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Barbara Morse graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in biology and passed her Civil Service examination so she could work with her biology professor, Dr. Wilma Calvin, on the government-sponsored project to rediscover the Super-Soldier formula that created Captain America. While in the government's employ, Morse's exemplary record came to the attention of SHIELD and she was invited to undertake training in her spare time. A champion gymnast in high school, Morse excelled at both the physical regimen and arts of espionage taught to all field agents. When Dr. Theodore Sallis, a maverick scientist also working on the Super-Soldier project, disappeared, Morse was given her first field assignment: to accompany SHIELD agent Paul Allen, suspected of being a traitor, to the Antarctic paradise known as the Savage Land in order to enlist the services of the hero Ka-Zar to find Sallis. Allen and Morse succeeded in contacting Ka-Zar and took him to the Florida Everglades. Although Sallis was never found. He had been transformed into the Man-Thing Ka-Zar and Morse flushed out a splinter group of AIM who were attempting to steal the Super-Soldier formula, and revealed Allen to be a member. Nick Fury assigned Morse as an escort to Ka-Zar during his stay in civilization and the two managed to thwart yet another attempt by AIM to seize the Super-Soldier formula. Preferring field work over biology, Morse was given another assignment: to trail the subversive El Tigre