Secret War ( Rus. The Secret War ) - a five-part comic strip published by Marvel Comics . The series was written by Brian Michael Bendis and painted by Gabriel Del'Otto. It is remotely based on covert operations told to Bendis as a child by an anonymous senior US intelligence officer [1] .
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 Cover of the comic book Secret War # 3 | |
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| Publisher | Marvel comics |
| Format | miniseries |
| Publication Dates | Feb 2004 - Dec 2005 |
| Number of issues | five |
| Characters | Nick Fury Captain America Spider-Man , Wolverine , Daredevil , Luke Cage , Black Widow |
| Creators | |
| Screenwriters | Brian Michael Bendis |
| Artists | Gabriel Del'Otto |
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The plot includes a large-scale superhero crossover with the participation of such Marvel Comics characters as Spider-Man , Captain America , Wolverine , Daredevil , Luke Cage and Nick Fury , fighting with a mass of supervillains who received high-tech weapons from the mysterious benefactor.
The first issue was published in April 2004, and although it was planned to publish two issues a month, there were long delays. The last fifth issue came out 21 months later, in December 2005.
The aftermath of the series was reflected in The Pulse, and Bendis used many of these characters in his New Avengers comic book.
The plot in Secret War has nothing to do with the original miniseries crossovers Secret Wars ( Secret Wars ) and Secret Wars II, published by Marvel in the mid-1980s, although the name is clearly inspired by them. Those stories got their own spiritual continuation in Beyond! ( Beyond! ), Published in 2006.
Bendis noted that the Secret War was connected with the Secret Invasion , where the Skrulls infiltrated several earthly organizations.
Story
In 2003, the director of the international security service Shch.I.T. Nick Fury reveals the secret plan of the Latvian Prime Minister Lucia von Bardas to equip a group of minor supervillains with advanced technologies, presumably from the previous dictator of Latvia, Doctor Doom (who was imprisoned in hell at that time) to spread terror in the United States. Fury immediately reports this to the American president, but he was refused a request for the authority to overthrow the post-Duma government of Latvia due to his sponsorship by the US government. Fury is furious, believing that this will lead to another September 11th.
Fury recruits Captain America, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Black Widow, Luke Cage, Wolverine and superhuman agent Sch.I.T. Daisy Johnson to privately try to secretly overthrow the government of Latvia.
A year later, a massive retaliation hit New York, which resulted in Luke Cage falling into a coma, and Fury and a squad of New York heroes clash with cyborg von Bardas and her high-tech army. The attack turns out to be a trap for local superheroes when von Bardas fires a high-tech bomb related to equipment issued to her army of supervillains.
Daisy Johnson kills von Bardas, the bomb is defused, the army of supervillains is defeated and arrested. Captain America promptly requires Nick Fury to answer what happened. Soon they are joined by the X-Men and Wolverine , who attacks Fury, but he turns out to be a robot. The real Nick Fury has already fled. Through the robot, Fury reveals the truth about the invasion of Latvia and the fact that the heroes (with the exception of agents of S.I.T. Black Widow and Daisy Johnson) were then brainwashed. Then he reports that they see him for the last time and he hopes that the participants in his adventure will realize that he did what he had to.
His replacement as director of Shch.I.T. Mary Hill learns the details of the story by interrogating Agent Johnson in the present tense, a story-setting tool [2] [3] [4] .
Members
Characters who participated in the Secret War:
- Nick Fury
- Luke Cage
- Captain America
- Daredevil
- Spider man
- Wolverine
- Black Widow
Notes
- ↑ Brian Bendis (2006). Secret War Marvel Comics . with. By Anonymous hardcover introduction.
- ↑ Secret War No. 1 (April 2004)
- ↑ Secret War No. 2-4
- ↑ Secret War No. 5 (December 2005)