Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4548390-20151220053632/@comment-61022-20160314162806

About Jim Skully... I'm thinking the one that appears in Secret Wars is an alternate not 616 Jim Skully. His flashback does not fit with his established origin in. In that story, he fled the country after killing his brother in self defense. He was apprehended overseas was being extradited to the United States at the time the plane passed through the Bermuda Triangle and got stuck in the timeless realm they were stuck in. There's also the lack of his supporting cast. Namely Dr. Corey, Ann Reynolds and Jeff Turner. Who all ended up going for the ride.

When reading the Secret Wars guidebook in hindsight, I think all the profiles featured therein were a primer for new readers to "get" certain characters without countless pages being used for exposition in story (Most of these series were 3-4 issues after all) I don't think the intent of that handbook was to be "These are all 616 characters" and more "Here are all these obscure characters and concepts we're bringing back in a new form and don't want to spend most of our story arc trying to explain who/what they are!"