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Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Cover nr 6 from the 1968 series, drawn by Jim Steranko
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
FormatOngoing series
Publication date
  • Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1968)
    :
  • 1968 - 1971
  • Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1989)
    :
  • 1989 - 1992
No. of issues
  • Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1968): 18
  • Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1989): 47
Main character(s)Nick Fury

Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the title of several American comic book series published by Marvel Comics focusing on the various adventures of the character Nick Fury while working for the fictional organization S.H.I.E.L.D.

Publication history

As part of Strange Tales

Main article: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (feature)
Further information: Strange Tales

The Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. feature replaced then running

Wolfgang von Strucker. Strucker would be killed off shortly after appearing in the strip, though the character would be brought back to life in the 1989 Nick Fury series decades later. Ultimately the serial would end with issue #168 and Nick Fury spun off into his own title.[1][2]

Volume 1

In 1968, Strange Tales was canceled and Dr. Strange and Nick Fury spun off into their own books. While Dr. Strange kept the original numbering of Strange Tales, Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. was re-launched with a new #1. The series would be short-lived; Steranko had issues meeting a monthly deadline for a 20 page book and ultimately left the series after 5 issues, only writing and drawing issues #1-3 and #5. Steranko would continue to provide covers for the book through issue #7. The five issues that Steranko wrote set up a new rival for Nick Fury in the form of "Scorpio"; a foreign assassin/race car driver whose true identity was a mystery to readers and S.H.I.E.L.D. With the departure of Steranko, the sales for the book collapsed and was quickly canceled. The final original issue (#15, November 1969) of the series saw Nick Fury killed by a masked assassin known as "Bulls-eye" (no relations to the Daredevil villain of the same name). Nick Fury would not stay dead for long; two months after the publication of his book's final issue, the character would be revived in Avengers #72 (January 1970). Shortly after Avengers #72 was published, Marvel briefly revived Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. as a reprint book for three issues with issues #16-18 would reprise the Nick Fury stories from Strange Tales #135-144.

Volume 2

As part of their direct market "Special Edition" reprint line, the two Jim Steranko Scorpio issues of volume one (#1 and #5) were reprinted in a two part mini-series.

Volume 3

During the 1980s, Marvel began promoting a Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. limited series. First announced in 1984 in Marvel Age, the mini-series was referenced in the pages of Incredible Hulk and West Coast Avengers (with it implied in Incredible Hulk that the events were occurring at the same time as Incredible Hulk #299-300). The Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. series was subjected to several years of developmental limbo due to issues over the plot and format in which the limited series would be published. The series ultimately saw publication in 1988, and sold well enough to justify a new ongoing.

Volume three would take place after the events of Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D., which Nick Fury rebuilding S.H.I.E.L.D. following the revelation that the agency had been subverted by a renegade group of evolved LMDs. Opposing them was a revived Hydra, who early in the series announce their return by blowing up the main office building Nick Fury's rebuild S.H.I.E.L.D. operated out of; killing several thousand S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Furthermore, it is revealed that the revived Hydra was being led by a resurrected Baron Von Strucker. The bulk of the series would follow the cat and mouse game between Fury and Strucker, who sought to hide his resurrection from the rest of the world.

Volume 4

In 2000 Marvel republished several issues of the 1968 series as a series.

Collected editions

Title Material collected Publication date ISBN
Son of Origins of Marvel Comics Includes Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. story from Strange Tales #135[a] October 1975 978-0-671-22166-9
Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Strange Tales #135-153[b]
Strange Tales #154-168 and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Volume 1 #1-3[c]
Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Volume 1 #4-15[d] 		September 2007
December 2009
December 2011 		978-0-7851-2686-7
978-0-7851-3503-6
978-0-7851-5034-3
S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete Collection Omnibus Strange Tales #135-168, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Volume 1 #1-15[e] October 2015 978-0-7851-9852-9
Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Strange Tales Vol. 1, Issues #150-168 September 2001 978-0785107477
Nick Fury: Who Is Scorpio? Includes Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Vol. 1, Issues #1-3 & #5 November 2000 978-0785107668
Steranko is Revolutionary! Strange Tales #135-168, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Volume 1 #1-3, 5[f] September 2020
ISBN 978-1302922894

In other media

See also

Notes

  1. ^ This collection contains other material not published under the title Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  2. ^ This collection contain other material not published under the title Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  3. ^ This collection contain other material not published under the title Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  4. ^ This collection contain other material not published under the title Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  5. ^ This collection contains other material not published under the title Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  6. ^ This collection contains other material not published under the title Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

References

  1. ISBN 9780810938212. Perhaps the most innovative new talent to emerge at Marvel during the late 1960s was Jim Steranko
    , whose bold innovations in graphics, layout, and design startled the readers...Steranko transformed the look of the comic book page.
  2. ^ Ross, Jonathan (July 20, 2010). "Jonathan Ross meets Jim Steranko, his comic-book hero". The Guardian. London, United Kingdom. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved February 21, 2013. His work on his first hit book, Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., took the wildly popular Bond secret-agent schtick and gave it a jazzy makeover, with outlandish plots, eye-popping visuals and even 'adult themes' that had the Comics Code Authority demanding several panels in one landmark issue be redrawn.

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