Orphaned at a young age, Barton grew up in a circus, apprentice to the legendary Jacques Duquesne, an unsurpassed swordsman. After a show late one night, Barton accidentally discovered his mentor was an agent of the Mandarin, a ruthless Triad crime lord.
Beaten and left for dead, Barton quickly picked up Duquesne’s trail in the Middle East and tracked him to a bunker in Iraq during the first Gulf War. During his mission, Barton encountered a captured Nick Fury and aided in the soldier’s escape.
Fury remembered Barton when he was called upon to assemble SHIELD and he made the archer his first recruit. All ready a deadly marksman, Barton, now codenamed Hawkeye, was schooled in espionage and infiltration by Timothy “Dum-Dum” Dugan, SHIELD’s training officer.
Hawkeye’s first mission was aiding the Black Widow in her defection shortly after the Gulf War and protecting her from the Hand, the ninja warriors of the Mandarin. The Widow and Hawkeye remain close, but rarely work together, Hawkeye instead was teamed up with Wanda Maximoff, codenamed Scarlet Witch.
I'll get some better pics up, the flash really washed out his face and eyebrow completely.
