Rarely before and rarely since has comics seen a talent as innovative as Jim Steranko. Blending together influences from Pop Art to Salvador Dali and Will Eisner to Wally Wood, Steranko's boundary-breaking style is an incomparable visual language that continues influence and inspire storytellers decades later. Now, for the first time ever, Marvel is proud to offer the complete Steranko Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. in one volume! COLLECTING: STRAN GE TALES (1951) 151-168 & NICK FURY, AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. (1968) 1-3, 5

It's one of Marvel's most innovative series, now in one complete volume! With international threats on the rise, a council of global powers taps Nick Fury to protect us from Hydra, A.I.M., Baron Strucker and the Yellow Claw! The greatest team in comics, Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, dove into the world of covert ops, mixing Cold War drama with the mighty Marvel manner - but when Steranko took over, he rewrote the entire rulebook. COLLECTING: Strange Tales 135-168, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1968) 1-15, Fantastic Four 21, Tales of Suspense (1959) 78, Marvel Spotlight (1971) 31, Avengers (1963) 72

Coming out of a retirement brought on by a major internal shakeup within the ranks of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury begins investigating the assassinations of several high-ranking intelligence operatives. But Fury gets more than he bargained for when the trail leads to an extraterrestrial threat, stemming back to a plot involving Baron Von Strucker during WWII. Nick can't cut it alone so he calls in Dum Dum Dugan, Captain America and others! COLLECTING: NICK FURY, AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. 1-11

Collects Strange Tales (1951) #151-168; Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD (1968) #1-3, 5. Rarely before and rarely since has the comics industry seen a talent as innovative as Steranko. Blending together influences from pop art to Salvador Dali and Will Eisner to Wallace Wood, Steranko’s groundbreaking style is an incomparable visual language. Steranko is…revolutionary! Marvel is proud to present Steranko’s complete tenure on NICK FURY, AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. in a single, massive King-Size edition that showcases all its glory! These are the stories that defined Nick Fury as the premier spymaster operating in the covert shadows of the Marvel Universe. His awesome tech, his steamy romances, his larger-than-life action-adventure — Steranko was behind it all, breaking all the old rules of comics storytelling as he went and creating a few new ones too!

"A.I.M., Hydra and Roxxon have all schemed against S.H.I.E.L.D., but what if S.H.I.E.L.D. itself has been guiding them all? Nick Fury learns S.H.I.E.L.D.S's tendrils have reachef furhter than he ever intended, and now they're all reaching for him! In a world of lies he constructed, who can a master spy trust? New firends and new enemies - but which are which? - debut in the staggering spy saga that tore down one of the Marvel Unverse's central concepts." --P. [4] of cover.

"The digest-sized book combines typeset text with two same-sized illustrations per page, utilizing no word balloons or other traditional comics text conventions. A hard-boiled detective novel in the film noir style, its protagonist is a private detective named Chandler (an homage to author Raymond Chandler) who is hired by a man who claims to have been poisoned by the same people responsible for a notorious gangland slaying. As Chandler tracks down witnesses, each begins to turn up dead." -- Wikipedia