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Secret Warriors and Secret Avengers – Collecting Guide & Reading Order

The definitive, chronological, and up-to-date guide on collecting Secret Warriors and Secret Avengers comic books via omnibuses and trade paperback graphic novels. A part of Crushing Krisis’s Collecting Avengers Graphic Novels: A Definitive Guide. Last updated November 2024 with titles scheduled for release through March 2025.

Secret-Warriors (2009) #1Secret Warriors was a rarity when it launched in 2009 – a brand new team book not relying on an existing name and from a creator not only new to Marvel, but new to comics in general!

(You could perhaps argue that the concept was a mashup of the youthful New Warriors and the variable-cast Secret Defenders, that it was a play on Bendis’s Secret War event with Nick Fury, or even that it was an early Hickman hint of his impending Secret Wars(!) – but that’s an ultra-geeky conversion for another time!)

That creator behind the new title was Jonathan Hickman and the rest, as they say, is history.

Jonathan Hickman became one of the most famous writers in comics in the span of just half a decade. Secret Warriors was the first building block of his extensive examination of Marvel’s secret history both on Earth and across the universe, tied together by Nick Fury and culminating in Secret Wars in 2015.

While Secret Warriors was still running, Marvel spun off a new Avengers team at the top of The Heroic Age in fall 2010 called Secret Avengers. Though it had no direct connection to Secret Warriors, the theme was similar – as America’s top cop, Steve Rogers assembled a rotating strikeforce of covert Avengers to tackle the biggest mysteries and threats.

Secret Warriors ended its run as a self-contained series, but the Secret Avengers branding stuck – the title would see additional volumes that collapsed the concepts of the two books, with SHIELD running the secret team of Avengers. Both series bear a strong resemblance to the television show Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD – it has re-used many of Hickman’s concepts and characters from Secret Warriors.

  • Secret Warriors (2009) #1-28 by Jonathan Hickman (2009 – 2011)
  • Secret Avengers (2010) #1-37 & 21.1 by Ed Brubaker, Nick Spencer, Warren Ellis, & Rick Remender (2010 – 2013)
    • For Captain America and the Secret Avengers (2011) #1, see Guide to Captain America – Steve Rogers
  • Secret Avengers (2013) #1-16 by Nick Spencer and Ales Kot (2013 – 2014)
  • Secret Avengers (2014) #1-15 by Ales Kot (2014 – 2015)
  • Secret Warriors (2017) #1-12 by Matthew Rosenberg (2017 – 2018)

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Secret Warriors (2009 – 2011)

Secret Warriors was initially a spinoff of Secret Invasion. In a world where Nick Fury couldn’t trust any hero not to be a Hydra mole or a Skrull, his only hope was to activate a sleeper cell of other super-powered people who had mostly flown under the radar. His running an independent team brought him into conflict with Norman Osborne and his Dark Avengers.

Secret-Warriors (2009) #12

as a single oversize hardcover omnibus…

Secret Warriors Omnibus (2012 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-0785163336 / 2023 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302952556 / digital)
Collects the complete Secret Warriors story from Mighty Avengers #13 & 18; Secret Warriors #1-28; Dark Reign: The List – Secret Warriors; Siege: Secret Warriors; and Dark Reign: New Nation.

as a pair of complete collections…

#1-16: The Complete Collection Volume 1
Also collects Dark Reign: The List – Secret Warriors 1, material from Dark Reign: New Nation 1

#17-28: The Complete Collection Volume 2
Also collects Siege: Secret Warriors #1

as originally collected…

#1-6: Vol. 1: Nick Fury, Agent of Nothing (ISBN 0785138641)
Available in hardcover.

#7-10: Vol. 2: God of Fear, God of War (ISBN 078513865X)
Also collects Dark Reign: The List – Secret Warriors. Available in hardcover.

#11-16: Vol. 3: Wake the Beast (ISBN 0785147586)
Available in hardcover.

#17-19: Vol. 4: Last Ride of the Howling Commandos (ISBN 0785147608)
Also collects Siege: Secret Warriors. Available in hardcover.

#20-24: Vol. 5: Night (ISBN 0785148035)
Available in hardcover.

#25-28: Vol. 6: Wheels Within Wheels (ISBN 0785158154)
Available in hardcover.

Secret Avengers, Vol. 1 (2010 – 2013)

Steve Rogers’ covert strikeforce are the first Avengers with a blanket authorization to use deadly force, anchored by an unlikely (and unstealthy) squad of War Marchine, Valkyrie, Ant-Man, and Beast. This title has been authored by half of Marvel’s hottest writers – Ed Brubaker, Warren Ellis, and now Rick Remender!Secret Avengers (2010) #1

as recollected in Complete Collections

By Ed Brubaker: The Complete Collection
Collects Secret Avengers #1-12

By Rick Remender: The Complete Collection
Collects Secret Avengers #21.1 & 22-37

as originally collected

#1-5: Vol. 1: Mission to Mars (ISBN 0785146008)
Also available in hardcover (ISBN 0785145990). Issue #1 is also collected in Captain America: Evolutions Of A Living Legend

#6-12: Vol. 2: Eyes of the Dragon (ISBN 0785146024)
Also available in hardcover (ISBN 0785146016)

Onslaught Unleashed (2011) #1-4: Onslaught Unleashed oversize hardcover
This is effectively a 12.x mini-series for Secret Avengers team. It was never released in paperback.

#13-15: Fear Itself: Secret Avengers (ISBN 0785151788)
Also includes #12.1 and Fear Itself: Black Widow. Available in hardcover (ISBN 078515177X). Issue #12.1 is also collected in Marvel Point One, Vol. 1. See Guide to Marvel Universe Events – Fear itself for more information on Fear Itself.

#16-21: Run the Mission, Don’t Get Seen, Save the World (ISBN 0785152563)
Warren Ellis takes over scripting duties for a series of one-shot issues with different art teams. Available in hardcover (ISBN 0785152555) [Ed. Note: These are six of the best comics I have read from 2011. This is a must-buy.]

#21.1 & 22-25: by Rick Remender, Vol. 1: The Descendants (ISBN 0785161198)
Scripter Rick Remender (Uncanny X-Force, Venom, Punisher) takes the reigns of the team, adding Captain Britan to the roster. Available in hardcover.

#26-32: by Rick Remender, Vol. 2 (ISBN 078516121X)
Contains Avengers vs. X-Men tie-in issues #26-28 – see Guide to Marvel Universe Events – Avengers vs. X-Men for more information. Available in hardcover.

#33-37: by Rick Remender, Vol. 3 (ISBN 0785161236)
Available in hardcover.

Secret Avengers, Vol. 2 & 3 (2013 – 2014 & 2014 – 2015)

Nick Spencer’s new SHIELD-based take on Secret Avengers brings a new concept to the book – that the team is so secret that they can’t even be allowed to remember their missions! The initial arc included a team of Nick Fury, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Hulk, Mockingbird, Taskmaster, a new Iron Patriot, and more!Secret Avengers (2013) #1

#1-5: Vol. 1: Reverie (ISBN 0785166882)
Also includes a story from Marvel Now! Point One. Issue #1 is also collected in Marvel Now! Omnibus.

#6-11: Vol. 2: Illiad
Issues #10-11 tied in to Infinity; see Guide to Marvel Universe Events – Infinity for other collection options and more information.

#12-16: Vol. 3: How to MA.I.M. a Mockingbird

A 2014 relaunch with Ales Kot (who had been co-plotting with Spencer) at the helm dropped Mockingbird brought Spider-Woman into the mix along with MODOK and Deadpool. This was a much funnier run on the comic, with some far-out concepts driving the plot.

#1-5: Vol. 1: Save the Empire
Also collects Original Sin: Secret Avengers (Infinite Comic) (2014) #1-2. See Guide to Marvel Universe Events – Original Sin for more information on Original Sin.

#6-10: Vol. 2: The Labyrinth

#11-15: Vol. 3: God Level

Secret Warriors (2017) by Matthew Rosenberg

Marvel resurrects the Secret Warriors brand in 2017 to bring together its young Inhuman characters like Ms. Marvel, Moon Girl, and the cast of Inhuman into an anti-Hydra team during the Secret Empire event while the Inhuman Royal family set off for space in their own title, Royals. It also featured a handful of mutants, including Magik. See Guide to Marvel Universe Events – Secret Empire for more information on Secret Empire.

#1-5: Vol. 1: Secret Empire

#6-12: Vol. 2: If Trouble Must Come
I’ve personally confirmed this issue range – some solicits were incorrect!

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  1. Jamie B says

    June 13, 2024 at 7:34 am

    Issue #4 of the 2014 Secret Avengers series states that ‘Original Sin: Secret Avengers (Infinite Comic) (2014) #1-2’ comes after that issue and issue #5 mentions the events of the Infinite comic which confirms the placement.

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