

Fury and his Howling Commandos which proved a hit and won the bet, apparently. This collection has his first appearance in what started out as a bet to prove that Lee could make a great comic out of anything, Lee and Kirby brought us SGT. A good comic and a different glance at what Marvel used to bring before super her He may not have super powers but is Nick Fury on tough S.O.B? Hell yes he is. Fury a rough and tough soldier, always ready for a fight with a cigar placed firmly between his lips. He may not have super powers but is Nick Fury on tough S.O.B? Hell yes he is. It was a consistency that I was not expecting to find. What I found most surprising and interesting in this book is that in Fury's first appearance from (I think) 1963, he's a mean and unlikable S.O.B and in the modern story from more than forty years later, the character is still a mean and unlikable S.O.B. I also always enjoy an underdog team story, so seeing Fury and the young inexperienced Secret Warriors, led by Daisy 'Quake' Johnson, try to take on not only Hydra but H.A.M.M.E.R.
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TV show and The Winter Soldier is one of my favourite MCU movies, so reading the comic book story that lays out the infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. I'm a big fan of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The second story here was much more engaging from the outset, however. However, I grew up reading Biritsh WWII comic books like 'Commando', so I actually found myself liking it on its own merits. Knowing Nick Fury from his role in the larger Marvel Universe, reading a straight WWII action story felt initially like this was a different incarnation of the character altogether. I was admittedly dubious about the first part of this book.

In hiding and with limited resources, Fury and his team of Secret Warriors uncover a deadly secret buried within S.H.I.E.L.D.'s past. has been dismantled and replaced by H.A.M.M.E.R. We are then given a story set after S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos as they infiltrate occupied Europe to protect the secrets of D-Day during the Second World War. I was admittedly dub Marvel's Mightiest Heroes Book 14.įirst of all this book gives us the original appearance of Sgt. First of all this book gives us the original appearance of Sgt. And if all this intermingling between the Marvel Comics universe and real world Hollywood wasn't already enough, this same issue also kicked off the bizarrely fun, decades-long rivalry between Hulk and actor Freddie Prinze Jr.Marvel's Mightiest Heroes Book 14. While working on Kingsman - another Millar adaptation - Jackson said he thanked the scribe for the nine-picture deal with Marvel the reboot earned him.
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The idea that this might become a movie seemed preposterous as Marvel was just climbing out of bankruptcy at the time." Luckily, the actor took it in stride. "You have to remember this was 2001 when we were putting this together. "Sam is famously the coolest man alive and both myself and artist Bryan Hitch just liberally used him without asking any kind of permission," Millar said of the character's re-invention. in Jon Favreau's Iron Man - a full six years after The Ultimates unofficially drafted the actor to the team. Thus, cinematic history was made, as years later, Jackson would take up the role as the eye-patched Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

When he saw a strangely familiar-looking Nick Fury amongst his latest haul, Jackson's people got in touch with Marvel to ensure he play the character in any future movies. But it turned out Jackson wasn't only a big fan of the medium, he actually had his own pull list at his local comic shop.
