- Script
- Jim Steranko (credited)
- Pencils
- Jim Steranko (credited)
- Inks
- Jim Steranko (credited)
- Colors
- Jim Steranko ?
- Letters
- Jerry Feldmann (credited)
- Genre
- spy; superhero
- Characters
- Dum Dum Dugan; Jasper Sitwell; Nick Fury; Gabe Jones; Laura Brown; Yancy Street Gang (flashback cameo); Mamma Fury (flashback cameo); Jake Fury (unnamed; flashback cameo); The Gaff [Sidney E. Levine]; Val [Contessa Valentina Allegro De Fontaine]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]
- Synopsis
- Fury reminisces with Laura about his days growing up in Hell's Kitchen; then at SHIELD HQ, offers her a job as an agent. Fury goes to the UNIT academy, where recruits undergo rigorous education. He meets two new agents: Sidney E. Levine, a tech expert and Val, who scoffs at his attitude that the spy game is man's work. Fury takes on Captain America in a display bout for the recruits, but gets dizzy due to a side-effect of the invisibility pill he used earlier. Cap tells him he's found out who was responsible for a job they tackled a year ago.
- Reprints
- in Nick Fury - Agent för SHIELD (Carlsen/if [SE], 1979 series) #1
- in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #15 (3ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
- in Captain Britain (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #1 (October 13, 1976) [pp. 1-5], #2 (October 20, 1976) [pages 6-12]
- in Nick Fury, agent du S.E.R.V.O. (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1979 series) (1979)
- in Captain America Special Edition (Marvel, 1984 series) #2 (March 1984)
- 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)
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.
Part 1 of 9. 1st appearance of Fury's apartment, The Gaff & Val. Cap mentions the last time he & Fury met was when they fought "THEM"'s Humanoid Assassin in TALES OF SUSPENSE #78 (June 1966). That story was clearly Cap & Fury's 1st meeting since WW2 in SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS #13 (December 1964) as Cap had been trying to contact Fury for months about possibly becoming a SHIELD agent (seen in several issues of THE AVENGERS). Yet 4 pages later, Cap refers to a job they tackled together "a year ago" (Perhaps "The Big Blackout" took place immediately after TOS #78, as there was a break between issues #78 & #79). After loitering in the shadows outside Stark Industries for 2 months, Jasper Sitwell became a regular in the Iron Man series in TALES OF SUSPENSE #95 (November 1967).
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited); Marie Severin (credited) (co-plot)
- Pencils
- Marie Severin (credited)
- Inks
- Herb Trimpe (credited)
- Colors
- Marie Severin ?
- Letters
- Al Kurzrok (credited)
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Dr. Strange; Wong; Umar (flashback); Zom (flashback); The Living Tribunal (cameo); Baron Mordo
- Synopsis
- Strange returns home to find his Sanctum gone! Wong, who barely escaped its destruction, recounts how Umar used a spell of vanishment. Strange dispels her enchantment and his house returns. Using the Crystal of Agamotto he senses evil mystic powers around the world. Casting a spell he discovers a group of mystics, banded together, working to free an imprisoned mystic to lead them. Strange strikes down the most powerful of the group, but is too late, they have freed Baron Mordo, his most hated enemy, knowing it will be impossible to convince him to join forces to save the Earth!
- Reprints
Part 13 of 22; part 2 of the Living Tribunal sequence. While under an evil influence, Piper Halliwell once used an identical spell to Umar's to make her house vanish (and it was restored in the same way) in an episode of the tv show CHARMED.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Marie Severin; Jim Steranko (illustrations)
- Inks
- Marie Severin; Jim Steranko (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Stan, Verily Strange Tales #155 was the best magazine...
- Reprints
Letters of comment from Burton Wolder; Mrs. Beatrice Juarez; and Mark Evanier. Also includes Merry Marvel Marching Society info and coupon.