Peggy Carter | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | Tales of Suspense #75 (March 1966; unnamed and obscured) Tales of Suspense #77 (May 1966; unnamed) Captain America (comic book) #162 (March 1973; as Peggy Carter) |
Created by | Stan Lee (writer) Jack Kirby (artist) |
In-story information | |
Full name | Margaret Elizabeth "Peggy" Carter |
Team affiliations | |
Supporting character of | Captain America |
Notable aliases | Dryad, Agent 13 |
Abilities | Skilled martial artist and hand-to-hand combatant, markswoman, and tactician |
Margaret Elizabeth "Peggy" Carter is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is usually depicted as a supporting character in books featuring Captain America. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, she debuted, unnamed, in Tales of Suspense #75 as a World War II love interest of Steve Rogers in flashback sequences. She would later be better known as the aunt of Sharon Carter.
Hayley Atwell portrayed the character in several projects of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2011 to 2019, including films, a short film, and television series, before playing alternate versions of the character known as Captain Carter in the animated series What If...? (2021–present) and the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022),[1] with the comic book version of the character subsequently being redesigned after Atwell.