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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published December 1968
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Hours Of Madness Day Of Death"

Characters Nick Fury
Genre Spy
Pencils Jim Steranko
Inks Jim Steranko
Colors Jim Steranko
Notes Salvador Dali tribute. Steranko's last SHIELD cover until SHIELD #1 (February 1973).
Reprinted in NICK FURY, AGENT OF SHIELD (Marvel, 1983 series) #2 (January 1984) [as back cover]

20 page Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. story "Hours of Madness, Day of Death"

Characters Nick Fury; Dum Dum Dugan; Jimmy Woo; Gabe Jones; Centurius (hallucination); Yellow Claw (hallucination); Baron Strucker (hallucination); Sister Angela (All-Faith Mission); Dino (hallucination); Eric (hallucination)
Synopsis Nick gets into a fight at an unnamed foreign embassy, and winds up being injected with a drug that will cause hallucinations, "hyper-intense paranoia", and death after 6 hours. He wanders the streets of NYC, hoping to reach a set rendezvous point for a scheduled pick-up via the Heli-Carrier's vortex beam. However, he's mistaken by a cop as a drunk, and when his felow agents show up, the drug causes him to see them as 3 of his worst enemies! Jimmy Woo comments that other agents have been going berzerk, which was what Nick was investigating in the first place. Nick is found by Sister Angela, who offers to help get him to the pick-up point. However, they're intercepted by 2 of the spies, who tie them up and send their car racing downhill on a dangerous mouontain road! Dum Dum, Jimmy & Gabe, who've been following in their van, almost crash head-on, when suddenly the vortex beam picks up both vehicles! Onboard the Heli-Carrier, a doctor about to inject Nick with an "antidote" turns out to be the same spy who drugged him in the first place-- and at the last second Nick turns the tables, the spy dying by his own needle.
Genre Spy
Script Archie Goodwin (plot, dialogue); Frank Springer (plot)
Pencils Frank Springer
Inks Frank Springer
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Archie Goodwin's only solo SHIELD story. Frank Springer illustrated a parody of NICK FURY #3 this month in NOT BRAND ECHH #11.