Nick Fury LMD

A Life-Model Decoy is a hyper-realistic android duplicate developed by S.H.I.E.L.D. to serve as a stand-in for Nick Fury, allowing the spy organization to protect its director from assassination attempts while maintaining the appearance of his presence.

Few concepts capture the paranoid, spy-thriller soul of Marvel's Silver Age quite like the Nick Fury LMD — a Life-Model Decoy born in the pages of Strange Tales #135 in 1965, conjured by the legendary team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby at the height of the spy-craze era. This eerie technological stand-in has haunted the corridors of S.H.I.E.L.D. fiction for over six decades, turning up across Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Ultimates in the company of some of Marvel's biggest names — Tony Stark, Captain America, Spider-Man, the Hulk, and Reed Richards among them. With 18 catalog appearances and a key-issue credit to its name, the LMD is a niche but genuinely fascinating piece of Marvel mythology, a reminder that in the world of espionage, you can never be entirely sure who — or what — you're really dealing with.