Jasper Sitwell

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Jasper Sitwell
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Jasper Sitwell
Art by Carlo Pagulayan.
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Strange Tales #144 (May 1966)
Created by Stan Lee (writer)
Jack Kirby (artist)
In-story information
Species Human-turned-zombie
Team affiliations S.H.I.E.L.D.
S.T.A.K.E.
Notable aliasesAgent 22 [1]
AbilitiesEspionage skills
Firearms expert

Jasper Sitwell is a fictional character, an espionage agent appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Contents

The character was portrayed by Maximiliano Hernández in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Publication history

Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Jack Kirby, he first appeared in Strange Tales #144 (May 1966).

Jasper Sitwell appears as an agent of the fictional espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., beginning in the "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." feature in Marvel Comics' Strange Tales #144 (cover-dated May 1966) and continuing into the subsequent Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. comic-book series in 1968. He became the S.H.I.E.L.D. liaison to defense industry contractor Tony Stark beginning in the "Iron Man" feature in Tales of Suspense #93 (September 1967), and continuing into that subsequent series as well. He was seldom featured from the early 1970s until the 1988 miniseries Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. , and then again in the 1996–1997 series Iron Man (vol. 2). Sitwell afterward appeared in a three-issue arc of the superhero-team series The Avengers in 2000, and in Punisher War Journal (vol. 2) #1 (January 2007).

Fictional character biography

Jasper Sitwell graduated at the top of his class at S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, with particularly high marks in airborne jump school and underwater maneuvers. The agent's eager-beaver attitude meets initially with mock (and occasionally real) frustration when first introduced to S.H.I.E.L.D. Executive Director Nick Fury and second-in-command Dum Dum Dugan. However, Sitwell soon proves himself and earns his fellow agents' respect — albeit tinged with occasional humor aimed at his youthfulness and idealistic naïveté. Mentored by Fury himself and occasionally appointed interim director when Fury is on solo missions in the field, Sitwell later is assigned to Stark Industries as liaison between S.H.I.E.L.D. and the defense-industry contractor which designs and manufactures much of the ordnance and equipment for S.H.I.E.L.D. [2] It's there he confronts costumed assassins and terrorists, such as Grey Gargoyle, Spymaster (who shoots him and puts Sitwell in a coma for a time), [3] and A.I.M. He romances Whitney Frost. [4] Sitwell is eventually reassigned back to S.H.I.E.L.D.,[ volume & issue needed ] but continues to play a role in the affairs of Tony Stark from time to time. When Obadiah Stane takes over what was by then named Stark International, Fury sends Sitwell on an ultimately failed attempt to retrieve Iron Man's armors. [5]

Sitwell, like most of the S.H.I.E.L.D. leadership at the time, is seemingly killed by a self-aware, renegade "Deltan" variety of the artificial human "Life Model Decoys" of S.H.I.E.L.D., and replaced by one such LMD which was then installed as executive director. [6] The real Sitwell later turns up alive after having been brainwashed by a faction of the terrorist organization HYDRA, placed in suspended animation, released as part of a plot against Fury, and eventually deprogrammed. [7] He has since been a top interrogater of S.H.I.E.L.D., often paired with fellow agent Jimmy Woo. [8] He has also worked closely with G. W. Bridge, mainly in an attempt to neutralize the Punisher. [9]

Sitwell was one of the many S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who refused to join Norman Osborn's H.A.M.M.E.R. organization in the wake of the Skrull Secret Invasion. He would join with Dugan to form a mercenary paramilitary group that would engage H.A.M.M.E.R., HYDRA and its associate "Leviathan" program, alongside Fury's Secret Warriors. [10] One of these many skirmishes sees Jasper lose his friends Eric Koenig and Gabriel Jones. [11]

He also works with Fury in regards to the underground activities of Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier. [12]

Sitwell is later killed saving Fury from the brainwashed Black Widow. [1] However, he returns as a zombie through unknown means and joins the Howling Commandos. [13] [14] [15]

Powers and abilities

Jasper Sitwell has S.H.I.E.L.D. training in espionage, firearms, and hand-to-hand combat.

Other versions

An alternate Ultimate Marvel universe variant of Jasper Sitwell appears in Ultimate Fallout #5. [16]

In other media

Television

Jasper Sitwell appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes , voiced by Tom Kane. [17]

Film

Jasper Sitwell appears in Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell , voiced by Mike Vaughn. [18] [17] This version is a member of the Howling Commandos.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Jasper Sitwell appears in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, portrayed by Maximiliano Hernández. This version is a bald Hispanic Hydra sleeper agent who works undercover as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.

Video games

See also

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