(a full-color magazine, formerly the b/w Rampaging Hulk) #21 – #25 (June 1980 – February 1981), written by Denny O'Neil with fully painted artwork by Chaykin.
A flashback tale revealing Fortune's involvement with Captain America's origin appeared in Marvel Super Heroes (vol.
Written by Dean Motter and drawn by Greg Scott, it featured Dominic Fortune in tales set during the 1930s.
[12] Sometime after ratting out New York gangster Olga Cimaglia,[a] Fortunov relocated to Los Angeles, California, where he changed his name to Dominic Fortune and became a costumed adventurer for hire and a mercenary.
By 1934 he was involved in the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay – fighting as a pilot for both sides before returning to Los Angeles, where he took a job guarding three "out of control and drunken" film stars.
[9] Trying to unravel a plot to kill him, he travelled to Berlin for the 1936 Olympic Games, and eventually foiled a plot by American Fifth Columnists to kill President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife and gain important funding from the Germans and Italians to support Nazi sympathisers in the U.S.[13] Not long afterwards, he fell in with Sabbath Raven, the owner of the Mississippi Queen, a floating casino moored just outside US territorial waters, where he enjoyed a romantic relationship with her and they shared many of his adventures.
[14] He also broke up a cult of zombies,[15] thwarted Baron Strucker's attempted assassination of a U.S. senator,[16] exposed the phony "child star" Tina Timmons,[17] and rescued the British ambassador from a terrorist.
[18] In 1938, he prevented Jacob Einhorn, a property magnate, from selling U.S. secrets to the Japanese in exchange for land after their planned invasion.
[19] He also prevented silent movie star Noble Flagg and gangster Olga Cimaglia from taking over the LA underworld.
[c] After failing in his attempt to locate her, Fortune returned to the U.S.[c] He was rejected as a subject for Project: Rebirth, but helped protect the man who was chosen, Steve Rogers (who would become Captain America) from Nazi agents.
[24] After helping to defeat a Neo-Nazi version of the Red Skull in Sweden, Fortune's criminal record was wiped clean.
Some time after this he left the rest home, where alongside Spider-Man he battled the Shocker, who was working for Simon Steele, an old adversary of Fortune's who he had been investigating in the hope of finding clues to the fate of Sabbath.
[33] After he regained his memory and aged overnight, he decided to join Mockingbird's organization - the World Counter-terrorism Agency - to stay close to her, making sure the Super-Soldier serum's creator was there to help him if the side-effects got worse.
[34] In 2015, he was revealed to have again aged (although still younger than his actual 100+ years) and living back on board the Mississippi Queen, left to him by the deceased Sabbath Raven.
field director Phil Coulson to help him reacquire the ship after losing it while gambling with Hydra agent Tug Freehand.
Silver Sable and The Wild Pack commandeered the Queen, fighting off the invading Zombiotes and leaving Fortune with a damaged, sinking ship.
[citation needed] Delroy Lindo was cast as Dominic Fortune in the pilot for Marvel's Most Wanted,[36] a series that was not picked up by ABC and went unaired.