Interior art and story concepts by five decades' worth of Marvel’s greatest creative talents. Retelling the Skrull stories of Annihilation: Prologue, Annihilation #1-6, Annihilation: Super-Skrull #1-4, Avengers (I) #89-97, 133, 258-261, 345-347, Avengers Annual #14, West Coast Avengers (II) #80-82, The Black Panther (I) #31-34, Captain America (I) #398-401, Captain America (III) #4-7, Captain Marvel (I) (Mar-Vell) #2-4, Fantastic Four (I) #2,18, 32, 37, 90-93, 204-214, 256-257, 262, 358, Fantastic Four Annual #18, 19, Iron Man (I) #278-279, Marvel Premiere #35-37, Marvel: The Lost Generation #1-12, Marvel Westerns: Kid Colt and the Arizona Girl #1, Mighty Avengers #7, The New Avengers (I) #16, 19, 27-32, New Avengers: Illuminati (II) #1-5, Nova (I) #25, Quasar #32-35, She-Hulk (I) #23, The Silver Surfer (I) #1-31, Skrull Kill Krew (I) #1-5, Thor (I) #142, 445-446, Uncanny X-Men (I) #137, Wisdom #1-5, Wonder Man (II) #7-9, Young Avengers #9-12.
A detailled listing of the saga:
Page | Contents | Origin | Artist |
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1 | Iron Man and Maria Hill, framing sequence | - | - |
2 | Spider-Woman delivering the Skrull body to Stark | Mighty Avengers #7 | Mark Bagley |
3 | The New Avengers discovering the Skrull posing as Elektra | The New Avengers (I) #31 | Leinil Francis Yu |
4 | Spider-Woman joins the Mighty Avengers and they are taking off | Mighty Avengers #7 | Mark Bagley |
5 | The Illuminati and the bodybag | New Avengers: Illuminati (II) #5 | Jim Cheung |
6-7 | Black Bolt revealed as Skrull | New Avengers: Illuminati (II) #5 | Jim Cheung |
8 | The Skrull Empire | - | Scott Kolins? |
9 | Kid Colt and Arizona Girl meeting Skrulls | Marvel Westerns: Kid Colt and the Arizona Girl #1 | Federica Manfredi |
Abduction of "Machine Gun" Martin | - | Ditko? | |
Skrull saboteurs posing as the Fantastic Four | - | - | |
10 | First Fantastic Four encounter with the Skrulls, leaving behind the cow-skrulls | Fantastic Four (I) #2 | Jack Kirby |
Introducing the Super-Skrull | Fantastic Four (I) #18 | Jack Kirby | |
11 | Fantasitc Four vs. the Super-Skrull | Fantastic Four (I) #18 | Jack Kirby |
Death of Sue's father, caused by a Skrull plot | Fantastic Four (I) #32 | Jack Kirby | |
Super-Skrull vs Thor | Thor (I) #142 | Jack Kirby | |
12-13 | Ben Grimm's abduction to Kral IV where the Skrulls emulated the Prohibition era | Fantastic Four (I) #90ff | Jack Kirby |
The recent Black Panther-lead Fantastic Four visits Kral IV | Black Panther (IV) #32ff | Francis Portella | |
The flashpoint of the Kree-Skrull antagonism | - | - | |
14 | Captain Marvel helps Earth not to become a strategic point in the Kree-Skrull wars | - | - |
Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch vs Skrulls | - | - | |
15 | The Kree-Skrull War and the Avengers involvement | Avengers (I) #89-97 | - |
16-17 | The Illuminati captured and tested by Skrulls | New Avengers: Illuminati (II) #1 | Jim Cheung |
18-19 | Galactus devours the Skrull homeworld | - | John Byrne |
20-21 | Skrull civil war | - | - |
Operation Galactic Storm | Operation: Galactic Storm | - | |
22 | Skrull Kill Krew | Skrull Kill Krew (I) | - |
23 | Lyja | - | - |
Capmania, Skrull posing as Hydra leader | - | - | |
24 | Skrulls invading the pop culture | Wisdom | Trevor Hairsine |
Jazinda | She-Hulk (II) #23 | Shawn Moll | |
25 | Hulkling | - | - |
26-27 | Young Avengers | - | - |
28-29 | Young Avengers vs Skrulls | - | - |
30-31 | Annihilation destroys most of the Skrull worlds | - | - |
32 | Illuminati disbands in lack of trust | New Avengers: Illuminati (II) #5 | Jim Cheung |
Page | Contents | Artist |
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1 | Login screen | - |
Recap, Secret War | ||
2 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 439991-972RF: "S.H.I.E.L.D. operation request form Codename: Circuit" | - |
Philadelphia Enquierer Article by Nancy Buczak: "Man Electrocuted by aliens in downtown Philly -- Flying men spotted on scene" | - | |
3 | Daily Bugle article by Julie Slott: "Under the Capes -- Super Hero Beat" | - |
Email from Kat Farrell to Robbie Robertson "Villains rage across city. Heroes injured in attack" | - | |
4 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file: "NYPD dispatcher recording..." | - |
Operatives, Secret War | ||
5 | Nick Fury's Private Journal | - |
6 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 4545567-34LKG: "Luke Cage" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
7 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 9283112-89DJ: "Daisy Johnson" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
