Marvel’s Secret Wars: Battleworld Variant Covers Show Off Action Figures, Saturday Morning Cartoon, More

Battleworld Variant Action Figure

Marvel has released the first look at its variant covers for Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld, showing off action figures, a cute Saturday morning cartoon style, and characters who never appeared in the original Secret Wars crossover event.

Secret Wars: Battleworld is a new limited edition series that focuses on a Spider-Man and Human Torch team-up, taking place during Secret Wars, after spidey receives his infamous black costume.

Secret Wars was the original Marvel crossover event first released 40 years ago. The series will get a reprint next year, featuring all issues released exactly as they were in 1984.

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As well as telling the team-up tale, Battleworld will also feature characters who never originally appeared in Secret Wars, including Baron Zemo, Hobgoblin and Electro.

The original crossover series was written in 1984 to promote a line of tie-in action figures, which one cover pays homage to by depicting the packaging for an Ice Man action figure.

“We were asked to do a sequel/new tale of a classic Marvel story that first saw print 40 years ago and created ripples that are still felt throughout the universe today,” said Tom DeFalco, former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief. “Since we share a kinship with a certain web-swinger (and his family), we were also compelled to do a story that ripped to his core and defined his unique place in the Marvel Universe while examining the budding relationship with his new black costume.”

Marvel has been on a roll with variant covers recently, dropping or first look at a series of variant covers to celebrate 50 years of Wolverine, and a set of covers to promote the release of PS5 game Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.