RESTORA-TANK

Classification: Terrestrial technology

Creator: Unidentified SHIELD technicians

User/Possessors: Hogan and three other SHIELD emergency medical technicians

First Appearance: Strange Tales I#148/1 (September, 1966)

Powers/Abilities/Functions: The Restora-Tank was a man-sized glass tube filled with a cell-repairing substance called "Vita-Fluid," which could nurse an injured person if at least a spark of life remained in him.

History:
(Strange Tales I#148/1) - While Nick Fury was in a SHIELD detention area interrogating some AIM agents who had been captured after they unsuccessfully raided the SHIELD Barbershop, AIM remotely detonated an explosion to blow up the prisoners. As Fury staggered out of the flames, an emergency crew headed by Dum-Dum Dugan went to aid him. Fearing that Fury was badly injured, Dugan called for the EMTs to bring in the Restora-Tank.

  Four emergency technicians rolled in the tank, and Fury was placed inside so he could be taken to surgery, but one of the EMTs (Hogan) had a grim prognosis -- Fury was beyond their help.

   As the fire blazed and Dugan tearfully thought of the loss of their commander, the real Nick Fury stepped into view and sternly reprimanded him ("Drop the crying towel and pick up a hose, you mush-hearted ape!") -- suspecting a trick, Fury had actually sent an LMD earlier in his place into the detention area.

Comments: Created by Jack Kirby (scripter) and Don Heck (artist).

Profile by John Kaminski

CLARIFICATIONS:
The Restora-Tank has no known connections to

• Brawn Tank, Hostess ad, Iron Man foe @ Iron Man in: Brains Over Brawn
• Nutrient Bath, used to seperate Bruce Banner and Hulk @ Incredible Hulk II#315
• Rhino Tank, HYDRA weapon @ Strange Tales I#138
• Swamp Tank, Savage Land vehicle @ Savage Tales I#1/5
• Think-Tank, weapon of Mind-Wave @ Daredevil I#133
• Think Tank, alias of Mentallo as Resistants member @ Captain America I#346
• Think Tank, designed by Teresa Roberts of New Universe @ Spitfire and the Troubleshooters#3
• or any other tank

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Strange Tales I#148, p2, pan4 (tank being rollet out)