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rivertonunited
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Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars

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I am collecting, slowly mind, the Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (US Marvel) series and all its tie in's. I have compiled what I think is a complete list of all, though I would welcome anyone who had any additions.

Forgive that fact that this will be a long post but I hope any other SW collectors or fans may find it useful

Amazing Spider-Man #249 - February 1984 (*)
Avengers #240 - February 1984 (*)
X-Men #178 - February 1984 (*)
Amazing Spider-Man #250 - March 1984 (*)
Avengers #241 - March 1984 (*)
New Mutants #13 - March 1984 (*)
Thor #341 - March 1984 (*)
X-Men #179 - March 1984 (*)
Amazing Spider-Man #251 - April 1984
Avengers #242 - April 1984
Captain America #292 - April 1984
Fantastic Four #265 - April 1984
Hulk #294 - April 1984
Iron Man #181 - April 1984
The Thing #10 - April 1984
Thor #342 - April 1984
X-Men #180 - April 1984
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1 - May 1984
Amazing Spider-Man #252 - May 1984
Avengers #243 - May 1984
Captain America #253 - May 1984
Fantastic Four #266 - May 1984
Hulk #295 - May 1984
Iron Man - #182 - May 1984
Marvel Team-Up #141 - May 1984
The Thing #11 - May 1984
X-Men #181 - May 1984
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #2 - June 1984
Hulk #295 - June 1984 (*)
Iron Man #183 - June 1984
The Thing #12 June 1984
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #3 - July 1984
Thing #13 July 1984
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #4 - August 1984
The Thing #14 - August 1984
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #5 - September 1984
The Thing #15 - September 1984
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #6 - October 1984
Thing #16 - October 1984
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #7 - November 1984
The Thing #17 - November 1984
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 - December 1984
Thing #18 - December 1984
Amazing Spider-Man #259 - December 1984 (*)
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #9 - January 1985
Amazing Spider-Man #260 - January 1985 (*)
The Thing #19 - January 1985
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #10 - February 1985
The Thing #20 - February 1985
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #11 - March 1985
The Thing #21 - March 1985
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #12 - April 1985
The Thing #22 - April 1985
Secret Wars II #1 - July 1985
Secret Wars II #2 - August 1985
Captain America #308 - August 1985
Iron Man #197 - August 1985
X-Men #196 - August 1985
Secret Wars II #3 - September 1985
Amazing Spider-Man #268 - September 1985
Fantastic Four #282 - September 1985
New Mutants #30 - September 1985
Web Of Spider-Man #6 - September 1985
Secret Wars II #4 - October 1985
Avengers #260 - October 1985
Daredevil #223 - October 1985
Hulk #312 - October 1985
Secret Wars II #5 - November 1985
Alpha Flight #28 - November 1985
Avengers #261 - November 1985
Dazzler #40 - November 1985
Rom #72 - November 1985
Secret Wars II #6 - December 1985
Fantastic Four #285 - December 1985
The Thing #30 - December 1985
Secret Wars II #7 - January 1986
Cloak & Dagger #4 - January 1986
Doctor Strange #74 - January 1986
Micronaughts #16 - January 1986
Power Man & Iron Fist #121 - January 1986
Power Pack #18 - January 1986
Thor #363 - January 1986
Secret Wars II #8 - February 1986
Amazing Spider-Man #273 - February 1986
Defenders #152 - February 1986
New Mutants #36 - February 1986
Spectacular Spider-Man #111 - February 1986
X-Men #202 - February 1986
Secret Wars II #9 - March 1986
Amazing Spider-Man #274 - March 1986
Avengers #265 - March 1986
Fantastic Four #288 - March 1986
New Mutants #37 - March 1986
X-Men #203 - March 1986
Avengers #266 (AKA Special Epilogue To Secret Wars II) - April 1986
Thor #383 - September 1987
Fantastic Four #317 - August 1988 (M*)
Fantastic Four #318 - September 1988 (M*)
Fantastic Four #319 (AKA Secret Wars III) - October 1988 (M*)
Fantastic Four #320 - November 1988 (M*)
Quasar #8 - March 1990 (*)
What If? #114 (AKA Secret Wars 25 Years Later) - November 1998
Deadpool Team-Up #1 - December 1998 (M*)
What If? Secret Wars #1 - February 2009
Spiderman & The Secret Wars #1 - December 2009 (*)
Spiderman & The Secret Wars #2 - January 2010 (*)
Spiderman & The Secret Wars #3 - February 2010 (*)
Spiderman & The Secret Wars #4 - March 2010 (*)

Ones marked (*) are considered optional but part of the story as they depicts the various characters leaving for and returning from the events of SW.

