EXCLUSIVE Marvel Preview: S.H.I.E.L.D. #9 - A 50th Anniversary Celebration

Marvel Comics has provided ComicBook.com with an exclusive preview of S.H.I.E.L.D. #9, celebrating the titular organization's 50th Anniversary. The issue features the talents of Mark Waid, Lee Ferguson, Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko and more.

The issue's story unites Agent Phil Coulson and Nick Fury Sr. in a cross-time adventure. Together, they try to answer a question at the heart of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s origin: who is The Man Called D.E.A.T.H.?

The issue also features the return of Dum Dum Duggan, the creation of a new team of Howling Commandos, a reprint of the first ever S.H.I.E.L.D. story from 1965, and the original pilot presentation that inspired S.H.I.E.L.D.'s creation.

Check out the preview and solicitation text below. S.H.I.E.L.D. #9 goes on sale Aug. 26.

S.H.I.E.L.D. #9
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Mark Waid, Various (A) Jack Kirby, Lee Ferguson (CA) Julian Totino Tedesco

Oversized Anniversary Issue! Waid! Ferguson! Kirby! Steranko!
• A commemorative 50th Anniversary story that spans the past and the present, and unites Phil Coulson and Nick Fury, Sr. in a unique cross-time adventure to answer a riddle that lies at the heart of the origins of SHIELD: who is The Man Called D.E.A.T.H.? Includes a sequence penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Jim Steranko that has never seen print as part of a story before!
• Plus: The return of Dum Dum Dugan and the birth of the new Howling Commandos! The very first SHIELD story from 1965! And the pilot presentation sequence that inspired the creation of SHIELD!
Rated T+

Item Code: JUN150809
In Shops: 8/26/2015
SRP: $5.99