Captain America as featured on the cover of Secret War #3, art by Gabriele Dell'Otto. Publication information Format Publication date February 2004 – December 2005 No. Of issues 5 Creative team Written by Artist(s) Secret War is a 2004–2005 five-issue comic book published. The series is written by and painted. It is loosely based on classified operations told to Bendis by an anonymous high-ranking officer in the during Bendis' childhood. The storyline involves a large-scale featuring Marvel characters such as,,,, and fighting a wide array of who have received from a mysterious benefactor. The first issue was published in April 2004, and though intended originally as a publication, it faced long delays.

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It was completed with issue five's publication in December 2005. The aftermath of the series was explored in stories in and Bendis has gone on to use many of the same characters in his titles. Idm V6.07 Build 16 Final By Vibration more. This event begins an eight-year-long series of cross-over events ending with. The storyline in Secret War is unrelated to the original and crossover limited series which Marvel published in the mid-1980s, although its title is clearly inspired by them. Those stories received their own spiritual successor in, published in 2006. Bendis has noted that Secret War is connected to the ' storyline, in which Skrulls have infiltrated several institutions of Earth. Contents • • • • • • • • Synopsis [ ] In 2003,, Director of the international security force, uncovers a secret plot by Prime Minister to fund a group of B-List supervillains with advanced technology, presumably that of previous Latverian dictator (who was trapped in Hell at the time), as a means of wreaking terror on American soil.

Fury immediately takes his findings to the President of the United States but is denied the authorization requested to overthrow the post-Doom Latverian government due to its sponsorship by the U.S. Fury is enraged at what he sees as the same pre-9/11 security complacency inviting disaster yet again. Fury recruits,,,,,, and superhuman S.H.I.E.L.D.

Agent in a private attempt to covertly overthrow Latveria. A year later, a mass reprisal is unleashed across New York City, leaving Luke Cage in a coma as Fury and a cadre of NYC heroes face off against a cyborg Von Bardas and her hi-tech army.

The reprisal is revealed to be a trap for New York's superheroes when Von Bardas arms a high-tech bomb linked to the technology provided to her supervillain army. The cyborg Von Bardas is destroyed by Daisy Johnson, the bomb is disarmed, and the supervillain army is defeated and arrested. Captain America immediately demands answers from Nick Fury about what happened. They are soon joined by the X-Men and Wolverine, who attacks Fury until Johnson informs him that the man before him is a, and that the real Fury already departed. Through the L.M.D., Fury reveals the invasion of Latveria and the fact that the heroes (with the exceptions of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents Black Widow and Daisy Johnson) were brainwashed afterward. Nick Fury then informs the heroes that this is the last time they will see him and that he hopes those involved in his plot will understand that what he did was necessary.

His replacement as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.,, discovers the particulars of the story through her interrogation of Agent Johnson in the present-day framing device of the story. Cast [ ] Heroes [ ] • • • Nick Fury L.M.D. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Supervillains [ ] • • • • IX • • III • II • • • V • • • • • • IV • • I • • XIX • • • Tie-ins [ ] In addition to the main five-issue series, there were a few other comics that tied in with the storyline. Was a handbook-style one-off publication that featured S.H.I.E.L.D.