In 1963, the character of Colonel Nicholas Joseph “Nick” Fury Sr. made his debut starring within the World Warfare II comedian guide sequence Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. So much has modified for the grizzled conflict veteran turned spy together with the introduction of a son, Nick Fury Jr., created to extra carefully align with the Final Universe and MCU model portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson. Marvel is celebrating the character’s sixtieth anniversary with a particular double-sized one-shot, Fury #1, arriving this Could.
Celebrity author Al Ewing shall be joined by an assortment of high identify artists together with Scott Eaton, Tom Reilly, Adam Kubert, and Ramon Rosanas for a narrative that examines the historical past of Nick Fury and uncovers a thriller a long time within the making. Kubert supplies the quilt for the one-shot.
Right here’s how Marvel describes the problem:
Arriving in Could, FURY #1 shall be written by famous person Marvel author Al Ewing and drawn by a dynamic group of main business artists—Scott Eaton, Tom Reilly, Adam Kubert, and Ramon Rosanas. This intricate story will kick off when Fury’s son and successor, Nick Fury Jr., is focused by a brand new foe utilizing the identify S.C.O.R.P.I.O.! Followers will know that codename has deep roots in Fury’s previous and a sequence of top-secret missions shall be revealed, every providing a key to unlocking an overarching thriller. Every artist will deal with a unique interval of Fury historical past together with his early adventures in Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos and his present-day position because the all-seeing “Man on the Wall.” No stranger to radical character transformations, the one-shot will current a key turning level for the character and in the long run, each father and son will emerge with contemporary objective!
A glamorous rogue agent with a lethal secret lures Nick Fury into the action-thriller of a lifetime…HIS FATHER’S! Following the path opens NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN FURY FILES from the Howlin’ ’40s…the Swingin’ ’60s…and in the present day! However it takes greater than ONE Nick Fury to unlock a thriller a long time within the making – and to reply the query…WHO IS S.C.O.R.P.I.O.?
Ewing is not any stranger to penning espionage tales and teased what’s to return:
“Nick Fury is a whole historical past of comics in a single character. Shifting from a tough-talking WWII Sergeant specializing in inconceivable missions, to an U.N.C.L.E.-esque undercover agent beating James Bond at his personal recreation, to a machiavellian man within the shadows making the gray ethical decisions we’ve come to affiliate with the evolving espionage style. And when the unique Fury went cosmic, his son adopted in those self same footsteps, doing all that with a contemporary spin and an eye fixed on the silver display portrayal of our favourite sci-fi spy-guy. So the best way to rejoice sixty years of Nick Fury? With 40 story pages of twists, turns, motion, devices and old-school thrills – pitting the Fury household in opposition to a brand new menace with a mysterious connection to the earliest days of the Howling Commandos and setting each Nicks up for the adventures of a lifetime! Don’t yield, true believer – again S.H.I.E.L.D.!”
Search for Fury #1 to reach in shops and digitally on Wednesday, Could twenty fourth.
