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Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos (vol. 1) #1 (May 1963):
“Seven Against the Nazis”
by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers

Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos (vol. 1) #1

Title: “Seven Against the Nazis”

Medium: comic

Cover date: May 1963

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Stan Lee
Art by: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers


11 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Nick Fury Nick Fury
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: U secular
black; S.H.I.E.L.D....  Marvel 1,898
Nazis Nazis villain group real/historical person
CBR Scale: D Nazi
[generic WWII Nazis] Timely Marvel, etc. 4,222
Dum Dum Dugan Dum Dum Dugan hero
CBR Scale: I Catholic
Deadly Dozen; Godzilla Squad...  Marvel 555
Gabriel Jones Gabriel Jones hero
CBR Scale: U Christian (denomination
unknown)
black; Godzilla Squad...  Marvel 125
Junior Juniper Junior Juniper supporting character
  The Howling Commandos; U.S. Air Force
[based on Jerry Lewis; had cancer; joined Howling Commandos]
Marvel 6
Reb Ralston Reb Ralston hero
  S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Howling Commandos...  Marvel 22
Izzy Cohen Izzy Cohen hero
CBR Scale: M Jewish
S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Howling Commandos Marvel 76
Happy Sam Happy Sam (Samuel Sawyer) hero
  Deadly Dozen; Maulers...  Marvel 69
Dino Manelli Dino Manelli hero
  S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Howling Commandos Marvel 81
The Howling Commandos The Howling Commandos hero group
  [military unit] Marvel 351
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler
(cameo)
villain real/historical person
CBR Scale: D Nazi
[1st app: Uma Kaeru (1935)] Shochiku Kinema 1,593

This publication is also known as: Sgt. Fury #1. The title on the cover of this issue is clearly Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, but this may be only the title as it appears in the cover logo. Many sources identify this issue as Sgt. Fury #1, so it is likely that the official title as shown in the internal indicia is Sgt. Fury.