Nick Fury Appreciation 2019

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Uncanny X-Men #182 Jun 1984
"Madness!" Nick Fury cameo.
Rogue is flying back to the United States following the X-Men's return from Battleworld ahead of the others
to check on the remaining X-Men that were left on Earth, and the New Mutants. Rogue arrives at the mansion
and begins checking the answering machine. She finds a panicked call from Madelyne Pryor who was calling to tell the X-Men
that her husband, Scott Summers had gone missing. Rogue knows that he was transported to Battleworld with them
and presumes that he was returned to her when they were all returned home.
The next message is from Colonel Rossi a SHIELD agent who is a colleague of Professor Xavier.
Rossi has confirmed one of their suspicions. His call is cut off when someone gets the jump on him. Rogue flies off to save him,
missing an important message from Illyana Rasputin telling that the White Queen had
kidnapped Kitty and Doug Ramsey and that she and the New Mutants were going to rescue her.

Aboard the SHIELD helicarrier, Rossi is being roughly interrogated for
answers to why he was caught looking up information about the Hellfire Club.
One of these interrogators, a spy working of the Inner Circle, goes back to report to Sebastian Shaw and confirms his identity.
Shaw orders him to eliminate Rossi before he is visited by a mental projection of the White Queen who informs
him that she has the New Mutants under her thrall and asks if he would like to see Xavier's novice students.

Meanwhile, Rogue manages to break aboard the SHIELD helicarrier by flicking a nickel into it's radar bay with her super strength.
Breaking in, she then trashes some of the security systems closing off blast
doors so that the SHIELD operatives do not have an easy time stopping her.

She manages to get to Rossi just before the Inner Circle spy can assassinate him.

When she tries to revive the heavily beaten Rossi, she begins talking in a different voice that speaks of a long time friendship.
Rossi, barely conscious recognizes the voice but cannot believe he is hearing it.

Rogue then manages to escape the Helicarrier and smashes a number of fighter jets that are deployed to try and stop her.
Rogue brings Rossi to a home that she believes as her parents summer home located in Cape Cod Massachusetts.
Rogue prepares Rossi a meal and when he awakens to eat, he finds that as he questions Rogue she has the memories of Carol Danvers.
Rossi then calls her on it, watching as she flips from personality to personality from trying to sort out her memories;
this causes her to burst out of the house and tumble down onto the beach near the home.
There she is haunted by more of Carol's memories of her childhood and adult life.

She realizes that when she absorbed Carol Danver's powers she must have taken her memories as well as the emotions that go along with them.
When Rossi goes down to check on her, she reveals to him what he did, a revelation that angers and horrifies him.
When she attempts to atone for it by telling him that she is Carol in all the ways that matter,
he rejects her offer of love striking her and walking away -- telling her that he can't bring himself to kill her for what she's done.

While back aboard the SHIELD helicarrier, Nick Fury questions the Hellfire Club spy, unaware that he is a double agent.
The spy tells Fury that Rogue was responsible for the attack on the helicarrier earlier.

With her identity confirmed, Fury puts out a call to all SHIELD agents to bring in Rogue and use deadly force if necessary.

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by John Romita, Jr. and Dan Green.

[Winterboy]

That's my Black Widow!

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Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #8 Jul 1964
"The Death Ray of Dr. Zemo!"
The Howling Commandos return to base with an entire SS company as prisoners.
They meet their new member, Percival Pinkerton who replaces Junior Juniper, killed in issue #4.

Sawyer sends them to Germany to capture Doctor Zemo, a Nazi scientist.

On a PT boat in the North Sea, Ralston spots a periscope. The U-boat prepares to fire a torpedo.
Fury orders the captain to drive straight at the sub, which tries to dive.
The boat breaks the periscope, leaving the sub blind and unable to submerge.
Manelli goes to a nearby shore battery, steals a helmet from a sentry, and orders the gun crew to fire at the "English" submarine offshore.
He then drops a grenade into the bunker and destroys the gun, allowing the PT boat to escape.

Trotting down a road, the squad encounters a patrol tank.
Jones vaults on top and drops a grenade inside, which disables the tank but leaves him with shrapnel in his leg.
Dugan carries Jones to the next village, where the commandos try to convince a German doctor to treat Jones.
Only when Fury lights a stick of dynamite does the doctor agree to help.
Cohen, on lookout, spots German soldiers entering the village.
The commandos dress in white coats and take an ambulance parked outside.
At a checkpoint, Fury has the doctor tell an officer that he saw the commandos on Blitzen Lane.
The officer orders his men to shell the location, unaware that it is the ammo dump—half the village blows up.

The Howlers drop the doctor at the next crossroads and proceed to Zemo's castle.
There is a single guard at the entrance.
Pinkerton has an idea: he leaves his guns behind, saunters up swinging his umbrella, and tells the guard that the war is over.
The guard believes him, at least long enough for Pinkerton to throw him into the moat. The others proceed to the drawbridge.
Dugan, alone, fires at the castle. The other guards emerge and look for Dugan in the woods. Dugan rejoins the squad, who raise the drawbridge.

