Story #2Before My Eyes, Nick Fury Died!
Writer: Stan Lee. Penciler: Jack Kirby. Inker: Joe Sinnott. Colorist: ?.
Synopsis
Steve Rogers arrives back in New York after a
SHIELD-related mission. He contacts the
Avengers to tell them his plans, and they wonder if his good mood is hiding another depression. At the bottom of the sea, in an
A.I.M. submarine, SHIELD
Agent 13 is betraying
Nick Fury to the enemy, giving his location for an assassination plot. Later, Steve is walking the streets, feeling like a misfit, pining for the mysterious SHIELD agent he is attracted to, when he spies A.I.M’s
Mecho-Assassin outside the barbershop which is the secret entrance to SHIELD headquarters. Switching to his
Captain America outfit, he tries to stop the robot killer but is too late: the creature has killed Fury, who was sitting in a barber chair. An enraged Cap battles and defeat the creature, which self-destructs. Cap then gets a shock: Nick Fury appears, alive and unharmed, to explain they were tipped off about the murder attempt and had rigged some
Life Model Decoys to fool A.I.M. Cap’s appearance has ruined the scheme, and now Agent 13, who was pretending to be a traitor, is trapped inside A.I.M.’s base and Cap must go to her rescue.