The Chronology.
C1915
David Jerome Fortunov
is born in New York. He later adopts the name Dominic Fortune. (Taken from
S.H.I.E.L.D no11 where it is said that Fortune is 100 years old)
1920
Steve Rogers born.
1931 Davey Fortunov rescues Stevie Rogers from a gang of
bullies (Marvel Super-Heroes #3)
1932-1935 The Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay takes
place. Fortune flies three tours for
both sides, working for the winning Paraguay side at the end of the war.
(Dominic Fortune: It Can Happen Here and Now #1)
1936
Dominic Fortune: It Can Happen Here and Now 1-4
Fortune returns to the States and is hired to bodyguard
three actors at the 1936 Olympics, he discovers a plot to overthrow the United
States government. (Dominic Fortune: It Can Happen Here and Now #2&3)
Columbus Day 1936 (October 12)
Fortune manages to stop the coup. (Dominic Fortune: It Can
Happen Here and Now #4)
March 31 – May 1937
Astonishing Tales: Dominic Fortune.1-6
Fortune is hired by Amanda Maclain to investigate the death of her sister.
The crash of the Hindenberg is mentioned in issue #4.
1937
“Ghoul of My Dreams” Hulk! #22
“Moo over Manhattan” Hulk! #23
Fortune stops an assassination planned by Baron Von Strucker
Christmas 1937
“Slay Bells” Hulk! #25
Fortune encounters The Silhouette (Lamar Canfield), his
girlfriend Margo Payne and assistant Harry while preventing the assassination
of the British Ambassador.
1938
“The Power Broker Resolution” Marvel Preview #2.
March 1938
“The Messiah in the Saddle Resolution” Marvel Super Action
#1
Spring 1938
“The Big Top Barter Resolution” Marvel Premiere #56
Fortune helps Dum-Dum Dugan when he is swindled out of his
circus.
Dugan would later become a Howling Commando and agent of
SHIELD with Nick Fury.
1940
Steve Rogers watches news reel footage of Dominic Fortune and
realises that it is Davey Fortunov.
Fortunov is asked to be the first test subject for Project
Rebirth but is rejected due to his gambling and being Jewish.
Steve is selected as his replacement and Fortune rescues him
from a Nazi kidnapping attempt. (Marvel Super-Heroes #3)
1940
Fortune and Sabbath Raven are separated in the Nazi invasion
of Holland. (referenced in Web of Spiderman #71)
1942
Fortune mentions seeing Namor in 1942. (Reference in
Avengers 1959 #4)
1959
New Avengers 10-13
Nick Fury recruits Dum-Dum Dugan, Dominic Fortune, Victor
Creed (Sabretooth), Namora, Sergei Kravenoff (Kraven the Hunter), Ulysses
Bloodstone, Ernst Sablinova (Silver Sable) as a strikeforce known as Avengers
1959 to hunt for fugitive Nazis and discovers that a fake Red Skull has created
their own fake Captain America. (I am ignoring the modern day part of the
story)
1959
The Avengers 1959
The Avengers 1959 are reformed with Dominic Fortune, Victor
Creed (Sabretooth), Namora, Sergei Kravenoff (Kraven the Hunter), and the
Blonde Phantom (Louise Grant) to battle a Nazi sorcerer. Man-Gorilla of Agents
of ATLAS appears and a reference is made Jimmy Woo.
1981
Marvel Team Up #120
Spiderman teams up with an older Dominic Fortune to fight
Turner D. Century. Reference is made to
Spider-Woman.
As Spiderman, Dominic Fortune, and Spiderwoman all have
independent links to CU it seems likely that this crossover took place. Fortune is appropriately aged as a man active
in the 1930s.
Web of Spiderman #10
Spiderman and Fortune crossover again.
1985
Iron Man #212-213
Dominic Fortune encounters Iron Man and is believed
dead. Fortune’s son Jerry briefly becomes
the new Dominic Fortune before his death but his father returns to the mantle.
1985
Web of Spiderman #71-72
When seeking to avenge the death of his son, Fortune encounters Spiderman and Silver Sable (Silvija Sablinova).
1990
Dominic Fortune again encounters Captain America (Marvel
Superheroes #3)
2005
Sable & Fortune
Silver Sable retires from the Wild Pack and works with a
man calling himself Dominic Fortune.
(This would be 20 years after her meeting with Fortune in
1985, presuming that she was around 20 then she would be in her 40s now)
(When this Dominic introduces himself Sable says like the
“Dominic Fortune? As in brigand, adventurer? Circa 1930? That Dominic Fortune?
The years have been kind.” Fortune responds “You might say that” He does not
bring up their earlier encounter and changes the subject. It is also mentioned that he is not a good
fighter unlike the original.
2008
Vanguard
Dominic Fortune is part of a clandestine team known as
Vanguard with Blade, Micromax, Yelena Belova, and Retcon.
The Thing appears and they encounter Colonel America, an
attempt to recreate Captain America but his abilities are too strong.
2010
Hawkeye and Mockingbird
Dominic Fortune is one of members of the World
Counterterrorism Agency with Mockingbird, Hawkeye, Twitchy, Bangs and London.
They battle the Slade family of Phantom Riders and the mercenary known as
Crossfire. Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes
appear as does Luke Cage.
It is stated the Fortune can heal quickly and at the end
of the story Fortune reveals that he is the original who some point in the
decade before drank a variant of the Super Soldier serum which rejuvenated him
with memory loss before he grew the moustache and recalled his life.
2011
Widowmaker
These events follow directly after Hawkeye and Mockingbird. Hawkeye, Mockingbird, Fortune, and Natasha
Romanoff (Black Widow) track down a killer
Fortune mentions meeting Yelena (reference to Vanguard) and
claims to be the one and only. There is
no reference to his dying as the super soldier serum degrades and he is fine in
battle.
The text refers to him as the 1940s Brigand for hire.
2011
New Avengers (present day)
2015
SHIELD #11 December 2015 writer Mark Waid and art by
Howard Chaykin
Dominic Fortune visits SHIELD to get assistance to get his
casino back and works with Phil Coulson.
Fortune is a sprightly 100 and mentions working with Nick
Fury in 1959.