SKE PT -Gabe es OO ck aA FEATURING THE ARTWORK OF: STEVE MCNIVEN * ALEX MALEEV > RAMON BACHS PAUL SMITH » HUMBERTO RAMOS » RON GARNEY MIKE MCKONE * GABRIELE DELL'OTTO » MICHAEL TURNER i ELWRITER JIM MCCANN SENIOR EDITOR, SPE PROJECTS ; JEFF YOUNGQU ASSISTANT EDITOH MICHAEL SHO! VICE PRESIDENT O} , DAVID GABRI : \ ee VICE PRESIDENT OF CREATIVE. 3 é Bey Yu: aig se DESIGNE JEOF VI wy eo a ss Beas cE iada te Near eaGUs ee 2 PNioa naa ae ators ca env \ i Nel eae nama RUN ken Ce Sao eT nae aMonacoM LA aNCeis Caen Dremel oN ANN AEUL Tea zOxt, el Lorena aan Ce heer T VCS Pcl te ever aes s eT AY PTUs are Ate ea tL 7 erat aZ aN Ce I mera STE Are NetCom ote Os ip TNT sarod Corea ora uae aaa ea ter Catt tert ee aon ate era WC DE a eae eI aa eam ENS Tere Ea RenU Nana en PAGE 15: PAUL SMITH. SHE-HULK Net OMIa ere tem COT NT wane PuaL SaulHEROES LOST FAITH IN THEIR MISSION AND DISBANDED. A DARK RIFT WAS FORMED AND IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THAT GAP WIDENED AND OTHERS FELL IN AS WELL. THOUGH IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE, THE AVENGERS WERE MERELY THE FIRST TEAM TO BE DISASSEMBLED. I: BEGAN WITH THE AVENGERS. TORN APART FROM WITHIN, EARTH'S MIGHTIEST OVER HOW 8THEN THE HULK SEEMED TO VANISH. ONCE. HIS PATH OF DESTRUCTION COULD BE TRACKED FROM MILES ABOVE THE EARTH. THEN... NOTHING. NO ONE HAS SEEN HIM FOR MONTHS. SOME SAY HE HAS BEEN TAMED, OTHERS SAY HE DIED. THE TRUTH OF IT IS FAR MORE FRIGHTENING, AND HAS MUCH GREATER CONSEQUENCES. SINCE THE EARLY DAWN OF THE MARVELS THERE HAS BEEN A SECRET GATHERING, A COLLECTION OF THE BRIGHTEST, MOST POWERFUL LEADERS OF THEIR COMMUNITY. THEY HAVE NOT ALWAYS SEEN EYE-TO-EYE. A RECENT DECISION HAS TORN THEM APART. WHERE THEY ONCE STOOD UNITED, THEY NOW FACE ONE ANOTHER, MISTRUST BREWING. MBLED, DECIMATED, AND DIVIDED THE WORLD IS GROWING DARKER. SECRET COMMITTEES ARE MEETING, DE, BEING MADE, AND SIDES A aly ava LOST HAVE RESURFACED. OLD we ARE REOPENING. FORGOTTEN THREATS. AUUan AAU ASTI Lemcel vA On faery PNAC aes See MEECole oli ean EY LNe vera enWa Temas ‘& ©2007 MAREROES LIVE AMONG US, THEY WALK AND FLY IN OUR MIDST. THEY FIGHT H« US, PROTECT US, AND KEEP US SAFE. HEROES MAY BE MUTANTS OR ALIENS, OR EVEN GODS. BUT LIKE THE REST OF US, THEY ARE ONLY HUMAN AFTER ALL. TM & €) 2007 MARVELAN AGE OF SAFETY, AND AN AGE OF INNOCENCE. WHEN THAT INNOCENCE IS LOST IN THE WAKE OF THE TRAGEDY, SOMEONE MUST BE THERE TO PICK UP THE PIECES. SOMEONE MUST TELL US WHAT WENT WRONG. SOMEONE MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. AS ONE AGE ENDS, ANOTHER MUST BEGIN. T= HEROES HAVE LIVED AMONG US FOR YEARS IN AN AGE OF WONDER.