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Secret Invasion (2008-2009)

2008/06

T+

$3.99

Wrap-around cover

Gabriele Dell'Otto
Skrull Cover Version of cover of The New Avengers (I) #1 by David Finch/Danny Miki/Frank G. D'Armata /

Variant cover

Steve McNiven

Variant cover

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Blank Cover Variant with black backcover /

Variant cover

Leinil Francis Yu

Variant cover

Steve McNiven
Sketch

Variant cover

Melvin Rubi
Dynamic Forces Variant Cover

Variant cover

?
Blank Cover Variant with white backcover

2nd printing

Leinil Francis Yu
Wrap around, double splash from issue

3rd printing

Leinil Francis Yu
Sketch

Ti:

Secret Invasion 1/8

Cr:

W-Brian Michael Bendis P/L-Leinil Francis Yu I/F-Mark Morales L-Christopher Eliopoulos C-Laura Martin AsoEd-Molly Lazer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Pub-Dan Buckley

Rm:

There is one additional page with the recap/intro the credits.

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Feature(s)

Type	Title	Credits	Pgs.
Text with art/photos	Cup O'Joe: Secret Invasion (art: Covers of key issues to the history of the Secret Invasion)	Joe Quesada	3
Text with art/photos	The Mighty Marvel Podcast with living comic legend, Stan Lee (with a photo of Lee and pictures of several Skrullian super-heroes)	Jeffrey Suter, Jim McCann, Stan Lee	4

2008/07

T+

$3.99

Front cover

Gabriele Dell'Otto

Variant cover

Steve McNiven, Morry Hollowell

Variant cover

Steve McNiven
Sketch /

Variant cover

Leinil Francis Yu

2nd printing

Leinil Francis Yu
Splash from story

3rd printing

Leinil Francis Yu
Sketch

Ti:

Secret Invasion 2/8

Cr:

W-Brian Michael Bendis P/L-Leinil Francis Yu I/F-Mark Morales L-Christopher Eliopoulos C-Laura Martin AsoEd-Molly Lazer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Pub-Dan Buckley

Rm:

There is one additional page with the recap/intro the credits.

Rp:

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Feature(s)

Type	Title	Credits	Pgs.
Text with art/photos	Look who's talking! (An interview with writer Aron Coleite, with a picture of Coleite and a picture of Colossus by Gabriele Dell'Otto from the cover of Ultimate X-Men (I) #94)	?	1
Preview	Preview of cover art and insde art of Eternals (IV) #1	Daniel Knauf, Charles Knauf, Daniel Acuña	5

2008/08

T+

$3.99

Front cover

Gabriele Dell'Otto

Variant cover

Leinil Francis Yu

Variant cover

Steve McNiven

Variant cover

Steve McNiven
Sketch /

2nd printing

Leinil Francis Yu

3rd printing

Leinil Francis Yu

Ti:

Secret Invasion 3/8

Cr:

W-Brian Michael Bendis P/L-Leinil Francis Yu I/F-Mark Morales L-Christopher Eliopoulos C-Laura Martin AsoEd-Molly Lazer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Pub-Dan Buckley

Rm:

There is one additional page with the recap/intro the credits.

Rp:

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2008/09

T+

$3.99

Front cover

Gabriele Dell'Otto

Variant cover

Steve McNiven

Variant cover

Leinil Francis Yu

Variant cover

Steve McNiven
Sketch /

Ti:

Secret Invasion 4/8

Cr:

W-Brian Michael Bendis P/L-Leinil Francis Yu I/F-Mark Morales L-Christopher Eliopoulos C-Laura Martin, Emily Warren AsiEd-Thomas Brennan, Molly Lazer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Pub-Dan Buckley

Rm:

There is one additional page with the recap/intro the credits.

Rp:

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2008/10

T+

$3.99

Front cover

Gabriele Dell'Otto

Variant cover

Steve McNiven

Variant cover

Leinil Francis Yu

Variant cover

Leinil Francis Yu
Sketch /

Ti:

Secret Invasion 5/8

Cr:

W-Brian Michael Bendis P/L-Leinil Francis Yu I/F-Mark Morales L-Christopher Eliopoulos C-Laura Martin, Emily Warren AsoEd-Jeanine Schaefer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Paul Acerios Pub-Dan Buckley

Rm:

There is one additional page with the recap/intro the credits.

