Howling Commandos: Who's your favorite (not including Fury)?

[MajorHoy]

Well, since the book was (sometimes) titled Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, I figured it might be fun to ask who was your favorite member, but not include Nick Fury as an option. (Also leaving out Captain "Happy Sam" Sawyer and Pamela Hawley, who were important characters but weren't in the Howling Commandos themselves.)

[victorxd1999]

Dum Dum Dugan hands down

[pageturner]

Dum Dum it is not even close.

[klinton]

Dum Dum Dugan hands down

Aye, agreed. He's a walking cliche for sure, what with his surly exterior and heart of gold gooey insides; but it's a cliche for a reason, in that it just works.

I think this is why he's had the most success (besides Fury himself) appearing steadily in subsequent books over the years.

[Diamond]

Pinkerton's the best.

[JackDaw]

Dum Dum, who I preferred even to the sergeant himself.

But basically they just worked as a team.....they were the only team whose adventures I enjoyed as much as the Fantastic Four when I was knee high to a grasshopper.

[Lady Warp Spasm]

What little I've read, it would be Dum Dum.

[Bucky]

Yeah... Dum Dum is easily the best. He's an enjoyable character and is hard not to like.

Gabe Jones gets an honorable mention for me.

[Rheged]

Arrrrgh! Tough choice.

[MajorHoy]

Arrrrgh! Tough choice.

Have you decided yet?

[Tony Stark]

No disrespect to Dum Dum, but I voted Gabe Jones for me. He was an amazing soldier and friend. The way he faced his death while going against the Gorgon was one of the bravest things I've seen in comics. A salute to Gabe Jones!

[ed2962]

I don't know how true it is, but there's a story about Stan Lee had to go yell at someone in the production dept cuz Gabe is a black man they kept to lighten his color.

[MajorHoy]

I don't know how true it is, but there's a story about Stan Lee had to go yell at someone in the production dept cuz Gabe is a black man they kept to lighten his color.

Don't know if it's true or not, either, but I seem to remember seeing him looking a little white-skinned in panels every now and then. (And these were in reprints.) But it was the 1960s when Gabe was introduced, and prominent negro/black/African-American characters weren't all that common in mainstream comic books back then. Who knows if there might have been prejudice bias or just carelessness involved?

[Bucky]

I don't know how true it is, but there's a story about Stan Lee had to go yell at someone in the production dept cuz Gabe is a black man they kept to lighten his color.

I recall reading something similar. Somebody along the way thought it was a mistake that he was black and colored him the same as the rest of the Commandos.

[MajorHoy]

It's been a while, but currently the poll has:

* Corporal Timothy Aloysius Cadwallader "Dum Dum" Dugan = 15 votes
* Private Gabriel Jones = 5 votes
* Private Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton = 3 votes

Anybody else want to chime in?