Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 (Marvel, 1968) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages....
Auction amount: $1,560.00
Sold: May 2, 2023
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #2 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1968
About Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #2
First appearance of Centurius. Jim Steranko story, cover, and art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Nick Fury; Centurius
Pencils: Jim Steranko (signed)
Inks: Jim Steranko (signed)
Colors: Jim Steranko
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Jimmy Woo; Dum Dum Dugan; Nick Fury; Clay Quartermain; Val [Contessa Valentina Allegro de Fontaine]; Centurius [Dr. Noah Black] (Nobel Prize winner, Marvel's first black villain); P.D.Q. Werner (movie director); Tiffany (actor); Brad Carter (actor); Kong (robotic prop)
Synopsis: Off the Pacific Coast, en route to the Heli-Carrier Fury and Jimmy Woo are knocked out of the sky and wind up on a volcanic island transformed into a Garden of Eden and biological laboratory by Centurius, a scientist who disappeared in the 1930s when his theories were scoffed at. After creating both new and extinct forms of life and sending them into space Centurius plans to rain down fire on the Earth for forty days and forty nights, cleansing it and starting the world anew. With the help of a visiting movie company and their robot gorilla prop, Fury and Woo put the kibosh on his plans.
Pages: 20.000
Script: Jim Steranko
Pencils: Jim Steranko
Inks: Frank Giacoia (credited); Joe Giella (see notes)
Letters: Sam Rosen
Notes: Centurius becomes the 3rd Steranko villain to use the phrase "Parable Of Doom" (see page 10, panel 9), though to date there appears no connection whatsoever between him, Baron Strucker & Scorpio. Last panel on page 5 altered due to the Comics Code Authority; inadvertently, the new panel is far more suggestive than the one it replaced. Original panel restored in 2000 reprint. Joe Giella (longtime friend of Frank Giacoia) assists on inks; Fury's face in page 10, panel 7 is clearly his work.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
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CGC Census Report*
| Grade | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.0 | Total |
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Universal |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 21 | 38 | 42 | 52 | 49 | 74 | 70 | 83 | 89 | 65 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 651 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 19 | 15 | 20 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 139 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 19 | 29 | 49 | 58 | 71 | 66 | 97 | 83 | 96 | 100 | 72 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 804 |
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