8 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 535345-566DD: "Daredevil" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
9 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 69678-616SPI: "Spider-Man" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
10 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 00008643-34CAP: "Captain America" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
11 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 3445-7865WO: "Wolverine" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
12 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 5665656-67BW: "Black Widow" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
13 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 6309012-36CX: "Cyclops" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 7107141-54DS: "Doc Samson" | Doug Braithwaite | |
14 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 6911709-07FLC: "Falcon" | Joe Bennett |
S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 6339584-21IM: "Iron Man" | Gabriele Dell'Otto | |
15 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 7816042-11MY: "Mystique" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 6408049-72PM: "Purple Man" | David Finch | |
16 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 8001129-90SP: "Shadowcat" | John Cassaday |
S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 1161017-12TH: "Thing" | Gabriele Dell'Otto | |
17 | Circuit Protocols (the backup team) | Various pics from the next seven pages |
18 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 5709645-94HE: "Hawkeye" | Joe Jusko |
19 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 6204019-44HK: "Hulk" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
20 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 1290274-50PN: "Punisher" | Doug Braithwaite |
21 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 7911801-03IM: "War Machine" | Chuck Austen |
22 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 901000-00SE: "Sentry" | David Finch |
23 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 3202778-10AR: "Spider-Woman I" | David Finch |
24 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 2136703-26MM: "Miss Marvel" | Tom Grummett |
Op-Tech, Secret War | ||
25 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 546-MANX3: "Mandroid X Armor" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
26 | Fingerprint scanner login | - |
Agents, S.H.I.E.L.D. | ||
27 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 1446605-27SIT: "Jasper Sitwell" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
28 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 1101965-56JW: "Jimmy Woo" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
Interrogations, Secret War | ||
29-32 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 7412139-53GRZ: "Grizzly" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 696369-24930 THK "Interrogations Secret Code: White" | - | |
Adversaries, Secret War | ||
33-34 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 6305021-03TNK: "Tinkerer" | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
Evidence, Secret War | ||
35 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 31570803-12914882949T7 (a note) | - |
Transcripts, Secret War | ||
36-39 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 98733647-33281 RISTY "Observation Transcript" (unidentified woman and two former S.H.I.E.L.D. agents) | - |
40-41 | Transcript of the conversation between Nick Fury and Steve Rogers | - |
42 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 5353557-72SCO ADD "Letter found in apartment of Kali Hudak" | - |
Adversaries, Secret War | ||
43 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 9205013-55DB(Updated): "Diamondback" (Debbie Bertrand) | Gabriele Dell'Otto |
Transcripts, Secret War | ||
44-45 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 77822190-01276 HJFBK: "Interview, Secret Code: White" (subjects: David and Kristy Bertrand) | - |
46-47 | S.H.I.E.L.D. file nr 74654431-9973448901T5: "Communication" (between S.H.I.E.L.D. operator and Contessa Valentina Allegro de Fontaine) | - |
48 | Deletion Protocol (of Project 9083731-1245 SCWR - Secret War) | - |
This issue features some internet links offering help to abuse victims: www.ndvh.org (National Domestic Violence Hotline or call 1-800-799-SAFE), www.abanet.org/domviol/home.html (American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence), www.endabuse.org Family Violence Prevention Fund), www.4woman.gov/violence/index.cfm (National Women's Health Information Center), www.batteredmen.com (MenWeb-Domestic Violence), www.seeitandstopit.org (See it and Stop it!)
