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Well, we certainly guessed it last month, but this week’s issue of Battle Scars cut right to the chase and revealed the secret behind Marcus Johnson. Marvel promised it would be big, after all, and when we talked to Matt Fraction at NYCC, he mentioned that it was a story Marvel had wanted to tell for quite some time.
So who exactly is Marcus Johnson?
Why, he’s Nick Fury’s bastard son, of course.
The evidence had certainly been piling up to this, what with the frequent references to Marcus Johnson’s unknown father, that father’s supposed military history, mentions of lineage and the cover to the sixth issue where Johnson is missing an eye.
But really, the reason for this should be fairly obvious: Marvel has a big budget action film entitled The Avengers heading to theaters this summer, and one of the star players in it is Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. While his appearance is based on the character from the Ultimate Universe, it’d be a bit of a shame if there wasn’t a black Nick Fury on Earth-616 for all those Avengers fans who Marvel hopes will come to comic shops to start reading the monthly adventures of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
So there you have it: Marcus Johnson is actually Marcus Fury, he’ll lose his eye in the next issue, and the black Nick Fury is born for the Marvel Universe.
