Avengers Assemble - Nick Fury

The 49th of 51 sketch cards done for the Avengers Assemble trading card series by Upper Deck.

This is the only time I went away from using the first 100 issues of The Avengers as reference. I wanted to do (at least) 2 cards of the major players in the film and Nick Fury is basically a head on a monitor or guy in a t-shirt for most of his appearances (aside from the Scorpio story depicted earlier). So here I riff on Jack Kirby’s cover to Strange Tales #135 but giving him the Steranko-era uniform.

Nicholas "Nick" Joseph Fury created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
First appearance: Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #1, May 1963
First Avengers appearance: Avengers #32, 1966
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Sketch card
February 2o12
j(ay)

Avengers Assemble - Nick Fury / Scorpio

The 37th of 51 sketch cards done for the Avengers Assemble trading card series by Upper Deck.

Ohhhh, that tricky Nick...

Nicholas “Nick” Joseph Fury, here aka Scorpio. created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
First appearance: Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #1, May 1963
First Avengers appearance: Avengers #32, 1966
Scorpio, usually aka Jake Fury, created by Jim Steranko
First appearance: Nick Fury, Agent of Shield #1, 1968
First Avengers appearance: Avengers #72, 1970
© Marvel Comics

Sketch card
February 2o12
j(ay)