Nick Pitarra

Jonathan Hickman's SHIELD reimagines the Marvel Universe's secret history as a millennia-long conspiracy. The premise: SHIELD has existed since ancient times, and Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Isaac Newton, and Galileo were all agents who fought off alien invasions, cosmic threats, and dimensional incursions long before Nick Fury. It's high-concept historical fiction wrapped in Marvel iconography. Collects SHIELD #1–6 and SHIELD vol. 2 #1–6 (384 pages).