![]() Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars was a comic book that ran throughout 1984 with a very simple concept: What if the company’s biggest heroes fought the company’s biggest villains, but nobody knew about it? The idea behind the series grew out of the title, which itself came from a toy company: Secret Wars was a tie-in to the similarly-named Mattel toy line, which featured characters like Spider-Man, Wolverine, Captain America and Iron Man, and was named as the result of market research that suggested that the words “Secret” and “War” scored highly with the target demo of young boys.įrom that beginning, Marvel Comics’ then-editor-in-chief Jim Shooter built a story, illustrated for 12 issues by Captain America artist Mike Zeck and Iron Man’s Bob Layton, in which the heroes and villains were both kidnapped by an alien entity to fight for its entertainment, with the winning side gaining their hearts’ desires. This may need some explanation for those unfamiliar with Marvel’s comic book output of the 1980s. ![]()
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