Appearing in "Fury"
Featured Characters:
- Nick Fury (Main story and flashback) (Joins C.I.A. and S.H.I.E.L.D. in flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- United States Army (Only in flashback)
- Captain Sam Sawyer (Only in flashback)
- Jake Fury (Only in flashback) (Continuity Error)
- Stark Industries (Only in flashback)
- Tony Stark (Main story and flashback) (Topical Reference) (As Iron Man in flashback) (Joins and leaves S.H.I.E.L.D.; rejoins S.H.I.E.L.D. in main story)
- Forge (Only in flashback) (Topical Reference)
- Canadian Special Services (Only in flashback)
- Agent Logan (Only in flashback)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (Main story and flashback)
- Col. Rick Stoner (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback) (Leaves U.S. Army; joins C.I.A. and S.H.I.E.L.D.)
- Fantastic Four (Only in flashback) (Topical Reference)
- Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards) (Only in flashback) (Topical Reference)
- The Thing (Ben Grimm) (Only in flashback) (Topical Reference)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Only in flashback) (Topical Reference)
- Invisible Girl (Sue Storm) (Only in flashback) (Topical Reference)
Antagonists:
- Nazi Germany (Only in flashback)
- Wehrmacht (Only in flashback)
- Adolf Hitler (Only in flashback)
- Hate-Monger (Adolf Hitler) (Only in flashback) (Continuity Error)
- Hydra (Only in flashback)
- Baron Wolfgang von Strucker (Only in flashback) (Leaves Nazi Germany; joins team)
- Dr. Arnim Zola (Only in flashback) (Leaves Nazi Germany; joins team)
- Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) (Only in flashback) (Leaves Nazi Germany)
- "Jake Fury" (Only in flashback) (Leaves Stark Industries; as Scorpio in recap)
- Deltite (Destruction) (Main story and flashback)
- Roxxon Oil Corporation (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- French Resistance (Only in recap)
- Howling Commandos (Only in recap)
- Rebel Ralston (Only in recap)
- Izzy Cohen (Only in recap)
- Pinky Pinkerton (Only in recap)
- Timothy Dugan (Earth-616)
- Gabriel Jones (Earth-616)
- Eric Koenig (Earth-616)
- United States Government (Only in flashback)
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Earth-616)
- President John F. Kennedy (Only in flashback) (Topical Reference)
- President Lyndon B. Johnson (Only in flashback) (Topical Reference)
- President George W. Bush (Behind the scenes) (Topical Reference)
- Hydra (Only in recap)
- Ryuji Hiraoka (Earth-616)
- Several unnamed members (Only in recap)
- Stark Industries (Only in flashback)
- Higgins (a security guard) (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- An unnamed security guard (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- NYPD (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Alpha Flight (Referenced) (Topical Reference)
- Guardian (Jim Hudson) (Referenced) (Topical Reference)
- Pierre Trudeau (Only in flashback)
- CIA (Only in flashback)
- Director Jack Pincer (Mentioned)
- Cordco (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Williams Industries (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- FBI (Only in flashback) (Only in flashback)
- Ian Fleming (Referenced) (Topical Reference)
- Cassandra (Tony Stark's girl friend) (Only in flashback)
- Gnobian Mother (Only in flashback) (Continuity Error)
- Laura Brown (Only in flashback) (Continuity Error)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked) (Only in flashback)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Inner Council (Only in recap)
- Encoders (Only in recap)
- Countess Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Only in recap)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Life Model Decoy (Main story and flashback)
- Mutants (Only in flashback)
- Gnobians (Only in flashback) (Continuity Error)
- Human-Inhuman Hybrids (Only in flashback)
Realities:
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Europe (Only in flashback)
- Asia (Only in flashback)
- Japan (Only in flashback)
- Vietnam (Mentioned) (Only in flashback) (Topical Reference)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- Long Island (Main story and flashback)
- Queens (Main story and flashback)
- Flushing (Main story and flashback)
- Stark Industries Headquarters (Main story and flashback)
- Flushing (Main story and flashback)
- Queens (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- Manhattan (Only in recap)
- Midtown (Only in recap)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Central (Only in recap)
- Midtown (Only in recap)
- Manhattan (Only in recap)
- Long Island (Main story and flashback)
- Washington, D.C. (Only in flashback)
- White House (Only in flashback)
- New Jersey (Only in flashback)
- Roxxon Power Plant (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Virginia (Only in recap)
- Pentagon (Only in recap)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- Canada (Only in flashback)
- Am/Can Research Facility (Only in flashback)
- Ottawa (Only in flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- South America (Only in flashback)
Items:
- Arnim Zola's Robotic Body (Only in flashback)
- Iron Man Armor Model 1 (Only in flashback)
- Zodiac Key (Only in flashback)
- Guardian Armor (Only in flashback)
- Fantastic Four Uniforms (Only in flashback) (Topical Reference)
- Infinity Formula (Referenced)
- The Ed Sullivan Show (Mentioned)
- Topo Gigio (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier (Only in flashback) (Destroyed and rebuilt)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Flying Car (Only in flashback)
Events
- World War II (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "Fury"
- Synopsis not yet written
Notes
Continuity Notes[]
- Due to more recent revelations about the formation and early activities of S.H.I.E.L.D., including Original Sin, Original Sins #5, Winter Soldier: The Bitter March and International Iron Man, the events accounted in this issue have become apocryphal, since they are irreconcilable with the Sliding Timescale of Earth-616; however, even in March 1994, when this issue was released, several elements from this Nick Fury's recap of S.H.I.E.L.D. history did not match the pre-existing accounts, a fact which led the majority of subsequent writers to ignore this issue's "revelations", including the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe staff.
