''Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D.'' is a six issue comic book miniseries published by Marvel Comics in 1988. It was written by Bob Harras and drawn by Paul Neary. Each issue is 48 pages long and are referred to as books. The series was the first time in almost twenty years when

Nick Fury Colonel Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Fury Sr. is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer/artist Jack Kirby and writer Stan Lee, he first appeared in ''Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos ...

and S.H.I.E.L.D. was the main focus and the series sold exceptionally well. Prompting Marvel to produce an ongoing series of ''

Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. ''Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' is the title of several American comic book series published by Marvel Comics focusing on the various adventures of the character Nick Fury while working for the fictional organization S.H.I.E.L.D. Publicatio ...

'' in 1989 that lasted 47 issues.

Publication history

#''Book One of Six: The Delta Equation'' (June 1988) Cover by

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#''Book Two of Six: Into the Depths'' (July 1988) Cover by Bill Sienkiewicz #''Book Three of Six: Uneasy Allies'' (August 1988) Cover by

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#''Book Four of Six: The Eastern Connection'' (September 1988) Cover by Joe Jusko #''Book Five of Six: The Ascension Call'' (October 1988) Cover by

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#''Book Six of Six: Light of Truth'' (November 1988) Cover by Tom Palmer

Plot

The series is about a rogue LMD ( Life Model Decoy) who is after Nick Fury's infinity formula so the LMD decides to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. The spy network has become corrupt and Fury's has to go underground to fight it.

Reception

Marc Buxton of '' Den of Geek'' expressed that ''Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D.'' stands as one of the finest S.H.I.E.L.D. stories ever written and that it features the finest writing of future Marvel editor-in-chief Bob Harras’ career. Lesley Goldberg of '' The Hollywood Reporter'' stated that the series is a great Nick Fury story. Supermegamonkey.net stated that the series creator Bob Harras built a nice conspiracy thriller with the story, with elements from James Bond by way of Jim Steranko and that the art by Neary and DeMulder is straightforward and good.

In other media

* The series served as inspiration for the 2014 film '' Captain America: The Winter Soldier''.

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