Nick Fury's Howling Commandos

Nick Fury's Howling Commandos
Promotional art for premiere-issue cover by Eduardo Francisco
Group publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceNick Fury's Howling Commandos #1 (December 2005)
Created byKeith Giffen
In-story information
Type of organizationTeam
Leader(s)S.H.I.E.L.D.
Agent(s)Abominable Snowman
Frank
Glob
Gorgolla
Gorilla-Man
Grogg
The Living Mummy
Vampire by Night
Warwolf
Werewolf by Night
Zombie
Nick Fury's Howling Commandos
Series publication information
ScheduleMonthly
FormatOngoing series
Genre
Publication dateDecember 2005 – May 2006
Number of issues6
Creative team
Writer(s)Keith Giffen
Penciller(s)Eduardo Francisco
Inker(s)Kris Justice
Terry Pallot
Robert Campanella
Letterer(s)Dave Lanphear
Colorist(s)J. Tai
Creator(s)Keith Giffen

Nick Fury's Howling Commandos was an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. Running six issues before its cancellation and cover-dated December 2005 to May 2006, the series featured a fictional team set in the Marvel Universe, consisting of supernatural characters employed as a unit of the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D.

The title is a play on that of Marvel's World War II-based series Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. Although Marvel superspy hero Nick Fury is the title character, he only appeared in a cameo in the first issue.

The group's official name was never established in the series' six issues, but was called the S.H.I.E.L.D. Paranormal Containment Unit in its single other appearance, in Blade vol. 3, #1 (Nov. 2006). The same issue established its nickname as the Howling Commandos.

Marvel returned to the concept in 2015 with Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D., a series canceled after six issues where that version featured a spiritual successor to the team that is established by S.H.I.E.L.D. subsidiary S.T.A.K.E.