Look out! Here comes your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Solicits for April of 2015!
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #17
DAN SLOTT (w) • HUMBERTO RAMOS (a/C)
AVENGERS VARIANT COVER BY TBA
WTD VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• The Ghost has invaded Parker Industries!
• With this super-powered saboteur, no secret is safe– no PEOPLE are safe, either, for that matter.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #17.1
GERRY CONWAY (w) • CARLO BARBERI (a)
Cover by ARTHUR ADAMS
VARIANT COVER BY GABRIELE DELL’OTTO
• WHO HEEDS THE HAMMERHEAD?! Not Spidey, apparently.
• The criminal underworld of New York City is on fire and Spidey and the Wraith hope to contain it. Tough luck, you two.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
SPIDER-MAN 2099 #11
PETER DAVID (w) • WILLIAM SLINEY (a)
Cover by FRANCESCO MATTINA
BIDDING WAR!
• Spider-Man 2099 and the Amazing Spider-Man’s worlds collide when Alchemax and Parker Industries are caught in a bidding war for a valuable contract!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
SILK #3
ROBERT THOMPSON (w) • STACEY LEE (a)
Cover by DAVID JOHNSON
WTD VARIANT COVER BY TBA
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• SILK VS. BLACK CAT– not looking good for Ms. Moon!
• Silk’s been picking at the edges of Black Cat’s operation and Felicia Hardy has had about enough.
• Plus a last page appearance of some very familiar folks!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
SPIDER-WOMAN #6
DENNIS HOPELESS (w) • JAVIER RODRIGUEZ (a/C)
• Someone is kidnapping the loved ones of super villains and because of their connections, no one cares.
• No one except Jessica Drew, Spider-Woman and Ben Urich. They continue their investigation into a problem that’s going to put the whole Marvel Universe in danger!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
SPIDER-GWEN #3
JASON LATOUR (w) • ROBBI RODRIGUEZ (a/C)
WTD VARIANT COVER BY TBA
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• Police Lieutenant Frank Castle is not a man to be trifled with.
• His new assignment? GET SPIDER-GWEN. ‘Nuff said.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
MILES MORALES: ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #12
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • DAVID MARQUEZ (A/C)
THE EPIC CONCLUSION!
• Is this the end?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
SPIDER-MAN & THE X-MEN #5 & 6
ELLIOTT KALAN (w) • MARCO FAILLA (a)
CoverS by STACEY LEE
ISSUE #5 –
• Field Trip! Spider-Man and the X-kids blast into space to take down Deathbird’s Brood-Symbiote Imperium!
• Glob Herman’s finest hour!
• And the mole’s identity revealed! Maybe we should have led with that one!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
ISSUE #6 –
• Spider-Man trapped in the clutches of one of the X-Men’s greatest foes!
• All betrayals, deceptions, and misunderstandings revealed!
• And a shopping mall gets totally wrecked! ‘Cause why not?
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN: WEB WARRIORS #6
Adapted by Joe Caramagna
• Spidey and the Hulk switch minds, resulting in a rampaging web-swinger!
• It’s clobberin’ time, as the Incredible Spider-Hulk stands toe-to-toe with the Thing!
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
INHUMAN SPECIAL #1
JEFF LOVENESS (w) • RYAN LEE (a)
Cover by JAMAL CAMPBELL
Connecting VARIANT B COVER BY ADAM KUBERT
INHUMAN ERROR CONTINUES!
• The story linking AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, INHUMAN and ALL-NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA hits a fever pitch as a character who’s been around for more than 75 years returns to threaten the Marvel Universe.
• You haven’t seen all the effects of the Terrigen Cloud yet and this one is about to destroy New York City!
