Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #3 for Sale - First Appearance of Peter Pooper - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD (Marvel, 1968 series)
Issue: #3
Publication date: August 1968
Key date: 1968-08-00
On-sale date: 1968-05-02
Indicia publisher: Olympia Publications Inc.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Peter Pooper - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Spidey-Man - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Silver Burper - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Dark Moon Rise, Hell Hound Kill!	cover	1	pencils: Jim Steranko, John Romita; inks: Jim Steranko, John Romita; colors: Jim Steranko	Nick Fury
2	Dark Moon Rise, Hell Hound Kill!	comic story	20	script: Jim Steranko; pencils: Jim Steranko; inks: Dan Adkins, Jim Steranko; colors: Jim Steranko; letters: Sam Rosen	Nick Fury
4	Marvel Super-Heroes T-Shirt; Merry Marvel Marching Society Membership Kit	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: ? (ad copy)	Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Thor Odinson, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Ben Grimm, Hawkeye, Hulk, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Iron Man, Mar-Vell, Pietro Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff
10	Gangway, World! Marvel's Marching On!	in-house column	1	script: Smiley	Nick Fury, Peter Parker, Spider-Man
13	Not Brand Echh	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Marie Severin; inks: Marie Severin; colors: Marie Severin	Silver Burper First, Irving Forbush, Forbush-Man, Bim Grimm, Human Scorch, Peter Pooper First, Spidey-Man First, Sonny Storm, Thung
14	-	letters page	1	pencils: Jim Steranko; inks: Joe Sinnott	Nick Fury
15	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: John Romita	Peter Parker, Spider-Man
16	The Silver Surfer	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: John Buscema; inks: Joe Sinnott	Norrin Radd, Silver Surfer

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 11 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD #2	1984	On eBay ›
Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Who Is Scorpio? #[nn]	2001	On eBay ›
Nick Fury: Who Is Scorpio? #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-0766-5	2000	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 ISBN 978-0-7851-3503-6	2009	On eBay ›
S.H.I.E.L.D. by Steranko: The Complete Collection #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-8536-9	2013	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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