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Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #15
Writer: Gary Friedrich
Penciler: Herbe Trimpe
Inker: Sam Grainger
Letterer: Artie Simek


[Summary & Review by Lou Mougin]
Hydra hires Bulls-Eye, an assassin (not to be confused with the Daredevil villain), to murder Nick Fury. And, during a Country Joe and the Fish concert, he appears to do just that.

  • Continuity Notes
  • Appearances by Dum Dum and Laura Brown.
  • Nick Fury started the series apparently being shot dead and appropriately ends the series in a similar manner.
  • Fury was thought shot dead at least 4 times during the course of this series.
  • Published in November of 1969, the next three issues of this series would pick up in November of the following year with reprints of Nick Fury's run in Strange Tales.
  • Reprinted in
    • Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Volume 3
    • S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete Collection Omnibus

Review
This was the last issue of the original S.H.I.E.L.D. comic, and Gary Friedrich may have indeed intended it to be the real death of Nick Fury. But Marvel obviously had second thoughts, because Fury was quickly back in AVENGERS #72, with the news that only a S.H.I.E.L.D LMD had been destroyed.  Hmmm...now where have we heard that used since?