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Sgt. Fury, #3

Published: September 1963

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Sgt. Fury #3

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Issue Contents:
Midnight on Massacre Mountain!
1 page war
Characters
  • Sergeant Nick Fury
  • the Howling Commandos [Corporal Dum Dum Dugan
  • Dino Manelli
  • Jonathan Juniper
  • Robert Ralston [Rebel Ralston]
  • Izzy Cohen
  • Gabe Jones]
Credits
Story Notes

Conflicting credits; Steve Ditko (per Bob Bailey, 2005-03-19 & Nick Caputo 2006-08-31); Jack Kirby (Nick Caputo, 2005-01-05) (Per Sandell ed.) // Inker comment by Bob Bailey: While he was not well known for doing war comics Ditko did do a few. If you compare the inking on the cover to Sgt Fury #14 which was inked by Ditko over Ayers (or any of his other Kirby-Ditko collaborations i.e. FF 14 cover, FF 13 interior) you get the same effect in the muscles, clothing, sand, water and Dum-Dum's hand. Also Nick Fury's rounded shoulder and facial wrinkles are definite Ditko. Per Caputo: I've read Bob Bailey's comments about Ditko being the inker for this cover, and I have to admit that I suspected him as well, although I'm not entirely convinced. There were times that Ditko basically went over Kirby's lines instead of embellishing them, as he usually did (A Giant-Man story and Strange Tales Annual 2 are two instances), so it's possible the sparse line I see in Kirby's inking may be Ditko following the lines. Chris Boyko: Steve Ditko (in litt., 18 Oct. 2014) states he did not do the inks on this cover and also does not think it to be the work of Dick Ayers. Original indexer credited Dick Ayers.

Midnight on Massacre Mountain!
Story 1 22 pages war
Storyline

Fury and his Commandos are ordered into Italy where an army division is bottled up behind Massacre Mountain.

Characters
  • Sergeant Nick Fury
  • the Howling Commandos [Corporal Dum Dum Dugan
  • Robert Ralston [Rebel Ralston]
  • Jonathan Juniper
  • Gabe Jones
  • Izzy Cohen
  • Dino Manelli]
  • Captain Happy Sam Sawyer
  • Sergeant Bull McGiveney (unnamed, introduction)
  • Major Reed Richards
  • General Curtis (introduction)
  • Hans Schmidt [Hank Smith] (introduction, death)
Credits
Story Notes

Job number per original art.

Story 2 1 page superhero

"Don't miss another big one from Marvel!"

Characters
  • The Avengers [Thor
  • Wasp
  • Ant-Man
  • Iron Man
  • Hulk]
  • Loki
Credits
Story Notes

House ad for The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (September 1963), with cover shown, and advertised as "Now On Sale". Located between story pages 5 and 6.

Featuring The Fantastic Four; Strange Tales

Story 3 1 page superhero

"72 big pages"

Credits
Story Notes

House ad for Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 Series) #1 (1963); and Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 Series) #2 (1963), with covers shown. Ad also reveals the masthead logo from The X-Men comic. Located between story pages 18 and 19.

America's World War II Shopping List!
Story 4 1 page war
Storyline

Explains the dollar cost for various pieces of equipment during World War II.

Characters
  • Sgt. Fury
Credits
Story Notes

credits per Nick Caputo, March 2013.