Pinky was just an over the top British stereotype. What I took from that is that Stan, canny with PR as ever, sort of retroactively made Pinky Gay to both seem ahead of the curve and to defuse this being any sort of controversial blow. Stan replies, and this is a quote (according to Ayers): "Dick, I never hedge my bets!" In an interview with Dick Ayers (in Alter Ego, I believe), Ayers says he sees the interview on CNN and e-mails Stan to ask him what's that about. Regarding the sexuality of Pinkerton, it's worth bringing up this anecdote: This was probably due to the character name being possible insulting to the LGBT community. The CA:TFA replaced the character of Pinkerton with another Brit, James Montgomery Falsworth (in comics the first Union Jack), played by J.J. Technically, Percival Pinkerton wasn't in CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER. Making Pinkerton and the other Howlers not ridiculous was one of the biggest achievements of the Captain America movie. I'd always wrongly assumed that Zemo was a GA character. Stan Lee stated decades later that Percival Pinkerton was supposed to be gay, but I'm not sure if he was being entirely serious. i bet he would break a "cross my heart" swear without a second thought. He breaks the sacred Nazi rule of keeping promises. "Dont leave me!! I saved you!! You are a Nazi!! Vhen you make a promise, you cannot break it!! You cannot." Here's what distinguishes zemo from your average evil Nazi scientist - he abandons the soldier he promises to reward if the soldier will protect him from the Howlers: Um.your "random blend of ethnicities" was 1 black guy and a bunch of white guys with different accents, all American, except for Perthy.Īlso, i think Zemo gets away, blowing up his death ray, and in the process, the castle. Percy replaces Junior Juniper, killed in Sgt.Zemo! You'll also see him in other Marvel Mags, such as The Avengers #6!" "Special Notice: Pay particiular attention to Dr.Historical Significance Rating: 5 - First appearance of the original Baron Zemo.Ĭhronological Placement Considerations: During WWII. At the same time, a "death ray" is pretty out there fore this series, which despite its often ludicrious plotting never has the Commandos going up anything truly sci-fi or super-villainy. Which is interesting considering they were planning on using him in the Avengers - i would have expected a little more. Zemo is a very generic evil Nazi scientist. Nick Fury is a gruff as you would expect, and there's a certain amount of charm to seeing him in his pre-SHIELD days, but it's still a clunker. Either way, Pinkerton is shown to be Howler material in this issue. I'm not so sure that was the original intention (in issue #23 he's actually shown to have been a ladies man) he seems more like a stereotype of a foppish British noble.
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He's just a colorful character who follows his own different drummer. In this comic book that I read, the word gay wasn't even used. One member of the platoon was called, I think, Percy Pinkerton. But the book I mentioned years ago that I did, "Sergeant Fury,". LEE: Well, I'm not going to get into that. Lee, tell us now, you've obviously been in comics longer than almost anybody in America, are there any other super heroes we ought to wonder about? And can you tell us about Robin? Zemo has invented a death ray that will ensure that the Nazis win the war.Īs Mark Drummond notes in the comments, Stan Lee said on CNN's Crossfire during an episode about the revamped Rawhide Kid that Percy Pinkerton was originally meant to be gay: CARLSON: Mr. The Howling Commandos have just returned to base after capturing an entire company of SS Troops when they are immediately sent on another mission in Germany. Despite the creative team change we still the same tone your random blend of ethnicities lead by the tough but lovable sergeant taking on the entire German army.
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He'll be the regular artist until the end of the series (the last non-reprint issue is #120, in 1974).
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Bell) but i'll use his real name in the credits.ĭick Ayers, who inked the earliest issues, takes over the art from for this series beginning with this issue. Inker George Roussos used the pseudonym George Bell (sometimes just Geo.