as their 'most valuable proactive intelligence asset' while its government assets include the U.S. and all their underlying resources) Hydra regards S.H.I.E.L.D. Also used to deflect unwanted interest from the global law enforcement community) Global Criminal Groups (Subsidiary organizations created for short-term goals.Long-term resources that benefit from the minimal turnover inherent in bureaucracies) Government Assets (Individuals within a national government's chain of command.International Corporations ( Fronts created using a legitimate business to conceal illicit activities).Eventually, this fragmentation would lead to a Hydra civil war, even after von Strucker's resurrection.Īccording to the files discovered by Nick Fury, Hydra is split into four independent sectors: However, after von Strucker's first death, Hydra broke into factions (such as A.I.M., the Secret Empire, THEM, etc.) that each adopted its own reorganized modus operandi.

To this end, Baron von Strucker used his personal fortune, based on his recovered hoard of Nazi plunder from World War II, and funds established by the original leaders of the Japanese secret society that became part of the old Hydra. One of the Nazi members, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, quickly seized control of the Hydra organization and restructured it to be dedicated to world domination through terrorist and subversive activities on various fronts, resulting in a global neo-fascist New World Order. The Nazi sub-group, funded by the Thule Society, is brought into the main Hydra fold after the end of World War II. As time wore on, the organization's name changed and it included the Cathari sect, as well as the Thule Society. The corrupted Brotherhood of the Spear spread out, ingraining itself like a multi-headed serpent into all facets of human society, from science to magic to politics. Millions of years later, they corrupted an Asian secret society of geniuses known as the Brotherhood of the Spear, which resulted in that group being called 'the Beast' by the Brotherhood of the Shield. 1965)īefore the evolution of mankind, a cabal of immortal hooded reptoids came to Earth, planning to start a legacy of evil. The Hydra oath from Strange Tales #135 (Aug. 'Hail, Hydra! Immortal Hydra! We shall never be destroyed! Cut off a limb and two more shall take its place! We serve none but the Master-as the world shall soon serve us! Hail Hydra!'

Nostrum shot all the other scientists on his team after they were turned into monsters, then shot himself after his son put an image from a monster magazine on his mirror. Nostrum for information about a cobalt bomb that turned people into monsters. In the reprint, an agent of an unspecified enemy government is changed to identify himself as working for Hydra when he paid off a scientist named Dr. (Advanced Idea Mechanics) and the Secret Empire, became independent.Ĭrypt of Shadows #5, published in 1973, reprinted a story from Menace #10 (1954), but with a change to a line of dialogue that erroneously implied that Hydra is premier mentioned is in a 1954 issue. After its initial defeat, several of its branches, such as its scientific branch A.I.M. Hydra soon returned, however, headed by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, with the support of the Nazi Red Skull Hydra's changing origin is one of Marvel's earliest retcons.

In its original continuity, it was headed by nondescript businessman Arnold Brown, who was killed when S.H.I.E.L.D. Hydra first appeared in Strange Tales #135 (August 1965).

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