Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #12 [Newsstand]

(April 1985)

...Nothing to Fear... (Table of Contents: 1)

Marvel Super Heroes / comic story / 43 pages (report information)

Script

Jim Shooter (credited)

Pencils

Mike Zeck (credited); Arthur Adams (p. 30, see notes)

Inks

John Beatty (credited); Arthur Adams; Art Nichols; Joe Rubinstein; Mike Mignola (p. 30, see notes)

Colors

Christie Scheele (credited)

Letters

Joe Rosen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Twenty-one lie dead here.

Genre

superhero

Characters

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

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

The heroes are dead and Doom tries to contain the power of the Beyonder. The villains, heading back, begin to squabble. Klaw manipulates Doom to resurrect the heroes. The Beyonder sucks his power back out of Doom. Doom, Klaw and Ultron disappear. The heroes return changed to earth; Spider-Man with a black alien costume, Curt Connors cured of the Lizard, Hulk has a busted leg. Colossus has lost love, Zsaji, the X-Men get new costumes, Lockheed returns with another dragon, Captain America's shield is restored, and She-Hulk joins the Fantastic Four when The Thing remains on Battleworld.

Reprints

• in Secret Wars (Guerras Secretas) (Editora Abril, 1986 series) #12
• in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #77 (10 juin 1986) [-5 pages]
• in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #15 (28 de julio de 1988), #17 (11 de agosto de 1988)
• in Edderkoppen (Semic, 1984 series) #9/1988 ([september] 1988) [pages 1-22]
• in Spindelmannen (SatellitFörlaget, 1988 series) #9/1988 ([September] 1988)
• in Edderkoppen (Semic, 1984 series) #10/1988 ([oktober] 1988) [pages 23-43]
• in Spindelmannen (SatellitFörlaget, 1988 series) #10/1988 ([Oktober] 1988)
• in Marvel Secret Wars (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) (Noviembre 2003)
• in Secret Wars Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) (2008)
• in Hasbro / Secret Wars (Marvel, 2009 series) #12 (October 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)

Indexer Notes

A number of uncredited inkers worked on this book to beat the deadline of which Arthur Adams sequence is the most recognizable.

Per Stuart Neft via the GCD Error Report #11231 (27 August 2017), Neft owns the original art for page 30 and it was penciled by Arthur Adams and inked by Mike Mignola. It is possible that the pair also did another page for this story, but which page is not yet known.

The Puff character from marvel.fandom.com.