With more Secret Wars comes more Spider-Men and Women, as we roll on into the Spidey-solicits for July 2015.
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: RENEW YOUR VOWS #3
DAN SLOTT (w) • ADAM KUBERT (a/C)
VARIANT cover by Sara PICHELLI
• The most controversial Spider-Man story of the year continues!
•There are some lines Spider-Man won’t cross. Right?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
*SECRET WARS SERIES
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #20.1
GERRY CONWAY (w) • CARLO BARBERI (a)
Cover by YASMINE PUTRI
Variant Cover by NICK BRADSHAW
• The final chapter of “Spiral” brings Spidey and Wraith together- but not as friends.
• The crime landscape of New York City is changed from here on out…
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
SPIDER-ISLAND #1 & #2 (of 5)
CHRISTOS GAGE & TOM DEFALCO (w)
PACO DIAZ & RON FRENZ (a)
Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS
Issue #1 – VARIANT BY RON FRENZ
Issue #1 – INHUMANS 50TH ANNIVERSARY VARIANT COVER BY TBA
Issue #2 – VARIANT COVER BY GABRIELE DELL’OTTO
• The Spider-Queen has turned Manhattan into an island of Spider-Madness and Peter Parker has lost, thanks to Spider-Scribe CHRISTOS GAGE (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN) & rising star artist PACO DIAZ (WOLVERINE, SCARLET SPIDERS).
• With Spider-Man defeated and captive, does Flash Thompson, A.K.A. VENOM stand a chance?
• All this, plus visit the MC2 patch of BATTLEWORLD! Mayday Parker and her Spider-Family are back courtesy of classic Spider-Girl team TOM DEFALCO, RON FRENZ & SAL BUSCEMA!
Issue #1 40 PGS./Rated T …$4.99
Issue #2 32 PGS /Rated T …$3.99
SPIDER-VERSE #3
MIKE COSTA (w) • ANDRE ARAÚJO (a)
Cover by NICK BRADSHAW
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• SPIDER-MAN NOIR ON THE RUN!
• The Web Warriors are outmatched in a world where none of them belong. Does Spider-Ham hold the secret to a possible victory?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
*SECRET WARS SERIES
SILK #6
ROBBIE THOMPSON (w) • STACEY LEE (a)
Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
• Silk has hit rock bottom over the course of her first solo super hero adventure.
• Black Cat got the drop on Silk and that’s just the tip of the Iceberg.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
SPIDER-WOMAN #9
DENNIS HOPELESS (w) • JAVIER RODRIGUEZ (a/C)
• Jessica Drew might have solved the first mystery Ben Urich threw her way, but he’s got one or two more cases up his sleeve from other cities in the U.S. of A!
• It’s a road trip with Spider-Woman, Ben Urich and the Porcupine!
• Destination: JUSTICE.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN: WEB WARRIORS #9
Adapted by Joe Caramagna
• Spider-Man gets to roll with the big boys, as Captain America and Wolverine join him to combat a dangerous new threat to SHIELD.
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
SECRET WARS #5 (OF 8)
JONATHAN HICKMAN (w) • ESAD RIBIC (a)
Cover by ALEX ROSS
CONNECTING VARIANT BY SIMONE BIANCHI
ACTION FIGURE VARIANT BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
VARIANT COVER BY ESAD RIBIC
CLASSIC VARIANT COVER BY TBD ARTIST
VARIANT COVER BY Sophie Campbell
OWEN REECE DIED FOR OUR SINS!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
SECRET WARS: OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE MARVEL MULTIVERSE #1
Written by THE OHOTMU TEAM, LED BY MIKE O’SULLIVAN & JEFF CHRISTIANSEN
Cover by MIKE McKONE
Worlds are colliding! Both on Battleworld, and in the SECRET WARS OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE MARVEL MULTIVERSE #1 – a collection of all-new Profiles! Journey through Marvel’s multiverse:
Old Man Logan! The Ultimate Universe’s Spider-Man (Miles Morales)! The Age of Ultron! Weirdworld! The Spider-Verse event! The Age of Apocalypse’s Nightcrawler! Plus: profiles of the characters and events at the core of the Secret Wars: the Incursions of Earths, Namor’s Cabal, the Future Foundation kids and more! Also featuring key participants in previous Secret Wars: Volcana (Marsha Rosenberg), Thunderball (Eliot Franklin), the healer Zsaji, the Dark Elf Kurse, original Battleworld refugee Puff the dragon, and the Secret Wars II event itself! And because we love you: the Pet Avengers’ Throg, Lady Deadpool, Teen Hulk…and Obnoxio the Clown?!
