Secret Wars » 15 issues

Launched on 27th April 1985, Marvel Superheroes Secret Wars was a fortnightly Marvel UK title reprinting Marvel USA's Secret Wars as its lead feature; its title changed to simply Secret Wars with issue 10. Early back up strips included reprints of Alpha Flight and the first Iceman miniseries, alongside humour strip Marvel's Secret Artist, but with issue 19 a new strip, Zoids, was introduced, and as of issue 20 the cover title changed to Secret Wars featuring Zoids. In issue 25 a new Spider-Man strip written by Jim Shooter exclusively for the UK was featured, and as of issue 32 the title changed to Secret Wars II as the title began reprinting that series and its tie-ins, often with modifications to fit the reprints to their new home or remove extraneous details (such as cutting out the references to Wraithworld appearing above Earth in the reprint of Fantastic Four 277, which was a link to the storyline then taking place in Rom). Lew Stringer's comedy strip Macho Man began in issue 42, and would appear in all the remaining issues of the series bar the last. The series ended with issue 80, and a week later a new title, Spider-Man and Zoids began, complete with an epilogue for Secret Wars.