Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #5 for Sale - First Appearance of Mamma Fury - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD (Marvel, 1968 series)
Issue: #5
Publication date: October 1968
Key date: 1968-10-00
On-sale date: 1968-07-02
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 Mamma Fury - 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	Scorpio	cover	1	pencils: Jim Steranko; inks: Jim Steranko; colors: Jim Steranko; letters: Jim Steranko	Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Jake Fury LMD, Nick Fury, Scorpio
2	Whatever Happened to Scorpio?	comic story	20	script: Jim Steranko; pencils: Jim Steranko; inks: John Tartag; colors: Jim Steranko; letters: Sam Rosen	Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Dum Dum Dugan, Jake Fury LMD, Nick Fury, Scorpio, Mamma Fury First, Jimmy Woo
10	Items of Incredible Import to Illuminate Your Interest, Invigorate Your Imagination, and Intoxicate Your Id!	in-house column	1	script: Smiley; pencils: Frank Springer; inks: Frank Springer	Nick Fury
13	-	letters page	2	pencils: Frank Springer; inks: Frank Springer	Nick Fury
14	Another Marvel Masterpiece	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: John Buscema; inks: Frank Giacoia	Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Black Panther, Thor Odinson, Captain America, Giant-Man, Goliath, Hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man, Hank Pym, Hank Pym, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark

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 ›
Grandson of Origins of Marvel Comics #[nn] ISBN 078510593X	1998	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 ›
S.H.I.E.L.D. by Steranko: The Complete Collection #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-8536-9	2013	On eBay ›
S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete Collection Omnibus #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-9853-6	2015	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #45 of 18#6 ›

Sources

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

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