrull.
 Select Cover Appearances
Captain America (1): 127,
244, 273
Combat Kelly and the
Deadly Dozen #4
Deathlok (3) #11
Godzilla: King of
Monsters #17, 19
Nick Fury Vs SHIELD
#1, 3, 6
Nick Fury: Agent of
SHIELD (1) #1
Nick Fury: Agent of
SHIELD (2) #29
Nick Fury, Agent of
SHIELD (83 reprint) 1
Sgt Fury & His Howling Commandoes #1-4, 6-24, 98
Strange Tales # 137, 147, 153, 167
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A former circus
strongman, Dum Dum first met Nick Fury on his way out of Holland, escaping the Nazi onslaught. Fury
and 'Happy" Sam Sawyer were on a mission to meet a British spy and Dum
Dum helped them escape the Nazis and recover vital papers for the war effort.
Later, Dum Dum enlisted in the British service and served alongside Sawyer in
North Africa on several missions. Sawyer was
wounded and forced to take a desk job and when asked to form a special
missions squad, he remembered Dugan, placing him as second-in-command of the
newly formed First Attack Squad; aka The Howling Commandos.
During his time with the Howlers Dugan became skilled on all Allied small
weapons and gained experience in all forms of hand to hand combat, especially
Judo. With his trademark derby, Dum Dum frequently struck fear into the Nazi
and Japanese enemies in mission after mission Such were the Howling Commandos
feared by the Third Reich, a counter squad of elite fighters, the Blitzkrieg
Squad was formed, and among their number, bar room brawler Siegfried, whose
story of defeating six men with his bare hands made it to the ears of Von
Strucker, was chosen to stand against Dum Dum Dugan.
Among the foes Dum Dum squared off against was Colonel Klaue, stepping in for
Fury on a one-on-one match with the iron-handed officer. Following this incident,
Dugan was brought up on court martial charges, but Fury soon revealed that it
was a plot by the Agent of a 1,000 Faces. Perhaps one of his most daring
moments was his face-off against the Sea Shark, during which he lead a group
of prisoners to take over the German ship. Foreshadowing his future
experiences in SHIELD, Dugan also faced a number of supernatural and
super-human menaces during the war, including Baron Blood.
Dugan had many opportunities to take command of the Howlers himself. On one
occasion, trapped behind enemy lines during Allied bombings of a German town
Dum Dum took command and lead a demoralized team back across heavily
fortified enemy territory with a wounded Fury in tow. His experience with the Howlers lead to Dugan to being assigned to
train the similar task force known as the "Deadly Dozen" by Sawyer.
Promoted to sergeant, Dugan along with fellow Howlers Pinkerton and Maneli
trained and fought alongside the Dozen on their first missions. Dugan was
reassigned to the Howlers just prior to the Battle
of the Bulge where he fought alongside not only his Howler teammates, but
also the Deadly Dozen with their new commander and Captain America and
Bucky.
Serving Fury well as second in command of the Howlers during not during only
W.W.II but also later on missions in Korea, it took little indecision as to
who Fury wanted seconded to him as sub director of SHIELD.
Dugan served at the front lines of many of SHIELD's battles with the likes of
HYDRA, A.I.M., the interplanetary Wraiths, and a robotic clone of the Yellow
Claw, Scorpio and the Zodiac, the Druid, the Maggia, the villainous duo of
Mentallo and the Fixer and many other foes. Dugan also came to know and
befriend many of the world's heroes, including the Fantastic Four, Iron Man,
Falcon, Black Widow, Quasar and of course Captain America, whom he first met
during World War II.
The late 1970's saw him take command of the special helicarrier named
Behemoth IV to track down the Japanese monster Godzilla, an assignment he
became somewhat overzealous on in the opinion of others, including Gabe
Jones. Nicknamed "The Godzilla Squad", the group headed by Dugan,
and including Jones and Jimmy Woo, followed Godzilla across his many exploits
in the United States,
including along the Alaskan pipeline, Seattle,
and San Francisco
where the interference of the Champions of Los Angeles led to the crashing of
the original helicarrier. This mission to neutralize the threat of the beast
left one of the few blemishes on Dugan's career, as he nearly lost SHIELD's
mobile headquarters. Following the crash, Dugan was assigned the Behemoth IV
carrier and the Red Ronin drone to apprehend the monster. In time however the
creature returned to the sea on its own, never seen since. Dugan faced
further trouble when he suffered a heart attack in 1983. As a result Nick
Fury appointed Dugan deputy director of SHIELD in order to keep him in the
agency, but not in active combat.
In one of their more unusual adventures, Dugan and Fury traveled back in time
to the American Southwest of the 1890s. There Dugan and Fury joined forces
with Dr. Strange to put down a renegade Apache war chief who threatened to
unravel the fabric of time.
Dugan's loyalty was
tested to its limits during the Deltite Affair when his close friendship with
Fury endangered his position in SHIELD and nearly cost him his life. With
Fury on the run, Dugan was expected to assume command of SHIELD, however the
Deltite-controlled oversight council that ran the agency cited Dugan's heart
condition as a specific reason not to choose him. Following that turn of
events, Dugan was among one of the few agents who suspected something wrong
with the hunt for a rouge Nick Fury and together with Gabe
Jones and the Contessa, they uncovered the corruption at the heart of the
Deltite Affair, leading to the dissolving of SHIELD.
