Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28362851-20160502153910/@comment-4651179-20160502171337

Those events didn't have to do with Secret Wars II, they just happened close to it. For example, the Iron Man tie-in with Secret Wars II was issue #197, and the Silver Centurion Armor debuted in issue #200, which didn't have to do with the event. In a similar way, The Thing had already returned to Earth in The Thing #22, while his series' Secret Wars II tie-in happened in issue #30.