Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #18 (1971) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

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Series: Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD (Marvel, 1968 series)
Issue: #18
Publication date: March 1971
Key date: March 1971
On-sale date: December 15, 1970
Indicia publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
Price: $0.25
Pages: 52
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	A Trio of Terrorists! The Fixer! Mentallo! And the Deadly Druid!	cover	1	pencils: Herb Trimpe, Marie Severin; inks: Marie Severin, John Severin; letters: Morrie Kuramoto	Norbert Ebersol, Fixer, Marvin Flumm, Nick Fury, Mentallo
2	Who Strikes at--- SHIELD?	comic story	12	script: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Mike Demeo; letters: Artie Simek	Norbert Ebersol, Fixer, Marvin Flumm, Nick Fury, Mentallo
5	Strange Tales #142	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Mike Esposito	Norbert Ebersol, Fixer, Marvin Flumm, Nick Fury, Mentallo
6	Strange Tales #143	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Mike Esposito	Norbert Ebersol, Fixer, Marvin Flumm, Nick Fury, Mentallo
10	To Free a Brain Slave	comic story	12	script: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby, Howard Purcell; inks: M. Demeo; letters: A. Simek	Dum Dum Dugan, Norbert Ebersol, Fixer, Marvin Flumm, Nick Fury, Gabe Jones, Mentallo, Tony Stark
12	Strange Tales #144	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Mike Esposito	Dredmund Cromwell, Doctor Strange, Dredmund Druid, Dum Dum Dugan, Nick Fury, Stephen Strange
13	Cerebral Comments and Cogent Critiques, Capriciously Created with Care and Candor!	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Frank Giacoia, John Romita	Captain America, Peter Parker, Steve Rogers, Spider-Man
14	The Day of the Druid!	comic story	12	script: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby, H. Purcell; inks: M. Demeo; letters: Sam Rosen	Clipper Charlie, Dredmund Cromwell, Dredmund Druid, Dum Dum Dugan, Nick Fury, Jasper Sitwell
15	-	in-house column	0.4	script: ? (promo copy); letters: typeset
16	Marvel Artists Self Portraits	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.6	pencils: Jim Steranko, Gene Colan, Jack Kirby, Herb Trimpe, John Romita, John Buscema; inks: Jim Steranko, Gene Colan, Jack Kirby, Herb Trimpe, John Romita, John Buscema; letters: Mike Royer

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 sequences, as published.

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Series context

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Sources

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