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Valerie "Val" Cooper is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character works for the Office of National Emergency as the liaison for mutant affairs. She once claimed to have been inspired to government service by the interesting cases her brother, an FBI agent, encountered in his work.

Valerie Cooper was created by Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr., and first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men No. 176 (Dec. 1983).

The character received an entry in The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 No. 2.

She appeared sporadically as a secondary character, often an antagonist, in various Marvel series through the 1980s, primarily Uncanny X-Men written by Claremont and Captain America written by Mark Gruenwald. Writer Peter David and artist Larry Stroman took over X-Factor in 1991 to which Cooper is added as a major character and she was featured in the series' majority until its cancellation in 1998.

The character reached additional prominence in the mid-2000s, appearing in dozens of issues in 2006 at the height of Marvel's "Decimation" and "Civil War" events. David returned to write a relaunched X-Factor in 2006 and eventually featured her character in the series during 2007-2009. She made few appearances in the 2010s.

Dr. Valerie Cooper was a special National Security Advisor on national security issues, which include superhuman affairs. Originally, she took a hard-line concern on the problem of the threat that superhumans and mutants posed to the United States.

This position changed slightly when Cooper oversaw Mystique's former Brotherhood of Mutants, which operated as government agents as the Freedom Force. Around this time, Cooper was also involved in a project to create government sponsored superheroes which resulted in Julia Carpenter as the second Spider-Woman as well as three villains that would become her enemies Deathweb. Carpenter would subsequently be assigned by Cooper to join Freedom Force.

Meanwhile, Cooper and the Commission on Superhuman Activities were directly involved in the events of the government demanding the Captain America identity under the argument of being their property; Steve Rogers gives up the Captain America identity, and Cooper supervises the recruitment of John Walker and Battlestar as the new Captain America and the new Bucky respectively. Cooper's next duty was to hire Forge to create a machine to detect mutant powers.

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