Appearances
Captain
America (1): 145-146, 273-274
Captain America Annual: 9
The
Incredible Hulk (2): 434
Marvel Comic Presents: 77-79
Nick Fury Vs S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3-6**
Rampaging Hulk Magazine: 3-4
Secret Warriors: 4, 17-19
Sgt Fury & His Howling Commandos: 27-end
Life-Model-Decoy**
Appearance
Highlights
Sgt
Fury & His Howling Commandos #27
First appearance
Sgt Fury & His Howling Commandos #36
Koenig confronts a German spy
Sgt Fury & His Howling Commandos #42
Koenig and Fury rescue his sister from Germany
Sgt
Fury & His
Howling Commandos #106,108
Koenig is deeply affected by a mission to clear out POWs before the Allied bombing
of Dresden.
Captain
America #145
First appearence as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent
Secret
Warriors #4
Helps break in the Howling Commandos into the former S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier dock.
Secret
Warriors #19
Is killed in combat against Gorgon and the forces of Hydra. |
German
defector who despised what the Nazi party had done to his
homeland, Eric Koenig had been a member of the Hitler Youth
and later joined the Luftwaffe only to be transferred from
the air force and made an aide to a Nazi doctor.
Koenig
defected and joined the Howlers after helping Fury escape
from Berlin. Koenig
was
called
to fill
in for
Dino
Manelli
after he was seriously injured and made an official Howler
soon thereafter. It was also soon evident that his skills
as an expert pilot served him well on the team and his
German
background allowed Koenig to play
crucial roles during missions behind enemy lines. Koenig
forged a firm friendship with the loyal team, always setting
out
to prove his worth to them, and especially to Nick Fury,
who shared a special relationship with his sister, Ilsa.
After
the war, Koenig joined the civil air service and became an
airline pilot. For reasons unknown (possibly his citizenship
status) Koenig was the only Howling Commando who did fight
in the Korean War. However, years
later,
Koenig did join his Howling Commando compatriots on a volunteer
mission in Vietnam.
In
1971 Koenig
followed his former commander into S.H.I.E.L.D.
Although not a part of the long established inner circle
of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Dum
Dum and Gabe Jones, Koenig nonetheless had earned Fury's
unwavering trust and quickly put his flying skill to work
as a Fury's personal pilot. Among his missions, Koenig flew
an attack mission against the island base of Centurius where
he aided Iron Man and Ulysses Bloodstone. Koenig also
flew on a mission with the newly inaugurated Femme Force
and Captain America. Later Koenig was once again reunited
with his Howler teammates
in a bid to rescue thier former commanding officer, General
Sawyer
from
a LMD of
Von
Strucker.
As an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D, Koenig found himself replaced
by an LMD, as one of the many agents who ran afoul of the
Deltite Affair. Although he was not amoung those
initially
revived
as brainwashed Hydra agents, Koenig's real body must have
been found eventually as he was seen
attending Nick Fury's "funeral".
Following
the Skrull invasion, Koenig remained in the replacement agency
for S.H.I.E.L.D. created by Norman Osborne, HAMMER, as a pilot.
He served as a mole for the rouge Nick Fury and the mercenary
group Howling Commandos, led by Dum Dum Dugan. Eric helped pilot one of the stolen helicarriers in missions against Hydra and Levithan, finally giving his life in battle against a Hydra battlion led by Gorgon.
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