#Julia dreyfus marvel code#
#Julia dreyfus marvel series#

and entered a training program to become an agent. Desiring to carry on in their places so their deaths would not be in vain, she eventually was contacted by the international espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D.

After both her parents were killed for aiding some unspecified resistance movement, the Contessa found her life meaningless. In a black-and-white long shot with screentone shading, the couple is beginning to embrace, with Fury standing and the Contessa on one knee, getting up.Ĭontessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine was a member of the European jet set and a citizen of Italy. When reprinted again, in Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Who Is Scorpio? (Marvel Enterprises, 2001 ISBN 978-0-7851-0766-8), however, Steranko's original final panel was reinserted. The story was reprinted as published in Nick Fury Special Edition #1 (Dec. he last panel on that page had Nick and his old lady kneeling, with their arms around each other, and that was entirely too much for the Code, so the panel was replaced with a picture of a gun in its holster.

#Julia dreyfus marvel code#

So one panel had the stereo in Fury's apartment to show there was music playing, cigarettes in the ash tray in one, there was a sequence of intercut shots where she moved closer to him, much more intimately, there was a kiss, there was a rose, and then there was one panel with the telephone off the hook, which the comic book code made him put back on. redrew a telephone that had been taken off the hook for privacy, placing the receiver back in the cradle in the last panel, an image was removed and replaced with a closeup of an item from earlier in the page - a phallic long-barreled gun in a holster: In the third-to-last panel, de facto Marvel art director John Romita, Sr. #2 that famously had two panels changed, at the behest of the Comics Code Authority. chief Nick Fury for a loop upon their initial meeting, she quickly became his love interest, and was featured in a silent, one-page seduction sequence in Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

#Julia dreyfus marvel series#

feature that ran through Strange Tales #168 (May 1968) and in the same-name comic-book series that began the following month.Īn agent who threw S.H.I.E.L.D. The Contessa appeared prominently throughout creator Jim Steranko's run of the Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Lisa Rinna portrayed the character in the 1998 film Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Julia Louis-Dreyfus portrays Fontaine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021), and the films Black Widow (2021), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), and the upcoming film Thunderbolts (2024). Created by writer- artist Jim Steranko, she first appeared in the ' Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.' feature in Strange Tales #159 (August 1967). La Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.