After he reveals he does not know, the impostor stabs Dugan with claws resembling those of the X-Man, Wolverine. Īfter the death of Captain America, a second impostor posing as the Contessa approached Dum Dum Dugan with the intent of learning the location of Fury, whom the Skrulls are seeking. However, Fury grew suspicious and killed the agent, who then reverted to her true shape, thus revealing the Invasion to Fury. It is revealed that shortly after the Secret War, a Skrull agent posed as Contessa de la Fontaine in order to spy on Nick Fury and learn as many secrets as possible. She accepted Valentina's offer while using her band as a cover for her double life. Īt some point, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine approached Amanda Armstrong where she informed her that her late father was an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. She then met with Joseph Hauer, Pete Wisdom, Captain Britain, and Union Jack to brief them on the Act's ramifications on the British superhuman population. #VALENTINA MARVEL REGISTRATION#Shortly thereafter, she worked with Commodore Lance Hunter and Alistaire Stuart on creating the British version of the Superhuman Registration Act. In that capacity, she was tasked with providing support to British superhero Union Jack, Israeli superhero Sabra, and Saudi superhero Arabian Knight in thwarting a Radically Advanced Ideas in Destruction (RAID) terrorist attack on London, England. She was eventually reassigned to the position of S.H.I.E.L.D. She was also at one point appointed as the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Femme Force. The two eventually became lovers, and their relationship continued for many years.Īs a result of the Contessa's remarkable talents and skills in many areas, she quickly became a leading member of S.H.I.E.L.D. She first encountered its executive director, Nick Fury, aboard S.H.I.E.L.D.'s airborne headquarters, the Helicarrier, toward the end of her training, impressing Fury by tossing him head-over-heels with a judo throw after his uttering an untoward remark about female agents. and entered a training program to become an agent. Desiring to carry on in their places so their deaths would not be in vain, she eventually was contacted by the international espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D. After both her parents were killed for aiding some unspecified resistance movement, the Contessa found her life meaningless. In a black-and-white long shot with screentone shading, the couple is beginning to embrace, with Fury standing and the Contessa on one knee, getting up.Ĭontessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine was a member of the European jet set and a citizen of Italy. When reprinted again, in Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Who Is Scorpio? (Marvel Enterprises, 2001 ISBN 978-0-7851-0766-8), however, Steranko's original final panel was reinserted. The story was reprinted as published in Nick Fury Special Edition #1 (Dec. he last panel on that page had Nick and his old lady kneeling, with their arms around each other, and that was entirely too much for the Code, so the panel was replaced with a picture of a gun in its holster. #VALENTINA MARVEL CODE#So one panel had the stereo in Fury's apartment to show there was music playing, cigarettes in the ash tray in one, there was a sequence of intercut shots where she moved closer to him, much more intimately, there was a kiss, there was a rose, and then there was one panel with the telephone off the hook, which the comic book code made him put back on. redrew a telephone that had been taken off the hook for privacy, placing the receiver back in the cradle in the last panel, an image was removed and replaced with a closeup of an item from earlier in the page - a phallic long-barreled gun in a holster: In the third-to-last panel, de facto Marvel art director John Romita, Sr. #2 that famously had two panels changed, at the behest of the Comics Code Authority. chief Nick Fury for a loop upon their initial meeting, she quickly became his love interest, and was featured in a silent, one-page seduction sequence in Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #VALENTINA MARVEL SERIES#feature that ran through Strange Tales #168 (May 1968) and in the same-name comic-book series that began the following month.Īn agent who threw S.H.I.E.L.D. The Contessa appeared prominently throughout creator Jim Steranko's run of the Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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