Name: U.S. Marshals
Other Names: United States Marshals Service; USMS
Classification:
supporting characters
group
real/historical group
Publisher(s): 
Earliest Appearance Listed in This Database: Sudden (1933)
Creators: Oliver Strange
Number of Appearances: 83
Comic Book Appearances: 12
TV, Film Appearances: 50
Video Game, Computer Game Appearances: 4
Prose/Text Book/Story Appearances: 17
Employer: United States Department of Justice
Type of Organization/Group: government agency, police force
Nation: USA
The United States Marshals Service (USMS), commonly known as the "U.S. Marshals," is the oldest law enforcement agency in the United States. They perform several important functions, including transporting prisoners across state lines and capturing escaped federal prisoners. Many TV series and films have focused on specific U.S. Marshals as lead characters or featured general U.S. Marshals in supporting roles.
U.S. Marshals appear in mainstream super-hero comics such as the comics published by Marvel and DC because fictional agencies - such as S.H.I.E.L.D. and Checkmate - perform many of the functions that U.S. Marshals would fill in real life.
Some notable comic book characters who are U.S. Marshals include the modern-day "Pow-Wow" Smith (DC Comics), Dina Bell (DC), Wynonna Earp (Image/IDW), Carrie Stetko (in the Whiteout comics published by Oni Press).
Some notable instances of generic U.S. Marshals appearing prominently in mainstream Marvel and DC super-hero comics (as distinct from specific heroic characters who happen to be Marshals), are in Captain America (vol. 1) #180 and Birds of Prey (vol. 1) #s 12-14.
Number of group members listed below: 10
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U.S. Marshals |  |
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Monster Squad; U.S. Marshals [battles supernatural threats] |
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U.S. Marshals | |
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U.S. Marshals [Norway's most commercially successful book series ever] |
Romanforlaget  |
134 | |||||
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U.S. Marshals | Desilu Productions | 136 | ||||||
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U.S. Marshals | |
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U.S. Marshals | Delacorte Press; Family Circle Publications, etc. | 13 | ||||||
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U.S. Marshals [investigated murders in Antarctica] |
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[1st app: Sudden (1933)] | |
83 |
Back to the Future III (1990)
Birds of PreyCahill U.S. Marshal (1973)Captain America (vol. 1) #180 (Dec. 1974): "The Coming of the Nomad!"Con Air (1997)Eraser (1996)The Fugitive (1993)Halloween II (1981)Hang 'Em High (1968)Jonah Hex (vol. 1) #42 (Nov. 1980): "Wanted for Murder!"Karen SiscoMary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine (vol. 1) #1 (1996): "Karen Makes Out"Morgan Kane - Texas Ranger (1965)Murder for Love (1996): "Karen Makes Out"Out of SightOutland (1981)Outlaws (Mar. 1997)Pale Rider (1985)Prey 2 (2012)Shutter IslandSudden (1933)Tombstone (1993)True GritU.S. MarshalU.S. Marshals (1998)When the Women Come Out to Dance (19 Nov. 2002): "Karen Makes Out"WhiteoutWhiteout: MeltWild Wild West (1999)Wynonna Earp #1 (Dec. 1996): "Violent Territory"
Suggested links for further research about this character:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service
- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/USMarshal
- http://comicbookdb.com/team.php?ID=1322
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_U.S._Marshals
- http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=57978
- https://www.comics.org/issue/63482/
- http://www.comicvine.com/wynonna-earp-the-yeti-wars-/37-287711/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Marshals_(film)
- https://www.comics.org/issue/61915/
- https://www.comics.org/issue/62921/
- http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/serpsqua2.htm
- http://www.comicvine.com/rat-catcher-ogn/37-258319/
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051324/
- http://www.imdb.com/find?q=u.s.+marshal&s=ch
