Secret Wars: Battleworld Omnibus Vol. 3 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781302968410)

Simon Spurrier is a rising talent in the U.S. comics world, but his work is well-known in his native England. He is a regular contributor to the venerable sci-fi comics anthology 2000 AD. On this side of the pond, Spurrier wrote Silver Surfer: In Thy Name and Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch for Marvel before fully unleashing his idiosyncratic voice through the multiple-personality mutant Legion in the pages of X-Men: Legacy. Spurrier's recent titles include X-Force and the Secret Wars tie-in Marvel Zombies.

W. Haden Blackman is a writer and creative director who has worked across a wide range of media. He has been a director and producer at LucasArts, where he led multiple teams of designers, engineers and artists in telling new interactive stories, and won numerous awards for outstanding video-game writing from both the WGA and Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences for his work on Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. His comic-book credits include Darth Vader & the Lost Command, The Field Guide to North American Monsters, The Field Guide to North American Hauntings, The Irons, the New York Times Best-Selling Batwoman for DC Comics and Marvel's Elektra.

Artist Kev Walker cut his teeth on the venerable British comics magazine 2000 AD, eventually moving on to the publisher's flagship character Judge Dredd and other popular series. After illustrating Annihilation: Nova, Walker teamed with writer Fred Van Lente on Marvel Zombies 3 and 4. He also drew Thunderbolts before joining Dennis Hopeless in pitting Marvel's youngest heroes against one another in the kill-or-be-killed Avengers Arena and the follow-up Avengers Undercover. Walker has worked on numerous other Avengers titles, the Star Wars series Doctor Aphra, Dr. Strange and the high-profile launch of Predator at Marvel Comics.

Croatian artist Dalibor Talajic studied at the Music Academy in Zagreb before becoming a comic artist in 2010. His Marvel credits include Hit-Monkey, Deadpool Team-Up, Punisher MAX: Tiny Ugly World and X-Men. He united with Dexter creator Jeff Lindsay to bring everybody's favorite serial killer to comics, and unleashed further slaughter in Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe. Other Marvel credits include Uncanny X-Force and Red Wolf.