Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #8 [Newsstand]

(December 1984)

Invasion! (Table of Contents: 1)

Marvel Super Heroes / comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Script

Jim Shooter (credited)

Pencils

Mike Zeck (credited)

Inks

John Beatty (credited); Jack Abel (credited); Mike Esposito (credited)

Colors

Christie Scheele (credited)

Letters

Joe Rosen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hurry! She's in trouble, I know it!

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Avengers: Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau] (also in flashback); Hawkeye [Clint Barton] (also in flashback); Iron Man [Jim Rhodes] (also in flashback); She-Hulk [Jennifer Walters] (also in flashback); Thor [Thor Odinson] (also in flashback); Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (also in flashback)
Fantastic Four: Ben Grimm (also as the Thing); Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (also in flashback); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]
The Wrecking Crew: Bulldozer [Henry Camp]; Piledriver [Brian Calusky]; Thunderball [Eliot Franklin]; Wrecker [Dirk Garthwaite]
X-Men: Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]; Professor X [Charles Xavier]; Rogue [Anna Marie] (cameo); Storm [Ororo Munroe] (cameo)
Absorbing Man [Crusher Creel]; Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom]; Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius]; Enchantress [Amora]; Galactus [Galan]; Hulk [Bruce Banner] (also in flashback); Klaw [Ulysses Klaue]; Lizard [Curt Connors]; Magneto [Erik Lehnsherr]; Molecule Man [Owen Reece]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Spider-Woman [Julia Carpenter]; Titania [Mary MacPherran]; Ultron; Venom (first appearance of the Venom symbiote); Volcana [Marsha Rosenberg]; Zsaji (also in flashback)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

The heroes invade the bad guys' base in retaliation for the death of the Wasp. They soundly trounce the bad guys and capture most of them. As they return to their base with a badly wounded She-Hulk, they discover that Wasp is not dead but was healed by Zsaji. When Spider-Man notices that Thor's costume has been restored, he is directed to a machine that spits out a small black ball which quickly covers him and becomes his new costume. Xavier contacts the heroes and tells them that Galactus has begun to eat Battleworld.

Reprints

• in Secret Wars (Guerras Secretas) (Editora Abril, 1986 series) #8
• in Secret Wars (Marvel UK, 1985 series) #17 (October 26, 1985) [pages 18-25. Pages 18-20 & 25 are black & white. Pages 21-24 are in colour. Page 18 is reduced in size to make room for a section heading & eight bust sketches of heroes & villains]
• in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #73 (10 février 1986) [-2 pages]
• in Edderkoppen (Interpresse, 1984 series) #43 (1988)
• in Spindelmannen (SatellitFörlaget, 1988 series) #4/1988 ([April] 1988)
• in Edderkoppen (Semic, 1984 series) #4/1988 ([april] 1988)
• in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #8 (9 de junio de 1988)
• in Speciale Guerre Segrete (Edizioni Star Comics, 1990 series) #2 (1990)
• in Marvel Secret Wars (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) (Noviembre 2003)
• in Marvel Milestones: Venom & Hercules (Marvel, 2005 series) (2005)
• in Spider-Man: Birth of Venom (Marvel, 2007 series) ([March] 2007) [Pages 24-25]
which is reprinted
• in Spider-Man vs. Venom Omnibus (Marvel, 2018 series) (2018)
• in Secret Wars Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) (2008)
• in Hasbro / Secret Wars (Marvel, 2009 series) #8 (May 2009)
• in Secret Wars (Marvel, 2011 series) (2011)
• in Marvel Série I (Levoir, 2012 series) #13 - Guerras Secretas - A Batalha Final
• in Marvel Gold : Secret Wars - Les Guerres secrètes (Panini France, 2013 series) (mai 2013)
• in Die offizielle Marvel-Comic-Sammlung (Hachette [DE], 2013 series) #6 - Super Heroes: Secret Wars, Teil 2 (Juli 2014)
• in Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов (Ашет Коллекция [Hachette], 2014 series) #32 - Секретные Войны
• in Marvel Super Heroes - Secret Wars (Panini Deutschland, 2015 series) (2015)
• in Symbiote Spider-Man: Marvel Tales (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 (March 2021)

Indexer Notes

First chronological appearance of Venom (as new Spider-Man costume). Spider-Man’s new black costume only appears on the last two pages of the story. This issue came out seven months after Amazing Spider-Man #252. Wasp returns from the dead.