Recently, I have been reading S.H.I.E.L.D. by Steranko. It is a collection of all of Jim Steranko’s run with the classic titles Strange Tales that featured Doctor Strange, as well. Eventually, the title spun off into it’s own book called Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. It is definitely a book of its time, which is the mid to late 1960s. Continue reading Irregular’s Intel – Time and Place
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Irregular’s Intel – Nick Fury: The Greatest Spy in the (Fictional) World
You can have your James Bond, Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer. I like those guys, too. But, none of them can hold a candle to Nicholas Joseph “Nick” Fury. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about the original 616 universe or the ultimate/cinematic universe, he is still the best there is. Born on the battlefield and baptized in the fires of covert warfare, Nick Fury is a one man army, a force to be reckoned with, and Director of the Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate (aka S.H.I.E.L.D.). In the whole of his history, Nick Fury has taken on international crime cartels, political terrorists, intergalactic evils and his own organization! Continue reading Irregular’s Intel – Nick Fury: The Greatest Spy in the (Fictional) World