After SHIELD disbanded Dugan retired to a civilian life with his wife and
children, however a bizarre plot involving the Death's Head and the Yellow
Claw unwittingly him and his family their lives. The death of Dugan spurned
Fury to return to the world of espionage and avenge the death of his trusted
and life-long friend. As events later revealed, Dugan was in fact still
alive, frozen by the Yellow Claw and allowed to be found by Fury. The motivations
behind the Yellow Claw's elaborate ploy remain a mystery unsolved.
Returned to active duty,
Dugan served as a firm bedrock for Fury during the formative months of the
new SHIELD and later the traumatic events of the massacre at SHIELD Central
in 1991 and the subsequent fiasco involving the brainwashing of long thought
dead agents of SHIELD. Once again Dugan was at the front lines alongside
Fury, most notably on a mission with to thwart the theft of a long lost
Soviet nuclear submarine. Together with the mutant Wolverine, Fury and Dugan
put a minor dent in the growing HYDRA arsenal. Dugan was in command of the
helicarrier when it was hijacked by a cadre of super-terrorists lead by Mad
Dog and bankrolled by AIM, enduring considerable torture at the hands of the
hijackers.
Dugan briefly served as director of SHIELD in 1993, however the position was
nearly in name only as Fury still ran SHIELD. Fury took back the mantle later
that year in time to lead an invasion against Von Strucker's base in Iceland.
Feeling his age in the years that followed, Dugan served more in an
administrative sense, always close at Fury's side to offer consultation and
advice. Among the crises SHIELD faced were the subterranean Tantalus and the
terrorist organization known as DANTE. Despite his age, Dugan was not opposed
to some field work, taking a shot in the leg following his escorting of
former KGB officer Dmitri Panshin, which eventually led to a rouge band of
SHIELD agents taking over the helicarrier.
In 1995, Dugan's loyalty to Fury tested their friendship as he sided with
Fury's son, Mikel. Dugan and Mikel tried to capture the Punisher, who was
gunning after Fury thinking he had the Castle family killed. The events of
those days eventually culminated in the apparent 'death' of Nick Fury, shot
and killed by the Punisher. Dugan was quick to oversee the situation and
played a large role in the funeral of his dear friend.
Acting as a deputy
director Dugan assisted the Contessa in the aftermath of Fury's death,
helping her during the funeral and later in dealing with Mikel who
went gunning for the Punisher looking to avenge his father's murder. Later
under director G.W. Bridge's tenure, Dugan served aboard the carrier
during the chaos of the apparent death of many of the world's heroes at the
hands of Onslaught, seriously wounded during the helicarrier's crash into Manhattan harbor
following attacks from Sentinels. Later Dugan served aboard the carrier,
helping to solve the computer malfunctions aboard the new helicarrier caused
by the evil spirit Ogun. Dugan also aided Ka-Zar in returning a terra former
back to the Savage
Land.
When the real Fury returned from Operation Back Slide, Dugan remained acting
as unofficial commander of SHIELD as Fury maintained a low profile. Dugan kept
tabs on the
Thunderbolts and faced a plot by Nightmare with Sharon Carter and Captain America. In
2000, Dugan informed Captain America
and Falcon that Fury was in fact alive and investigating a new threat from
the Hate-Monger.
Dugan served as a special director during Sharon Carter's tenure of command
in the agency, offering his experience in combating threats from AIM and
their attacks with Proboscides and assisting her formation of the ELITE agents
of SHIELD, whom he lead against the Thunderbolts.
When Nick Fury returned to the helm, Dugan now in his fifth decade at SHIELD
seemed to adopt a much lower profile when compared to earlier years. Retiring
from active combat roles, Dugan can still be seen at Fury's side, such as
during the interrogation of the Vulture after the Identity Disc theft and
SHIELD's recent dealings with Cable and his floating city of Providence.
Following the savage HYDRA attacks on SHIELD in 2005 that left Nick Fury
injured, Dugan served as acting commander of SHIELD. Under his command,
SHIELD launched an all-out assault on factions of HYDRA, AIM, and the cult
known as the Hand lead by mutant Gorgon. He oversaw the Area 13 operations,
passing command over to Clay Quatermain in 2005.
Shortly thereafter Nick Fury
was forced underground after the fallout of the 'Secret War', leaving Dugan
marked as a Fury 'loyalist' along with others like Sharon Carter and the
Countessa. Dugan was assigned the task of capturing Wolverine in a zealous
manhunt that ended with the mutant's capture. Soon thereafter, under Dugan's
personal custody,
Wolverine's son brutally stabbed Dum Dum with claws tearing through his chest.
Nonetheless Dugan was on the frontline as SHIELD faced some tough
challenges under the directorship of Maria Hill.
Dugan led a SHIELD team to attempt to take down Captain America after the hero
refused to obey the newly enacted Registration Act. In the battle that followed,
Dugan was spared by Captain America.
Dugan faced a tougher challenge
in the wake of the Civil War between the heroes, with Tony Stark becoming
director of SHIELD. The return of the Mandarin and the deadly return of
the Hulk from his exile in space were among crisis that Dugan faced.
Shortly
after Captain America's death,
Dugan is replaced by a Skrull. This Skrull posed as the Countessa
DeFontaine. Later he commits himself to
a suicide run and explodes himself aboard the orbiting headquarters
of SWORD to pave the way for the Skrull invasion.
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