40 PGS./ One-Shot /Rated T+ …$4.99
TRUE BELIEVERS
What can you get for a dollar? How about the Marvel Universe? Marvel is proud to present TRUE BELIEVERS – special introductory comics for the low price of only $1 each. Coming this April your window into the biggest stories in Marvel history costs only a buck! Enter the world of Civil War, Age of Apocalypse, Old Man Logan, Planet Hulk, the critically-acclaimed ICON series Powers and many more with the first chapters of these top-selling, critically-acclaimed collections. Just in time for Secret Wars (maybe you’ve heard of it? Secret Wars – the biggest Marvel event ever!), catch up on some of the most celebrated stories in Marvel histories before their appearance in the biggest comic event of 2015!
TRUE BELIEVERS: MILES MORALES #1
Reprinting ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN (2011) #1.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$1.00
SPIDER-VERSE HC
Written by DAN SLOTT, CHRISTOS GAGE, MICHAEL COSTA, DENNIS HOPELESS & PETER DAVID with SKOTTIE YOUNG, ROBBIE THOMPSON, KATIE COOK, KATHRYN IMMONEN, JED MCKAY, ROGER STERN, GERRY CONWAY, TOM DEFALCO & MORE
Penciled by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI, OLIVIER COIPEL, DAVE WILLIAMS, PACO DIAZ, GREG LAND & WILL SLINEY with HUMBERTO RAMOS, ADAM KUBERT, MIGUEL SEPULVEDA, JAKE PARKER, DENNIS MEDRI, KATIE COOK, MARK BROOKS, DAVID LAFUENTE, SHELDON VELLA, BOB MCLEOD, PAUL SMITH, RON FRENZ & MORE
Cover by OLIVIER COIPEL
When the evil Inheritors begin exterminating spider-characters throughout the multiverse, every single Spider-Man ever is needed to save the day! An interdimensional spider-army gathers to fight Morlun and his deadly family, but none of them is safe as the Prophecy comes to fruition! What will this brutal war for survival mean for Peter Parker and the rest of the spiders? Starring the Superior Spider-Man, the Ultimate Universe’s Miles Morales and Jessica Drew, Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Woman, Silk, Kaine, Scarlet Spider, MC2’s Spider-Girl, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Man 1602, Spider-Ham, Spider-Monkey, Lady Spider, Spider-Punk, Spider-UK, a spider-powered Gwen Stacy…and hundreds more, from the beloved to the obscure! Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2014) #7-15, SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #32-33, SPIDER-VERSE #1-2, SPIDER-VERSE TEAM-UP #1-3, SCARLET SPIDERS #1-3, SPIDER-WOMAN (2014) #1-4, SPIDER-MAN 2099 (2014) #6-8 and material from FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2014 (GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY) #1.
624 PGS./Rated T …$75
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9035-6
Trim size: oversized
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE TPB
Written by DAVID HINE, FABRICE SAPOLSKY, JASON LATOUR, DUSTIN WEAVER, CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN & GERARD WAY
Penciled by RICHARD ISANOVE, ROBBI RODRIGUEZ, DUSTIN WEAVER, ELIA BONNETTI & JAKE WYATT
Cover by ROBBI RODRIGUEZ
Peer over the edge of the Spider-Verse, at five different realities — and five daringly different spiders! Spider-Man Noir returns, as the Peter Parker of the 1930s finds himself up against Mysterio and knee-deep in the biggest Spider-Man event of all! What is the secret of Dr. Aaron Aikman, the Spider-Man? Who are the villainous Red Eye and Naahmurah, and can Aaron live through Morlun’s arrival? In a universe where the story you know becomes as horrific as possible, a radioactive spider bites a high-school nerd who is already something of a monster. Then, what or who is the incredible SP//dr? And finally, the breakout character of Spider-Verse makes her exciting debut — in a world where the radioactive spider bit Gwen Stacy! Collecting EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE #1-5.
