Tag Archives: Spider-Man

It’s back-to-school time at Marvel. No, Xavier’s Academy for Gifted Youngsters isn’t reopening, it means it’s time for the September 2022 Marvel solicitations.  That’s right, in comic book terms summer vacation and days at the beach are already over, and publishers are already gearing up for fall.  In-between reading and …

Marvel Comics’ three Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) 2022 specials might have just added Spider-Man’s newest supervillain Chasm.  Is Chasm coming to Free Comic Book Day? (Image credit: Marvel Comics) (opens in new tab) Is Ben Reilly’s new supervillain identity what Marvel is referring to with its new “The Dark …

Todd McFarlane may have co-founded Image Comics and created Spawn 30 years ago – and not looked back since. But there’s still a generation of fans who fondly recall his years as a Marvel Comics-Spider-Man superstar. Now IDW Publishing will help fan those flames with Todd McFarlane’s Spider-Man Artist’s Edition, …

Comic book characters have been crossing over and meeting up almost since the earliest days of the medium. But not every team-up is as straightforward as a World’s Finest-style Superman/Batman pairing.  Sometimes a comic book crossover transcends the bounds of genres, publishers, legality – and even reality when real people …

The Spider-Verse is the nickname given to the web (pun fully intended) of Spider-Man Variants and related heroes that populate their own special corner of Marvel’s Multiverse, and now the Spider-Verse is going to ‘Infinity’ – as in the Marvel Unlimited app’s specially formatted digital-first ‘Infinity Comics’, with a new …

Miles Morales famously stepped up to become Spider-Man in the wake of an alt-universe Peter Parker’s death, and this March 2 he’ll be stepping up to take over another Marvel mantle: Captain America. What If … Miles Morales #1 main cover by Sara Pichelli (Image credit: Marvel Comics) (opens in …

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the upcoming two-part sequel to the blockbuster animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and like its predecessor, Across the Spider-Verse seems poised to introduce a whole host of alternate versions of Spider-Man from around the Marvel Multiverse. As viewers will recall, Into the Spider-Verse went …

Doctor Strange died in the recent Death of Doctor Strange #1 (opens in new tab), but as we’ve recently learned, he’s made contingency plans for this possibility – which includes the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. As part of the Sorcerer Supreme’s last will and testament, he has asked Marvel’s premiere wall-crawler …

Marvel is showing some advance solicitations for February comics connected to its early 2022 crossover event Devil’s Reign, in which the Kingpin enlists his own army of villains under the banner of the Thunderbolts to take down New York City’s many vigilantes – including Moon Knight and Spider-Man, two of …

DC’s unexpectedly playful homage to 1990’s Spider-Man #1 (opens in new tab) cover by Todd McFarlane for a variant cover to December’s Batman #118 has gotten the attention of the comic book retail community. Translation: Comic shop owners expect readers and collectors to really want this one and DC has …