For six decades, Nick Fury has been a key figure in the Marvel Universe, featuring in some of the biggest events and most iconic moments throughout the publisher’s illustrious history, and Marvel is set to celebrate the super spy’s 60th anniversary in 2023 with the all-new double-sized anniversary one-shot Fury #1.
Fury #1 will kick off when Fury’s son and successor, Nick Fury Jr., is targeted by a new foe using the codename S.C.O.R.P.I.O., which begins to unlock a mystery with deep roots in Fury’s past, dating back to his earliest adventures in Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos through to his present day role as the all-seeing ‘Man on the Wall’.
“Nick Fury is an entire history of comics in one character,” said Al Ewing, who will write the issue alongside a group of artists that include Scott Eaton, Tom Reilly, Adam Kubert, and Ramon Rosanas. “Shifting from a tough-talking WWII Sergeant specializing in impossible missions, to an U.N.C.L.E.-esque secret agent beating James Bond at his own game, to a machiavellian man in the shadows making the grey moral choices we’ve come to associate with the evolving espionage genre. And when the original Fury went cosmic, his son followed in those same footsteps, doing all that with a modern spin and an eye on the silver screen portrayal of our favorite sci-fi spy-guy.”
“So how to celebrate sixty years of Nick Fury?” adds Ewing. “With 40 story pages of twists, turns, action, gadgets and old-school thrills – pitting the Fury family against a new menace with a mysterious connection to the earliest days of the Howling Commandos and setting both Nicks up for the adventures of a lifetime! Don’t yield, true believer – back S.H.I.E.L.D.!”
Here’s a look at Adam Kubert’s Fury #1 cover…
Fury #1 will go on sale in May 2023.
