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Comic Book: Secret Avengers (2010 series)

What This Book is About:
Moon Knight, Black Widow, Nova, Beast, Valkyrie, War Machine, Ant-Man. Steve Rogers assembles a team of Avengers to undertake top secret missions in the fight against evil.

Data Sheet:
Dates
May 2010 to ..?
2010
1

Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.

Valkyrie
Valkyrie

(Brunnhilda)
Black Widow
Black Widow

(Natasha Romanoff)
Beast
Beast

(Hank McCoy)
Captain America
Captain America

(Steve Rogers)
War Machine
War Machine

(James Rhodes)
Plus: Shadow Council, Max Fury.

Comics Index

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Total Indexed Comics: 38

Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.

Secret Avengers #1
4 stars

Secret Avengers #1

May 2010
"Secret Histories, Part One"
Script: Ed Brubaker
On a trip to Dubai, Senior Vice-President Bromley of Roxxon attracts a pair of gorgeous female companions and takes them back to his hotel suite. When he tries to get a kiss from the blonde, she explodes furiously, slamming him into a wall. [...]
Secret Avengers #2
4 stars

Secret Avengers #2

June 2010
"Secret Histories, Part Two"
Script: Ed Brubaker
Sharon Carter awakens aboard the Secret Avengers roving HQ angry at having been overpowered so easily. She can’t figure out how the interlopers invaded the ship and sees from the security tapes that they were wearing stealth gear. [...]
Secret Avengers #3
3 stars

Secret Avengers #3

July 2010
"Secret Histories, Part 3 of 4"
Script: Ed Brubaker
1865: after the Civil War, Confederate Major Aloysius Thorndrake led a party in pursuit of a traitor to their cause. When the fugitive eerily vanished while crossing an open plane, Thorndrake and his men followed—and entered the Abyss…. [...]
Secret Avengers #4
3 stars

Secret Avengers #4

August 2010
"Secret Histories, Part 4 of 4"
Script: Ed Brubaker
Sharon Carter has tracked Nick Fury and his party to the Shadow Council citadel in Texas, and she detects Ant-Man’s signal. The tiny hero tries to explain the situation as best he can but the bottom line is that a legion of dangerous foes is on its way through the Vortex to suicide-bomb Mars…. [...]
Secret Avengers #5
4 stars

Secret Avengers #5

September 2010
"The Secret Life of Max Fury"
Script: Ed Brubaker
Five years ago, Nick Fury was in Paris, on the run from SHIELD though he couldn’t remember what he was accused of. [...]
Secret Avengers #6
4.5 stars

Secret Avengers #6

October 2010
"Eyes of the Dragon Part 1"
Script: Ed Brubaker
In the middle of the night, Shang-Chi is attacked in his home by ninjas from the order of Hai-Dai, a group which disbanded when his father died. Suddenly he is joined by the mystic hero John Aman, Prince of Orphans and they drive their foes away…. [...]
Secret Avengers #7
4.5 stars

Secret Avengers #7

November 2010
"Eyes of the Dragon Part 2 of 5"
Script: Ed Brubaker
At the Chinese art exhibit in Hong Kong, Steve Rogers, Black Widow, and Shang-Chi are locked in furious battle with the Hai Dai ninjas. Shang is overpowered and carried off by the villains who escape in a flaying car. As they are about to spill Shang-Chi’s blood, Steve’s back-up plan appears. [...]
Secret Avengers #8
4.5 stars

Secret Avengers #8

December 2010
"Eyes of the Dragon Part 3 of 5"
Script: Ed Brubaker
Shadow Council agents John Steele and Max Fury formulate a plan to kidnap Shang-Chi away from the Secret Avengers…. [...]
Secret Avengers #9
4.5 stars

Secret Avengers #9

January 2011
"Eyes of the Dragon Part 4 of 5"
Script: Ed Brubaker
Steve Rogers fills the team in on John Steele who is offering to trade the kidnapped Sharon Carter for Shang-Chi. [...]
Secret Avengers #10
4.5 stars

Secret Avengers #10

February 2011
"Eyes of the Dragon Part 5 of 5"
Script: Ed Brubaker
At the sacred temple of Zheng Zu, the Asian villain is planning to sacrifice his son Shang-Chi in a bid to gain immortality. The Shadow Council is assisting Zheng because they will use him to extend their control into China. [...]
Secret Avengers #11
4 stars

Secret Avengers #11

March 2011
"The Trouble with John Steele Part 1 of 2"
Script: Ed Brubaker
The captive John Steele is at Secret Avengers headquarters where he has been hooked up to a machine that can read his memories—to find out how America’s first Super-Soldier ended up a villain. [...]
Secret Avengers #12
3.5 stars

