Issue(s): Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #13
Cover Date: Dec 64
Title: "Fighting Side-By-Side With... Captain America And Bucky!"
Credits:
Stan Lee - Writer
Jack Kirby - Penciler
Dick Ayers - Inker

Review/plot:
Jack Kirby comes back to Sgt. Fury so that he can draw Captain America, relegating Dick Ayers back to inking duty.

This was before any concept of the Invaders existed, so we go the 'mild mannered secret identity' route, with Steve Rogers getting picked on by Fury's rival sergeant, Bull McGiveney (it's always the Irish starting trouble...). Fury steps in and a fight breaks out.

Fury, on a date with Pamela Hawley, who would like Nick to not lose his temper all the time...

...sees a film news reel. It first shows the Howlers, who receive polite applause from the audience. They helpfully remind us that they are British, and not given to public displays of emotion. Then the news reel shows Cap and the theater goes wild. This ticks Fury off, so when he gets an assignment from Sam to help Captain America on a mission, he doesn't like it.

But Cap proves himself in battle...

...and Cap, Bucky, and the Howlers thwart the Nazi plan to build a chunnel.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 4 - first Captain America/Nick Fury meeting.

Chronological Placement Considerations: The MCP places this between Invaders #28-29, which unfortunately i have in a trade paperback, so i'm sticking this just prior to the trade.

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? Y

My Reprint: Special Marvel Edition #11

This is my first comment. I just wanted to say that I am enjoying your work and commentary. I've read the vast majority of Marvel comics form 1961 on and have read a lot of reprints of the golden age and the 50's like yourself. I always enjoyed this issue seeing Cap in battle alongside the Howlers.

Apparently the origin for the name Mcgiveny means someone who is disagreeable or ill tempered so in his case it must be genetic.