Zemo sees and hears the commandos on his security system. They defeat his personal guards.
Ralston is almost electrocuted by a doorknob. Zemo, over the intercom, demands their surrender.
Jones blows his horn into the nearest microphone, deafening Zemo and short-circuiting the intercom.
Zemo sets a wall moving to crush them. Cohen finds the circuit box and stops the wall.

Zemo comes for them with his death ray and blasts the stairs beneath them. Ralston lassos the ray gun and pulls it out of Zemo's hands.

Zemo flees to the roof, gets in an airplane, lowers the drawbridge by remote control, and escapes.
Fury orders Ralston to drop the ray gun and orders everyone to get out of the castle, which explodes.
Fury had guessed that Zemo booby-trapped the gun in case he lost it.

Script by Stan Lee, pencils by Dick Ayers, inks by George Roussos

[Falcon16]

Good as Mace Windu and good as Nick Fury: all hail Samuel L. Jackson!! "Say what again"

[Winterboy]

Nick Fury in Amazing Spider-Man: Full Circle #1

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I started reading Nick Fury & and His Howling Commandos and noticed that Fury is given two different ranks, an sergeant's rank and a sergeant major's rank. Anyone know what his rank was in WW2?

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Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #10 Sep 1964
"On To Okinawa!"
The Howling Commandos are sent to Okinawa

to rescue Colonel Parker from a Japanese prison.

First appearance of Captain Savage (as the Skipper).

Letter to the editor from comics artist Dave Cockrum.

Written by Stan Lee, pencils by Dick Ayers, inks by George Roussos [as Geo. Bell]

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Nick Fury Agent of Shield #14 Sep 1969
"Nick Fury... A Day In the Life"
Aboard the Heli-Carrier, the "Psycho-Projector" is used on Fury, to put him
thru his paces while unconscious and learn what's really going on in his mind;
It turns out EVERYTHING involving "The Super-Patriot" was just a dream!
Later, with no knowledge of this, Fury wakes up back in his NY apartment,

where Val has a morning Alka-Seltzer waiting for him;
His new secretary, Agent Huff, contacts him to let him know the Munitions Department wants him for a briefing;
But someone has sabotaged his apartment, and TWICE he barely escapes death!;
Elsewhere, HYDRA agent Number 72 plots Fury's death;
Fury skips breakfast, then is ambushed on the way to his car;


Enroute to the Heli-Carrier, a fault develops in one of the anti-grav wheels of his Ferrari, causing him to bail out and parachute to land.
Letter to the editor from comics writer Don McGregor.

Script by Gary Friedrich (plot, dialogue) and Herb Trimpe (plot), pencils by Herb Trimpe, inks by Sam Grainger

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Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #13 Dec 1964
"Fighting Side-By-Side With Captain America and Bucky!"
Fury and Pamela Hawley watch a newsreel about Captain America and Bucky.
Later, in a pub, they see Sergeant McGiveney pick on an unassuming blond private.

Fury apologizes to Hawley and intervenes. The other Howlers appear, and a brawl ensues.

The next morning, Captain America tells Bucky that they may need the Howling Commandos as backup on their next mission.
According to the High Command, the Germans seem to be massing for an invasion of England.
The heroes take a sub to France, row ashore, and find a convoy full of slaves with shovels.
When the trucks stop to execute three captured American pilots, Cap and Bucky rescue them.
Cap tells them to get to the sub and relay a message: "Send the Howlers to Cap."

Captain Sawyer passes the message along to Fury. The squad parachute into France.
While working their way through a fortified area, they meet a unit of Germans.
Jones is wounded by a grenade, and Fury orders Cohen to get him to their pickup point.
Dugan and Manelli take over a howitzer and pin down the other Germans, but they're separated from the other commandos.
Fury, Ralston and Pinkerton find a train, and Pinkerton holds off the remaining Germans so that Fury and Ralston can get aboard.

On the train, they find slaves, as well as the blond private from the pub, and try to blend in.

An SS officer leaves a Jugend Hitler Youth trooper on the car.
Once at the destination, Fury realizes the Nazis are digging a tunnel under the English Channel.
The Jugend trooper takes the blond private away for a work detail. Fury and Ralston are sent into the tunnel on a rail car.
There's an explosion behind them! Captain America and Bucky appear.
They've sealed off the entrance along with most of the soldiers and now want to destroy the rest of the tunnel.
At a branch the Germans unlimber a small howitzer. Cap dodges their fire, catches a thrown grenade

and shoves it into the howitzer's barrel.
Cap and Bucky take one tunnel and send Fury and Ralston down the other.
Fury finds an escape hatch which Cap had suggested they use. Germans appear and order them to surrender.
There's another explosion and the tunnel begins to collapse! Fury and Ralston use the hatch.

Back at base, the other Howlers find Fury and Ralston in the infirmary.
Fury says that they never saw Captain America or Bucky again.
He wonders aloud if the Jugend trooper was Bucky,
which would mean .... Someone in the next room bangs on the wall, demanding quiet.
It's Captain America the blond private and Bucky.

Script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers.

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