Sidney
'Gaff' Levine Personal
Bio Data |
Appearances Captain
America (1): 248 Appearance
Highlights Marvel
Fanfare #16-17
First appearance as part of the Sky-wolves Strange
Tales (1) #157 Nick
Fury Vs SHIELD #1-6 Nick
Fury: Agent Of SHIELD (2) #45 Non-Narrative
Appearances
Although not named in the issue, a character similar to Levine is seen providing equipment to Sue Storm in the Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #10 |
Disarming
with his habit of calling everyone 'boychik', Levine,worked
as a Hollywood special effects man in
addition to
being a scientist and expert in computers and robotics prior to joining
SHIELD. Levine
eventually headed up the "gadget" division
at SHIELD and was responsible for designing many of Fury's most innovative
equipment,
including
later versions of his hover car and a motorbike patterned after Fury's
hover car. Levine's vast knowledge afforded him pulling double duty
as chief scientist, medical
officer
or engineer, depending on Fury and SHIELD's needs at the moment.
His infectious enthusiasm and amazing skills earned Levine the nickname
of "Gaff" from
an impressed Nick Fury. Among his inventions, Levine devised the
transcontinental contra-energy transverser, and a motorbike with
hover and stealth abilities. Levine
was among the first to fall prey to the Deltite
LMD, adding Levine's profile in order to gain more knowledge on
how to use SHIELD's technology to improve its plans. Levine's knowledge
and prior experience with not only Life Model Decoys, but more highly advanced
human replicas such as the android Baron Von Strucker created by
Machinesmith, helped the Deltite LMD to pioneer the second generation
of Life Model Decoy,
using human
genetic
material
and memory
emgrams stored in the ESP division. |