Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars



Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars was the first toyline produced featuring characters from across the Marvel Universe, running from 1983 until 1985. created by Mattel as a tie-in for the Secret Wars comic book event. The figures shared an approximate 5" scale, which would be carried forward as the standard scale for the majority of mass retail Marvel toylines until the 2000's. Each figure included a novelty "Secret Shield", a large plastic disk with a lenticular image featuring the characters secret identities - with heroes featuring a circular red shield and villains utilizing a boxier grey one.

Each wave was intended to feature eight characters, however production issues and lower than expected sales of the first series caused three figures to get delayed out of the second wave and were instead released as a third wave on their own, exclusively in some South American and European markets.