Featuring: Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD
Release: August 9, 1966
Cover: November 1966
12 cents
Script… Stan Lee
Layouts… Jack Kirby
Pencils… John Buscema
Inks… Frank Giacoia
Letterings… Sam Rosen
Ear plugs… Irving Forbush
12 pages
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‘Cut off a limb, and two more shall takes its place!’ We were right… Hydra still lives!
We read the second half of this issue already. Last issue really ended the AIM stuff, and this issue begins the return of Hydra arc, so I wanted that cutoff. But the Dr. Strange stories cut a bit differently, as this issue ends the Kaluu arc and next issue properly begins the Umar arc.
Kirby is on hand for the layouts, but the main art credit goes to John Buscema. We spoke of him at length with his return to Marvel in Tales to Astonish #85, published one week prior to this. And we’ll be seeing a lot more of him.
We begin with Nick in a strange contraption performing a dangerous test. So dangerous, he won’t let anyone else do it. It’s a prototype Overkill Horn. They are concerned an enemy has a real one.
Perhaps a Super-Overkill Horn. Adding the word Super in front of something already called the Overkill Horn seems like, well, overkill.
The test has left both Fury and Dugan wheelchair-bound.
The return of Hydra has been building. We saw Nick and crew start to put it together last issue. We saw a tease of Hydra after the collapse of the Secret Empire.
I like how they do the big reveal here. Very cinematic. An undercover SHIELD agent investigating the enigmatic Don Caballero in Karnopolis finds a Hydra mask. He unfortunately won’t be able to tell anyone what he’s found. It’s been building, but now we know a new battle with Hydra has begun.
I guess cutting off one head just didn’t mean the end of Hydra.
Nick Fury gives a touching speech to the men, and leaves Sitwell in charge. Then he’s off to Karnopolis to face Don Caballero, who may be the new Supreme Hydra.
Rating: ★★★½, 63/100
Significance: ★★★☆☆
Characters:
- Colonel Nick Fury
- Jasper Sitwell
- Dum Dum Dugan
- Senator Dudley
- Don Caballero/Supreme Hydra
Story notes:
- Nick Fury in anti-shock seat to test effects of destruct horn. Jasper begs to takes his place and Dum Dum begs him to cancel the test.
- Goal is to find a way to stop rumored Overkill Horn, which will send its sound like a laser beam to a target halfway across an ocean.
- Test proves that the Horn can trigger an atomic bomb.
- Top officials of SHIELD view from Heli-Carrier.
- General concerned Hydra possessses Super-Overkill Horn which can trigger every nuclear stockpile on Earth
- Fury injured in test, but survived.
- Fury assigns scientists to study sound images of Overkill Horn.
- Dugan also injured and wheelchair-bound rescuing Fury after test.
- Senator Dudley visits Fury with new type of camera projector.
- Don Caballero makes video for Fury, talking about his famous parties and the jet-set. His greatest parties include an iceberg and a jungle. Fury invited to be guest of honor at next party in dead city of Karnopolis (or Karnapolis). Operatives had put the idea in Caballero’s mind.
- Undercover SHIELD agent in Karnopolis finds a Hydra mask.
- Stone statue moves; it’s a robot guard.
- Caballero/Supreme Hydra sends captured SHIELD agent to brain-washing unit.
- Fury gives leaves Sitwell in charge in his absence.
- Sonic boom means that Hydra is testing Overkill Horn.
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