From the ashes of a failed toy line, there cometh....AN EVENT COMIC SERIES! Or was it the other way around? Long before comic companies scheduled annual universe altering events, Marvel & Mattel teamed up to unleash a multimedia onslaught on their common audience....KIDS! While the toy line that served as the inspiration for the limited series was far from a success, the SECRET WARS comics proved to be best sellers, while also initiating interesting, status quo changing aspects to the larger MARVEL UNIVERSE. And thus, the AGE OF THE EVENT COMIC was born! MARK DOMEIER joins me down in the basement to look back at the first in a long, and still ongoing, line of reality shattering comic universe crossovers...SECRET WARS!

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Marveling at Marvel's Marvels: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marveling-at-marvels-marvels/id1084736600

Captain America Comic Book Fans: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/captain-america-comic-book-fans/id1546492661

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