“TM & © 2007 MARVELOF JUSTICE SHOULD ANSWER TO SOMEONE. THEY SHOULD BE TRAINED, Ss FEEL ALL WHO WEAR A MASK AND CARRY OUT THEIR OWN BRAND ORGANIZED, REGISTERED. OTHERS FEEL THEY MUST MAINTAIN THEIR SECRET IDENTITIES, THEY MUST REMAIN UNTOUCHABLE. THE RIFT [§ GROWING WIDER...NATIONAL SECURITY AND LAW, FRIENDS MUST NOW PICK A SIDE, HUNTING DOWN THOSE THEY ONCE FOUGHT BESIDE. THOSE THAT STOOD TOGETHER AGAINST THREATS AS TEAMMATES NOW FACE EACH OTHER ON A BATTLEFIELD, AND. NOT ALL WILL WALK AWAY UNSCATHED. THIS IS WAR. CALLOUS ACTIONS WILL TEAR FAMILIES AND FRIENDSHIPS APART. LOVED ONES WILL BE PUT AT RISK. TRUE VILLAINS WILL GO UNCHECKED. | Ss BY A CHOICE BETWEEN PERSONAL SAFETY AND LIBERTIES VERSUS HOW MANY WILL FALL BEFORE THIS IS SETTLED? HOW FAR WILL EACH SIDE GO BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE? WHO WILL BETRAY THOSE THAT TRUSTED THEM? WHO. CAN STOP THIS RAGING CIVIL WAR? Aerator ag tla ey ea et WHEN HEROES FIGHT, WHO IS THE VILLA\ /O SIDES TO EVERY WAR, Tart aN Cele ols}POINTS OF VIEW, AND MANY STORIES THAT NEED. REPORTING. THERE ARE TWO JOURNALISTS WILLING TO GET TO THE HEART OF IT, PLACING THEMSELVES WHERE THE GREATEST DANGER OF ALL LIES! CIVIL WAR: FRONT LINE. I: CIVIL WAR, THERE ARE TWO SIDES, TWO a. 4 A id + ss ] h Co Pye S te = S aw ss y fy, ga ey Ae Nh) y < Lp ea ey = a od ‘ oe Gee LE : eA igo z z a - eS ce i = ROWELA gy - - ‘ TM & © 2007 MARVEL 1 i) e) f 8 aaa aeSALLY FLOYD AND BEN URICH HA\ THE OPPOSING CAMP: > THE Silom WAY THE WORLD SEES HEROES... AND VILLAINS!N THE WAKE OF THE TRAGEDY, HEROES MUST MAKE A CHOICE, AND THEIR CHOICES HAVE CONSEQUENCES. NO ONE KNOWS THIS MORE THAN PETER PARKER. TORN BY HIS OWN CIVIL WAR, WATCH AS HE STRUGGLES WITH THE POWER HE NOW HAS, AND THE RESPONSIBLE DECISION HE KNOWS HE MUST MAKE. BEGINNING IN AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #532, WATCH THE LIVES OF PETER PARKER, AND EVERYONE WHO KNOWS HIM BE CHANGED IN WAYS NONE OF THEM CAN PREPARE FOR!S THE HEROES OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE DRAW THEIR LINES IN THE Ax ONE CHARACTER FINDS HERSELF ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FIGHT. AND THE LAW, WHAT CHOICE WILL SHE-HULK MAKE AND WHAT WILL IT MEAN FOR HER FUTURE AND FOR THE FUTURE OF THE CIVIL WAR? FIND OUTIN * SHE-HULK #8! i TM & @2007 MARVEL Foe fle tamale fWOLVERINE KNOWS THERE IS ONE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR SETTING OFF THE CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT HAVE LED TO THIS CIVIL WAR. NOW, HE IS DETERMINED THAT THESE