In November 1971 the 10th Anniversary Fantastic Four (I) #1 was celebrated by publishing many magazines with about 50% more story pages.
From FantaCo Chronicles #3: "Back in 1971, when 32 page comics were selling for 15 cents, DC comics suddenly switched over to 48 pages for a quarter, filling out the balance of their books with reprint material. It took Marvel a few months to react, but with their books cover dated November 1971, they too switched over to the new size and did DC one better by printing all new 34 page stories." (Thanks to Dan Sanders for the quote.)
Barry Pearl adds to this: "The conversion to giant-size was a costly and unprofitable thing to do. Marvel let everyone know that this was the permanent way they were going. DC signed long terms contracts to produce 25 cent comics for a year and they lost a bundle. Goodman quickly reverted back
to the smaller size BUT made his comics more profitable to the retailers. This hurt DC hugely. Boy, was DC angry at Marvel."
On the other hand, the price for the extra-sized issues was raised from ¢15 to ¢25. The next issue had the normal page size again, but a prize tag of ¢20, which caused Marvel some problems because of the Wage and Price Freeze during the Nixon administration.
Dedicated to the men and women who serve, have served and will serve in Iraq and Afghanistan with bravery and honor. (With special thanks to Sergeant Jeffrey Guerin, U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division.)
Cover art of The Amazing Spider-Man (I) cont. #584; Preview of contents of The Amazing Spider-Man (I) cont. #584: Black and white art of the Shocker and Boomerang by John Romita Jr.; Black and white pencil art by John Romita Jr. from The Amazing Spider-Man (I) cont. #584; Art from The Amazing Spider-Man (I) cont. #568 by John Romita Jr.
Page | Action |
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1-2 | Scarlet Spider in the framing story |
3 | The clone emerges from the cloning tank |
4 | The clone rescues a kid from a car accident |
5-6 | The clone's presence explained with Aunt May's illness, also, Peter visiting May in the hospital (happened right before he meets the clone) |
7-8 | The clone entering Peter's house, surprised by Spider-Man and escaping. |
9-10 | The clone rescues a girl falling from the Brooklyn Bridge |
11 | Gwen Stacy's tombstone |
12-13 | Spider-Man and the clone meet and a fight ensues |
14-16 | Spider-Man vs the clone |
17-18 | Spidey and the clone vs Carnage in Bedlam (the Traveler arc) |
19-20 | The clone takes up the identiy of Scarlet Spider |
21-23 | The clone vs Venom, victory with the help of impact webbing |
24 | Scarlet Spider meeting Kaine |
25 | Kaine vs the Grim Hunter |
26 | Kaine killing Dr Octopus |
27 | The Jackal clone emerges to Spidey and Scarlet Spider (Maximum Clonage arc) |
28 | The Gwen Stacy clone emerges as well |
29-30 | Spider-Man vs Jackal, Gwen clone degenerating. (Maximum Clonage) |
31-32 | Framing sequence with the Scarlet Spider. |
Here's the Skrull language (as far as I could figure it out):
Page 17: "?SKRULLSYMBOLS?"
