Comics Corner: Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 1

   

Title: Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars
Issue Number: 1
Release Date: May 1984

Highlights

• First appearance of the Beyonder, but only his voice is heard
• First appearance of Beyond, and Battleworld
• So many heroes and villains appear in this amazing twelve issue mini-series
• The Avengers
• Wasp
• She-Hulk
• Captain Marvel
• Captain America
• Thor
• Hawkeye
• Iron Man
• The X-Men
• Professor Xavier
• Storm
• Nightcrawler
• Rogue
• Cyclops
• Wolverine
• Colossus
• Lockheed the Dragon
• The Incredible Hulk
• The Amazing Spider-Man
• The Fantastic Four (minus The Invisible Girl)
• Mister Fantastic
• The Thing
• The Human Torch
• Enchantress
• Ultron
• The Absorbing Man
• The Wrecker and His Wrecking Crew
• Thunderball
• Piledriver
• Bulldozer
• Kang
• Galactus
• The Lizard
• Molecular Man
• Doctor Octopus
• Doctor Doom
• Magneto
• The heroes and villains are all in their respective group, travelling aboard their own ship
• With exception of Magneto, who is on the hero's ship for some reason
• The villains immediately start arguing amongst each other, and Ultron starts a physical fight, which sends them all running in different directions
• Molecular Man throws Ultron into the side of Galactus, who snuffs out the energy from with the robot with a mere thought
• The Beyonder reveals himself by showcasing his power to destroy a universe, and instantly create another
• After witnessing this, the Beyonder tells everyone to slay their enemies, and all they desire will be theirs
• Galactus leaves the ship, and flies towards the voice, telling the Beyonder that he knows that he, the Beyonder, can cure him of his endless hunger, and he wants to be cured now
• Doom follows Galactus hungering for the power he feels coming from the Beyonder
• All parties are beamed down to the planet surface of Battleworld
• Reference is made to X-Men 150
• The presence of Magneto among the heroes begins to split them apart as the X-Men defend needing him and his powers, while the rest condemn him as a murderer
• Seeing the heroes prepared to fight, Magneto opts to leave, stating he will not be responsible for mutants shedding each other's blood over him
• The heroes decide they need a leader, and Professor Xavier nominates Reed Richards, but he declines stating that with his wife expecting, and not being there with him, he wouldn't be able to focus enough to lead everyone
• Reed Richards nominates The Hulk, but he declines, stating he's not interested in giving orders, and he nominates Captain America
• Captain America asks Professor Xavier why he wouldn't want to lead everyone, and he tells Captain America that he has the courage and heart to be the leader, so Captain America accepts
• The villains nominate Doctor Doom to lead him to their prize promised by the Beyonder, but he tells them not to be so narrow minded, and focus on the bigger picture of the power available
• Doom gets frustrated with their shortsightedness, and leaves the villains, taking a craft to fly away
• Kang shoots Doom out of the sky
• Seeing the explosion, the heroes head towards it, carried through the sky by Strom's powers
• Spider-Man shouts "Wheee!" as he sky surfs on a strand of webbing connected to the Hulk's back
• The heroes try to help Doom, but he uses his gauntlets to blast at them, and flies away
• The villains attack the heroes in a cliffhanger ending
• A great first chapter

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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