(December 1968)
Marvel,
1968 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1968-09-03
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Olympia Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Printer
- The Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury, Conn.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1968, page 250, registration number B474946.
[no title indexed]
Nick Fury / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jim Steranko (signed as
STERANKO) - Inks
- Jim Steranko (signed as STERANKO)
- Colors
- Jim Steranko
- Genre
- spy; superhero
- Characters
- Nick Fury
- Reprints
-
in Agente Internacional (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1966 series) #41, #41 -
in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #107 - in Captain Britain (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #20 (February 23, 1977)
-
in L'Inattendu (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #11 (1er trimestre 1978) [Modifiée [Edited]] -
in Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD (Marvel, 1983 series) #2 (January 1984) [as back cover] - in S.H.I.E.L.D. by Steranko: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) ([October] 2013)
- in S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete Collection Omnibus (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
-
in L'ère des Comics Marvel 1961-1978 (Taschen, 2017 series) (2017) - in Steranko Is... Revolutionary (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020), (2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Salvador Dali tribute. Steranko's last SHIELD cover until SHIELD #1 (February 1973).
Hours of Madness, Day of Death
Nick Fury / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Archie Goodwin (credited) (plot, dialogue); Frank Springer (plot, uncredited)
- Pencils
- Frank Springer (credited)
- Inks
- Frank Springer (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited as A. Simek)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Noon! All over the city, New Yorkers...
- Genre
- spy; superhero
- Characters
- Nick Fury; Dum Dum Dugan; Jimmy Woo; Gabe Jones; Centurius (hallucination); Yellow Claw (hallucination); Baron Strucker (hallucination); Sister Angela (All-Faith Mission); Dino (hallucination); Eric (hallucination)
- Synopsis
- Nick gets into a fight at an unnamed foreign embassy, and winds up being injected with a drug that will cause hallucinations, "hyper-intense paranoia", and death after 6 hours.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #107
- in L'Inattendu (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #11 (1er trimestre 1978) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Hulk Comic (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #21 (July 25 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 2 pages. Prints page 2; page 3, panels 1-6; page 4; page 5, panel 1; page 6, panels 2, 1 & 4], #22 (August 1, 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 3 pages. Prints page 7; page 8, panels 1-4 & 6; pages 9-10; page 11, small panels only – omits background figure of Nick Fury; page 12; page 13, small panels only – omits background figure of Sister Angela
], #23 (August 8, 1979) [Partial reprint, extensively edited to bring the story length down to 4 pages. Prints pages 14-17; page 18, panels 1-3 & 5; pages 19-20. B/W] - in S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete Collection Omnibus (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Archie Goodwin's only solo SHIELD story. Frank Springer illustrated a parody of NICK FURY #3 this month in NOT BRAND ECHH #11.
[no title indexed]
Marvel Super-Hero T-Shirts; Merry Marvel Marching Society membership kit / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Free! Giant Stallion Mural Full Color Masterpiece Free!
Colonial Studios art prints / advertisement / 1 page
[no title indexed]
Don't Yield, Write S.H.I.E.L.D.! / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jim Steranko (2 illustrations)
- Inks
- John Tartaglione (2 illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen; typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I've done it! I've finally figured out the true identity of Scorpio!
- Characters
- Nick Fury
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Mike Howell, Steve D. Brown, Robert Weis Jr., Michael Beasley, Frederick Lee Zoucha, Harvey Sobel, Alan Groginsky, James Donoghue and Bob Gale.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Nick Fury -
1.
["This candy bar can help you gain lots... of weight!"]
Joe Weider Course and Products -
2.
Hours of Madness, Day of Death
Nick Fury -
3.
["Look, fellows!"]
Grit Newspaper -
4.
["It's brand new!! Marvel's swingin' inflatable plastic pillows!"]
Marvel Super-Hero T-Shirts; Merry Marvel Marching Society membership kit -
5.
Free! Giant Stallion Mural Full Color Masterpiece Free!
Colonial Studios art prints -
6.
World's Fastest Train
Cheerios -
7.
["Collect coins.. the hobby road to riches"]
Hobby Coin Co. Surprise Coin Packet -
8.
Stamps; Shop by Mail
-
9.
Shop by Mail
-
10.
["A plethora of pronouncements up for grabs!"]
Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox -
11.
["Must I lose my hair?"]
H. H. Ward & Co., Inc. formula -
12.
["I've done it! I've finally figured out the true identity of Scorpio!"]
Don't Yield, Write S.H.I.E.L.D.! -
13.
["Now in full color!"]
Spectacular Spider-Man -
14.
["Good news for you who want to make extra money easily!"]
Creative Card Company Christmas cards -
15.
["We're looking for people who like to draw"]
Famous Artists School
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Robert K. S. Croy, Sr.
- Bill Devine
- Katy Hayhurst
- Ethan Hoddes
- Henry R. Kujawa
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
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