Nick Fury vs. Fin Fang Foom
In a title just ridiculous for me to get behind, this one shot from J. Michael Straczynski and Elena Casagrande offer up this adventure set during prior to the United States entering WWII in which Nick Fury accepts a job from Happy Sam to investigate why the secret supplies the U.S. have been smuggling into China to help them fight Japan are not making it into the battlefield. Helping him on his mission are a group of soldiers who will later make a name for themselves as the Howling Commandos.
There's more Nick Fury than Fin Fang Foom here, who is awoken from his slumber prematurely do the rising war effort. With the help of the Commandos, Nick seels the dragon in his cave for another couple of decades until he escapes to cause havoc once more. As for Nick, the comic suggests it was this meeting (and the glimpse he gets of the future) that set him on the path to become Marvel's second-most famous soldier behind that guy with a shield.
[Marvel, $4.99]
- Title: Nick Fury vs. Fin Fang Foom (One-shot)
- wiki: link
- Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
- Artist: Elena Casagrande
