Appearances
Deathlok
(Ltd Series): 3-4
Nick Fury: Agent Of SHIELD (2): 1-10,
12-20, 22, 25-27, 43, 46-47
Nick
Fury
Vs
SHIELD:
2-6
The
Pulse:
8-9
Punisher
(2):
41
Appearance
Highlights
Nick
Fury Vs SHIELD #3
First
appearance
Nick
Fury, Agent of SHIELD (2) #7
Joins SHIELD
Pulse #9
Tips off Jessica Jones and Ben Urich to the events of 'Secret War'
Amazing Fantasy (2) #10
Mention is made of his book, UnSHIELDed.
Non-Narrative
Appearances
Handbook
of the Marvel Universe Update '89: 7
Marvel Age: 77
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Straight-talking
and down-to-earth Texas attitude is what Alphonso MacKenzie
(known simply as 'Al' or 'Mac' to his friends) has brought to his
espionage career in both the CIA and
SHIELD.
While serving as the
C.I.A. liaison to SHIELD, Mac came to know most of the upper echelon
of SHIELD, including Jimmy Woo and Jasper Sitwell. Never too comfortable
with all the almost alien technology on display at SHIELD, Mac
found it none too disheartening when he was terminated as liaison
to SHIELD by Deltan LMDs posing as Woo and newly appointed director
Sitwell.
Catching on to the break-ins at SHIELD installations, Mac ferreted
out an agent still not converted to the Deltite plan and learned
of the flat brain scans of many of the agents
of SHIELD. Both he and the agent were captured, but Fury and Pierce
rescued them. Soon both Mac joined Fury on a trail that
lead them to the heart of the Deltite Affair and brought an end
to the first incarnation of SHIELD.
MacKenzie returned to the CIA and found himself
paired professionally and romantically with former SHIELD agent Countessa Valentina
Allegro De Fontaine.
While investigating an apparent new offshoot of HYDRA, known as the Death's Head
Squad, Mac and Val brought Nick Fury into the investigation, uncovering an alien
threat and neutralizing it. Convinced that there was still a need for SHIELD,
Fury agreed to start a new organization.
Among its first new agents were
Mac
and Val, however their romance
grew
awkward
under Fury's command. Tension clung to the new
team as Mac found himself with a strained relationship with his commander and
used as a frequent pawn for Val's public jealous stabs at Fury. Despite this,
Mac stayed on with the organization using his interrogation skills to break through
the conditioning of the recovered agents from the Deltite Affair. Mac also played
a role in interrogating the former Super Agents, revealed to be HYDRA moles.
In recent years Mac has acted as go-between for SHIELD and the Daily Bugle, offering
information to staff writer Ben Urich. In the fallout of the events
that
have come to be known as Nick Fury's 'Secret War', MacKenzie leaked to Urich
information
regarding Fury being ousted from the agency. Its unclear if Mac's leak to the
Bugle was done so under orders from someone within (or outside) the agency or
for his own personal reasons (perhaps still holding a grudge against Fury after
all these years).
Mac
is currently retired from SHIELD and published in 2004, UnSHIELDed:
An Unauthorized Insider's Look Behind the World's Most Powerful Global
Spy Network.
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