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2. Son of World War I pilot Jack Fury, Nick Fury became a legendary hero in the early
years of World War II, taking missions into Europe alongside his friend Red
Hargrove, under the command of Lt. Samuel Sawyer. During a mission in Holland,
Fury, Hargrove and Sawyer befriended circus strongman Timothy "Dum-Dum"
Dugan who became a close friend. Hargrove was killed in the attack on Pearl
Harbor that led the US to officially enter the war on December 7, 1941, Fury fought
the Nazis in Northern Africa, then was reunited with Captain Sawyer, who made
Sgt. Fury the leader of the US Rangers’ First Attack Squad, soon nicknamed the
“Howling Commandos” for their boisterous battle cry. Dugan served as Fury’s
second-in-command and became his closest friend. The Howlers occasionally
worked alongside Captain America (Steve Rogers) and Bucky (James Barnes), who
became significant allies. During one mission, Fury’s left eye was damaged by a
grenade and his lack of medical care eventually aggravated the wound. At one
point, Professor Berthold Sternberg gave Fury the “Infinity Formula,” which
retarded Fury’s aging process, although it required him to take regular injections to
stay alive. Late in the war, Fury joined the OSS and with the war’s end joined their
post-war CIA agency.
In recent years, Fury was selected as director of SHIELD, an international
intelligence agency equipped with state-of-the-art technology by Tony Stark. Fury
recruited many of the Howlers to the organization, notably Dum Dum. As leader of
SHIELD, Fury faced the likes of Hydra, AIM, Scorpio (his own brother Jacob) and
the Hate-Monger (Adolf Hitler’s clone). Fury was reunited with Captain America,
who survived years in suspended animation, and the two rekindled their
friendship. When SHIELD was beset by a conspiracy at its highest level by the
Deltite, Fury allowed the organization to disband and later rebuilt it as a smaller
unit he could more closely monitor. Fury also discovered he had a son, Mikel, who
took the identity of Scorpio at first, but later joined SHIELD.

3. Natasha was born in Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia. The first and
best-known Black Widow is a Soviet agent trained as a spy, martial
artist, and sniper, and outfitted with an arsenal of high-tech weaponry,
including a pair of wrist-mounted energy weapons dubbed her
"Widow's Bite". She wears no costume during her first few appearances
but simply evening wear and a veil. Romanova eventually defects to the
U.S. for reasons that include her love for the reluctant-criminal turned
Superhero archer, Hawkeye.
Romanova's parents were killed in a fire when Romanova was a child.
She was saved from death herself by Ivan Petrovitch, who raised her as
a surrogate father. He first appears in Marvel continuity in the Widow's
1970s Amazing Adventures feature, in which he is introduced as her
chauffeur and confidant, without this back-story revealed. Romanova
as a child appears in a flashback to 1941, in which Petrovitch, the
superhero Captain America, and the mutant Logan (who would later
become the superhero Wolverine) rescue her from Nazis on the
fictional island principality of Madripoor.

4. Clint Barton was born in Waverly, Iowa. At a young age he lost both of his
parents in a car accident. After six years in an orphanage, Clint and his
brother Barney ran away to join the Carson Carnival of Travelling Wonders.
Clint soon caught the eye of the Swordsman, who took the young boy on as
his assistant. Along with the help of Trick Shot, the Swordsman trained Clint to
become a master archer. Clint later found the Swordsman embezzling money
from the carnival. Before he could turn his mentor over to the authorities,
Clint was beaten and left for dead, allowing the Swordsman to skip town.
Clint's relationship with his brother Barney and Trick Shot soon deteriorated
as well.
Clint adapted his archery skills to become a star carnival attraction, a master
archer called "Hawkeye", otherwise known as “The World’s Greatest
Marksman”. He spent some time as a member of Tiboldt’s Circus before
joining the Coney Island Circus. He witnesses Iron Man in action and is
inspired to become a costumed hero. However, after a misunderstanding on
his first outing, Hawkeye is accused of theft and believed to be a criminal. On
the run, the naive Hawkeye meets the Black Widow, a spy for the Soviet
Union, with whom he falls in love. Blindly following the Black Widow,
Hawkeye aids her attempts to steal technology developed by Tony Stark. In
one of their battles with Iron Man, the Black Widow is seriously injured.
Hawkeye rescues her and flees the battle to save her life. But before Hawkeye
can take her to a hospital, the Black Widow disappears. Hawkeye decides to
be a "straight-shooter" from then on

5. Steve Rogers was a scrawny fine arts student growing up during the
Great Depression. His alcoholic father died when Steve was a child,
and his mother passed away from pneumonia after he graduated high
school. In early 1940, appalled at Nazi Germany’s horrific atrocities,
Steve attempted to enlist in the army. Failing to pass physical
requirements, he was invited to volunteer for Operation: Rebirth, a
project intended to enhance US soldiers to the height of physical
perfection via the inventions and discoveries of Professor Abraham
Erskine. Rogers eagerly accepted and became the first test subject.
After injections and ingestion of the "Super Soldier Serum," Rogers
was exposed to a controlled burst of "Vita-Rays" that activated and
stabilized the chemicals in his system.
The process successfully altered his physiology from its frail state to
the maximum of human efficiency, including greatly enhanced
musculature and reflexes. Soon after, Professor Erskine was
assassinated by a Nazi operative, leaving Steve the sole beneficiary of
Erskine’s genius. Renamed “Project: Rebirth,” variations of the Super-
Soldier serum were subsequently tested, under inhuman conditions,
on African-American soldiers. The most successful of these was Isaiah
Bradley, and Project: Rebirth’s resources were eventually absorbed
into a multinational superhuman research project dubbed Weapon
Plus.

