Fury is enraged at what he sees as the same pre-9/11 security complacency inviting disaster yet again.

Fury immediately takes his findings to the President of the United States but is denied the authorization requested to overthrow the post-Doom Latverian government due to its sponsorship by the U.S. Nick Fury, Director of the international security force S.H.I.E.L.D., uncovers a secret plot by Latverian Prime Minister Lucia von Bardas to fund a group of B-List supervillains with advanced technology, presumably that of previous Latverian dictator Doctor Doom (who was trapped in Hell at the time), as a means of wreaking terror on American soil.

Those stories received their own spiritual successor in Beyond!, published in 2006.īendis has noted that Secret War is connected to the ' Secret Invasion' storyline, in which Skrulls have infiltrated several institutions of Earth. The storyline in Secret War is unrelated to the original Secret Wars and Secret Wars II crossover limited series which Marvel published in the mid-1980s, although its title is clearly inspired by them. This event begins an eight-year-long series of cross-over events ending with Avengers vs. The aftermath of the series was explored in stories in The Pulse and Bendis has gone on to use many of the same characters in his New Avengers titles. It was completed with issue five's publication in December 2005. The first issue was published in April 2004, and though intended originally as a bimonthly publication, it faced long delays. The storyline involves a large-scale super-hero crossover featuring Marvel characters such as Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Daredevil, Luke Cage and Nick Fury fighting a wide array of supervillains who have received hi-tech armaments from a mysterious benefactor. It is loosely based on classified operations told to Bendis by an anonymous high-ranking officer in the United States Intelligence Community during Bendis' childhood.

Secret War is a 2004–2005 comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics, consisting of a central, five-issue miniseries written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Gabriele Dell'Otto, and a number of tie-in books. Captain America as featured on the cover of Secret War #3.

Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis