(January 2008)
Marvel,
2007 Series
- Price
- 2.99 USD; 3.05 CAD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Rated T+
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Publishing Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel [in horizontal box]
- Barcode
- 759606060511 00511
- Printer
- Printed in the USA
- Editing
- Molly Lazer (credited) (assistant editor); Tom Brevoort (credited) (editor); Joe Quesada (credited) (editor in chief)
Issue Notes
Direct Edition. Marvel Limited Series 5 of 5.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Secret Invasion: The Infiltration
The Illuminati / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jim Cheung (signed)
- Inks
- Mark Morales (signed as
Morales) - Colors
- Justin Ponsor (signed as
J-Po) - Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Reed Richards [Mr. Fantastic]; Dr. Strange [Dr. Stephen Strange]; Black Bolt [Blackagar Boltagon]; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Charles Xavier [Professor X]; Elektra [Skrull corpse]
- Reprints
-
in Secret Invasion: The Infiltration (Marvel, 2008 series) (2008) - in New Avengers: Illuminati (Marvel, 2008 series) ([May] 2008)
-
in Avengers Unconquered (Panini UK, 2009 series) #17 (April 2010)
-
[no title indexed]
The Illuminati / recap / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Reed Richards [Mr. Fantastic]; Dr. Strange [Dr. Stephen Strange]; Black Bolt [Blackagar Boltagon]; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Charles Xavier [Professor X]
- Synopsis
- Recaps the story to this point.
Indexer Notes
Creator credits and indicia information. Features a group pose.
[no title indexed]
The Illuminati / comic story / 23 pages
- Script
- Brian Michael Bendis (credited); Brian Reed (credited)
- Pencils
- Jim Cheung (credited)
- Inks
- Mark Morales (credited)
- Colors
- Justin Ponsor (credited)
- Letters
- Cory Petit of Virtual Calligraphy (credited as VC's Cory Petit)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Whose body is that?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Reed Richards [Mr. Fantastic]; Dr. Strange [Dr. Stephen Strange]; Black Bolt [Blackagar Boltagon; Skrull] (death of); Namor the Sub-Mariner; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Charles Xavier [Professor X]; Elektra (Skrull corpse); Skrulls (death of)
- Reprints
- in Secret Invasion: The Infiltration (Marvel, 2008 series) (2008)
- in New Avengers: Illuminati (Marvel, 2008 series) ([May] 2008)
-
in Marvel Heroes (Panini France, 2007 series) #10 (août 2008) - in Avengers Unconquered (Panini UK, 2009 series) #17 (April 2010)
- in Marvel Comics - La collection (Hachette, 2014 series) #201 - New Avengers : Les Illuminati (février 2022)
-
Fury's Files
filler / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Nyx; Beast [Hank McCoy]; X-men [Silver Age]; X-men [Present]
- Synopsis
- "Discovered in a decommissioned S.H.I.E.L.D. safehouse, a list of little known facts about the X-Men was discovered that Nick Fury personally collected to be used or leveraged when necessary."
Indexer Notes
Small illustrated capsules from the covers to X-Men #1 (1963) and X-Men Messiah Complex #1 (2008) adorn the bottom edge of the page. Additionally there are two small illustrated capsules of Beast and Nyx taken from unknown issues that adorn the right side of the page.
Look Who's Talking!
Matt Fraction / character profile / 1 page
- Script
- Matt Fraction (interviewee); ? [as Marvel] (interviewer)
- Pencils
- David Aja
- Inks
- David Aja
- Colors
- Matt Hollingsworth
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Iron Fist
- Synopsis
- Interview with writer of IMMORTAL IRON FIST, Matt Fraction.
- Keywords
- Interview
Indexer Notes
Features a portion of the cover to issue #1 of IMMORTAL IRON FIST.
Questions That Need Answers!
filler / 1 page
- Characters
- Wasp; Kitty Pryde; Spider Woman [Jessica Drew]; Luke Cage; Psylocke; Mary Jane Watson; Squirrel Girl; Ms. Marvel; Dead Girl; Galactus; Clea; Mystique; Gambit
- Synopsis
- If you could date a Marvel character, who would it be and why?
Indexer Notes
Fourteen writers and artists answered this question: J. Michael Straczynski, Marc Sumerak, Brian Reed, Brian Michael Bendis, Dan Slott, C.B. Cebulski, Joe Quesada, Frank Cho, Chris Yost, Fred Van Lente, Matt Fraction, Jeff Parker, Craig Kyle and Christian Strain. Additionally, the answers to this question is enhanced by a small illustrated capsule of the Marvel character in question. I can only identify the following artists: John Cassaday, David Finch, John Romita, Sr., Bryan Hitch, Frank Cho, MIke Allred.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Secret Invasion: The Infiltration
The Illuminati -
1.
[no title indexed]
The Illuminati -
2.
["Whose body is that?"]
The Illuminati -
3.
Fury's Files
-
4.
Portfolio Review
New Exiles #1 -
5.
Look Who's Talking!
Matt Fraction -
6.
Questions That Need Answers!
-
7.
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