Nick Fury Gallery

Upper Deck's latest Marvel trading card game, Marvel vs. System, includes two nice cards featuring Nick Fury. The first one is entitled "Charge!" with the artwork here done by Matt Smitt. Matt has an interesting look and style for Fury here that I must say I like. I think his image artwork here would make for a decent wall poster of the one-eyed war-horse.

The second card from Upper Deck's Marvel vs. System game to feature Fury is entitled "Fall Back!" and includes artwork by Andrew Robinson. Of course, as a Fury fan, I can't say I'm thrilled to see Nick featured on a retreat and "run-away" card, even though the actual Fury artwork by Mr. Robinson is impressive in its "classic Fury crossed with real world looks" style. Good job Mr. Robinson.

Rolling on with the playing card theme, here's a card from the Marvel OverPower game. But is it Nick Fury? Well, since the card is entitled "LMD" I've got a sneaky suspicion it must be a Life Model Decoy of the Colonel. Which of course means this android is destined to be shot and buried before anyone realizes the real Colonel Fury is still out and about. Check out the Helicarrier back in the distance but clearly coming in.

Yet another trading card, this one is from Marvel's "Silver Age" card set which featured the heroes and stories that made Marvel the standard by which the Silver Age of Comics was measured. So the set just had to include Fury as a true Marvel legend of the Silver Age. This card is of an image from Strange Tales #135, Nick's first appearence as "Agent of SHIELD" as drawn by Jack "The King" Kirby. From there, Nick would build up a title known for its innovation, originality and ground-breaking comic book art.

This pic comes from Venom #14 (2004), one of Fury's latest story arc appearences. While the art from this issue was not spectacular, compared to the art of the surrounding issues (12, 13 and 15), issue #14 stands out as the best of the run. The other issues are almost comical in appearence and Fury looks absolutely lame. At least with issue #14 the Colonel looks somewhat respectable. Here, Fury's addressing a team of SHIELD operatives who are tasked with bringing down Venom.

One more from Venom #14, albeit a smaller image. Still, this is an example of how the art from this partuclar issue actually made Fury look cool, and downright tough like the BMF he is. I've used this image for several skins despite it coming from the Venom run -- when put into proper perspective, this was a good book for how Fury looks today.

Here's the picture of Nick Fury from his entry in Marvel's Spider-Man Encyclopeida. Crossing paths with everyone's favorite wallcrawler on several occaisions earned Nick a place in the encyclopedia, along with Hydra in a seperate entry. I like the realistic attention paid on the face details while still having the classic comic book style for the rest of the body. The encyclopedia is a large hardcover book and is very informative and comprehensive - a must for any Spidey-fan.

Here's a great B&W image of Nick done by the talented Mike Grell, one of my favorite artists during the early 80's (any other fans of DC's "Warlord" out there?). Now you may be asking yourself "why is the eyepatch on the wrong eye?" Well, believe it or not, there's a really good answer to that question. This picture is of an iron-on! When ironed on to a shirt or whatnot, the patch is then miracuously on the correct eye.

In the mid-80's when Marvel was reving up to launch a brand new SHIELD series (due to the success and popularity of Nick Fury vs. SHIELD), they promoted the new series by putting Fury and company on the cover of their monthly promo mag, Marvel Age (issue #77). One word: Macho!

While small in size, this picture nicely sums up the Fury "mythos." Coming from the cover of a Marvel roleplaying gamers book, the image includes Baron Von Strucker, the Helicarrier, the Zodiac Key, SHIELD's insignia, the Yellow Claw, Captain America's shield, Val, Dum Dum and, of course, Nick decked out in his classic Steranko uniform.