Here's the Skrull language (as far as I could figure it out):
Page 11: "HI HOW IS MOTHER?", "I LIKE CHEESE AND TOAST HOW ABOUT YOU ROCK?"
Page 17: "AAAARGH! WHY MY THAT I HATE ROCK MANTHING!"
Page 19: "WHO?"
Here's the Skrull language (as far as I could figure it out):
Page 17: "?SKRULLSYMBOLS?"
Detailed listing of the writer/penciler/inker:
Title | Writer | Penciler | Inker | Pages |
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Spider-Man | Danny Fingeroth | Alex Saviuk | Joe Albelo | 1 |
Peter Parker | Danny Fingeroth | Alex Saviuk | Bruce N. Solotoff | 1 |
The secrets of Spider-Man! | Danny Fingeroth | Frank Giacoia | Jack Abel | 4 |
Mary Jane Parker | Danny Fingeroth | Alex Saviuk | Josef Rubinstein | 1 |
Peter and MJ's apartment | Danny Fingeroth | Don Perlin | Don Hudson | 2 |
Daily Bugle | Danny Fingeroth | Don Perlin | Mark McKenna | 1 |
Empire State University | Danny Fingeroth | Don Perlin | Keith Wilson | 1 |
Betty Brant Leeds | Danny Fingeroth | Alex Saviuk | Cynthia Martin, Josef Rubinstein | 1 |
The Stacy family | Danny Fingeroth | Alex Saviuk | Bruce N. Solotoff | 1 |
The Jameson family | Danny Fingeroth | Don Perlin | Keith Wilson | 1 |
The Robertson family | Danny Fingeroth | Don Perlin | Keith Wilson | 1 |
May and Ben Parker | Danny Fingeroth | Alex Saviuk | Josef Rubinstein | 1 |
Aunt May's boarders | Danny Fingeroth | Alex Saviuk | Keith Wilson | 1 |
Harry, Liz and Norman Osborn | Danny Fingeroth | Alex Saviuk | Keith Wilson | 1 |
Flash Thompson | Danny Fingeroth | Alex Saviuk | Joe Albelo | 1 |
The distaff side | Danny Fingeroth | Alex Saviuk | Joe Albelo | 1 |
Hobgoblin | Danny Fingeroth | Steve Geiger | Keith Williams | 1 |
The Kingpin of Crime | Danny Fingeroth | Steve Geiger | Keith Williams | 1 |
The Rose | Danny Fingeroth | Steve Geiger | Mark McKenna | 1 |
Basilisk | Roger Stern | Michael Nasser | Josef Rubinstein | 1 |
The Big Wheel | Roger Stern | Jim Mooney | Jim Mooney | 1 |
The Black Cat | Roger Stern | Jim Mooney | Jim Mooney | 1 |
The Black Cat | Danny Fingeroth | Steve Geiger | Steve Geiger | 1 |
Cyclone | Roger Stern | Greg LaRocque | Frank Giacoia | 1 |
The Dark Rider | Roger Stern | Don Perlin | Jack Abel | 1 |
Drom the Backward Man | Roger Stern | Don Perlin | Jack Abel | 1 |
The Grizzly | Roger Stern | Greg LaRocque | Frank Giacoia | 1 |
The Human Fly | Roger Stern | Greg LaRocque | Frank Giacoia | 1 |
Jeremiah | Roger Stern | Don Perlin | Jack Abel | 1 |
Jigsaw | Roger Stern | Greg LaRocque | Frank Giacoia | 1 |
Man-Killer | Roger Stern | Michael Nasser | Bruce Patterson | 1 |
The Men Fish | Roger Stern | Michael Nasser | Carl Gafford | 1 |
Midas the Golden Man | Roger Stern | Don Perlin | Jack Abel | 1 |
Mindworm | Roger Stern | Greg LaRocque | Frank Giacoia | 1 |
Mirage | Roger Stern | Greg LaRocque | Frank Giacoia | 1 |
Monstroid | Roger Stern | Peter Poplaski | Peter Poplaski | 1 |