- In Pages 1-6 (until Panel 2), a recap of Sgt. Fury #29, Nick Fury is fighting his Nazi arch-enemy Baron Wolfgang von Strucker in the town of Cherbeaux, France. However, the date on which those events allegedly took place according to Fury, 1944, is incorrect: according to Marvel Universe #1, whose events are set in 1945, Strucker "had gone on Hitler's bad side" two years before, in 1943, after which he traveled to Japan in order to join Red Skull's Hydra.
- Nick Fury's brother Jake Fury is shown to have already enlisted in the U.S. Army by the time Nick clashed with Colonel Rick Stoner, which happened immediately after the Howling Commandos' mission in Cherbeaux. The Cherbeaux mission has been originally narrated in Sgt. Fury #29, while Jake Fury joined the U.S. Army a long time after those events, in Sgt. Fury #68.
- Dr. Arnim Zola appears in his robotic body in 1943, although it has been previously stated in Super-Villain Team-Up #17 that he was still a human when he approached Adolf Hitler to develop his mind transference projects in 1945. According to this issue's account, Zola gives the Red Skull a potion that could keep him in suspended animation for years; however, according to Tales of Suspense #79, Red Skull's suspended animation was made possible by an experimental gas released after his last clash against Captain America in 1945. Marvel Universe #1 later revealed that Baron von Strucker himself gave the Red Skull a sample of his life-preservation gases and elixirs during a meeting which took place in one of Strucker's secret suspended animation chambers located in Berlin.
- Page 12 retells the events of Capt. Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders #4, where Strucker, after escaping in Japan, joined Hydra and became in charge of the organization after killing the original Supreme Hydra.
- Fury's statement about the early Modern Age set about two decades after World War II was correct at the publication time, but it has become irreconcilable with the Sliding Timescale of Earth-616 in current times; as a consequence, current publications acknowledge S.H.I.E.L.D. as founded in early sixties by Howard Stark, rather than his adopted son Tony. Although the replacement of Tony Stark with his father can work on Strange Tales #135, where Stark does never appear with his Iron Man Armor, Stark's appearance as Iron Man even before the foundation of S.H.I.E.L.D. in this issue pretty much makes the whole account non canonical.
- Jake Fury, revealed to be a Life-Model Decoy in Secret Warriors #26, is revealed to have joined Stark Industries after the war, where he started working to forge the Zodiac Key. Since it was previously stated that the Key itself manifested to Jake directly from the Ankh Dimension, it could be presumed that he was just studying and analysing the Key with the help of Stark's technology.
- Roxxon was originally named Republic Oil and Gas Company, changing name to Roxxon only years later. This can be considered just a continuity error.
- Pages 41 (Panel 4-5) and 41 recap the events of Fantastic Four #21; the Fantastic Four, Nick Fury and the C.I.A. defeated the Hate-Monger, a clone of Adolf Hitler.
- The appearance of Laura Brown as Nick Fury's girlfriend is a continuity error, since Laura first appeared in Strange Tales #135, set chronologically later, as an Hydra agent.
- Pages 55-59 recap the events of Strange Tales #135, where Nick Fury joined S.H.I.E.L.D. as the new Director.
- Pag. 60 recaps some of the early S.H.I.E.L.D. activities as shown in Strange Tales.
- Pag. 61 recaps the events of Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D.