Sgt. Fury #3

(September 1963)

Midnight on Massacre Mountain! (Table of Contents)

Sgt. Fury / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Jack Kirby?; Steve Ditko?; Dick Ayers?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

War

Characters:

Sergeant Nick Fury; the Howling Commandos [Corporal Dum Dum Dugan; Dino Manelli; Jonathan Juniper; Robert Ralston [Rebel Ralston]; Izzy Cohen; Gabe Jones]

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Sgt. Fury (Marvel, 2006 series) #1
• in Essential Sgt. Fury (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 (black and white)

Indexer Notes

Inks: Conflicting credits: Dick Ayers (GCD original); Steve Ditko (Bob Bailey, 2005-03-19 & Nick Caputo 2006-08-31); Jack Kirby (Nick Caputo, 2005-01-05) (Per Sandell ed.) // Inker comment by Bob Bailey: While he was not well known for doing war comics Ditko did do a few. If you compare the inking on the cover to Sgt Fury #14 which was inked by Ditko over Ayers (or any of his other Kirby-Ditko collaborations i.e FF 14 cover, FF 13 interior) you get the same effect in the muscles, clothing, sand, water and Dum-Dums hand. Also the Nick Furys rounded shoulder and facial wrinkles are definite Ditko. Per Caputo: I've read Bob Bailey's comments about Ditko being the inker for this cover,
and I have to admit that I suspected him as well, although I'm not entirely convinced. There were times that Ditko basically went over Kirby's lines instead of embellishing them, as he usually did (A Giant-Man story and Strange Tales Annual 2 are two instances), so its possible the sparse line I see in Kirby's inking may be Ditko following the lines.