As you can see for the upcoming solicits for July 2014, some of them have been labeled “Classified,” the speculation being that Marvel wants to save a couple of surprises for this weekend’s C2E2 convention. Keep an eye for further updates the more information we get.
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #4
(W) Dan Slott (A/CA) Humberto Ramos
CLASSIFIED
In Shops: 7/16/2014
SRP: $3.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1.3
(W) Dan Slott (A) Ramon K. Perez (CA) Alex Ross
CLASSIFIED
100TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1 SPIDER-MAN
MARVEL COMICS
(W) Sean Ryan (A/CA) In-Hyuk Lee
CLASSIFIED
SPIDER-MAN 2099 #1
PETER DAVID (W) • WILLIAM SLINEY (A)
Cover by SIMONE BIANCHI
VARIANT COVER BY RICK LEONARDI
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
INTERLOCKING VARIANT “C” BY J. SCOTT CAMPBELL
ALL-NEW SERIES FROM THE PAGES OF AMAZING SPIDER-MAN!
The book you have been demanding for months finally hits the stands! Miguel O’Hara is Spider-Man in the year 2099 but he’s currently stuck in the year 2014. He was stranded here by his father who is the head of an evil corporation called Alchemax in 2099. But in 2014, Alechmax has just been formed and Miguel has a chance to stop its corruption before it starts! You’d think being a man out of time would make you a man without enemies, but Spider-Man 2099 is about to discover that he’s not the only one hoping for a better tomorrow, one that might be ensured by The Adjustor eliminating Miguel from the time stream altogether! Join comics legend (and Spider-Man 2099 creator) Peter David and breakthrough artist Will Sliney (Superior Spider-Man Team-up) for the most adventure you’ll find in a book this side of the twenty second century!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
MILES MORALES: THE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #3
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • DAVE MARQUEZ (A/C)
Variant Cover by SARA PICHELLI
• PART THREE OF “REVIVAL” THE MOST SHOCKING SPIDER-MAN STORY OF THE YEAR
• MILES MORALES comes face-to-face with the worst nightmare of the Ultimate SPIDER-MAN Legacy… • NORMAN OSBORN…the GREEN GOBLIN…the man who killed PETER PARKER… or did he?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
ALL-NEW ULTIMATES #5
MICHEL FIFFE (W)
AMILCAR PINNA (A)
Cover by DAVID NAKAYAMA
FROM THE CREATOR OF THE HIT COMIC “COPRA”
• It’s a battle royale when the new superteens on the block go up against the most dangerous supergangs on the street!
• Will the bloodthirsty vigilante, SCOURGE, take everyone in a costume down, be it street punk or good guy?
• Will SPIDER-MAN, BLACK WIDOW, KITTY PRYDE, BOMBSHELL, CLOAK & DAGGER survive a second wave of violence when the deadly CROSSBONES joins the fray?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
THE SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN #13
NICK SPENCER (W) • STEVE LIEBER (A/C)
• The world’s most dangerous villains are up against the world’s most dangerous thing – THE TRUTH!
• The sleeper hit of the year continues, by Spencer, Lieber & Rosenberg!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
ORDER USING THIS CODE: MAR140695
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #17
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • Ed McGuinness (A/C)
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY ARTIST VARIANT ALSO AVAILABLE
• With some new faces on the team, it might be time for the Guardians to have a little team-building vacation.
• Or, you know, they could keep fighting alien warlords and galactic empires.
• Guess they’ll have to plan that team-building retreat for next month.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #28
Adapted by Joe Caramagna
• Heroing is hard work, so the team sneaks off to a desert island for an impromptu vacation!
• But it’s hard to relax when the beach beneath your feet is the villainous Sandman!
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
NEW WARRIORS #7
CHRISTOPHER YOST (W) • MARCUS TO (A)
Cover by Takeshi Miyazawa
• The New Warriors are pulled into INHUMANITY as their own resident Inhuman, Haechi, is targeted by two different tribes of Inhumans.
• Who are Mister Whiskers and Jake Waffles? Whose side are they on, good or evil? What does Jake Waffles possess that Speedball wants so badly?
