Fury Max: My War Gone By

In this two-issue Marvel MAX series from 2012–2013, writer Garth Ennis and artist Goran Parlov deliver a brutally unflinching look at Nick Fury’s long, bloody career in covert operations. Rather than a superhero tale, it’s a war comic that traces Fury’s moral compromises across decades of secret missions from World War II to the Cold War. Ennis and Parlov, who previously collaborated on the acclaimed Punisher MAX, bring their signature gritty realism to the character’s origin as a soldier and spy. The series matters for stripping away the espionage glamour to examine the human cost of Fury’s lifelong war.