CRIMES*WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED. TRACKING DOWN THE VILLAIN RESPONSIBLE, HOWEVER, MAY NOT BE AS EASY AS HE THINKS. THERE 15 ANOTHER WHO GRIEVES, WHO WANTS TO FIND THE MAN WHO KILLED SO MANY - INCLUDING ONE WHOM HE LOVED - AND WILL NOT LET ANYTHING, NOT EVEN WOLVERINE, GET IN THE WAY OF HIS REVENGE! WOLVERINE #42 BEGINS THE HUNT, BEGINS THE “VENDETTA!” Ds THE MEDIA, DESPITE THE LEGISLATION, DESPITE THE EVIDENCE,FEBRUARY CAMAZING SPIDER-MAN #529 MARCH (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #530 COUFANTASTIC FOUR #536 CONEW AVENGERS: ILLUMINATI SPECIAL APRIL (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #531 (CIVIL WAR OPENING SHOT SKETCHBOOK (FANTASTIC FOUR #537 MAY CIOCIVIL WAR #1 COMARVEL SPOTLIGHT: MILLAR/MCNIVEN (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #532 COSHE-HULK #8. CAWOLVERINE #42 JUNE CICIVIL WAR #2 CACIVIL WAR FRONT LINE #1 CUCIVIL War FRONT LINE #2 CIAMAZING SPIDER-MAN #533 CUFANTASTIC FOUR #538 CANEW AVENGERS #21 COTHUNDERBOLTS #103 CAWOLVERINE #43 CAXx-FACTOR #8 JULY COCTVIL WAR #3 CACIVIL WAR FRONT LINE #3 CCIVIL WAR FRONT LINE #4 COCIVIL War: X-MEN #1 CACIVIL WAR: YOUNG AVENGERS & RUNAWAYS #1 CIAMAZING SPIDER-MAN #534 COBLACK PANTHER #18 CICABLE & DEADPOOL #30 COFANTASTIC FOUR #539 CANEW AVENGERS #22 COTHUNDERBOLTS 104 CIAWOLVERINE #44 CAX-FACTOR #9 Al ST COCIVIL WAR #4 COCIVIL WAR FRONT LINE #5 CCIVIL WAR FRONT LINE #6 COcIVIL WAR: X-MEN #2 CLAMAZING SPIDER-MAN #535 f\ VV AA TS AUGUST (continued) COciviL war: YOUNG AVENGERS & RUNAWAYS #2 COCABLE & DEADPOOL #31 COFANTASTIC FOUR #540 COHEROES FOR HIRE #1 COMS. MARVEL #6 CONEW AVENGERS #23 COPUNISHER: WAR JOURNAL #1 COTHUNDERBOLTS #105 CAOWOLVERINE #45, ;EPTEMBER COCIVIL WAR #5 COCIVIL WAR FRONT LINE #7 COCIVIL WAR FRONT LINE #8 COCIVIL WAR: X-MEN #3 COCIvIL WAR: YOUNG AVENGERS & RUNAWAYS #3, COAMAZING SPIDER-MAN #536 COCABLE & DEADPOOL #32 COcAPTAIN AMERICA #22 COFANTASTIC FOUR #541 COHEROES FOR HIRE #2 (OMS. MARVEL 47 [NEW AVENGERS #24 COPUNISHER: WAR JOURNAL #2 CAWOLVERINE #46 OCTOBER COCIVIL WAR #6 COCIVIL WAR FRONT LINE #9 COCIVIL WAR FRONT LINE #10 COCIVIL War: X-MEN #4 Cocivit war: YOUNG AVENGERS & RUNAWAYS #4 (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #537 CVCAPTAIN AMERICA #23 COUFANTASTIC FOUR #542 COHEROES FOR HIRE #3 COIRON MAN #13 (OMS. MARVEL #8 [NEW AVENGERS #25 COPUNISHER: WAR JOURNAL #3 CAWOLVERINE #47 NOVEMBER CICIVIL WAR #7 COAMAZING SPIDER-MAN #538 CACAPTAIN AMERICA #24 COFANTASTIC FOUR #543 CUIRON MAN #14 TM & ©2007 MARVELiach cal O18 BRAN x aa ww , INL WAR (VARIANT COVER) TM & © 2007 MARVEL