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Nick Fury: Who Is Scorpio?

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The printing quality of this book is so bad it's scary. Muddy black lines, poorly registered colors, colors not even matching from the original books, what a shame. Steranko's so p.o.'ed over the printing job, he's threatened to spit on anybody who asks him to autograph this book. Jeez!
That said, there's nothing else like this kind of comic art or storytelling. The artwork, once you get past the bad printing, is breathtaking. Steranko's art and layouts are some of the most offbeat since Will Eisner in his heyday. Swingin' Stan Lee gave Steranko a wide berth to create with, and the results are nothing short of legendary. If you're a big fan of Mario Bava's "Diabolik" you'll love this book. It has the same amazing Pop/OP Art damage as that wild movie.
After Steranko left Fury he drew both Capt. America and the X-Men, and needless to say, those particular issues were mind-blowers as well. Marvel should compile all those particular issues in one big book. Just ask them to print it better so Jim won't have to spit on anybody.

Jim Steranko produced four of my favourite comic books back in 1968. These comics had great stories, great detailed art, superlative colour, imaginative layouts and mind-bending covers...some of best ever done in comics. This book reprints those four comics...the stories and layouts are still intact...but the colours have been changed and lazily applied, the line detail is gone, and the covers have been trashed almost beyond recognition.

Nick Fury: Who is Scorpio? is a trade paperback by Marvel comics of the Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD series of the early 1970's, drawn by Jim Steranko. The first reprint trade paperback of the Nick Fury stories was published earlier from the Strange Tales series, and then this one. I read that the colors did not look right to some readers, but to me they looked just fine. That was the day and age of pop art, so wild color patterns were in vogue. I think that I have now completed the Steranko reprints avalible, as he is one of my favorite artist of all time.