Even if just in various post-credit scenes. While it’s unlikely, we can’t help but hope Marvel Studios springs similarly big changes on fans before “Secret Wars” lands in theaters. 28, readers finally learned how Peter got that costume in the first place. Six months later in “Amazing Spider-Man” #258 (dated November 1984 but released July 31), Peter (with the help of the Fantastic Four) finally learns that the suit is a living parasitic organism attempting to bond with him permanently.įinally, in “Secret Wars” #8, dated December 1984 but released Aug. 31, 1984, Peter, with a de-Lizarded Curt Connors in two and the Avengers close behind, returns from that portal wearing the black suit. Then in “Amazing Spider-Man” #252 (dated May, 1984 but released Jan. 17, 1984, Peter feels a strong compulsion to go to Central Park, where he encounters a mysterious cosmic doorway and upon going through it, disappears.

But the series also resulted in She-Hulk replacing The Thing as a member of Fantastic Four, some interpersonal drama among the X-Men, and The Hulk sustaining injuries that restored his uncontrollable rage-version.Īnd as a side-note, the cool thing about those changes is that they occurred for readers months or even a full year before they were actually explained in the pages of “Secret Wars.” For instance, at the end of “Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man” #89, dated April, 1984 but released Jan. Most famously, the Battleworld is where Spider-Man picked up his black suit, which of course turned out to be the Venom symbiote. The simple premise heralded huge changes for the then-Marvel status quo. “Secret Wars” was a run in Marvel Comics from 1984 to 1985 that served as the first company-wide crossover event in comics history. What Is “Secret Wars,” Exactly? “Avengers: Secret Wars” (Marvel) As with “Secret Wars,” we don’t expect Marvel to adapt this storyline as a 1:1, but the basic plot gives us an idea of where Marvel is going with Phase 5. So “Kang Dynasty” could find Kang bringing the fight to Earth, while “Secret Wars” could be his revenge plot. Of course, eventually The Avengers stop him, but at great cost. In it, Kang, in a nutshell, comes back from the 30th century and actually manages to take over the entire planet earth - destroying the United Nations headquarters in the process. It gets its name from 16-part “Avengers” storyline written by the great Kurt Busiek that ran from 2001-2002. Marvel Reveals ‘Avengers’ 5 and 6: ‘Kang Dynasty’ and ‘Secret Wars’ So What Happens in “Kang Dynasty?”īefore we get to “Secret Wars,” there will be “Kang Dynasty,” the “Infinity War” to its “Endgame.”

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