Moondark | Roger Stern | Alan Gordon | Alan Gordon | 1 |
Moondog | Roger Stern | Jim Mooney | Jim Mooney | 1 |
Rocket-Racer | Roger Stern | Jim Mooney | Jim Mooney | 1 |
The White Dragon | Roger Stern | Jim Mooney | Jim Mooney | 1 |
Will-o'-the-Wisp | Roger Stern | Jim Mooney | Jim Mooney | 1 |
Stegron the Dinosaur Man | Roger Stern | Jim Mooney | Jim Mooney | 1 |
The Wraith | Roger Stern | Don Perlin | Jack Abel | 1 |
Spider-Man | - | Bob Layton | Bob Layton | 1 |
Spider-Man | - | Bob Layton | Bob Layton | 1 |
The best team-up of all: Peter/Mary Jane
This saga is based on the events in Supreme Power (I) #1-18 by J. Michael Straczynski and Gary Frank, Supreme Power: Hyperion #1-5 by J. Michael Straczynski and Dan Jurgens, Supreme Power: Nighthawk (II) #1-6 by Daniel Way and Steve Dillon.
Page | Remark | Credits |
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1 | Introduction | - |
2 | Pin-up Hyperion | - |
3 | The ship | - |
4 | Brainwashed! | - |
5 | Amazing powers | - |
6 | Revealed | - |
7 | The hidden visitors | - |
8 | Pin-up Blur | - |
9 | Speed for sale | - |
10 | Pin-up Kingsley | Gary Frank, Richard Isanove |
11 | Freak birth | - |
12 | Pin-up Doctor Spectrum | Gary Frank, Richard Isanove |
13 | The artifact | - |
14 | Symbiosis | - |
15 | Possession | - |
16 | The government experiments | - |
17 | Super friends | - |
18 | Pin-up Nighthawk | Gary Frank, Richard Isanove |
19 | Tragedy is black and white | - |
20 | The clown and the crusader | - |
21 | As different as night and day | - |
22 | Deception unveiled | - |
23 | Showdown | - |
24 | Searching for the truth | - |
25 | The government strikes back | - |
26 | Pin-up Power Princess | Gary Frank, Richard Isanove |
27 | Gods | - |
28 | Waves of love | - |
29 | Serial killing super-villain | - |
30 | Superhero team-up | - |
31 | Aftermath | - |
32 | Alienated | - |
33 | Ultimatum | - |
34 | The next wave | - |
35 | Strike team | - |
36 | Battle in the artic | - |
37 | The new order | - |
38 | Supreme Power | - |
39 | Twilight | - |
40-41 | From Arcanna to Zarda: A guide to the characters of the Supreme Power Saga. Feat.:
| - |
42 | Character Design Arcanna Jones | Gary Frank |
43 | Character Design Nuke | Gary Frank |
44-47 | Sneak preview of Squadron Supreme (II) #1 | - |
48 | Cover of Squadron Supreme (II) #1 | Gary Frank, Chris Sotomayor |
Details on the sources of the issue:
Page(s) | Source (Thor (I) #169) |
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1-2 | new |
3-9 | pgs.6-12 |
10 | last panel is new, pg.13 minus last panel |
11 | new |
12 | first panel from pg.13 (last panel), rest is new |
13 | new |
14 | pg. 14 last panel, pg. 15 first four panels |
15 | pg. 15 last panel (lower part added probably by new art team), pg. 16 first two panels |
16 | pg. 16 last two panels, pg. 17 first panel (lower part added) |
17 | all new but first two panels which are from pg. 17 second and third panels |
18-23 | new |