Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #4 for Sale - First Appearance of Agent L - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD (Marvel, 1968 series)
Issue: #4
Publication date: September 1968
Key date: 1968-09-00
On-sale date: 1968-06-04
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 Agent L - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

Death on record for: Agent L.

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	SHIELD Origin Issue!	cover	1	pencils: Jim Steranko; inks: Jim Steranko; colors: Jim Steranko; letters: Jim Steranko	Nick Fury
2	"And Now It Begins..."	comic story	20	script: Roy Thomas, Frank Springer; pencils: Frank Springer; inks: Frank Springer; letters: Sam Rosen	Agent L First, Arnold Brown, Laura Brown, Nick Fury LMD, Nick Fury, Imperial Hydra, Tony Stark
10	-	in-house column	1	script: Smiley	Nick Fury, Norrin Radd, Silver Surfer
13	-	letters page	2	script: Gary Friedrich; letters: Sam Rosen
14	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Dick Ayers, Herb Trimpe; inks: John Severin, Herb Trimpe; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Izzy Cohen, Dum Dum Dugan, Nick Fury, Gabe Jones, Dino Manelli, Phantom Eagle, Percival Pinkerton, Rebel Ralston, Karl Kaufmann

Plus 11 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 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. #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-0747-9	2000	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. #3 ISBN 978-0-7851-5034-3	2011	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #34 of 18#5 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q29469826 (Agent L), first-appearance property (CC0)

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