Battle Scars (comic book)

Battle Scars
Cover to issue five.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Publication date	2011
No. of issues	6
Main character(s)	Nick Fury Jr Nick Fury
Creative team
Written by	Cullen Bunn Matt Fraction Christopher Yost
Artist(s)	Scot Eaton Andrew 'Drew' Hennessy
Penciller(s)	Scot Eaton
Inker(s)	Andrew 'Drew' Hennessy
Letterer(s)	Joe Sabino
Colorist(s)	Antonio Fabela Matthew 'Matt' Hollingsworth Paul Mounts
Editor(s)	Axel Alonso Alejandro Arbona Tom Brevoort John Denning Jennifer Grünwald Joe Quesada

Battle Scars is a six issue comic book miniseries published by Marvel Comics in 2011 and 2012. The series was created to introduce Nick Fury Jr, the black son of the original Nick Fury to correspond with the version played in the films by Samuel L. Jackson; The series introduced the character of Phil Coulson from the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the comics.

The series was published from 2011 to 2012.

While serving in the Middle East, Marcus Johnson receives word that his mother Nia Jones has been killed back in the United States. He returns home and is attacked by the Russian hitmen who killed her, and by Taskmaster, but is saved by Captain America. S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrive and take him to a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility for medical treatment. After failing to get answers as to why he was targeted and his mother killed, Johnson comes to feel he is being held there against his will and escapes.

While searching for Taskmaster, Johnson is attacked by Deadpool, who is also after Johnson. As they fight, Taskmaster arrives and dispatches Deadpool, but Johnson himself defeats Taskmaster. Johnson is felled, however, by the Serpent Squad. When Deadpool again intervenes, Johnson escapes with Taskmaster as his prisoner, and later interrogates him. Before he can obtain any information, a masked man stuns Taskmaster, drains Johnson's energy for a moment, and escapes. Johnson catches up with the man, who is revealed to be Johnson's father, Nick Fury.

While arguing and eventually coming to blows over the revelation, Fury and Johnson are captured by mercenaries who bring them to Orion (who was a former member of the organization Leviathan). Orion has Johnson's left eye cut out and confirms that Johnson has the Infinity Formula in his DNA. Fury escapes his restraints and gives Johnson enough time to escape, but Fury is captured and his blood transfused to Orion, so that Orion's youth can be restored. The transfusion drains Fury of the remaining Infinity Formula in his system, and he is then tortured and mind-probed by Orion's telepath, who acquires all of Fury's S.H.I.E.L.D. secrets and fail-safes. Johnson saves Fury with the help of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson and later kills Orion. After convalescing, Johnson is given the Super Soldier uniform that Steve Rogers once wore. As a new agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Johnson is also informed that his birth name is "Nicholas Fury Jr.".