6. Anthony "Tony" Stark was born to Howard Anthony Stark and Maria Collins Carbonell Stark,
owners of the prominent US firm, Stark Industries. As a boy, Tony was fascinated with building
and controlling machines. At the age of 15 Tony entered the undergraduate electrical
engineering program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and graduated with
two master’s degrees by age 19. Tony went to work for Stark Industries, but showed more
interest in living a reckless playboy lifestyle than using his engineering skills. At the age of 21,
Tony inherited Stark Enterprises when his parents were killed in a car accident secretly
orchestrated by rival corporation Republic Oil (later ROXXON). Still lacking in business acumen,
Tony promoted secretary Virginia "Pepper" Potts to be his executive assistant and left the
majority of his workload on her so that he could avoid what he saw as a burden.
Tony personally attended a field test of his military hardware at one of his international plants;
however, soon after his arrival Stark’s party was attacked by a gang of terrorists led by the Sin-
Cong revolutionary Wong Chu. During the skirmish, a land mine went off and lodged a piece of
shrapnel near Tony’s heart. Taken back to Wong-Chu’s camp, Tony shared a cell with Professor
Ho Yinsen, a world-famous physicist.
Wong-Chu demanded that the two scientists develop advanced weaponry for his forces.
Knowing that he could not live long with the shrapnel so close to his heart, Tony proposed that
he and Yinsen devote their gifts to creating one of the battlesuits he had been developing,
equipped with a magnetic field generator to prevent the shrapnel from reaching his heart. The
armor they created became the first true Iron Man armor and was equipped with crude
magnetic weaponry for defense. While the armor’s battery was being powered, some of Wong-
Chu’s men attempted to break in on the proceedings. Yinsen went to create a diversion and was
shot to death by Wong-Chu’s men. When the battery had finished charging, Tony went into
battle as Iron Man and tore Wong-Chu’s camp apart. He eventually returned to the USA with the
aid of US Marine James "Rhodey" Rhodes. Tony offered Rhodey a job with his company should
he ever need one

7. Thor is one of several powerful ancient beings who dwell in a magical realm
called Asgard. Through history, these beings have been revered and worshiped as
gods. Ages ago, Odin, lord of the Asgardian gods, desired a child who would one day
exceed him in power. Odin wooed Gaea, the earth goddess, and from their union
Thor was born in a small cave in Norway on Earth. Odin took him to be raised in
Asgard by his wife, Frigga.The young Thor grew up alongside his adopted
brother Loki, the trickster, who was always jealous of his more favored sibling. Thor
grew in power and popularity and on his eighth birthday, Odin had the
hammer Mjolnir created for him, enchanting it with powerful magic. Odin decreed
that Mjolnir would be presented to Thor when his son had been proven a worthy
warrior. After spending the next eight years training and performing heroic deeds,
Thor was given the hammer and declared the greatest warrior in Asgard.
While Thor continued to engage in many heroic battles and adventures through the
years, he grew headstrong and proud. On one occasion, Thor broke a truce between
the Asgardians and their enemies, the brutal Frost Giants, nearly starting a war. To
teach his son a lesson in humility, Odin sent Thor to Earth in the mortal body of a
crippled medical student, Donald Blake. Stripped of his hammer, his powers and
memories of being an Asgardian, Thor, as Blake, graduated medical school with top
honors, gained a reputation as a caring family doctor and a brilliant surgeon, and
opened a private practice in New York City. He worked beside a caring and skillful
nurse, Jane Foster, and the two fell in love.
Blake returned to New York, using his secret identity of Thor to fight crime, defend
Earth and contend with the jealous and hateful Loki, who plagued Thor with many
devious tricks and outright confrontation. One such trick led Thor and other heroes,
including Ant-Man (Hank Pym), the Wasp (Janet van Dyne), and Iron Man (Tony
Stark) to fight the Hulk (Bruce Banner). Learning of Loki’s manipulations, the heroes,
along with the Hulk, bested Loki and agreed to continue their partnership, forming
the Avengers.

8. Robert Bruce Banner was the son of an alcoholic who deeply hated him.
Banner's mother showed much affection for her child, who returned her
love, but this only served to fuel his father's rage. Dr. Brian Banner was
an atomic physicist who worked on producing clean nuclear power as an
energy source, but he was afraid his exposure to it mutated his son's
genes. Bruce showed signs of high intelligence at an early age which
strengthened his father's belief. Brian became abusive to Bruce and
when his mother intervened, Brian murdered her. He frightened Bruce to
keep quiet, but his own bragging landed him in a psychiatric institute.
As a child Bruce was withdrawn, possibly developing a split personality to
help deal with his pain and rage. His only happiness came from spending
time with his cousin Jennifer Walters. Bruce found it hard to develop
friendships and often found himself on the receiving end of physical
abuse at the hands of school bullies. One such incident sparked him to
build and plant a bomb in the basement of his school. The bomb was a
dud, and Bruce was expelled, but the military took notice of his genius.
Eventually, Bruce earned a doctorate in nuclear physics and started a
career with them.

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