Rp:

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2008/11

T+

$3.99

Front cover

Gabriele Dell'Otto

Variant cover

Leinil Francis Yu

Variant cover

Leinil Francis Yu
Sketch /

Variant cover

Frank Cho

Variant cover

Frank Cho
Baltimore Comic Con Sketch; Same motive as Cho variant cover, but with Comic Con banner

Ti:

Secret Invasion 6/8

Cr:

W-Brian Michael Bendis P/L-Leinil Francis Yu I/F-Mark Morales L-Christopher Eliopoulos C-Laura Martin, Christina Strain, Emily Warren AsoEd-Jeanine Schaefer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Irene Y. Lee Pub-Dan Buckley

Rm:

There is one additional page with the recap/intro the credits.

Rp:

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Feature(s)

Type	Title	Credits	Pgs.
Preview	Preview of cover art of Secret Invasion #7	Gabriele Dell'Otto	1

2008/12

T+

$3.99

Front cover

Gabriele Dell'Otto
FC by GDO /

Variant cover

Leinil Francis Yu

Variant cover

Leinil Francis Yu
Sketch /

Ti:

Secret Invasion 7/8

Cr:

W-Brian Michael Bendis P/L-Leinil Francis Yu I/F-Mark Morales L-Christopher Eliopoulos C-Laura Martin, Emily Warren AsoEd-Jeanine Schaefer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Pub-Dan Buckley

Rm:

There is one additional page with the recap/intro the credits.

Rp:

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2009/01

T+

$3.99

Front cover

Gabriele Dell'Otto

Variant cover

Leinil Francis Yu

Variant cover

Leinil Francis Yu
Sketch /

Ti:

Secret Invasion 8/8

Cr:

W-Brian Michael Bendis P/L-Leinil Francis Yu I/F-Mark Morales L-Christopher Eliopoulos C-Laura Martin AsoEd-Jeanine Schaefer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Irene Y. Lee Pub-Dan Buckley

Rm:

There is one additional page with the recap/intro the credits.

Rp:

Reprinted in ...

Feature(s)

Type	Title	Credits	Pgs.
Text with art/photos	Cup O'Joe - Dark Reign	Joe Quesada	2

Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four (2008)

2008/07

$2.99

Front cover

Alan Davis, Mark Farmer, Paul Mounts

Variant cover

Michael McKone

Ti:

Secret Invasion Tie-in: No One Gets Back Alive! 1/3: Negative energy

Cr:

W-Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa P/L-Barry Kitson I/F-Mick Gray, Scott Hanna, Barry Kitson, Paul Neary L-Joe Caramagna, Virtual Calligraphy C-Christopher Sotomayor Ed-Molly Lazer ExecEd-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Pub-Dan Buckley

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2008/08

$2.99

Front cover

Alan Davis

Ti:

Secret Invasion Tie-in: No One Gets Back Alive! 2/3

Cr:

W-Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa P/L-Barry Kitson I/F-Mick Gray, Scott Hanna, Barry Kitson L-Joe Caramagna, Virtual Calligraphy C-Christopher Sotomayor AsiEd-Thomas Brennan Ed-Molly Lazer ExecEd-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Joe Sabino Pub-Dan Buckley

Rm:

There is one additional page with the recap/intro the credits.

Rp:

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2008/09

$2.99

Front cover

Alan Davis, Mark Farmer, Paul Mounts

Ti:

Secret Invasion Tie-in: No One Gets Back Alive! 3/3: Escape from Fantasy Island

Cr:

W-Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa P/L-Barry Kitson I/F-Mick Gray, Barry Kitson, Cam Smith L-Joe Caramagna, Virtual Calligraphy C-Christopher Sotomayor AsoEd-Jeanine Schaefer Ed-Tom Brevoort, Molly Lazer E-i-C-Joe Quesada Pub-Dan Buckley Special Thanks-Kalyn Sotomayor

Rm:

Intro page is draw in a kid's style; There is one additional page with the recap/intro the credits.

