Baron Strucker | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #5 (Jan 1964) |
Created by |
Stan Lee (writer) Jack Kirby (artist) |
In-story information | |
Alter ego | Wolfgang von Strucker |
Team affiliations |
Hydra Great Wheel |
Partnerships | Baron Helmut Zemo |
Notable aliases | Supreme Hydra, Grand Imperator of THEM, Don Guy Antonio Caballero, Emir Ali Bey, John Bronson, Sagittarius |
Abilities | Skilled military strategist and spy Master of disguise Excellent actor Exceptional hand to hand combatant, marksman and swordsman High-level intellect Enhanced strength and energy projection via Satan Claw Healing factor and limited invulnerability via Death Spore virus in his blood Repressed aging |
Baron Wolfgang von Strucker is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Baron Strucker, a former Nazi officer, is one of the leaders of Hydra and an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers, and the interests of the United States of America and of the free world in general. He has been physically augmented to be nearly ageless. He has been seemingly killed in the past only to return to plague the world with schemes of world domination and genocide, time and time again. The character has been portrayed by Campbell Lane in the 1998 TV film Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and by Thomas Kretschmann in the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the 2015 film Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appears in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #5 (1964).
Born in the late 19th century to a Prussian noble family who had relocated to Strucker Castle in Bavaria following the Franco-Prussian War, Wolfgang von Strucker became a Heidelberg fencing champion and was disfigured by facial scars.