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Dave Bullock, Ultimates #21 Cover (Steranko Homage)

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Artist: Dave Bullock (All)

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Steranko Cover SHIELD 4
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Location: Collection
Title: Dave Bullock, Ultimates #21 Cover (Steranko Homage)
Artist:  Dave Bullock (All)
Media Type: Ink Wash
Art Type: Cover
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 778
Likes on CAF: 3
Comments: 2
Added to Site: 7/3/2020

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1965. We entered the age of acronyms.

SPECTRE. SMERSH. UNCLE. THRUSH. THUNDER. Et al.

The spy craze had given birth to super secret organizations for both good guys and the bad.

Enter SHIELD, 55 years ago the summer. Nick Fury had already joined the Marvel Universe as WW 2 commando Sgt. Fury in 1963. And he showed up later that year in Fantastic Four, 20 years in the future (present day) as a CIA officer.

But now he was Colonel Fury, head of the super secret spy agency SHIELD. (Originally, Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage and Law-Enforcement Division.)

In 12 short pages, we are not only introduced to SHIELD, but the villainous Hydra (Not an acronym, one of the few) and of course those great gadgets like the crazy heli-carrier. We know when it came to wild tech, Kirby always delivered. All the bells and whistles of the Bond films, plus much, much more.

As a very young reader, I appreciated that Fury was a unique character; living in two different eras, in Sgt. Fury and in Shield. And that he interacted with Captain America and Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) in both of those eras.

SHIELD was another great Lee and Kirby creation, but the series became something extraordinary when Jim Steranko took over, first pencilling over Jack’s layouts, and eventually writing, pencilling, inking and even coloring some those epic SHIELD stories himself.

Dave Bullock’s modern cover is a pseudo-homage to one of Steranko’s great Shield covers, SHIELD # 4, with the uniform almost identical, minus the dagger on the boots. The background references the groundbreaking pop psychedelic look that Steranko himself was creating at the time.

If Marvel ever decided to create a SHIELD animated series, I’d want it to look exactly like this.

https://greggoldsteincomicartgallery.com/dave-bullock-man-for-the-job/

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kent mansley Member Since 2015
Posted On 7/24/2020

Man, this is so freaking good!

Craig Zablo Member Since 2004
Posted On 6/26/2025

I'd buy that comic!  Great piece.  Congrats.