Cover To Cover

As a kid,Secret Wars was a true favorite of mine.The 12 issue EVENT! maxiseries took most of the Marvel U and stranded them on a planet,to do battle,good vs. evil.The concept was simple and fun to a kid's mind,let's have super heroes and villains duke it out!

Secret Wars is not really very good,and rereading bits of it as an adult just scream that this whole thing was a way to move toys and sell issues.Not a whole heck of a lot came from the series except two things I can think of.One was the old 80's Thing series,where Ben Grimm decided to stay on the planet at the end of all the action,to live in solitude.I really liked that series.The bigger one was the black Spidey suit.No matter how you feel about Venom,the suit was a stark change to what we knew,and this cover will always be etched in my brain.Spidey's suit is destroyed in battle,and he finds a machine that he thinks has made him a new suit,not knowing what it really is.We all know what happens for the next 25 years,lots of Venom,all the time.In the end,I may not have the fondest memories of Secret Wars,but I do have one of my favorite covers.