Episode 212: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Who Is Scorpio?

The Comics Canon

We’re back with a look at everyone’s favorite gruff, eyepatch-wearing super-spy (non-Samuel L. Jackson division) as seen in 1968’s Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1, 2, 3 and 5, published by Marvel Comics!

Writer and artist Jim Steranko injects a dose of modern psychedelic and pop-art imagery and a strong sense of design into these four issues, creating a surreal visual experience the influence of which is still being felt in comics pages today. The stories those images tell, on the other hand ...

Can this tough-talking, shirt-shucking, gun-toting fireball of a secret agent stop a mad scientist from destroying the world, solve a ghostly mystery on the Scottish moors and uncover the identity his mysterious nemesis Scorpio? And can Marvel’s answer to the 1960s spy craze join the elite ranks of that Impossible Missions Force known as ... The Comics Canon?

In This Episode:

· Hey, what happened to that rocket sled?

· There’s something familiar about this Centurius guy

· Nick Fury Explains It All

· Queen & Country: Operation Broken Ground and Operation Morningstar

· Danger: Diabolik

· Velvet Vol. 1: Before the Living End

· Duck Soup

· For Whom the Bell Tolls

Join us in two weeks as we discuss The Boys Vol. 1: The Name of the Game!

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