Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-11220539-20160214210504/@comment-61022-20160216144955


 * I'm not sure if SHIELD was a thing before Fury joined the Great Wheel. At least where I placed it in my Expanded History of Nick Fury doesn't indicate that, but I wrote that before the stories came out that state that SHIELD was active in the 60s. If I were to assume (and could be wrong) it would make more sense that Fury established SHIELD after joining the Great Wheel, because his end game was ultimately to manipulate the various organizations for his own ends. SHIELD was kind of the counter weight to the other organizations.


 * I haven't seen Agent Carter yet, but if it's anything like any other Cinematic Universe stuff, it likely borrows heavily from the comics and takes it in their own direction. They seem to be mining the last 10-15 years and the Lee/Kirby era of the 60s for base material. So I would suspect that they would be pulling concepts from Secret Warriors.


 * To be honest, the whole plot about THEM was kind of wishey washy. When you read it, it sounds like Stan Lee decided that THEM needed a cooler name and thus, they were renamed Hydra. THEM was such a minor blip on the radar before Hydra first appeared in the 60s. I don't think there is anything specific mentioned in the comics, but the relationship between THEM and Hydra was explained in more detail in the Marvel Handbook entries on Hydra. (I think they started detailing the relationship in more clearer language in the Deluxe Edition published in 1985, but I would refer to the newest profile on Hydra you can find. At least the A-Z Hardcover books would be the ones to go with)