SHIELD [Nick Fury and His Agents of SHIELD] #4 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1973
About SHIELD [Nick Fury and His Agents of SHIELD] #4
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Dum Dum Dugan; Laura Brown; Nick Fury; HYDRA
Pencils: Jim Steranko (signed)
Inks: Jim Steranko (signed)
Notes: Henry Kujawa suggested that the Laura Brown figure was inked by Wally Wood, agreed by Nick Simon (August 2007). Nick Caputo believes the cover is inked entirely by Steranko.
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Nick Fury; Gabe Jones; Jasper Sitwell; HYDRA; Supreme Hydra ["Don Cabellero"; "Emir Ali-Bey"]; Laura Brown; Tony Stark (cameo); Dum Dum Dugan
Synopsis: Fury signals SHIELD but after Sitwell realizes Fury is the pilot he still orders the launching of a Strato-Mine which could ignite the atmosphere. Supreme Hydra learns that Laura Brown, the daughter of his predecessor who helped Fury has been captured in Egypt. Donning a new disguise he leaves to exact punishment. Fury turns the plane around, and, discovering the hidden Overkill Horn, dives from the plane, picked up by a SHIELD submarine. The plane, followed by the Strato-Mine, obliterates Karnopolis and all within HYDRA base. Soon after, Fury & a SHIELD squad rescues Laura from HYDRA thugs.
Pages: 11.000
Script: Stan Lee; Jack Kirby (co-plot)
Pencils: Jack Kirby (layouts); Jim Steranko
Inks: Jim Steranko
Letters: Artie Simek
Notes: Part 3 of 9. The method Fury used to contact SHIELD without a radio was later used in the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA episode, "The Hand Of God". Laura Brown's previous appearance in STRANGE TALES #141 (February 1966). This reprint does not include page 8 of the original.
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