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Sgt. Fury #39

Into the Fortress of… Fear!

Featuring: Sgt. Fury
Release: December 8, 1966
Cover: February 1967
12 cents
Herculean editing by Stan Lee
Halcyon scripting by Roy Thomas
Heroic plotting and drawing by Dick Ayers
Heavenly inking by John Tartaglione
Homogenized lettering by Artie Simek
20 pages

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Oh well, like I always say, nobody lives forever!

There is a trend toward recognizing artists for their work in plotting. I think this is the first time we’ve seen Ayers get a plotting credit.

The Howlers are in the Bavarian Alps, infiltrating a Nazi stronghold known as the Fortress of Fear to stop a new superweapon called the Thunderer.

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Sgt. Fury #38

This One’s For Dino!

Featuring: Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos
Release: November 10, 1966
Cover: January 1867
12 cents
Editing– Stan Lee
Script– Roy Thomas
Art– Dick Ayers
Inking– John Tartaglione
Lettering– Bob Agnew
Technical advisor this ish– Morrie (Super-samurai) Kuramoto
20 pages

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I think you fellas must have me confused with the rats that bombed Pearl Harbor! Personally, I’ve never been west of San Francisco!

Bob Agnew is a new name to us. 99% of the comics we’ve read have been lettered by Sam Rosen or Artie Simek. The lettering here is by Agnew, in what is as best as I can tell his only Marvel work. His stint in comics seems to have been brief.

Morrie Kuramoto is credited with technical advising, with no more clarity offered as to what that entails. Kuramoto is Japanese-American who served the US in WWII, and this comic will introduce a Japanese-American soldier. The credit calls him a super-samurai, so it’s also possible he advised on the martial arts on display in this issue.

We’ve seen Kuramoto’s work occasionally as a letterer, under the pen name Sherigail.

Morrie Kuramoto was associated with Marvel on and off going back to 1946. He just joined back as a regular member of the Bullpen, and would be with Marvel continually for the next two decades. Morrie passed away in 1985 at the age of 64.

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