Strange Tales #158

(July 1967)

Final Encounter! (Table of Contents: 1)

Nick Fury / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Jim Steranko (credited)

Pencils

Jim Steranko (credited)

Inks

Jim Steranko (credited)

Colors

Jim Steranko ?

Letters

Sam Rosen (credited)

Genre

spy; superhero

Characters

Supreme Hydra [Baron Strucker]; Nick Fury; HYDRA; Laura Brown

Synopsis

The battle between Fury & Strucker rages until Fury manages to remove his Satan glove. Minutes later, as HYDRA thugs enter the room, they discover 2 Strucker's! One of them is revealed to be wearing a mask, panics, and is incinerated in an Alpha-Particle Reactor Cube. The other orders Laura put aboard the Dyna-Soar and takes off from Hydra Island, despite the imminent detonation of The Death Spore bomb. Fury had used Strucker's device to disguise himself and Strucker. It detonates, and thanks to the impenetrable dome, only Hydra Island and all within are wiped off the face of the Earth!

Reprints

• in Marvel Série I (Levoir, 2012 series) #15 - Nick Fury - Agente da SHIELD
• in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #14 (3ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
• in Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel, 2000 series) (May 2000)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([December] 2009)
• in S.H.I.E.L.D. by Steranko: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) ([October] 2013)
• in The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection - Classic (Hachette Partworks, 2014 series) #8 - Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Part One (November 2014)
• in S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete Collection Omnibus (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
• in Die offizielle Marvel-Comic-Sammlung (Hachette [DE], 2013 series) #8 - Nick Fury: Agent von SHIELD, Teil 1 (August 2016)
• in Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов (Ашет Коллекция [Hachette], 2014 series) #124 - Ник Фьюри: Агент "Защиты"
• in Steranko Is... Revolutionary (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)

Indexer Notes

Part 9 of 9. Although HYDRA's leader and main base were destroyed, their branch organization, A.I.M., resurfaced the following month against Captain America in TALES OF SUSPENSE #92 (August 1967). HYDRA returned in CAPTAIN AMERICA #110 (February 1969). Baron Strucker reappeared without explanation in the guise of "The Hood" in CAPTAIN AMERICA #131 (November 1970); later revealed to be a robot in CAPTAIN AMERICA #247 (July 1980). Baron Strucker remained dead for 24 years, until he was brought back to life in NICK FURY, AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. #20 (February 1991). HYDRA's formation by Baron Strucker was explained in flashback in CAPTAIN SAVAGE #2-4 (March-July 1968).

In the introduction to Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury Agent of Shield Volume 2 Steranko says he took over the color chores with Strange Tales # 165 although the earlier checklist in Comic Book Marketplace # 28, October 1995, credits him with coloring beginning with # 157.

More Mixed-Up Madness from Marvel's Mighty Masters of Mysticism, Magnificence, and Misinformation! (Table of Contents: 2)

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Script

Stan Lee; ?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Items; Stan's Soapbox; The Mighty Marvel Checklist; house ad for Not Brand Echh #1.

The Sands of Death (Table of Contents: 3)

Doctor Strange / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (credited); Marie Severin (credited) (co-plot)

Pencils

Marie Severin (credited)

Inks

Herb Trimpe (credited)

Colors

Marie Severin ?

Letters

Artie Simek (credited)

Genre

superhero; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

The Living Tribunal; Dr. Strange

Synopsis

The Living Tribunal decrees that because Strange has unleashed a menace to the cosmos Earth must be destroyed. Before he recites the Incantation of Oblivion he recounts events leading up to his decision, agreed upon by his 3 faces of Equity, Revenge & Necessity. Strange challenges the Tribunal to let him deal with the menace, having defeated the forces of darkness in the past. Strange is granted a reprieve for as long as it takes the Sands of Death to run out of a mystic Hourglass resting in the middle of Stonehenge. Strange departs wondering if he will be able to succeed in time.

Reprints

• in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #65 (11 May 1968), #66 (18 May 1968)
• in The Avengers (Marvel UK, 1973 series) #46 (August 3, 1974)
• in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #47 (décembre 1974) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
• in Essential Dr. Strange (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (December 2001)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 ([September] 2005)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (Marvel, 2010 series) #2 ([January] 2013)
• in Doctor Strange Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #2 (2021)
• in Doctor Strange Epic Collection (Marvel, 2016 series) #2 - I, Dormammu (2023)

Indexer Notes

Part 12 of 22; part 1 of the Living Tribunal sequence.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Strange Mails / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Marie Severin (illustration)

Inks

Marie Severin (illustration)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dear Stan, In the past Bullpen Bulletin...

Reprints

• in S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete Collection Omnibus (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Jose Medina; Larry Good;Michael Esterson and future Marvel writer Bill Mantlo. Also includes Merry Marvel Marching Society info and coupon, as well as 26 more MMMS members.