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Secret Wars comes to Hasbro’s Marvel Legends Series for 40th anniversary

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As part of Hasbro’s Pulse Con 2024 reveals, the toy giant has announced that it will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic Secret Wars storyline with a new wave of Marvel Legends Series figures paying homage to the classic Mattel action figures of the 1980s. Take a look at the promotional images below, along […]

Comic Book Preview – Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld #1

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Marvel marks the upcoming 40th anniversary of Secret Wars next week with the launch of a brand new miniseries set during the iconic 1984 event, and we have the official preview of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld #1 for you below; check it out… AFTER NEARLY FORTY YEARS, THE MYSTERIES OF THE SECRET WARS […]

Avengers: Endgame directors say a Secret Wars movie would be bigger than The Infinity Saga

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After weaving so many threads and bringing together dozens of characters from across the various branches of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, one has to wonder how Marvel Studios could possibly hope to raise the stakes and the scale for its new big MCU event. However, if you’re directors […]

The Russo Brothers would like to direct Marvel’s Secret Wars

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Having directed the Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War, directors Anthony and Joe Russo were entrusted by Marvel to bring the studio’s two-part Avengers epic to the big screen with Avengers: Infinity War and next year’s hugely anticipated sequel. By the time Avengers 4 releases, the Russos will have spent almost […]

Avengers: Infinity War directors would like a Secret Wars movie if Disney’s Fox takeover goes through

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Assuming Disney’s planned takeover of 21st Century Fox’s film and TV assets goes through, Marvel Studios will find itself with the vast majority of its characters at its disposal for use in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While this is surely any Marvel fan’s dream, the studio will have to tackle the difficult question of how […]

Done to Death: The Perpetual Resurrection of Comic Book Characters

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Anghus Houvouras on the perpetual resurrection of comic book characters… Death. It’s a constant in the world of comic books. Something employed by Marvel and DC with marked regularity. A creative crutch that’s as synonymous to the medium as cliffhanger endings and over sexualized females in barely there costumes. It’s such a tired, meaningless cliché. […]

Catch up with Marvel’s Secret Wars in ‘Story So Far’ recap video

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With the final issue of Secret Wars set to arrive this Wednesday, Marvel has released a ‘Story So Far’ recap video which brings you up to date with all the happenings from the huge event series in preparation for the cataclysmic and Battleworld-shaking climax. Check it out here… SEE ALSO: Variant covers for Marvel’s Secret […]

The Most Disappointing: Marvel’s Secret Wars

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Anghus Houvouras shares his disappointment with Marvel’s Secret Wars… Disappointment is the byproduct of expectation. The feeling one gets when the excitement of anticipation makes way for the charred feeling of disenchantment. Marvel’s latest event comic, Secret Wars, had been highly buzzed about since the series was first announced. An epic, world ending event that […]

Marvel announces Secret Wars Too for November

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Marvel is set to give Secret Wars a grand sendoff this November as some of the hottest names in the comics industry bid adieu to Battleworld with the oversized one-shot Secret Wars Too #1. Secret Wars scribe Jonathan Hickman himself unites with the likes of Sergio Aragones, Ryan Browne, Al Ewing, Rob Guillory, Kate Leth, […]