Editing Marvel Comics (section)

===S.H.I.E.L.D===
S.H.I.E.L.D is Marvel's go-to US super-agency, representing the "cool" governmental organization dedicated to battling super-cults, metapowered terrorism, and all the uniquely dangerous takes on freaks, weirdos, cults, militias and other criminal organizations that pop up in a world where superpowers, hyper-science, aliens and magic are all real and co-existing. It's a throwback to the 60s craze with goofy-named secret intelligence agencies like "The Man From U.N.C.L.E", which were themselves half-reference and half-parody to M.I.6 in [[James Bond]].

Exactly ''what'' that acronym stands for has actually differed over the years. The version everybody remembers nowadays courtesy of the MCU and its offshoots is "Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division", but the original version in the comics was "Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage and Law-Enforcement Division", and it got changed in 1991 to "Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate".

S.H.I.E.L.D first showed up in August 1965 in ''Strange Tales #135''.

In the comics, S.H.I.E.L.D is also the mother-organization for several specialized agencies:
* A.R.M.O.R. (Altered-Reality Monitoring and Operational Response Agency): Moniters against incursions from other dimensions and wide-scale reality warping.
* S.T.A.K.E. (Special Threat Assessment for Known Extranormalities): Moniters and deals with the supernatural.
* S.W.O.R.D. (Sentient World Observation and Response Department): Moniters and deals with aliens and the extraterrestrial.
* W.A.N.D. (Wizardry, Alchemy and Necromancy Department): Moniters and deals with magic. Why this exists when they already have S.T.A.K.E is anybody's guess, but you know how bureaucracies get.

====Nick Fury====
The usual director of SHIELD and an eyepatch-wearing super spy. Nick Fury was introduced as part of the Howling Commandos, an American squad in WW2, and some of his buddies like Dum Dum Dugan followed him when he joined SHIELD. In the ''Ultimate'' universe, he resembled Samuel L. Jackson, which inspired his casting in the MCU version. Due to movie synergy and the character's advancing age as WW2 becomes a progressively more distant event, he was supplanted by a younger son with the same name resembling the MCU version.
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====Black Widow====
Natasha Romanoff was a Russian spy who defected to the U.S., joining SHIELD and becoming a heroine. She was trained in the Red Room, Russia's spy-training program, since childhood.
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