Appearances
Avengers/Invaders:
10
Captain
America (1): 273-274
Captain
America Annual: 9
Captain America (3): 20-21
Captain America/Nick Fury The Otherworld War
Combat
Kelly and the Deadly Dozen: 4
Citizen V and the
V Battalion: 2
Dr. Strange (2): 50-51
Gambit (2): 10
Invaders (1): 35
The Incredible Hulk (2): 434, 436-437, 439-440
Marvel Comics Presents:
77-79
Marvel Two-In-One: 77
Nick
Fury, Agent of SHIELD (2): 3-5
Secret Avengers (2013): 3
Secret Warriors: 17, 27-28
Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos: 1-167
Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos
(2009)
What If? (1): 14
Appearance
Highlights
Sgt
Fury and his Howling Commandos #1
First appearance
Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos
#24
Nazis take over his family homestead in Kentucky
Captain
America Annual #9
Reb
recalls a deadly Howler mission in the wake of being shot as a senator
in 1990.
Secret Warriors #27-28
Sen. Ralston helps Nick Fury on the political front by dealing with Congress and the United Nations to help form a sequel organzation to SHIELD.
Secret Avengers #3
Dies while trying to help Marcus Johnson/Nick Fury Jr.and Daisy Johnson against the forces of A.I.M.
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Small
in stature but large in purpose and bravery, 'Rebel' Raston
was one of the most daring of the Howling Commandos (and
their best poker player). Born and bred on his parent's
expansive Kentucky estate, Ralston is an accomplished horseman
and an expert with the lasso. He cut his career as a racing
jockey short to enlist in the US Army where he quickly
found himself a spot on the First Attack Squad. During
one of thier early missions, Ralston's enthusiastic "rebel" yell
of "WA-HOO" earned the company their nickname
of the Howling Commandos. Such
were the Howling Commandos feared by the Third Reich, a
counter squad of elite fighters, the Blitzkrieg Squad was
formed, and among their number, Ernest,
a
horseman from the obsolete German cavalry,
earned a spot on Von Strucker's counter squad to
the Howling Commandos
as the opposite number to Reb Ralston.
His
Howler career did not stop with the end of World War II
however. Ralston signed up for a tour of duty in the Army
during the Korean war where he was promoted to the rank
of sergeant. Later Ralston volunteered to reunite with the
Howlers for a special mission in Vietnam.
Following
the Korean War, Raltson went on to fight
Congressional battles as a State Representative and later
a Senator for
Texas. He became a strong crusader for civil rights
legislation, nearly costing him his life during an assassination
attempt at a public Howling Commandos reunion in 1972.
Later Howler reunions included a battle with a Baron
Von Strucker Life Model Decoy; a fateful mission that
resulted in the death of General "Happy" Sam
Sawyer.
Related
to his career in American politics is his connection with
the post-war incarnation of the V-Battalion, an international
super-hero group overseen by the Penance Council on which
Ralston served on. In 1990, Ralston faced a second assassination
attempt, this time making a televised speech as co-chair
of the senate defense committee. Captain America was on
site to apprehend the right-wing zealot who shot Ralston.
Reb Ralston was seen helping to organize
Nick Fury's "funeral" alongside Tony Stark and the President
in 1993. Shortly after, Ralston was put under the mental
control of the villain Omnibus and sat on a committee overseeing
the imprisoned Bruce Banner, aka the Hulk.
In 2010, he played a vital role in the U.S. Senate in aiding Nick Fury and his private army, Howling Commandos PMC. Sen. Ralston maneuvered his way into becoming the President's appointee to the United Nations to oversee a new international anti-terrorist force, secretly put together by Fury.
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