Rp:

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Feature(s)

Type	Title	Credits	Pgs.
Text with art/photos	Look who's talking! (An interview with writer Peter David, with a picture of David and a picture of She-Hulk by Mike Deodato Jr. from the cover of She-Hulk (II) #31)	Mike Deodato Jr.	1

Secret Invasion Saga (2008)

2008/05

T+

$0.00

Front cover

Leinil Francis Yu, Laura Martin

Ti:

Secret Invasion Tie-in

Cr:

W-John Rhett Thomas P/L-Various I/F-Various L-[N.G.] C-Various RsrchAsi-Jeph C. York

Rm:

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, Avengers West Coast #80-82, The Black Panther (I) #31-34, Captain America (I) #398-401, Captain America (III) #4-7, Captain Marvel (I) #2-4, Fantastic Four (I) #2,18, 32, 37, 90-93, 204-214, 256-257, 262, 358, Fantastic Four Annual (I) #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, The Man called Nova #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, X-Men (I) #137, Wisdom #1-5, Wonder Man (II) #7-9, Young Avengers (I) #9-12.

A detailled listing of the saga:

Page	Contents	Origin	Artist
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
10	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) #90 ff	Jack Kirby
	The recent Black Panther-lead Fantastic Four visits Kral IV	Black Panther (IV) #32 ff	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	-	-
14	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	-	-
20-21	Operation Galactic Storm	Operation: Galactic Storm	-
22	Skrull Kill Krew	Skrull Kill Krew (I)	-
23	Lyja	-	-
23	Capmania, Skrull posing as Hydra leader	-	-
24	Skrulls invading the pop culture	Wisdom	Trevor Hairsine
24	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

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Secret Invasion TPB: The Infiltration (2008)

2008/06	T+	$19.99
Front cover	Leinil Francis Yu EAN:978-0-7851-3231-8 /	1
Ti:	The Fantastic Four meet the Skrulls from outer space! / Prisoner of the Skrulls / The Fantastic Four fight back! / The Fantastic Four... captured!	?
Cr:	W-Stan Lee P/L-Jack Kirby I/F-Sol Brodsky?, George Klein? L-John Duffy C-[N.G.]
Rm:	On the letter page of Fantastic Four (I) #272 and #281 Sol Brodsky is said to be the inker of this issue
Rp:	Reprint from Fantastic Four (I) #2
Ti:	-	?
Cr:	W-Brian Michael Bendis, Brian Reed P/L-Jim Cheung I/F-Mark Morales L-Cory Petit, Virtual Calligraphy C-Justin Ponsor AsiEd-Molly Lazer, Aubrey Sitterson Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Kate Levin Pub-Dan Buckley
Rm:	Takes places as an aftermath to the Kree-Skull-War.
Rp:	Reprint from New Avengers: Illuminati (II) #1
Ti:	Secret Invasion: The Infiltration Prelude	?
Cr:	W-Brian Michael Bendis, Brian Reed P/L-Jim Cheung I/F-Mark Morales L-Cory Petit, Virtual Calligraphy C-Justin Ponsor AsiEd-Molly Lazer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Irene Y. Lee Pub-Dan Buckley
Rm:	The Illuminati deal with the Skull-Elektra's body that Spider-Woman brought to Iron Man
Rp:	Reprint from New Avengers: Illuminati (II) #5
Ti:	The Initiative Tie-in: Revolution (B) 5/5	?
Cr:	W-Brian Michael Bendis P/L-Leinil Francis Yu I/F-Leinil Francis Yu L-Comicraft, Albert Deschesne, Richard Starkings C-Dave McCaig AsiEd-Molly Lazer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Anthony Dial Pub-Dan Buckley
Rp:	Reprint from The New Avengers (I) #31
Ti:	The Trust 1/6	?
Cr:	W-Brian Michael Bendis P/L-Leinil Francis Yu I/F-Leinil Francis Yu L-Comicraft, Albert Deschesne, Richard Starkings C-Dave McCaig AsiEd-Molly Lazer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Rich Ginter Pub-Dan Buckley
Rp:	Reprint from The New Avengers (I) #32
Ti:	Secret Invasion: The Infiltration Tie-in: The breakup	?
Cr:	W-Brian Michael Bendis P/L-Michael Gaydos I/F-Michael Gaydos L-Comicraft, Albert Deschesne, Richard Starkings C-José Villarrubia AsoEd-Molly Lazer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Pub-Dan Buckley
Rp:	Reprint from The New Avengers (I) #38
Ti:	Secret Invasion: The Infiltration Tie-in: Echo	?
Cr:	W-Brian Michael Bendis P/L-David Mack I/F-David Mack L-Comicraft, Albert Deschesne, Richard Starkings C-José Villarrubia AsoEd-Molly Lazer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Pub-Dan Buckley
Rp:	Reprint from The New Avengers (I) #39
Ti:	Secret Invasion: The Infiltration Tie-in: [Venom Bomb] 1/5	?
Cr:	W-Brian Michael Bendis P/L-Mark Bagley I/F-Crime Lab Studios, Allen Martinez, Danny K. Miki, Victor Olazaba L-ArtMonkey Studios, David Lanphear C-Justin Ponsor AsiEd-Molly Lazer Ed-Tom Brevoort E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Rich Ginter Pub-Dan Buckley
Rm:	Begin of story takes place between The New Avengers (I) #32 and New Avengers: Illuminati (II) #5; End is concurrent with end of The New Avengers (I) #34
Rp:	Reprint from Mighty Avengers #7
Ti:	Secret Invasion: The Infiltration Prelude: State of readiness	?
Cr:	W-Christos N. Gage, Dan Slott P/L-Patrick Scherberger I/F-David Meikis L-Joe Caramagna, Virtual Calligraphy C-Wilfredo Quintana
Ch:	Liberteens
Rp:	Reprint from Avengers: The Initiative Annual #1

