Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD 1968 #9 - reader copy - $5.00

While at a doctor's appointment, Fury is the target of an assassin, who misses him but hits the doctor instead. Escaping via aircraft, Fury recognizes the "H" symbol and realizes The Hate-Monger is somehow back in action. After rendezvousing at the Heli-Carrier, Fury, Dugan, Jimmy & Gabe pursue the aircraft & wind up in an aeriel dogfight. After shooting down the enemy jet, they follow, only to find themselves in a bizarre prehistoric landscape filled with dinosaurs! Fury plunges into an gigantic underground laboratory and comes face-to-face with The Hate-Monger, who reveals the other SHIELD agents are really victims of the "Psychotron", which is creating illusions in their minds. The Hate-Monger plans to use nuclear missiles to "deal a death-blow to every nation on Earth", and also shows him a "Brain-Bank" chamber containing the "active brains" of all his former advisors and associates, whose mentalities live on even while their bodies are long dead. All looks lost until Dr. Kaupfman, who believed his "Feuhrer" wanted to "save humanity from itself", realizes his plan was really only one of "sheer revenge", and shoots the Hate-Monger-- revealing another Adolph Hitler under the hood! Kaupfman's assistant turns out to be the long-missing Laura Brown in disguise, now working for SHIELD, and she, Fury & the others barely escape as Kaupfman blows the entire complex sky-high.

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On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1969, page 254, registration number B475517.

• - Inside front cover. Ad for a variety of novelty items from the Johnson Smith Company.
• The Name of the Game Is... Hate! - Part 1 of 3. 2nd appearance of Hate-Monger; previous app. in FANTASTIC FOUR #21 (December 1963). Laura Brown last appeared in STRANGE TALES #159 (August 1967).
• 80,000 Candlepower - Advertisement for a torch to use while skin diving from Freeman Electric Co. 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.
• Missile Firing Tank - Located between story pages 9 and 10 on top half of page.
• - Ad soliciting salespeople for newspaper. Between pages 9 and 10 on lower half of page.
• Shop by Mail; Stamps - A series of thumbnail advertisements for a range of products, including back-issue comics, between story pages 15 and 16.
• Shop by Mail - A series of thumbnail advertisements for a range of products, including back-issue comics, between story pages 18 and 19.
• - Includes: Stan's Soapbox; Items; The Mighty Marvel Checklist
• - Letters from Paul Mack, Otis Watson Jr., Joe Trask, Patrick Cosgrove, Maurice Trudeau, Mike Jones, and Kurt Festinger; includes Know Ye These, the Hallowed Ranks of Marveldom.
• - House ad for Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #69 and The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #60.
• - Inside back cover. Ad for a weight gain product.
• - Back cover. Ad for the Famous Artists School.