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General Samuel "Happy Sam" Sawyer is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. His first appearance was in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #1.[1]

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Happy Sam Sawyer
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos #1 (May 1963)
Created by	Stan Lee (writer) Jack Kirby (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Samuel Sawyer
Team affiliations	Howling Commandos United States Army

Publication history

Sawyer first appeared in Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos #1, and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

Fictional character biography

Happy Sam Sawyer was assigned to the British Commandos by the U.S. Army. He was trained in parachuting in Britain in 1940 by Finley's FlyingCircus, which comprised daredevil parachutist Nick Fury and pilot Red Hargrove,s where they nicknamed him Happy Sa,m ironically, because of his deadly serious and consistently stony demeanor.[2] In 1942, Sawyer, who had been wounded in North Africa and was deemed unfit for combat missions, organised and led the Howling Commandos, Bull McGiveney's Maulers, Jim Morita's Nisei Squad, and Sgt Bob Jenkin's The Missouri Marauders, as well as the Deadly Dozen.^{[volume & issue needed]} When artist John Severin joined Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos with issue #44, Severin drew Sawyer as being much older and balder than his original depiction as a young man.

In a Sgt Fury annual set in the Korean War, Sawyer was a Colonel,^{[volume & issue needed]} in another annual set in the Vietnam War, Sawyer was a full general.^{[volume & issue needed]}

In modern times, Baron Strucker created an LMD of Sawyer that attacked the original Howling Commandos as well as Captain America. Sawyer would sacrifice himself when the LMD detonated itself while trying to gain missile navigation override codes.[3]

In the wake of his death, a S.H.I.E.L.D. assault Helicarrier has been named in his honor in the mini-series Iron Man: Hypervelocity.[4] There is also a Samuel J. Sawyer Memorial Veterans Hospital.[5]

In other media

Happy Sam Sawyer appears in the animated series, X-Me: Episodee "Old Soldiers," voiced by Lorne Kennedy.

Corporal "Happy Sam" Sawyer appears in the tv series Agent Carter episode "The Iron Ceiling", portrayed by Leonard Roberts.[6] This version is African American. Corporal Sawyer is among the soldiers that assist Peggy Carter, Jack Thompson, and Dum Dum Dugan in raiding a Russian military complex that was going to sell stolen weapons to Leviathan.[7]

References

External links

• Sam Sawyer at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
• Happy Sam Sawyer at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Happy Sam Sawyer at ComicVine

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Samuel J. "Happy Sam" Sawyer è un personaggio dei fumetti creato da Stan Lee (testi) e Jack Kirby (disegni), pubblicato dalla Marvel Comics. La sua prima apparizione avviene in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos (vol. 1[1]) n. 1 (maggio 1963).

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