Strange Tales #162

(November 1967)

So Evil, The Night! (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

Jim Steranko (credited)

Pencils

Jim Steranko (credited)

Inks

Frank Giacoia (credited); Jim Steranko (see notes)

Colors

Jim Steranko ?

Letters

Sam Rosen (credited)

Genre

spy; superhero

Characters

The Gaff [Sidney E. Levine, Gaffer]; Nick Fury; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Val [Contessa Valentina Allegro de Fontaine]; Jimmy Woo; The Yellow Claw (Fang-Chu); Fritz Von Voltzmann

Synopsis

The Gaff presents Fury with his new car which is made entirely out of clear fiberglass making it completely invisible from 100 feet away. Fury & Val go to SHIELD's rebuilt ESP Division. There, Jimmy Woo detects that The Yellow Claw is in Chinatown. Nick tells Woo it's his job now, and goes there alone. After a harrowing encounter with a pair of Claw goons, Fury impersonates one of them, and in a darkened shop, meets Fang-Chu (The Claw) face-to-face. Voltzmann gets the drop on him, and an instant later, he falls through a trapdoor into the tentacles of a giant octopus.

Reprints

• in Nick Fury - Agent för SHIELD (Carlsen/if [SE], 1979 series) #1
• in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #16 (4ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
• in Captain Britain (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #7 (November 24, 1976) [pages 1-7], #8 (December 1, 1976) [pages 8-12 plus new splash, not by Steranko]
• 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

Nick Caputo believes the splash page was inked by Steranko.

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 4 of 9. 2nd appearance of The Gaff & Val. 1st appearance of Fury's new car, and the new ESP Division, replacing those destroyed in STRANGE TALES #153 (March 1967) and the flashback in #160 (September 1967). The Claw having Fury fight a giant octopus pays tribute to the Ian Fleming James Bond 007 novel, DR. NO (1958). James Bond finally got a car capable of invisibility in the film DIE ANOTHER DAY (2002).

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Marvel Madness! (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

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

From the Never-World Comes... Nebulos! (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Jim Lawrence (credited); Dan Adkins (credited) (co-plot)

Pencils

Dan Adkins (credited)

Inks

Dan Adkins (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Sam Rosen (credited)

Genre

superhero; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Nebulos; Dr. Strange; Victoria Bentley; Baron Mordo

Synopsis

Nebulos commands Strange to take hold of his Staff of Polar Power which places Strange under his control. He returns Strange to Earth to face Mordo, whose power is absorbed by the staff. Strange's spell sends Mordo into cosmic limbo. Returning to Stonehenge where the mystic hourglass remains Strange attempts to remove it from earth but both are pulled back to the Planets Perilous by Nebulos, whose staff returns to him. Nebulos says Victoria was his hostage to ensure Strange's return and the staff could have saved them both. At that moment Strange sees the approach of The Living Tribunal.

Reprints

• in The Avengers (Marvel UK, 1973 series) #50 (August 31, 1974)
• in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #49 (1er trimestre 1975) [N&B [B&W]]
• 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 16 of 22; part 5 of the Living Tribunal sequence. Several panels based closely on Steve Ditko panels; the effect resembles Ditko pencils plus Wood inks. 1st 2-page spread in a Dr. Strange story! The image of Nebulos on the splash page is swiped from the John Schoenherr cover painting to the 1962 Pyramid Books edition of Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon.

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

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

Script

?

Pencils

Marie Severin; Jim Steranko (illustrations)

Inks

Herb Trimpe; Jim Steranko (illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dear Stan, On page 7 of Strange Tales #157...

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Don Markstein; Jay Zaremba; and Martin Frutin. Also includes Merry Marvel Marching Society info and coupon.