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Yeah I do volumes cause... money :P

I am kinda tempted to get into Secret wars so I'll ask this. Is there any kind of material prior to it that would require reading?
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Minor background knowledge of the core characters and groups involved such as the Illuminati and Doctor Doom, and if you read Volume 5 of both Avengers and New Avengers then you should be pretty much up to speed.