Here's a screen capture of Nick from "Spider-Man the Animated Series." This comes from Episode 13 of Season 1, "Day of the Chameleon." Nick's voice was okay, but I expected something a little lower in tone, and maybe a bit more gravelly. And while Nick looked decent in it (for a US cartoon), they had him constantly hovering in some form of hover chair, like he was Professor X or something and couldn't walk. All in all, though, the episode did Fury well for purposes of daytime cartoons made in the US,

Casey Jones did the artwork on the Nick Fury/Black Widow online comic book "Jungle Warfare." He also made a number of his origianl art storyboards available online for sale, and I just had to snatch this one up while it was available. This black and white piece of art captures the essence of Nick Fury as a unique character... the eye patch! No cigar, no 5 o'clock shadow, no white temples, no gear, no uniform, no guns... just the patch, and yet that alone makes this picture obviously recognizable as SHIELD's director. Simple in presentation and medium, yet undeniably Fury.

Here's an original scan I made off of a color guide page which I bought on e-Bay from The Uncanny X-Men Annual 1999. It was a great Nick Fury appearence showing his heroic and not-so-heroic sides; his noble side versus his "at any cost" attitude. He worked well with the X-Men to confront a common enemy, and at the same time retained his cold neutrality about seperating super-hero matters from SHIELD matters. Nick sees the overall "bigger picture" much more clearly than the often self-righteous super-hero-types with their idealistic beliefs. Nick is a soldier, not a super hero.

This picture is from another graphic of the SEGA "Punisher" video game materials. Here Nick is shown side-by-side with the Punisher in a graphic that illustrated the various moves and abilities of the possible player-characters. Frank Who? Move over for the Fury!

Continuing his recent string of non-stop guest-appearences, Fury showed up in The Spectacular Spider-Man #16 in June of 2004. I think the art in this book by Michael Ryan is pretty damn cool, especially of Nick. He hasn't looked this cool artwise for some time (well, okay, except for Secret War). Here Fury is briefing a general about reports that Spider-Man was getting "frisky" with a female terrorist he and Captain America had gone in to capture.

One more pic from Spectacular Spider-Man #16. What can I say, I already owned up to really liking this art.

Here's a rare image of Nick Fury, from the back cover of Marvel's FOOM Magazine, No. 15 (1976). The front cover is of Howard the Duck running for President of the United States, with the wrap-around to the back cover showing some of the duck's supporters: Fury, Pip the Troll, J. Jonah Jameson and the Thing. Okay then...

