Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD 1968 #5 - reader copy - $7.00

The ESP Division picks up "possible danger", sending Nick straight into a trap set by Scorpio! Nick is captured. Fury manages to dodge one death trap after another, then faces his would-be killer. He pursues the escaping imposter, who tears off his mask, revealing his true identity to Nick-- just before being caught in a hail of gunfire from a group of SHIELD agents! After, Nick stands alone on a dock, looking out over the water, wondering if the man who tried so very hard to murder him is still alive.

On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1968, page 250, registration number B474944.

• - Inside front cover. Ad for a variety of novelty items from the Johnson Smith Company.
• Whatever Happened To Scorpio? - Identity of Scorpio revealed by Roy Thomas in THE AVENGERS #72 (January 1970), reprinted in ESSENTIAL AVENGERS Vol.4 (2004). Pickman based on Robert Morley. More details revealed when Scorpio returns in THE DEFENDERS #46, 48-50 (April, June-August 1977). Full background of character not revealed until flashback in FURY #1 (May 1994). Steranko repeated the gimmick of ending the story by having a character diving into water thru a hail of gunfire in CAPTAIN AMERICA #111 (March 1969). Nick's Ferrari, which he's had since STRANGE TALES #162 (November 1967) is destroyed; he gets a replacement in NICK FURY, AGENT OF SHIELD #8 (January 1969).
• Pete Duncan - "Dropout" - Comics ad for the International Correspondence Schools I.C.S. Between story pages 3 and 4.
• Intelsat III Satellite - Facts about the Intelsat III communications satellite - and some words on behalf of Cheerios breakfast cereal. Color ad between story pages 6 and 7.
• - Between story pages 6 and 7.
• - Between story pages 9 and 10.
• - Ad for Grit newspaper sales from Grit Publishing Co. Appears between pages 15 and 16 of story sequence on top half of page.
• - Illustrated ad for 204 piece set of plastic Revolutionary War soldiers and equipment. $1.98. Located between story pages 15 and 16, on lower half of page.
• Shop by Mail; Stamps - A collection of classified advertising offering stamps, novelties, and comic books, between story pages 16 and 17. Between story pages 18 and 19.
• - Includes: Stan's Soapbox; Items; The Mighty Marvel Checklist
• - Located on top half of page.
• - Advertisement for book on learning Karate. Located on lower half of page.
• - Letters of comment from Ronn Foss; Paul Butler; Murray Selzer; Jeff Pierce; Achille Di Bacco; Don Plosker; and Donald McGregor (future comics writer); includes a single panel reproduced from the previous issue an Know Ye These, the Hallowed Ranks of Marveldom.
• - House ad for Avengers Annual #2 (Sept. 1968) shown as "On Sale Now!".
• - Inside back cover. Ad for the American Basic Science Club, Inc.
• - Back cover. Ad to sell greeting cards to earn money.