In the fourth issue, he was killed, with his death continuing to haunt Nick Fury all the way up to modern day stories.

Jonathan "Junior" Juniper was a founding member of the original Howling Commandos and fought alongside the team during World War II.

[7][8] He was the youngest on the team as he was still attending an unnamed Ivy League college before he enlisted in the Air Force.

Juniper was later transferred from the Air Force to the Commandos because he had flown B-17 Flying Fortress in bombing raids as a tail gunner.

As they were waiting in the snow, Juniper read the Biblical story of Gideon frightening his enemy with raucous noise.

[7][8] In another mission, the Howling Commandos invaded a French coast town to create a diversion while the Allied navy destroyed the German U-boat pens.

During a rescue mission to bring back Percy Hawley known as Lord Ha-Ha, her brother and Nazi sympathizer, Junior was killed.

As the magazine Jack Kirby Collector wrote in 1999, "Today that's no big deal but in 1963, comics heroes simply didn't die; not permanently, anyway.

[3] This question is clearly written in the comic book when the Howling Commandos react to the death of their youngest member.

[4][5] Paul Brian McCoy reviewed this issue for Comics Bulletin and considers it as the "best thing Marvel's publishing in 1963".

[4] As the comic writer and editor Tom DeFalco told it in an interview, some of the early Marvel fans were startled by the death of "Junior" Juniper.

Kitty Pryde, Jean Grey, Rogue, Beast, and Nightcrawler join Nick Fury on a second investigation in the South American jungle.

The events remembered him another mission with Jonathan Juniper who is the grand-uncle of Tommy, the rest of the Howling Commandos and a Canadian soldier named Logan.