	Upper Deck's latest Marvel trading card game, Marvel vs. System, includes two nice cards featuring Nick Fury. The first one is entitled "Charge!" with the artwork here done by Matt Smitt. Matt has an interesting look and style for Fury here that I must say I like. I think his image artwork here would make for a decent wall poster of the one-eyed war-horse.
	The second card from Upper Deck's Marvel vs. System game to feature Fury is entitled "Fall Back!" and includes artwork by Andrew Robinson. Of course, as a Fury fan, I can't say I'm thrilled to see Nick featured on a retreat and "run-away" card, even though the actual Fury artwork by Mr. Robinson is impressive in its "classic Fury crossed with real world looks" style. Good job Mr. Robinson.
	Rolling on with the playing card theme, here's a card from the Marvel OverPower game. But is it Nick Fury? Well, since the card is entitled "LMD" I've got a sneaky suspicion it must be a Life Model Decoy of the Colonel. Which of course means this android is destined to be shot and buried before anyone realizes the real Colonel Fury is still out and about. Check out the Helicarrier back in the distance but clearly coming in.
	Yet another trading card, this one is from Marvel's "Silver Age" card set which featured the heroes and stories that made Marvel the standard by which the Silver Age of Comics was measured. So the set just had to include Fury as a true Marvel legend of the Silver Age. This card is of an image from Strange Tales #135, Nick's first appearence as "Agent of SHIELD" as drawn by Jack "The King" Kirby. From there, Nick would build up a title known for its innovation, originality and ground-breaking comic book art.
	This pic comes from Venom #14 (2004), one of Fury's latest story arc appearences. While the art from this issue was not spectacular, compared to the art of the surrounding issues (12, 13 and 15), issue #14 stands out as the best of the run. The other issues are almost comical in appearence and Fury looks absolutely lame. At least with issue #14 the Colonel looks somewhat respectable. Here, Fury's addressing a team of SHIELD operatives who are tasked with bringing down Venom.
	One more from Venom #14, albeit a smaller image. Still, this is an example of how the art from this partuclar issue actually made Fury look cool, and downright tough like the BMF he is. I've used this image for several skins despite it coming from the Venom run -- when put into proper perspective, this was a good book for how Fury looks today.
	Here's the picture of Nick Fury from his entry in Marvel's Spider-Man Encyclopeida. Crossing paths with everyone's favorite wallcrawler on several occaisions earned Nick a place in the encyclopedia, along with Hydra in a seperate entry. I like the realistic attention paid on the face details while still having the classic comic book style for the rest of the body. The encyclopedia is a large hardcover book and is very informative and comprehensive - a must for any Spidey-fan.
	Here's a great B&W image of Nick done by the talented Mike Grell, one of my favorite artists during the early 80's (any other fans of DC's "Warlord" out there?). Now you may be asking yourself "why is the eyepatch on the wrong eye?" Well, believe it or not, there's a really good answer to that question. This picture is of an iron-on! When ironed on to a shirt or whatnot, the patch is then miracuously on the correct eye.
	In the mid-80's when Marvel was reving up to launch a brand new SHIELD series (due to the success and popularity of Nick Fury vs. SHIELD), they promoted the new series by putting Fury and company on the cover of their monthly promo mag, Marvel Age (issue #77). One word: Macho!
	While small in size, this picture nicely sums up the Fury "mythos." Coming from the cover of a Marvel roleplaying gamers book, the image includes Baron Von Strucker, the Helicarrier, the Zodiac Key, SHIELD's insignia, the Yellow Claw, Captain America's shield, Val, Dum Dum and, of course, Nick decked out in his classic Steranko uniform.
	Here's a screen capture of Nick from "Spider-Man the Animated Series." This comes from Episode 13 of Season 1, "Day of the Chameleon." Nick's voice was okay, but I expected something a little lower in tone, and maybe a bit more gravelly. And while Nick looked decent in it (for a US cartoon), they had him constantly hovering in some form of hover chair, like he was Professor X or something and couldn't walk. All in all, though, the episode did Fury well for purposes of daytime cartoons made in the US,
	Casey Jones did the artwork on the Nick Fury/Black Widow online comic book "Jungle Warfare." He also made a number of his origianl art storyboards available online for sale, and I just had to snatch this one up while it was available. This black and white piece of art captures the essence of Nick Fury as a unique character... the eye patch! No cigar, no 5 o'clock shadow, no white temples, no gear, no uniform, no guns... just the patch, and yet that alone makes this picture obviously recognizable as SHIELD's director. Simple in presentation and medium, yet undeniably Fury.
	Here's an original scan I made off of a color guide page which I bought on e-Bay from The Uncanny X-Men Annual 1999. It was a great Nick Fury appearence showing his heroic and not-so-heroic sides; his noble side versus his "at any cost" attitude. He worked well with the X-Men to confront a common enemy, and at the same time retained his cold neutrality about seperating super-hero matters from SHIELD matters. Nick sees the overall "bigger picture" much more clearly than the often self-righteous super-hero-types with their idealistic beliefs. Nick is a soldier, not a super hero.
	This picture is from another graphic of the SEGA "Punisher" video game materials. Here Nick is shown side-by-side with the Punisher in a graphic that illustrated the various moves and abilities of the possible player-characters. Frank Who? Move over for the Fury!
	Continuing his recent string of non-stop guest-appearences, Fury showed up in The Spectacular Spider-Man #16 in June of 2004. I think the art in this book by Michael Ryan is pretty damn cool, especially of Nick. He hasn't looked this cool artwise for some time (well, okay, except for Secret War). Here Fury is briefing a general about reports that Spider-Man was getting "frisky" with a female terrorist he and Captain America had gone in to capture.
	One more pic from Spectacular Spider-Man #16. What can I say, I already owned up to really liking this art.
	Here's a rare image of Nick Fury, from the back cover of Marvel's FOOM Magazine, No. 15 (1976). The front cover is of Howard the Duck running for President of the United States, with the wrap-around to the back cover showing some of the duck's supporters: Fury, Pip the Troll, J. Jonah Jameson and the Thing. Okay then...