Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD 1968 #11 - back issue - $9.00

The Hate-Monger uses his ray to begin a riot setting young against old. The hate rays continue to pour forth, and gangs of youths seize power in New York and at an ICBM base in New Jersey. Conferring with the President, Fury asks for a space capsule at Cape Kennedy so he can knock out the Hate-Monger's threat. Fury invades the orbiting space station and confronts the Nazi villain. After a quick battle the Hate-Monger, trying to escape, accidentally steps out of the escape hatch and apparently dies in airless space.

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Ad for U.S. coin catalog.

Advertisement for miscellaneous gag items, e.g., an exploding fountain pen.

On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1969, page 254, registration number B506307.

• The 1st Million Megaton Explosion - Springer's signature is barely visible on the upper left corner, next to the Marvel Comics Group logo. Per the original art published in Comic Book Artist # 13, May 2001, Springer's Nick Fury's face was redrawn by Barry Windsor-Smith.
• - Inside front cover. Ad for the "007" Twister from Joe Weider.
• The 1st Million Megaton Explosion - Uncredited Esposito inking and Watanabe lettering per Nick Caputo, August 2012. Previous indexer credited Frank Springer with inking. The "back cover" of the "The 1st Million Megaton Explosion" on page four pays tribute to the finale of the film PLANET OF THE APES (1968). Third time Hate-Monger apparently dies. A fourth Hate-Monger next appears in THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #13-14 (December 1977-January 1978). A fifth Hate-Monger turns up in SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP #16-17 (May 1979-June 1980); as explained in these later stories, the 1st, 2nd & 5th Hate-Mongers all turn out to have had the actual brain-waves of the real Adolph Hitler. No explanation whatsoever for the Hate-Monger's space station NOT being blown out of the sky following the events of the previous issue; nor for Fury's need to use a NASA rocket to reach it, when he used a SHIELD aircraft in the previous episode (Or, for that matter, why, with an entire organization at his command, Fury keeps going on one-man suicide missions) Frank Springer's last SHIELD episode; his next Marvel job is in CAPTAIN MARVEL #13 (May 1969).
• - Ad for booklet telling you how to play the piano, accordion, or guitar. Located between story pages 3 and 4.
• - Promo for inflatable Spider-Man and Thor plastic pillows. $1.50 each plus 15 cents postage. Also Marvel super-hero t-shirts featuring Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Thor, and the Hulk. $2.00 each including postage. And The Merry Marvel Marching Society Membership Kit for $1.00. Two mail-in coupons: Marvel Comics Group (Dept. PP or Dept. AJ) 625 Madison Ave., N.Y.C., N.Y 10022.. Located between story pages 6 and 7.
• - Between story pages 6 and 7.
• - Ad, with response coupon, from Grit Publishing Co. located between story pages 9 and 10, on top half of page.
• - Between story pages 9 and 10, on lower half of page.
• Missile Tank - Located between story pages 15 and 16, on top half of page.
• - Three small ads on lower half of page, between story pages 15 and 16.
• Shop by Mail - Various thumbnail advertisements for various products including stamps, novelties and comic books, located between story pages 18 and 19.
• - Includes: Stan's Soapbox; Items; The Mighty Marvel Checklist
• - Occupies top half of page.
• - Occupies lower half of page.
• - Includes letters from Donald F. McGregor (future comics writer), Michael O'Brien, David Kennedy, Blair Hemstock, Harvey Schein, Anthony Kowalik, Wayne Dallas, Bruce Coville, Gary Dahlberg and Ken Ogden; includes Know Ye These, the Hallowed Ranks of Marveldom.
• - Advertisement for Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #19 using the cover and advertised as ?Now on sale?.
• - Inside back cover. Ad to earn money by selling greeting cards.
• - Back cover. Ad for the Famous Artists School.