Comic Book Classics Revisited continues its look at the original Secret Wars. We’ve made it to issue #5, and at last, the X-Men strike back!

Welcome back to Comic Book Classics Revisited – a place we like to give detailed annotations of comics from a bygone age. We’ve reach the fourth issue of Marvel’s 80s mega-event, Secret Wars.

Welcome back to Comic Book Classics Revisited! As week #2 begins, we’re still in the early stages of Marvel’s mega-event, Secret Wars. So let’s crack open issue #3 and start the annotations of this classic…

Welcome back to Comic Book Classics Revisited! Today, we’re looking at the second issue of the event that basically started all others, Secret Wars. Let’s jump right in, shall we?

To get us started, as 2015 gets started as well, I figured it would only be fair to look back at the event that has inspired Marvel Comics’ upcoming mega event that may (or may not) lead to major shakeups in their publishing line. Yes, I’m talking about 1984’s mega-hit, Secret Wars, or if we were to call it by its actual publication name – Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars.