Wolverine, Nick Fury: The Scorpio Connection OGN

Wolverine, Nick Fury: The Scorpio Connection OGN

1989

The Scorpio Connection

by Archie Goodwin, Howard Chaykin, Richard Ory, Barbara Rausch, Ken Bruzenak

62 pages

Someone kills SHIELD Agent David Nanjiwara and his team of agents while they are on a mission near Machu Picchu. Scorpio is that someone but Scorpio is dead. Behind the mask was Jake Fury, brother of Nick Fury. Who is wearing the Scorpio uniform now?

Nick Fury heads out on his own, with little to no help from SHIELD, in search of the new Scorpio. Wolverine enters the picture because David Nanjiwara was a friend of his. Wolverine investigates the area around Machu Picchu and finds traces of an arms smuggling operation known as Swift Sword. 

Marvel Team-Up (1972) 85

Marvel Team-Up (1972) 85

Sep 1979

The Woman Who Never Was!

by Chris Claremont, Sal Buscema, Steve Leialoha, Clem Robins, Ben Sean, Allen Milgrom

Black Widow dives through the broken window after Spider-Man. She saves him but then needs saving herself when the Silver Samurai cuts the line securing her to the helicarrier. Spider-Man and Black Widow make it back into the helicarrier in time to rejoin the fight before Nick Fury and Shang-Chi are overcome by Viper, Silver Samurai, and the hypnotized agents of SHIELD.

Marvel Team-Up (1972) 84

Marvel Team-Up (1972) 84

Aug 1979

Catch a Falling Hero

by Chris Claremont, Sal Buscema, Steve Leialoha, Diana Albers, Ben Sean, Allen Milgrom

The issue opens with the reveal that Viper (who was once known as Madame Hydra) is the one pulling strings. She has captured the helicarrier and has all of its staff under her hypnotic control. The first five pages are devoted to the reveal and then a dive into her backstory.

Viper fought Captain America (during the brief period when he was known as Nomad) in Captain America 182. She was almost captured but escaped thanks to Ishiro Tagara, a cadre leader of the Japanese Red Army, an occasional ally of Hydra. The Viper and Tagara fell in love as she plotted the downfall of the United States of America.

Marvel Team-Up (1972) 83

Marvel Team-Up (1972) 83

Jul 1979

Slaughter on 10th Avenue!

by Chris Claremont, Sal Buscema, Steve Leialoha, Joe Rosen, Ben Sean, Allen Milgrom

Spider-Man wakes up the next morning on the rooftop where he was shot by Nick Fury. He is surprised that he is still alive but takes that as an indication that Nancy Rushman must also still be alive.

Nick Fury suspects that someone is trying to destroy SHIELD from within. He received a warning from the Black Widow before she lost her memory. He talks to SHIELD Agent Jasper Sitwell about what he knows of the situation while the doctors try to revive the Black Widow.

Fury Max 1

While All the Planet's Litle Wars Start Joining Hands
by Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov
July 2012

- Indochina, 1954; Fury is being punished for his actions in a battle during the Korean War with his current assignment; he has a young
- the most appealing thing about this issue is the art; the story doesn't do as much for me as I hoped it would
- it feels like a generic cold war era story into which Nick Fury has been injected
- I'm not crazy about the horizontal panels that stretch the width of the page; there are very few panels in this issue that don't stretch the width of the page; maybe it is just the fact that this is the dominant look that bothers me
- this series only ran for thirteen issues; this story only ran for three issues but I'm not running out to pick up any more issues from this series in the near future

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Fighting Side-by-Side with... Captain America and Bucky!
by Stan Lee. Jack Kirby, and Dick Ayers

Setting: London, England

After a trip to the movies with Lady Pamela Hawley, where they see a newsreel of Captain America and Bucky in action, Nick Fury runs into Steve Rogers in a pub. Steve is about to get beaten up by Sgt Bull McGivney. Fury steps in, and the rest of the Howlers join him. Once the MPs arrive and have sorted everything out McGivney and his boys wind up in the hospital. Sgt Fury and the Howling Commandos are rewarded by their CO, Captain Happy Sam Sawyer with hours of intense training (hand-to-hand combat, etc)

Meanwhile, Cap and Bucky are sent across the channel (France?) to investigate do some recon on a report of a secret arms buildup by the Nazis, in the process they wind up saving some American pilots who were shot down and discover slave laborers from France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, after rescuing the pilots, and sending them towards the coast, Cap tells them to send word to "Send the Howlers to Cap"

The Howlers are more than ready to get away from their CO and see some action, they are split up but Sgt Fury and Reb Ralston board a train which it turns out is carrying slave laborers, mixed in with the slave laborers is Steve Rogers, whom Fury recognizes from the night before, Bucky shows up disguised as a Hitler Youth (Jugend), no explanation is given as to how Cpa and Bucky got here

The train arrives at a construction site known as Operation Einfall (Invasion), the sodliers are put to work along with the other slave laborers, Fury tries to give Rogers his gun but Rogers won't take it, Rogers gets separated from Fury and Ralston, there is an explosion, Cap shows up with Bucky, the Americans wreck more havoc at the Nazi construction site, in the end they all escape but wind up in the hospital when they get back to England

story doesn't quite live up to what I hoped it would be, good but not great, still it is the first Cap and Sgt Fury story set during WWII

more or less a standard story based on the other Sgt Fury stories I have read

art highlights:

- cover art
- p. 7 Nazis firing their guns as Cap and Bucky escape on a motorcycle in the next panel
- p. 10 cap dodging a rifle grenade
- p. 14 grenade explosion
- p. 22 photo panel of the construction site blowing sky high