• And who is hunting NOVA?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 8 TPB
Written by STAN LEE
Penciled by JOHN ROMITA SR. with JOHN BUSCEMA, JIM MOONEY & ROSS ANDRU
Cover by JOHN ROMITA SR. & RICHARD ISANOVE
It’s time for another round of web-slinging wonderment from two of the men who put the “master” in Masterworks — Stan Lee and John Romita Sr.! Their classic “Saga of the Stone Tablet” kicks off with the Kingpin’s quest to decipher an ancient clay tablet whose secrets promise great power. But Spidey soon gets caught in the mix and finds himself branded Public Enemy No. 1! With the Kingpin on one side and J. Jonah Jameson on the other, turning up the heat in the Daily Bugle, things go from bad to horrible when the mob gets involved. It’s a Peter Parker pressure cooker! Also featuring battles with Quicksilver, the Shocker and the Lizard, along with a rare Stan Lee/Ross Andru Spidey story from MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #14! Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #68-77 and MARVEL SUPER-HEROES (1967) #14.
248 PGS./All Ages …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-8807-0
DEADPOOL VS. CARNAGE TPB
Written by CULLEN BUNN
Penciled by SALVA ESPIN & KIM JACINTO
Cover by GLENN FABRY
Come one, come all, for the bloodiest showdown the Marvel Universe has ever seen! It’s two red-suited madmen for the price of one when Deadpool takes on Carnage in the ultimate battle of good-crazy vs. bad-crazy! Will Carnage spread Deadpool all over the landscape? Or will Deadpool talk the scarlet sociopath’s ear off? Find out in this blood-soaked brouhaha for the ages! Plus: Cletus Kasady is behind bars, and the Carnage symbiote is in quarantine! But we all know that’s never going to last, right? Cletus has been evaluated, imprisoned and even lobotomized. Carnage has been sampled, cloned, poked and prodded. But they’ve had enough! It’s time to get the band back together! It’s a return to bloody, murderous form for the deadliest killer in the Marvel Universe! Collecting DEADPOOL VS. CARNAGE #1-4 and SUPERIOR CARNAGE ANNUAL #1.
112 PGS./Parental Advisory …$16.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9015-8
NEW WARRIORS VOL. 1: THE KIDS ARE ALL FIGHT TPB
Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST
Penciled by MARCUS TO & NICK ROCHE
Cover by RAMON PEREZ
Warriors reborn! Speedball and Justice gather a group of young heroes including Sun Girl, Hummingbird, the new Nova and a couple of fresh faces to stop the latest threat to the Marvel Universe! Atlanteans, Inhumans, Morlocks, clones and hundreds of other so-called “superior” beings are living among normal humans — but not everyone is pleased about that. The High Evolutionary has raised an army to combat the evolution of humanity — and the New Warriors are locked in his deadly sights! If it’s not human, it dies — but why? And what do the mighty Evolutionaries want with Nova? As worldwide genocide approaches and Nova encounters the captive Scarlet Spider, the Second Evolutionary War begins! Can the Warriors stop worldwide genocide? Should they? How many lives would you sacrifice to save all of humanity? Guest-starring the Avengers! Collecting NEW WARRIORS (2014) #1-6.
136 PGS./Rated T+ …$17.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-5453-2
THE SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN VOL. 2: THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY TPB
Written by NICK SPENCER
Penciled by STEVE LIEBER
Cover by STEVE LIEBER
The Foes are on the brink as the sleeper hit of the year continues! Nick Spencer (AVENGERS WORLD) and Steve Lieber (HAWKEYE) bring you the crime of the century! But if Speed Demon can’t do the time, then he shouldn’t have done the crime! Boomerang has been targeted for death — but what does the Beetle know about it? Is Overdrive a rat for the Feds? Can Shocker and Boomerang repair their relationship? (And did we seriously just use that question to try to sell a book?) And did you ever wonder what Shocker does on his day off? Because the answer turns out to be “get punched. Repeatedly.” It’s a second serving of the greatest villain book on the stands today! Crime does pay — but the Foes just might pay harder! Collecting THE SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN #7-11.
