Sgt. Fury
#16
(March 1965)
Marvel,
1963 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1965-01-12
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Bard Publishing Corp.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
In the Desert a Fortress Stands!
Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Sergeant Nick Fury; the Howling Commandos [Robert Ralston [Rebel Ralston]; Corporal Dum Dum Dugan; Dino Manelli; Gabe Jones; Izzy Cohen; Percival Pinkerton]
- Reprints
-
in Special Marvel Edition (Marvel, 1971 series) #14 (November 1973) [recolored] -
in Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos (Yaffa / Page, 1978 series) #7 (1981) - in Marvel Masterworks: Sgt. Fury (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 [Regular Edition] ([June] 2008)
- in Essential Sgt. Fury (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([November] 2011) [black and white]
-
in L'ère des Comics Marvel 1961-1978 (Taschen, 2017 series) (2017) - in Sgt. Fury Epic Collection (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 - The Howling Commandos (2019)
- in The Complete Kirby War and Romance (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
- Keywords
- World War II
A Fortress In the Desert Stands!
Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (credited)
- Inks
- Frank Giacoia (credited as Frank Ray)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Sergeant Nick Fury; the Howling Commandos [Robert Ralston [Rebel Ralston]; Corporal Dum Dum Dugan; Izzy Cohen; Gabe Jones; Percival Pinkerton; Hans Rooten (Mascot); Dino Manelli]; General Palmer (introduction); Captain Happy Sam Sawyer
- Synopsis
- A lone soldier warns the Allied commanders of a Nazi Super-Weapon hidden in the desert but his message is cut short. The Howling Commandos are sent to North Africa to find out what the Nazi's are building and to destroy it if possible.
- Reprints
- in Special Marvel Edition (Marvel, 1971 series) #14 (November 1973)
- in Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos (Yaffa / Page, 1978 series) #7 (1981)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Sgt. Fury (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 [Regular Edition] ([June] 2008)
- in Essential Sgt. Fury (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([November] 2011) [black and white]
- in Sgt. Fury Epic Collection (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 - The Howling Commandos (2019)
- in The Complete Kirby War and Romance (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
- Keywords
- Afrika Corps; Beduin tribesmen; firing squad; French Foreign Legion; World War II
[no title indexed]
Tell It to Fury / letters page / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
Letters from Andy Booth, Guy Lillian, William L. McCord, James Bennett, Andy Zerbe, Robert Cregar, Mark Reed, David Elliott, Michael Ellis, and Gary Hornback; includes image from earlier issue and The Mighty Marvel Checklist.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
In the Desert a Fortress Stands!
Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos -
1.
A Fortress In the Desert Stands!
Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos -
2.
[no title indexed]
Tell It to Fury
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