Monday, March 03, 2014

365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 62: SHIELD's Inter-Continental Phone Hook-Up Harness

Nick Fury...


Panels from "Who Strikes at — S.H.I.E.L.D.*?" in Strange Tales #142 (March 1966), plot and pencils by Jack Kirby, dialogue by Stan Lee, inks by Mike Esposito, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Artie Simek

...used a cell phone before they were cool.


*Spending Hundreds In Expensive Long Distance

1 comment:

Chance said...

This is hilarious on so many levels. The unnecessary machinery. The bustling GIs (armed!) who are needed to assemble it. Stan Lee's trademark insane narration (I think "Blast it!" counts as two wasted syllables). The gestures. The urgency. Never has making some phone calls been depicted so dramatically.