112 PGS./Rated T+ …$16.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-8495-9
SPIDER-MAN: THE COMPLETE ALIEN COSTUME SAGA BOOK 1 TPB
Written by TOM DEFALCO, DAVID MICHELINIE, CARY BURKETT, TONY ISABELLA, LOUISE SIMONSON & AL MILGROM
Penciled by RON FRENZ, RICK LEONARDI, GREG LAROCQUE, PAUL NEARY & AL MILGROM
Cover by RON FRENZ
When Spider-Man returns from the Secret Wars with a snazzy new black suit, he’s faster and stronger — and has an unending inbuilt supply of webbing! All the better for tussling with foes such as the Rose, Black Fox, Red Ghost, Jack O’Lantern, Puma and the Blob! Not only that, but he’s dressed to impress the Black Cat, too — much to Mary Jane’s dismay. But there’s something about Peter that’s not quite right. Curse that ol’ Parker luck, the black costume just happens to be a hungry alien symbiote — and it’s grown very attached to him! Savor a chronological retelling of Spider-Man’s epic wardrobe malfunction, told across the three Spidey titles of the era! Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #252-258, MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #141-145 and ANNUAL #7, and PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) #90-95.
488 PGS./Rated T …$44.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-8867-4
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@9 – I rationalize that by assuming a few months have passed between the issues since the last Christmas issue to pad it out so that we can accept that a year has gone by since the last Christmas issue. And some of those issues are untold tales of Christmases past, so even though it’s been 12 issues since the last Christmas issue, it’s still only a couple of months later.
I’m sure you could take 3 consecutive Christmas issues for most comics and figure out a way to explain that they all took place on the same day and year. A lot of times Christmas issues are self-contained stories, not part of an arc.
It takes some forcing, but you can make it work.
@3 and 7
If in years only a few months pass in comic book time, how do you explain titles with annual holiday related themes? For years I read Superman comics and it seemed each year there was a holiday related issue.
It just occurred to me that there wouldn’t be a comic called “Amazing Spider-Man”
if his foes really were Superior. Just saying.
I’ve gotten used to thinking that 50 issues = 1 year based on Ben Reilly returning to ASM after being on the road for 5 years. Of course that’s not official – you could have 12 issues of a comic that takes place over 2-3 days, and then 3 issues that take place over a month.
It’ll just seem weird if in a couple of years Miguel is still saying “I arrived here in the year 2014” and acting as if he’s only been here for a few months. Like Iron Man’s original origin taking place in the Vietnam war.
@5 – I’d like to think that they will stop naming the time period in 2099, but the solicit text isn’t making me very optimistic about it.
It’s really confusing that they’ve stated what year Superior was set in, because it makes the timescale of the previous ASM stories weird. Due to the slow moving nature of comic time, Superior being set specifically in 2014 would mean that the BND – Dying Wish arcs must have taken place during 2013/14. Erugh comic time is just strange.
@4 – Yeah, I’ve noticed in the Superior reviews that they specifically stated “2014” but I hope they drop that in the new book and just say that he’s in “the past”.
@3 – In his appearances in Superior it’s been stated that it’s the year 2014. So it’s both 2099 and Superior that will be dated in a few years.
Annoyed that they released the cover for MM: USM, I was hoping to actually be surprised by the “shocking return” that’s supposed to be in the first issue.
For Spider-Man 2099, I hope them saying “2014” in the description is just part of the description and they don’t mention the present year in the actual book. In a few years 2014 will be in the past but only a couple of months in comic-time will have passed and will quickly date the book if he says he arrived here in 2014. When Miguel is talking about *when* he got here just have him say something vague like this gem: “Admiral, based on the pollution content in the atmosphere, I would say we have landed in the latter half of the 20th century.”
“NEW WARRIORS #7. And who is hunting NOVA?” Not readers giving the book good reviews. Oh, I made myself feel bad.
“NEW WARRIORS VOL. 1: THE KIDS ARE ALL FIGHT TPB Collecting NEW WARRIORS (2014) #1-6” That’s optimistic.
100TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1 SPIDER-MAN
100th anniversary of what?
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SPIDER-MAN 2099 #1
PETER DAVID (W)
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Seriously though, I am totally excited about this news! 🙂