For those unfamiliar with Secret Wars, the storyline, which was tied into a same-named toy line, saw various Marvel heroes and villains being taken by a cosmic entity called The Beyonder to duke it out on a planet called Battleworld. Jim Shooter said at the panel that Marvel didn’t have “a single piece of paper” saying it owned characters put in Secret Wars like Beyonder, Titania and Volcana (as well as Spider-Man’s black costume, later revealed to be the Venom symbiote), so evidently the company was covering its legal bases over three and a half decades later. However, this tipped Shooter off that there are evidently plans to adapt Secret Wars into a movie.

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