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Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos vol. 1 #8, where he replaced Jonathan Junior Juniper who was killed in issue #4. Fictional character biographyPinky Pinkerton was an English member of the original Howling Commandos who fought alongside the team during World War II. Pinkerton was a British Army commando who used an umbrella as a weapon along with his Thompson sub machine gun. Pinkerton had served alongside the unit commander Captain Samuel Happy Sam Sawyer prior to Pearl Harbour when both were with the British Commandoes. Though never explained in the series, Pinkerton wore a Carlist Requetés type red beret with a yellow tassel with his battledress that may have involved service in the Spanish Civil War. Along with Cpl Timothy Dum Dum Dugan and Dino Manelli, he helped organize the Deadly Dozen (comics). In Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, Percy’s older brother, Colonel Pinkerton appeared, where an issue set in Burma revealed that Pinkerton came from an English family with a long tradition of service as officers to the Crown. Why Pinkerton never accepted a commission was explained as his living a playboy life style during his initial military training and being cashiered. At the time of their 1966 Vietnam War mission, Pinkerton was managing a Playboy Club in London. Pinky Pinkerton was portrayed by actor Kenny Hopper in the film ...To Skin a Cat [1]. AncestryThree ancestors of Percy were mentioned in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. These include:
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