I’ve written here before of my love for the Nick Fury comics when I was a kid, even going so far as wearing an eyepatch when I was playing (laugh if you will, I was an 8-year old at the time). Here’s another gorgeous and tres psychedelic JIm Steranko cover, this for the origins story of Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., in issue #4, published in September 1968. There’s a mint condition of this puppy for sale on Little Green Footballs, part of Charles Johnson’s Lizard Collection.

 
One of the greatest—and trippiest—comic book covers of all time, the very first issue of Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (June 1968). There’s a copy for sale at Little Green Footballs.

When I was a kid, I loved this character and all of his cool gadgets. I always got to “be” Nick Fury playing with other kids. I even wore an eyepatch! (True)