Title: Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars
Issue Number: 8
Release Date: December 1984
Highlights
- That iconic cover
- First appearance of the symbiote, and Spider-Man in his black suit
- Iron Man gets his alien pieces of armor, which later become Omnivore
- The heroes attack the villain's base in an effort to find and help She-Hulk
- Enchantress is conjuring up her own mead, and severely drunk
- Reference is made to Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 3, 4, and 6
- Klaw frees Lizard from the stasis prison the villains put him in
- Wrecker hits Iron Man with his prybar, damaging the heroe's armor
- Absorbing Man sends shards of metal flying with one blow from his wrecking ball, shredding Spider-Man's suit with the debris
- As Thing attacks Absorbing Man, he transforms back into Ben Grim
- Hawkeye fires a warning arrow at Piledriver, but despite asking him to halt, the villain pushes forward - Hawkeye's next shot penetrates, shocking PIledrive, who has never been wounded before
- Mr. Fantastic burns his hands pulling Iron Man in his hot armor from the path of another blast of plasma from Volcana
- Hawkeye and Ben Grim distract Lizard and Klaw with a rousing game of patty cake
- The heroes take over the villains base, locking them up in the dungeon
- Captain Marvel and Hawkeye leave to go get Wasps body to bring her to the base for a proper burial
- Colossus uses the mist from Zsaji's hut to see into her mind, and realizes that Wasp was only on the edge of death, but that the healer used so much power to help her that she herself almost died
- Captain Marvel and Hawkeye arrive at the village to find Wasp alive
- Mr. Fantastic fixes and enhances Iron Man's armor with the alien technology, and sees that the man underneath the armor isn't Tony Stark
- After fixing up Thor's suit, the Hulk tells Spider-Man of a machine in the room behind him which can repair any type of cloth with just a thought
- Spider-Man unintentionally steps up to the wrong machine, and a black blob falls in front of him
- While his spider senses trigger, the ball envelopes his hand, encasing him in the black suit - A new era begins
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There was like a " black suit" movement that went on in the mid to late 80s. Black suit Captain America comes to mind. War machine a few years later but that was more of a gray suit.
ReplyDeleteThe Jim Shooter era of heroes!
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