Secret Avengers #12

April 2011
"The Trouble with John Steele Part 2 of 2"
Script: Ed Brubaker
Confronting the angry John Steele who is holding a technician hostage, Steve Rogers convinces him that the techs are all Life Model Decoys. Steve then holds off the former super-soldier until John Aman (Prince of Orphans) materializes and overpowers him. [...]
Secret Avengers #13
4.5 stars

Secret Avengers #13

May 2011
"(No title given)"
Script: Nick Spencer
The forces of the Serpent invade Washington D.C. with battle droids devastating the city. The Secret Avengers have been called out and Beast, War Machine, and Ant-Man (Eric O’Grady) are the first to arrive, doing what they can to rescue people from the onslaught. [...]
Secret Avengers #14
4.5 stars

Secret Avengers #14

June 2011
"(No title given)"
Script: Nick Spencer
Two soldiers, Hayes (male) and Stevens (female), are in a romantic relationship and are late for the briefing from their commander on the imminent military action against the forces of the Serpent. Steve Rogers has sent one of the Secret Avengers, Valkyrie, to lead the attack. [...]
Secret Avengers #15
5 stars

Secret Avengers #15

July 2011
"Captain America Isn’t Dead!"
Script: Nick Spencer
In the wake of the murder of Captain America (Bucky Barnes), Black Widow crashes into the office of a tabloid just as they are preparing a cover proclaiming, “Captain America Death a Hoax! [...]
Secret Avengers #16
4 stars

Secret Avengers #16

August 2011
"Subland Empire"
Script: Warren Ellis
The Secret Avengers (Steve Rogers, Black Widow, Beast, Moon Knight) arrive in a massive city a mile beneath the surface of Cincinnati via a hidden elevator. [...]
Secret Avengers #17
4.5 stars

Secret Avengers #17

September 2011
"Beast Box"
Script: Warren Ellis
Steve Rogers shows the Secret Avengers film that was smuggled out of Serbia by an MI:13 agent. It shows a massive truck firing electromagnetic levitation fields, pulling people out of their homes and into the truck. [...]
Secret Avengers #18
4.5 stars

Secret Avengers #18

October 2011
"No Zone"
Script: Warren Ellis
On orders from Steve Rogers, Shang-Chi fights his way through a horde of Shadow Council minions in a station that defies all the rules of physics. Steve and Sharon Carter quickly head toward his location…. [...]
Secret Avengers #19
4.5 stars

Secret Avengers #19

November 2011
"Aniana"
Script: Warren Ellis
In Aniana, the capital city of the Eastern European nation of Symkaria, a disguised Black Widow and Sharon Carter arrive at a luxury hotel to see Voydanoi but they are turned away by a bodyguard as an American named Grant is taken upstairs. [...]
Secret Avengers #20
4.5 stars

Secret Avengers #20

December 2011
"Encircle"
Script: Warren Ellis
A mission in Evje, Norway goes seriously wrong; ambushed by Shadow Council troops inside a tunnel, Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter are killed. With his dying breath, War Machine gives Black Widow the “escape hatch” a device from his wrist. She presses the button and... ... [...]
Secret Avengers #21
4 stars

Secret Avengers #21

January 2012
"Final Level"
Script: Warren Ellis
A fire at the Houston headquarters of the Office of National Emergency causes the building to be evacuated. Turns out, though, the the fire is an illusion, created so the Secret Avengers can enter unseen to confront the heads of the Office, Mr. Atkins and Ms. [...]
Secret Avengers #22
3.5 stars

Secret Avengers #22

February 2012
"New Life"
Script: Rick Remender
A suicide bomber stands in a market in Pakistan and detonates his explosive; a woman with a child standing nearby swallows the flames of the blast, holds them for a moment then spits them back out, devastating the marketplace. She is shocked by what she has done. [...]
Secret Avengers #23
3.5 stars

Secret Avengers #23

March 2012
"The Descendants Part 2: A Victory for the Little Guy"
Script: Rick Remender
Ant-Man (Eric O’Grady) has hitched a ride on the pants leg of Ideal of the Adaptoids, stealthily accompanying them into the underground home of the Descendants known as the Core. [...]
Secret Avengers #24
3.5 stars

Secret Avengers #24

March 2012
"Core Beliefs [The Descendants Part 3]"
Script: Rick Remender
Captain Britain has teleported into the Core with the other Secret Avengers and is attacked by Lady Deathstrike on the way down. They fall among a band of robots that resemble Vision that swarm him after he tosses Lady D for a loop. [...]