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Brand: Marvel Comics
Series: Nick Fury and his Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., a vintage Bronze Age US superhero and espionage comic book line featuring the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and his high-tech spy organization in full color within the Marvel Comics Group imprint.
Issue: #1 with a 20¢ cover price and AUG cover date, a single-issue English-language comic book in the US comics tradition produced in the United States.
Characters and story focus: Spotlights Nick Fury leading the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in a high-stakes rescue mission, combining superhero action with secret agent themes and futuristic weaponry.
Front cover artwork shows Nick Fury running forward across a burst-filled battleground while carrying a blonde woman in a green dress, surrounded on all sides by yellow-gloved assailants aiming oversized sci-fi pistols and rifles, with a circular flying craft and additional S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in green uniforms visible in the background beneath the bold red NICK FURY AND AGENTS OF SHIELD logo and the green MARVEL COMICS GROUP banner.
Cover elements include the upper-left corner box with a small Nick Fury figure, SHIELD identifier, the No. 1 issue designation, AUG month, and 20¢ US price, set against a blue sky background that frames the red shield-shaped title device dominating the top half of the composition.
Back cover features a full-page LaSalle Extension University correspondence course advertisement headed "Look who's smiling now!", with a large black-and-white portrait of a smiling man above promotional text and a yellow postage-paid mail-in coupon and address panel for 417 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60605.
Details: Vintage Marvel Nick Fury and his Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 Bronze Age color commercial comic book starring Nick Fury and the S.H.I.E.L.D. organization with a LaSalle Extension University back-cover advertisement; listing is for the single comic book issue shown.