Agatha Harkness Fact — November 4, 2026

Today's Fact

Long before Whisper Hill, her résumé included two American wars and a secret sisterhood of liberty.

AGATHA TRAINED REVOLUTIONARY SPIES AND FOUGHT NAZI SORCERY — CENTURIES BEFORE SHE EVER BABYSAT FOR THE FANTASTIC FOUR!

The Featured Fact

In the late 1700s, while the colonies fought for independence, Agatha Harkness joined the Daughters of Liberty, a clandestine sisterhood of women protecting the newborn nation. Agatha was its arcane instructor: she used centuries of hard-won knowledge to train the Daughters in the mystical arts, a chapter of her life only formally laid out in Captain America Vol. 9 #19 (2020).

The sisterhood outlived the Revolution by design. Generations later its agents were still taking Agatha's briefings — among them Peggy Carter, whom the Daughters tasked during the Second World War with quietly monitoring the Super Soldier programme that would produce Captain America.

Agatha's own wartime service was stranger. At the end of World War II, U.S. Army Major Alan Dakor recruited her into the Department of the Uncanny, alongside the Ghost Dancer and the Emerald Warlock, to stop the former Nazi officer and sorceress Hilda von Hate, as told in Uncanny Avengers Annual Vol. 2 #1 (2015).

Why It's Obscure

Two wars, one witch: she was doing covert work for America before America had a flag worth saluting.

1770s

Professor of the revolution — Agatha joins the Daughters of Liberty and teaches its agents magic, centuries of craft placed at the service of a country that does not officially know she exists.

The long watch

A sisterhood that persists — The Daughters keep operating into the modern era, still drawing on the network and methods Agatha helped build in the 18th century.

World War II

Peggy takes the brief — The Daughters assign Peggy Carter to watch over the Super Soldier project, tying Agatha's old sisterhood directly to the birth of Captain America.

1945

Department of the Uncanny — Recruited beside the Ghost Dancer and the Emerald Warlock, Agatha helps shut down Nazi sorceress Hilda von Hate for the U.S. Army.

Gallery

Agatha in full working regalia, her modern silhouette, and the agent her sisterhood sent to watch a super-soldier being born.

Agatha Harkness casting a spell, comic art — **The instructor herself**Agatha Harkness mid-incantation — the same craft she once taught, lesson by lesson, to the Daughters of Liberty.

Agatha Harkness in a dark gown, comic art — **Two wars deep**Agatha in forbidding form; by the time she reached the Fantastic Four's door she had already served in a revolution and a world war.

Peggy Carter in uniform, comic art — **Her sisterhood's agent**Peggy Carter, the Daughters of Liberty operative assigned to monitor the Super Soldier programme during World War II.

Sources

Every fact on this page was checked against at least two independent sources before publication.

Bullpen Bulletins

Agatha Harkness (Earth-616) — Marvel DatabaseChronicles her joining the Daughters of Liberty in the Revolutionary era to train them in the mystical arts, and her post-WWII recruitment into the Department of the Uncanny against Hilda von Hate.
WandaVision: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Agatha Harkness — CBRCovers both her Revolutionary War service with the Daughters of Liberty and her WWII work with the Department of the Uncanny against the Nazi threat.