Peggy Carter

Peggy Carter
Peggy Carter with Captain America in Tales of Suspense #77 (May 1966). Art by Jack Kirby (layouts), John Romita Sr. (penciling) and Frank Giacoia (inking)
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Tales of Suspense #77 (May 1966).
Created by	Stan Lee (writer) Jack Kirby (artist)
In-story information
Full name	Margaret "Peggy" Carter
Supporting character of	Captain America

Margaret "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 first appeared in Tales of Suspense #77 as a World War II love interest of Steve Rogers in flashback sequences. She would later be better known as a relative of Captain America's modern-day significant other Sharon Carter, who happens to be his wife by common law in the comics, and was stated by The Captain himself as "The love of his life" multiple times.

Hayley Atwell portrays the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger, and continuing in the Marvel One Shot Agent Carter, the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the television series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel's Agent Carter, and the 2015 films Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man.

The character first appeared, unnamed, as a wartime love interest of Captain America in Tales of Suspense #75 (single panel) and #77 (May 1966), by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. She appeared again as the older sister of Sharon Carter in Captain America #161 (May 1973). She was later retconned as Sharon's aunt due to the unaging nature of comic book characters (see Captain America Vol. 5 #25 (April 2007)). The character has appeared frequently in Captain America stories set during World War II.