Secret Invasion: Who Do You Trust? (2008)

2008/08	T+	$3.99
Front cover	Phil Jimenez, Andy Lanning, Christina Strain	1
2nd printing	Phil Jimenez	1
Ti:	Secret Invasion Tie-in: Farewell	8
Cr:	W-Brian Reed P/L-Lee Weeks I/F-Lee Weeks L-Cory Petit C-Matt Milla AsiEd-Thomas Brennan, Nathan Cosby, Molly Lazer, Will Panzo Ed-Tom Brevoort, Nick Lowe, Mark Paniccia E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Joe Sabino Pub-Dan Buckley
Rm:	Story continues in Secret Invasion #1
Ch:	Captain Marvel VII
Rp:	Reprinted in ...
Ti:	Secret Invasion Tie-in: In plain sight	8
Cr:	W-Mike Carey P/L-Timothy Green III I/F-Timothy Green III L-Cory Petit C-Tom Chu, Nathan Fairbairn, Guru eFX, SotoColor AsiEd-Thomas Brennan, Nathan Cosby, Molly Lazer, Will Panzo Ed-Tom Brevoort, Nick Lowe, Mark Paniccia E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Joe Sabino Pub-Dan Buckley
Rm:	Story continues in Secret Invasion #4
Ch:	Agent Brand
Rp:	Reprinted in ...
Ti:	Secret Invasion Tie-in: Seems like old times	8
Cr:	W-Christos N. Gage P/L-Michael Perkins I/F-Michael Perkins L-Cory Petit C-Raúl Treviño AsiEd-Thomas Brennan, Nathan Cosby, Molly Lazer, Will Panzo Ed-Tom Brevoort, Nick Lowe, Mark Paniccia E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Joe Sabino Pub-Dan Buckley
Ch:	Beast I, Wonder Man
Rp:	Reprinted in ...
Ti:	Secret Invasion Tie-in: Master of the Cube	8
Cr:	W-Zeb Wells P/L-Steven Kurth I/F-Andrew Hennessy L-Cory Petit C-Guru eFX AsiEd-Thomas Brennan, Nathan Cosby, Molly Lazer, Will Panzo Ed-Tom Brevoort, Nick Lowe, Mark Paniccia E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Joe Sabino Pub-Dan Buckley
Rm:	Story continues in Secret Invasion
Ch:	Marvel Boy IV
Rp:	Reprinted in ...
Ti:	Secret Invasion Tie-in: The resistance	8
Cr:	W-Jeffrey Parker P/L-Leonard Kirk I/F-Karl Kesel L-Blambot, Nathan Piekos C-Michelle J. Madsen-Stewart AsiEd-Thomas Brennan, Nathan Cosby, Molly Lazer, Will Panzo Ed-Tom Brevoort, Nick Lowe, Mark Paniccia E-i-C-Joe Quesada Prod-Joe Sabino Pub-Dan Buckley
Ch:	Agents of Atlas
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