Secret Warriors
| Secret Warriors | |
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Nick Fury and Team White. Art by Leinil Francis Yu
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| Group publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance |
(Characters) Mighty Avengers #13 (July 2008) (Team) Secret Invasion #3 (August 2008) |
| In-story information | |
| Type of organization | Team |
| Agent(s) |
Current members Nick Fury Daisy Johnson Yo-Yo Rodriguez Jerry Sledge Eden Fesi Former members Sebastian Druid J.T. Slade Alexander Aaron |
| Secret Warriors | |
| Series publication information | |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | April 2009 – July 2011 |
| Number of issues | 28 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) |
Brian Michael Bendis Jonathan Hickman |
| Artist(s) | Stefano Caselli |
| Letterer(s) | David Lanphear |
| Colorist(s) | Daniele Rudoni |
| Creator(s) |
Brian Michael Bendis Alex Maleev |
| Editor(s) |
Tom Brevoort Jeanine Schaefer |
| Collected editions | |
| Volume 1 | |
| Volume 2 | |
Secret Warriors is a Marvel series featuring Nick Fury and Team White, a team of superpowered agents in the Marvel Comics Universe.
Created by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, the characters were introduced in Mighty Avengers #13, and debuted as a team in Secret Invasion #3, both published in 2008.
The team was introduced in the Secret Invasion tie-in issues of Mighty Avengers and then featured in their own ongoing series. This series was co-plotted by Bendis with Jonathan Hickman writing. and was one of the titles launching as part of the Dark Reign storyline. The series was promoted by a series of passwords and clues given in solicitations for upcoming issues. A Marvel spokesman stated that further passwords would be released for the website later on.
The characters entered battle for the first time during the Skrulls' invasion of Earth. Manhattan became a war zone with Super Skrulls devastating the city. The arrival of the Fury-led team turned the tide of battle enough to rescue the combined forces of the Initiative and the Young Avengers from being killed by the Skrulls. Fury rallied all the other heroes together with his agents and began a series of hit and run attacks on the Skrull forces throughout the city. It took all of them just to take out a few Super Skrulls at a time. A better chance at defeating the Skrull invasion came at the sight of Thor's lightning calling them all to Central Park. There, the team gathered with all of the other assembled heroes and repelled the Skrull invasion. In the immediate aftermath of the heroes' victory, Fury and his agents quickly took their leave and went back underground.
Nick Fury revealed his true agenda to the team. HYDRA was bigger and more far reaching than he ever realized. It even had its tentacles in S.H.I.E.L.D. while he ran it. However, the Skrull attack and the dismantling of S.H.I.E.L.D. hit HYDRA hard, giving Fury an opportunity to prepare for a new war against them while they reorganized.
With S.H.I.E.L.D. being replaced by H.A.M.M.E.R., HYDRA was moving to claim as many assets as it could before the U.S. government could, and the agents knew that HYDRA would go after the Red Worm psy-ops facility next. The Secret Warriors needed to get there first to prevent HYDRA from claiming such an asset. HYDRA moved too quickly and the team arrived to witness Kraken and Gorgon personally overseeing the facility's evacuation. When they were in the process of executing two telepaths who were brain damaged by the rushed process of being awakened, Daisy Johnson ordered her team to move in. Kraken teleported away with the remaining telepaths, and Gorgon stayed behind to fight. He severely wounded Yo-Yo by chopping off both of her hands.
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