There are few notable ‘good guy’ moments, other than the Hulk playing hero a few times while also having mental issues of his own. Well, mentally unstable – there is a pun waiting to happen somewhere in there. Playing a slight second fiddle are a couple of his henchmen, such as the supremely-powerful, but very unstable Molecule Man. While the series purports to feature a massive number of Marvel comics characters, a few emerge with the most ‘screen time.’ In particular, Dr. Note: If you’ve not read this series and plan to read it at some point, consider the following to be ‘spoiler-filled’ commentary.
The series was largely put together as an opportunity for Marvel to cash in on a toy deal with Kenner after their rival, DC Comics, had made a killing for years selling figures of their then-better-known heroes such as Superman and Batman. In the story, a super-powerful alien being known only as ‘The Beyonder’ collects up many of the stars of the Marvel universe and pits them against one another on an alien planet called ‘Battleworld’ that has been created from small pieces of many other planets. It seemed like a good opportunity to finally read the series and, if I didn’t like it, an opportunity to simply resell it on eBay. I had issue #3 (of 12) and, while it seemed interesting, it didn’t blow me away.įast forward nearly twenty years and I had the opportunity to buy the Marvel Omnibus collection of it for a relatively low price. I’d been meaning to read “Secret Wars” since elementary school, but I never made it a priority to pick up either the original issues or a trade paperback collection that came out in the early 1990s.
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