Who Were Agents 1–12?

We’ve reached day sev­en, the first full week of this year’s Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month. Curat­ed by Howard Simp­son, today’s prompt is Sharon Carter, also known as Agent 13!

Those famil­iar with the char­ac­ter only via the MCU may be a lit­tle con­fused. Orig­i­nal­ly in comics, she first appeared in Tales of Sus­pense #75. Cap­tain Amer­i­ca, in his civil­ian ID as Steve Rogers, spots her on the street and at first thinks she might be his lost love from WWII (remem­ber that when these sto­ries orig­i­nal­ly appeared in the ’60s, it was only twen­ty years after the War).

He soon dis­cov­ers that she is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Which of course com­pli­cates their bud­ding romance, as both work with the inter­na­tion­al spy agency. Jack and Stan got some pret­ty good sto­ry mileage out of all that.

Her look here comes from a sto­ry in Cap­tain Amer­i­ca #103 (after Mar­vel’s dis­tri­b­u­tion deal final­ly allowed them to split strips off from their anthol­o­gy titles into their own sep­a­rate titles). I thought it was a strik­ing look. And I liked the idea of her infil­trat­ing an A.I.M. base.

So that’s my take on Sharon Carter! Hope you enjoyed it. Tune in again tomor­row to see who shows up next, if you like.

5 thoughts on “Who Were Agents 1–12?”

    1. Ha! No idea. I was try­ing to think up a title, and that’s what even­tu­al­ly popped into my brain. I would­n’t be sur­prised though if some writer some­where along the line wrote up an answer to the question.

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  2. The “sis” looks great. Hap­py to see she made the cut on Simp­son’s list. And the day after as well. Nice con­nec­tion. We will see how that unfolds over the month. I noticed that the pre­sen­ta­tion of the skin areas of your art has more of the dot type pre­sen­ta­tion than I recall. I had to at least go back to look at the pre­vi­ous day. I love it if it is dif­fer­ent and it could just be my eyes. Thanks, Mark.

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    1. The dots are there on all of them. One of the para­me­ters I have set for myself in doing these is to lim­it myself to only the 64 col­or palette used on those comics dur­ing most of Jack­’s career. And I’m also employ­ing the 65 lines-per-inch screen used on those comics. At the res­o­lu­tion I’m post­ing, maybe it’s not always notice­able. But if I were to do a print­out at full res­o­lu­tion, you would see it (just like inside an old comic).

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