Why does Nick Fury have an eye patch?

[yenaled]

Why is every word capitalised?

 

[CEDNDON]

When he was injured by a grenade during the Second World War, his life commenced to be extended by annual injections of the Infinity Formula. This was also the cause of the injury to his eye that he took to covering with a cosmetic black eye-patch.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

If I were Fury, I'd get a flesh-colored patch like Saul Tigh.

I was actually disappointed in that choice. I mean, if I lost an eye, black is the only way to go.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Preferably with a skull and crossbones painted on it?

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

Well, you know, that or a happy face. You know, I don't want people to think I'm grumpy.

 

[mmcfadden]

Origin story from Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos (1963), issue 27fromFebruary 1966 tells how Sgt. Fury was on a mission in Germany with his Howling Commands and was in a fight with his team. During the fight a grenade was thrown at him by a German. He caught it and threw it back at the enemy, but it exploded and took out his eye. While in the infirmary back on base the doctors could have saved his eye but it would have kept him away from action for a year during the recovery. Instead he opted for losing the eye and only being out of action for a few days, this way he can continue fighting the good battle with his team for his country.

 

[runawayboulder]

Thanks, it's really been bugging me for the past 5 years.

 

[luis4u]

Here [YT]lXu8IJrwAhk[/YT]