112 PGS./Rated T+ …$15.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9728-7
SECRET WARS PRELUDE TPB
Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN, JIM SHOOTER & BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Penciled by STEVE EPTING, MIKE ZECK, RYAN STEGMAN, SARA PICHELLI & ESAD RIBIC
Cover by DALE KEOWN
Follow the path to 2015’s event to end all events, Secret Wars — an epic more than 30 years in the making! From the senses-staggering climax of 1984’s original SECRET WARS saga, to the origin of Miles Morales, the new Ultimate Spider-Man, it’s all been leading up to this. And Marvel’s master planner, Jonathan Hickman, has long been planting seeds for the story only he could write. The Ultimates face an enemy more powerful than the gods — and Reed Richards is its leader! Doctor Doom faces threats from a universe he created! And the Illuminati reunite to face the reality-destroying threat of the Incursions! War is coming — be ready! Collecting NEW AVENGERS (2013) #1-3, MARVEL SUPER HEROES SECRET WARS #10-12, FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #611, ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN (2011) #1 and ULTIMATE COMICS ULTIMATES #4.
240 PGS./Rated T+ …$34.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9399-9
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Actually, if I’m correct, the plot of ASM #17 is the EXACT SAME PLOT as an episode of Iron Man: Armored Adventures, only Ghost was stealing Iron Man specs for Stane to find out Iron Man’s alter ego. However, noting the fact that Ghost is blowing up this company, I’m not sure if I should give Slott credit for twisting the story a bit or giving him a thumbs-down for ripping off the story in the first place.
Also, Stillanerd, place your bet on which character you hate the most will win: Silk or Black Cat? I’m guessing you don’t care, since they’re both terrible at this point? Eh, I don’t either.
And there went the Ultimate Verse. I was just assuming that in this whole “Universal Decay” debacle that all the universes would be just destroyed and they’d do a thing sort of like Flashpoint Paradox; only here, one of the characters escapes the inevitable and unstoppable final Incursion and goes back in time before the universe is destroyed, gets trapped between in the space between dimensions, and manages to escape to a New 52-like universe where everything about the characters is rebooted. Honestly, if Battleworld is going to be the new MU-wide status quo for the next five years, I’m just going to go write a fanfic about it and pitch it to Marvel as an AU to create Earth-9769 (a number I use frequently in my stories). Maybe then we can get some fans to work on the comics, and do what we think would work as a massive liaison between canon and fanon.
“The” Ghost? Never heard of this Marvel villain before.
#6 Not A ghost, The Ghost. A mentally unstable anarchist terrorist out to destroy the world’s largest tech corporations.
The Amazing Spider-Man versus….. a ghost? Hmm, I think I’ll give this story arc a try. Hopefully Ramos will be replaced by another artist soon.
The Gerry Conway story is on my pull list as well. Loved his run on Amazing Spider-Man. Spider-Man 2099 and Spider-Gwen(couldn’t they pick a better name for her?) looks interesting, I’ll buy those comics too. As for Spider-Man and The X-Men… I guess I’ll pick up #5 and skip #6.
The rest of the new Spidey books dosen’t interest me in the slightest. Miles Morales Ultimate Spider-Man had gotten really good when Bendis brought Peter back, but then he sent him off with Mary Plain…. I mean Jane. Is it too much to ask for another Ulitimate Spider-Man title starring the Ultimate Peter Parker?
Yay! Amazing Spider-Man back on my list, but only the Gerry Conway point issues. 🙂
Oh sweet, Ghost! Great character, and it makes sense for Spider-Man to be crossing paths with him, now that he’s running a big tech company. Really smart villain usage.
So I guess we’re seeing the Ultimate U enter Secret Wars? Cool! So Slott’s first ASM issues of the reboot were pretty much just set up for the Silk series?Yay…
Frank Castle on a man-hunt for Spider-Gwen? I’ll buy it, especially since Frank went after Spidey because he thought he killed Gwen back in the 1970s. Also new crappy character Silk vs. new crappy characterisation Black Cat…yeah no.
Looks like I picked a good month to jump back into spider-man. Love the Ghost.