Dominic Fortune
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | David Fortunov: Marvel Preview #2 (1975) Jerry Fortunov: Marvel Team-Up #120 (August 1982) |
| Created by | David Fortunov: Howard Chaykin Jerry Fortunov: J. M. DeMatteis and Kerry Gammill |
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| Alter ego | Duvid Jerome "David" Fortunov |
| Team affiliations |
Vanguard World Counter-terrorism Agency "Avengers" (1959) |
| Notable aliases | Davey Fortunov |
Dominic Fortune is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Created by Howard Chaykin and based on the Scorpion, Chaykin's character for the failed Atlas/Seaboard Comics company, Dominic Fortune was originally a 1930s costumed, fortune-seeking adventurer.
He was part of Marvel's Comics Code-free black-and-white magazine line. His first two appearances occurred in Marvel Preview #2 (1975, no month) and Marvel Super Action #1 (January 1976), a one-shot magazine. These stories were later reprinted in Marvel Preview #20 (Winter 1980).
He next appeared as "Dominic Fortune, Brigand For Hire" as a backup feature in Hulk (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. Issue #24 (December 1980) contains a short editorial to the effect that although the magazine was reverting to b/w from the following issue, this would be "with the exception of the Dominic Fortune strip which will be in color through its offbeat conclusion in issue #26." Despite this assertion, and an advertisement in issue #25 for a Dominic Fortune story in issue #26, issue #25's story, "Slay Bells", was the last published. Contemporaneously, Fortune appeared in Marvel Premiere #56 (October 1980), in a story plotted by Len Wein and laid out by Chaykin for the never-published Marvel Super-Action #2, and finished by David Michelinie and Terry Austin.
Subsequently, an elderly version of the character interacted with modern Marvel heroes in Marvel Team-Up #120 (August 1982), Web of Spider-Man #10 (January 1986), Iron Man (vol. 1) #212 - #213 (November 1986 - December 1986), and Web of Spider-Man #71 - #72 (December 1990 - January 1991), with no involvement from Chaykin beyond the cover for Web of Spider-Man #10. A flashback tale revealing Fortune's involvement with Captain America's origin appeared in Marvel Super Heroes (vol. 2) #3 (September 1990)
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