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The eldest of three children, Nicholas Joseph Fury grew up in Depression-era New York City in Hell's Kitchen.

Fury's mother died while he was very young and his father Jack Fury, an American pilot who joined the British war effort during World War I, remarried and had two more children. Nick, Dawn and Jake were raised by his stepmother in lieu of Jack Fury's own early death. It wouldn't be until Nick Fury became a solider himself overseas that he would learn of his father's military service. Living in the tough streets of Hell's Kitchen, Fury soon became fast friends with Red Hargrove, whom he helped keep out of trouble. Fury himself was no stranger to trouble, but more than often confined it to the boxing ring where he would bout, or in the Police Athletic League where he became one of the finest marksman.

World War II

Nick and Red traveled to England together in 1940 where they performed aerial stunts for the flying circus. Red would fly the plane while Nick would perform stunts out on the wings. This impressed British officials and they hired Fury and Hargrove to train British paratroopers. Fury and Hargrove caught the attention of Lt “Happy Sam” Sawyer. Sawyer recruited the two of them for a special mission in Holland, where Nick would meet Timothy “Dum Dum” Dugan.

Seeing the Nazi menace firsthand, Hargrove was moved to say he would enlist and Fury said he would follow him. However Fury didn't enlist until 1941, where he received nine weeks of basic training at Fort Dix without Red Hargrove, hoping to ride out the wave of unemployment in the States. Eventually Fury reunited with Hargrove, both getting stationed at Pearl Harbor.

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Fury was spurned on by the death of Hargrove during the attack to join the U.S. Rangers, and was eventually recruited and reunited with Captain Sawyer who assigned him command of the First Attack Squad; aka the "Howling Commandos," a specially-trained band of soldiers who undertook some of the most dangerous missions of the war. Together with Dum Dum Dugan as his second in command, Fury led Gabe Jones, Robert "Reb" Ralston, Dino Manelli, Eric Koenig, Izzy Cohen, Percival Pinkerton, and Jonathan Juniper against the likes of Red Skull, Baron Heinrich Zemo, and other Axis villains, fighting alongside such war heroes as Captain America. As leader of the Howling Commandos, Fury struck blow after blow against the Nazis and their allies through missions that ranged from deep infiltration missions behind enemy lines to undercover work and even some home front action.

Fury would cross paths with Captain America and Logan in Madripoor where they would rescue a young Natasha Romanov from the Hand.