There were NO spin offs from SW1, apart from the (*) Optional ones.

Secret Wars II DID spin off into mulitple issues with most carrying the 'SWII Continues in the Issue' tag in the corner.

Secret Wars Miscellanious were 5 other issues as stated below with (M*)

I do not have much info on the UK version thoug but at this stage it is just the US Version for me.

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Gosh - It all seems so long ago now! Jim Shooter gets a lot of stick but one tends to forget how revolutionary (and how controversial) that first SW series was. I probably had every one of those at one time, though I've since got rid of most of them.

In a way I guess all the comics that featured Spider-Man's sentient black costume could be thought of as a kind of spin-off. :?

- Phil Rushton

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So revolutionary but I had still forgotten. At the time, working in a comic shop, I was amazed at the sales for the start of the series. But even though I was and still am a fan of umpteen superheroes in the one comic, I started to realise that this might be a cynical marketing ploy. Like Phil, I no longer have thise comics, apart from the first few issue of the main series.
Superhero groups and team ups have always been popular, hence the ongoing fascinationmwith LSH. But I stll enjoy those old Archie/Radio Comics, Mighty Crusaders. Corny, with not whatnyou would term the best art, but highly entertaining.
Now I think about it, Defenders had that short series of stories, Too Many Superheroes, and that was good fun.

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I still can't see those old ads for Brave and the Bold no.28 without feeling a tingle of excitement run down my spine:

"Just imagine, the mightiest heroes of our time have banded together as the Justice League of America to stamp out evil wherever and whenever it appears!"

Stirring stuff! :)

- Phil R.

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That is an interesting point Phil R. One I will mull over, which if I do include them to collect, I have no idea which issues incuded the black costume.

Interesting really that I see lots of Ebay SW Black costume auctions claiming that it was the first appereance. Issue and date wise, it wasnt of course, it was Amazing Spiderman 252. Now of course this was his return from Battleworld so chronology wise within the story it is after his first SW appareance!

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Apologies for this off-topic question, but are you in a position to update us, rivertonunited, on the progress of your United project?

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I have replied on that particular thread, phoenix.

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New Avengers: Illuminati (2006) #3
Published: May 30, 2007

THE MEGA SMASH MINI SERIES IS BACK!! Years ago a mysterious creature called the Beyonder gathered the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe for an epic called SECRET WARS. Now, finally, after decades of mystery, the TRUE origin of this powerful creature is revealed when the Illuminati try to stop the Beyonder from interfering with the Earth once more. What powerful connection does the Beyonder's true origin have to one of the power players of the Illuminati? Another stunner from Bendis (NEW AVENGERS, MIGHTY AVENGERS) Reed (MS. MARVEL) and Jim Cheung (YOUNG AVENGERS) 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99 less

Just found this, while doing some research. This is not on my list. Was this a one shot issue? Does anyone have any other additions I may have missed? Are there any other 'Beyonder' appearances apart from the above listed and this new found one?

Cheers

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rivertonunited wrote:New Avengers: Illuminati (2006) #3
Published: May 30, 2007

THE MEGA SMASH MINI SERIES IS BACK!! Years ago a mysterious creature called the Beyonder gathered the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe for an epic called SECRET WARS. Now, finally, after decades of mystery, the TRUE origin of this powerful creature is revealed when the Illuminati try to stop the Beyonder from interfering with the Earth once more. What powerful connection does the Beyonder's true origin have to one of the power players of the Illuminati? Another stunner from Bendis (NEW AVENGERS, MIGHTY AVENGERS) Reed (MS. MARVEL) and Jim Cheung (YOUNG AVENGERS) 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99 less

Just found this, while doing some research. This is not on my list. Was this a one shot issue? Does anyone have any other additions I may have missed? Are there any other 'Beyonder' appearances apart from the above listed and this new found one?

Cheers
The Beyonder appearance in the Illuminati storyline was his last to date, and it's a controversial one in that it gives him an entirely new origin story which basically doesn't make much sense and totally contradicts several dozen comics published in the eighties. Bendis has a tendency to do things like this, he's not big on continuity. A lot of Marvel readers tend to just choose to ignore this story.

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ILLUMINATI is pretty good as a mini-series - the artwork is gorgeous -but it basically serves as a prelude to SECRET INVASION and does re-write the Beyonder as a mutant Inhuman, if I remember it correctly. Which is indeed daft.

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