Steranko Is... Revolutionary #[nn]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Overkill!" is a high-octane, visually explosive showcase from Jim Steranko, who writes, draws, inks, colors, and letters this landmark Marvel issue—his first in decades. When a Scorpio badge marks a failed assassination on Fury, the trail leads to a deadly race, a mysterious tattoo, and a force field gone wrong, culminating in a desperate chase and a gassed research center where Scorpio delivers his chilling Parable of Doom. The cover by Steranko himself captures the tension perfectly, making this a must-have for collectors of his revolutionary work.
In "Overkill!", Nick Fury crash-lands in Karnopolis only to be overwhelmed by a squad of advanced robots. Stripped of his gear and facing the new Supreme Hydra, Fury learns of a terrifying plan to unleash the Overkill Horn and trigger global nuclear detonations. With Dugan torn between loyalty and orders, and a HYDRA jet offering a desperate escape, Fury races against time—unaware the weapon is already on board, and the radio is dead.
In "The Power of SHIELD!", Nick Fury races against time when a rogue SHIELD pilot threatens to ignite the atmosphere with a Strato-Mine—only to turn the tide by diving from the plane, rescued by a submarine and unleashing the Overkill Horn. With Hydra’s Supreme learning of Laura Brown’s capture in Egypt, he moves to punish those who betrayed him, setting off a high-stakes rescue that brings Fury and a SHIELD squad into direct confrontation with Hydra’s forces.
In "Beware... the Deadly Dreadnought!", Nick Fury races against time as a towering HYDRA assassin known as The Dreadnought rampages through SHIELD’s facilities. With Laura’s suspicions mounting and AUTOFAC’s revelations turning allies into suspects, Fury must fight for survival while the truth behind the Supreme Hydra begins to unravel—before it’s too late.
In "Death Trap!", Nick Fury faces a high-stakes crisis aboard the Heli-Carrier, where a seemingly routine demonstration turns deadly when Professor Trojak’s Q-Ray device hides a HYDRA infiltration. With VIPs in danger and his closest friends under mind control, Fury must outwit both traitors and traps—until a wounded Laura is discovered in the computer room, her allegiance in question.
In "The Tribunal!", Jo finds herself caught in a deadly game when Bronson, revealed as the resurrected Baron Strucker, declares himself Supreme Hydra and sets a global threat in motion. With Fury presumed dead and the Heli-Carrier under siege, Jo must survive a staged trial meant to terrorize the world—while the truth of Strucker’s return unfolds in shadowy, high-stakes intrigue.
In "Crisis!", Nick Fury fights for survival on Hydra Island as the deadly Alpha Ray looms and Strucker's twisted plan unfolds. With SHIELD scrambling to find a bomb they can't see, Fury goes on the offensive—taking on HYDRA forces one by one, until he confronts Strucker in a brutal final showdown.
In "Final Encounter!", Nick Fury and Baron Strucker face off in a climactic showdown on Hydra Island, where deception and desperation collide. With the island on the brink of annihilation, Fury uses Strucker’s own device to mask his identity—leaving behind a shocking twist that turns the tide in a single, explosive moment.
In "Spy School," Nick Fury reflects on his youth in Hell's Kitchen with Laura before being offered a SHIELD agent position, then dives into the grueling training at the UNIT academy. There, he clashes with the skeptical Val and the tech-savvy Sidney E. Levine, while testing his limits in a sparring match against Captain America—only to be thrown off by an unexpected side effect from an invisibility pill.
In "The Second Doom," Reed Richards and Ben Grimm race to save Captain America from a deadly fall, while Nick Fury narrowly escapes by clinging to the Statue of Liberty’s crown. With the city plunged into darkness after their intervention, the team thwarts an invasion that echoes a long-buried threat—only for Jimmy Woo to later suspect the mastermind behind it all was the elusive Yellow Claw. In a hidden lair, the Claw, his niece Suwan, and ally Von Voltzmann listen in, their eyes gleaming as the villain declares his plan—“The Second Doom”—to be unstoppable.
In "So Evil, The Night!", Nick Fury takes on a high-stakes mission after receiving a stealthy, invisible car from the Gaff. With the Yellow Claw rumored to be in Chinatown, Fury ventures into the shadows alone—only to find himself trapped in a deadly ambush beneath a hidden shop, where a giant octopus awaits.
In "And the Dragon Cried... Death!", Fury races against time to stop the Yellow Claw from stealing the Ultimate Annihilator, aided by a reluctant Clay Quartermain and haunted by a dragon statue that whispers the names of doomed scientists. As secrets unravel and identities blur, Fury must confront the Claw’s schemes—only to find himself trapped in a web of deception and mind games.
In "When Comes... Black Noon!", Fury finds himself caught in a deadly game of shadows when The Claw unleashes the Ultimate Annihilator, only for Suwan to whisk him through hyper-dimensional space to safety—just as the villain tests the weapon’s power by obliterating a satellite. Now racing against time, Fury follows a cryptic lead, slipping through the city’s underbelly before uncovering a terrifying truth: he’s aboard The Sky Dragon, a colossal airship suspended above New York, where The Claw and Voltzmann await. With the fate of the city hanging in the balance, Fury faces capture and a chilling countdown to annihilation.
In "Behold the Savage Sky!", Nick Fury races against time as The Claw unleashes chaos over New York City, forcing a desperate showdown aboard the SHIELD Heli-Carrier. With the tide turning, Fury faces off against the cunning villain and his army of robotic doppelgängers, but The Claw’s evolving defenses and brutal tactics push the agent to his limits.
In "Armageddon!", Jimmy Woo holds the fallen Suwan as SHIELD’s Suicide Squad storms in through the Dreadnought, a massive tunneling machine. With The Claw vanishing into the Space-Time Continuum inside an Infinity Sphere, Fury tracks him using a Pseudo-Elliptoid Wrist Tracer—only to face a psychic duel in the void, armed with a Prototype Warp-Vest. The battle reveals a shocking truth: the villain was not human, but a machine, part of a larger, unseen game orchestrated by Dr. Doom.
In "Today Earth Died!", Nick Fury’s quiet moment in his office is shattered by a call from Val about a UFO over Manhattan—where a mysterious alien named Vaengr emerges, offering a miraculous prism said to end all human conflict. As Fury, Val, and Dugan investigate the craft, the alien’s true nature unravels in a horrifying twist, leaving Fury to wake in a chilling realization: the nightmare may not be over.
In the 2020 anthology story "So Shall Ye Reap... Death!", Nick Fury and Jimmy Woo crash-land on a remote volcanic island that’s become a twisted Eden—home to extinct creatures and a mad scientist’s apocalyptic dream. Centurius, a forgotten pioneer of the 1930s, has spent decades cultivating life and now aims to purge the world with fire, believing he’s the only one who can rebuild it. With the help of a stranded film crew and their mechanical gorilla prop, Fury and Woo must stop him before his vision of renewal becomes total destruction.
When an old army friend is found dead on the moors, Nick is drawn into a case that blurs the line between the supernatural and the secret. With help from a trio of psychic detectives and a massive, otherworldly hound, he uncovers a mystery that defies logic—and may be far older than anyone suspects.
In "Whatever Happened To Scorpio?", Nick Fury finds himself ensnared in a deadly game orchestrated by a man long thought dead. Trapped and hunted through a series of lethal traps, Fury confronts an imposter whose shocking reveal leaves him questioning everything—only to be saved by SHIELD, leaving him alone on a dock, haunted by the mystery of who really pulled the trigger.
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