


The following issue had a cover story on the series, which had been renamed Secret Wars. The series was announced as Cosmic Champions in the eleventh issue of the Marvel Age news magazine, cover dated February 1984. The series was conceived by Marvel Comics' editor-in-chief Jim Shooter. It was tied in with a toy line and a role-playing game of the same name from Mattel. The series was written by Jim Shooter, with art by Mike Zeck and Bob Layton. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, commonly known as Secret Wars, is a 12-issue American comic book crossover limited series published from May 1984 to April 1985 by Marvel Comics. Cover art by Mike Zeck depicting Captain America, Cyclops, Wolverine, Hawkeye, The Wasp, Rogue, She-Hulk, The Thing, Captain Marvel, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Hulk, Spider-Man, Storm, Human Torch and Iron Man Check out more of our incessant arguments at debatethiscast.Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #1 (May 1984). Debate This! is a dumb show where grown men yell at each other over video games and comics. About FLAVOR TEXT: Marvel Secret Wars Episodeĭo you think the people at Marvel back in the 80s would ever have thought that their one-off concept of make everyone fight each other on an alien planet would go on to be the single most important thing to happen in the Marvel universe? And that this one storyline would be the thing that retconned, redefined, and completely undid multiple series more than 15 years in the making? This week's FLAVOR TEXT is giving you the entire Secret Wars saga, a notorious storyline that started as a flimsy excuse to sell more toys to being the actual most ambitious crossover event in Marvel history.
