and is one of the most experienced members of Nick Fury's team, known for his marksmanship with rifles and trademark bowler hat.

During World War II, while working as a circus strongman, Dugan helps Nick Fury and Sam "Happy" Sawyer escape the Nazis during a mission.

Other stories contradict this artificial maintenance of youth by Dugan as merely dyeing his hair and suffering a heart attack.

[volume & issue needed] After suffering a heart attack, Dugan is formally promoted to Fury's permanent second-in-command of S.H.I.E.L.D.

[volume & issue needed] Dugan is put in charge of mutant affairs, and deals with Wolverine.

[14] He also states his concerns about losing faith in S.H.I.E.L.D due to the war and the way the organization is run under Hill as Director.

[volume & issue needed] Afterwards, Dugan turns in his letter of resignation when Tony Stark takes over as director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

; despite his disapproval of Stark's leadership, Stark still trusts Dugan, and Dugan alone, with the command of a weapon that could send an abandoned Manhattan into the Negative Zone, destroying the island and anyone inside during World War Hulk, stating that the Hulk and the Warbound are too dangerous a global threat to leave Manhattan free.

[15] Inspired by Dugan's words, Hill ended up putting her career on the line by locking down the United Nations under S.H.I.E.L.D.

martial law so Stark could escape a tribunal and track down the Mandarin, with Dugan providing a version of Iron Man's armor after the Extremis abilities were deactivated.

[17] Shortly after Rogers's death, it is revealed that Dugan was ambushed and stabbed by a Skrull impersonator who took his place.

[18][19] Dugan's impostor destroys the Peak, the orbital base of S.W.O.R.D., in a suicide strike that allows the Skrull armada to invade Earth.

[24] Dugan later shows up as part of Fury's efforts to bring down HYDRA and yet another secretive organization, the Russian Leviathan.

[volume & issue needed] Dugan is recruited as part of a multi-verse wide effort to stop a supernatural-powered Nazi zombie army.

Assisted by Howard the Duck, he takes a team of warriors to the affected reality and manages to neutralize the threat at the source.

[26] A HYDRA group attempts to devastate civilization via super-powered shock-troops and media that inflames people's personal beliefs into irrationality.

's Director of Mutant Operations who possesses a connection to Wolverine and took Chester Phillips' place in Project: Rebirth.

[37] This version is one of several POWs who was freed and recruited by Steve Rogers to form the Howling Commandos.