Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD 1968 #7 - back issue - $18.00
Nick gets into a fight at an unnamed foreign embassy, and winds up being injected with a drug that will cause hallucinations, "hyper-intense paranoia", and death after 6 hours.
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1968, page 250, registration number B474946.
- - Salvador Dali tribute. Steranko's last SHIELD cover until SHIELD [Nick Fury and His Agents of SHIELD] (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 (February 1973).
- - Ad, with order coupon, for Crash-Weight bars from Joe Weider. Inside front cover.
- Hours of Madness, Day of Death - Archie Goodwin's only solo SHIELD story. Frank Springer illustrated a parody of Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD (Marvel, 1968 Series) #3 this month in Not Brand Echh (Marvel, 1967 Series) #11.
- - Ad solicits boys to sell Grit magazine. Located between story pages 3 and 4.
- - Between story pages 6 and 7. 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.
- Free! Giant Stallion Mural Full Color Masterpiece Free! - Ad for oil painting reproductions of majestic horses, between story pages 6 and 7.
- World's Fastest Train - Illustrated ad for Cheerios breakfast cereal, featuring the "New Tokaido" train in Japan, which makes a 320.2 mile trip averaging 101 miles per hour. Located between story pages 9 and 10.
- - Ad, with order coupon, from Hobby Coin Co., located between story pages 15 and 16, on top half of page.
- Stamps; Shop by Mail - Seventeen small ads between story pages 15 and 16, on lower half of page.
- Shop by Mail - Small ads, between story pages 18 and 19.
- A Plethora of Pronouncements Up for Grabs - Promo page includes Stan's Soapbox and the Mighty Marvel Checklist. A list of awards won by Marvel from fan popularity ballots is also printed. Also includes an illustration taken from two panels in Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD (Marvel, 1968 series) #5.
- - Ad for H. H. Ward & Co., Inc. hair restorer.
- - Letters of comment from Mike Howell, Steve D. Brown, Robert Weis Jr., Michael Beasley, Frederick Lee Zoucha, Harvey Sobel, Alan Groginsky, James Donoghue and Bob Gale. Includes two illustrations taken from two panels in Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD (Marvel, 1968 series) #5.
- - House ad for The Spectacular Spider-Man (Marvel, 1968 series) #2 (November 1968), advertised as "Now On Sale!". Cover art shown is unpainted line art version.
- - Inside back cover. Ad for the Creative Card Company.
- - Back cover. Ad for the Famous Artists School.
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