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Strange Tales #146-147 (Nick Fury)
Issue(s): Strange Tales #146, Strange Tales #147 (Nick Fury stories only)
Cover Date: Jul-Aug 66
Title: "When the unliving strike!" / "The enemy within!"
Credits:
Stan Lee - Writer
Jack Kirby - Breakdowns
Don Heck - Finishes
Mike Esposito - Inker
Review/plot:
Nick Fury and his SHIELD agents are hunting down the secret organization known as "Them" when they are attacked by a squad of amphibian androids. Meanwhile a top representative from Advanced Idea Mechanics arrives on the SHIELD helicarrier and is given clearance by a Lieutenant General who has been bumping heads with Fury's men. Fury's men enter Them's hideout and fight their way through more artificial life forms...
...and then deduce that Them and AIM are one and the same.
Don't yield! Back SHIELD!
Count Bornag Royale, head of AIM, causes trouble for Fury with the Pentagon. Fury, Dum Dum, and Sitwell rescue the SHIELD barbershop guards from an AIM attack...
...but the fact that Fury led the attack personally means that some think he is not fit for a leadership role.
It's kind of cool that AIM was originally thought to be a legitimate organization.
Quality Rating: C-
Historical Significance Rating: 5 - Them and AIM revealed to be one and the same.
Chronological Placement Considerations: Should take place circa Iron Man's appearances in Tales of Suspense #83-84, per the non-specific footnote below.
References:
- There's a reference to Anthony Stark being in trouble with Washington and therefore being unable to attend the AIM scientist's weapon's demonstration. There's no issue reference just a footnote for "the current ish of Suspense". Stark was in Washington from Tales of Suspense #81 through Tales of Suspense #84.
Crossover: N/A
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: Nick Fury and his Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1
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Comments
I sort of like that they went with the "legitimate AIM" concept with the recent Iron Man movie, with them as a government think-tank doing their own mad science behind the scenes. Maybe they sort of were thinking along the same lines as this...but then again, if the US government ever found out about the Cosmic Cube or MODOK, they probably would have figured otherwise.
Royale actually says that "A.I.M. is merely a branch of THEM".
The artificial life forms remind me somewhat of the creatures from the Evil Factory in Kirby's run on DC's Jimmy Olsen.
Its starting to annoy me with the «rank guy who hates on the hero». Byrd - iron man, ross - hulk and now the aim guy, its not original anymore
