| Characters |
The Gaff [Sidney E. Levine, Gaffer]; Nick Fury; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Val [Contessa Valentina Allegro de Fontaine]; Jimmy Woo; The Yellow Claw (Fang-Chu); Fritz Von Voltzmann |
| Synopsis |
The Gaff presents Fury with his new car-- a Ferrari 330/P4 Berlinetta, which is made entirely out of clear fiberglass, making it "completely invisible" from 100 feet away! It's also equipped with a color-changing rheostat, and vortex beams to replace the old mach-pressure fanjets. Fury & Val go to SHIELD's rebuilt ESP Division. There, Jimmy Woo detects that The Yellow Claw is in Chinatown (big surprise?). Nick tells Jimmy it's his job now, and goes there alone. After a harrowing encounter with a pair of Claw goons, Fury impersonates one of them, and in a darkened shop, meets Fang-Chu (The Claw) face-to-face. But Voltzmann gets the drop on him, and an instant later, he falls thru a trapdoor into the tentacles of a "monster cephalopod" (octopus). |
| Genre |
Spy |
| Script |
Jim Steranko |
| Pencils |
Jim Steranko |
| Inks |
Frank Giacoia |
| Colors |
Jim Steranko |
| Letters |
Sam Rosen |
| Notes |
Part 4 of 9. 2nd appearance of The Gaff & Val. 1st appearance of Fury's new car, and the new ESP Division, replacing those destroyed in STRANGE TALES #153 (March 1967) and the flashback in #160 (September 1967). The Claw having Fury fight a giant octopus pays tribute to the Ian Fleming James Bond 007 novel, DR. NO (1958). James Bond finally got a car capable of invisibility in the film DIE ANOTHER DAY (2002). |
| Reprinted |
in Captain Britain (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #7 (November 24, 1976) [pages 1-7]; in Captain Britain (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #8 (December 1, 1976) [pages 8-12]; in Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel, 2000 series) #nn (May 2000); in Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 |
| Characters |
Nebulos; Dr. Strange; Victoria Bentley; Baron Mordo |
| Synopsis |
Nebulos commands Strange to take hold of his "Staff of Polar Power"-- which places Strange under the alien's control. He then sends Strange back to Earth, where he battles Mordo, whose power is absorbed by the staff. Strange hurls a spell of "Cosmic Banishment" at Mordo, who like Strange before him, is cast "through endless galaxies, to the ultimate reaches of boundless time and space". Strange goes to Stonehenge, relieved that the Sands of Doom have not finished running out, but confused as to why the hourglass is still there at all. When he tries to cast it from Earth, he and it are pulled back to the Planets Perilous by Nebulos, whose staff returns to him on its own. Nebulos says Victoria was his hostage to ensure Strange's return, and that the staff could have saved them both had he known. But just then, Strange sees (off-panel) the approach of The Living Tribunal... |
| Genre |
Occult; Science fiction |
| Script |
Dan Adkins (co-plot); Jim Lawrence (co-plot, dialogue) |
| Pencils |
Dan Adkins |
| Inks |
Dan Adkins |
| Letters |
Sam Rosen |
| Notes |
Part 16 of 22; part 5 of the Living Tribunal sequence. Several panels based closely on Steve Ditko panels; the effect resembles Ditko pencils plus Wood inks. 1st 2-page spread in a Dr. Strange story! |
| Reprinted |
in Essential Dr. Strange (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (December 2001); in Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 |