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No. 156 — Longer term

Avengers: Secret Wars

Jonathan Hickman · Esad Ribić

Story era 10 · The Heroic Age and the Incursions

Hickman connects Secret Warriors and Fantastic Four to the Avengers’ incursions and the conclusion in Secret Wars.

UnownedReading status not recorded320 pages9 full issues

Book 8 of 8 in Jonathan Hickman’s first Marvel saga · 0 of 8 owned · 6,080 pages in all

Setup & reading order

7 earlier books in this run come first

The books

This book

Avengers: Secret Wars

Premier Collection paperback · 320 pages · Unowned

Book 8 of 8 · The Heroic Age and the Incursions

The colliding worlds finally run out of time and everything ends on Battleworld.

Released 18 Aug 2026 · 320 pages9781302970291Planned edition
Secret Wars (2015)#1–9
Free Comic Book Day 2015: Secret Wars (partial — Secret Wars story / A story)#0
Earth-616 Framing storyEarth-1610 Framing storyEarth-15513 Primary

This Premier Collection contains the core event. The larger omnibus also contains Avengers chapters collected in Hickman’s run.

Edition sources

Each ISBN identifies a specific printing and cover. “Owned copy” identifies the edition on my shelf; “Planned edition” identifies the edition listed for collecting.

Duplication · Avengers: Secret Wars

These books share full issues or parts of issues with other books in the plan. Open the lists below to see which stories repeat.

No shared contents are recorded with other books in the plan.

Connected stories

Earlier stories Bendis supplies the Illuminati, political, and Avengers history that adds weight to Hickman’s later saga.

Connected project: Bendis Avengers Phase 1

Character origins and background Waid/Wieringo teaches the Fantastic Four family dynamic before Hickman’s expansion.

Connected project: Fantastic Four by Waid & Wieringo

Battleworld connection Battleworld and Doom concepts echo into Hickman’s 2015 event, but the two miniseries share no issues.

Connected project: Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars

Things to know

Collecting rule: Follow the eight books in order; do not substitute the large Secret Wars by Hickman omnibus for the lean finale.

  • The complete saga spans eight books.
  • Use the lean Secret Wars finale to avoid twenty repeated Avengers/New Avengers issues.