64 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
ULTIMATE END #3 (OF 5)
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (w) • MARK BAGLEY (a/C)
THE BATTLE YOU THOUGHT YOU’D NEVER SEE!
• The mash up of the ULTIMATE UNIVERSE and the MARVEL UNIVERSE reaches its tipping point.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
RED SKULL #1 (OF 3)
JOSHUA WILLIAMS (w) • LUCA PIZZARI (a)
Cover by RILEY ROSSMO
VARIANT Cover by NICK PITTARA
• One of the most vile villains of the Marvel Universe gets his very own twisted Secret Wars series!
• Red Skull should be dead but his legend grows, so a team of villains that includes Winter Soldier, Magneto and Lady Deathstrike are sent on a dangerous odyssey to the Deadlands to prove it…but no one ever comes back alive from the Deadlands!
• Forced to overcome zombies, Ultron drones and the Annihilation Wave, the rag-tag team of villains will find that they may bitten off more than they can chew…
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
CIVIL WAR #1
CHARLES SOULE (w)
LEINIL FRANCIS YU (a/C)
Promo Variant Cover by Adi Granov
Ant-Sized Variant Cover by TBA
MAOS Variant Cover by TBA
VARIANT cover by Steve McNiven
Young Variant Cover by Skottie Young
Blank Variant Cover also available
INHUMANS 50TH ANNIVERSARY VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• The Civil War never ended. Welcome to the Warzone, where six years of non-stop battle between the forces of the Blue and the Iron have split the nation down its center, utterly transforming it. In a world of new alliances and strange enemies, President Tony Stark and General Steve Rogers meet to make one last attempt at peace.
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
CIVIL WAR #2
CHARLES SOULE (w)
LEINIL FRANCIS YU (a/C)
VARIANT cover by Olivier Coipel
LANDSCAPE VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• Skirmishes between each side continue in the wake of a failed attempt at peace. General Rogers and his forces in the Blue continue development of Project Bellcurve, the top-secret effort to win the war in one epic stroke, while Iron President Stark discovers deeply troubling data about the course of the nation’s history since its division.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
HAIL HYDRA #1
RICK REMENDER (w)
ROLAND BOSCHI (a/C)
Cover by ANDREW C. ROBINSON
Blank Variant Cover
VARIANT Cover by Juan Doe
Ant-Sized Variant by Juan Doe
Design Variant by Roland Boschii
MAOS Variant Cover by TBA
• Peace Through Strength! Honor Through Obedience! Continuance Through Conformity!
• Hail Hydra! Immortal Hydra! We shall never be destroyed!
• Cut off one limb, and two shall take its place!
• We serve none but the Master—as the world shall soon serve us!
• It is a beautiful Utopia that Hydra has created.
• But when a lone figure from outside the Regime appears, could his very presence be enough to bring this perfect society to its ruin?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
HAIL HYDRA #2
RICK REMENDER (w)
ROLAND BOSCHI (a/C)
Cover by ANDREW C. ROBINSON
VARIANT cover by Ron Garney
• Can Ian Rogers, Nomad, survive a land ruled by Hydra?
• Can he survive the rage of Eddie Brock, prime assassin to the regime?
• The secrets within Nomad’s head are priceless, holding the key to Hydra’s future, and someone’s going to crack him open and dig them out.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND THE MIGHTY DEFENDERS #1 (of 2)
AL EWING (w) • ALAN DAVIS (a/C)
VARIANT cover by Frazer Irving
• Welcome to Battleworld – where, in what’s left of Mondo-City One, Boss Cage is the law!
• When the fascist futuropolis annexes neighboring Yinsen City, who’ll stand up for Ho Yinsen’s dream of universal peace?
• If you liked the Mighty Avengers — you’ll love the Mighty Defenders!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
1872 #2
GERRY DUGGAN (w) • NIK VIRELLA (a/C)
Cover by EVAN “DOC” SHANER
VARIANT Cover by RON GARNEY
DEAD MAN’S HAND!
• BULLSEYE!
• ELEKTRA!
• GRIZZLY!
• DOC OCK!
• ‘NUFF SAID, PARTNER!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
*SECRET WARS SERIES
ARMOR WARS #3
JAMES ROBINSON (w) • MARCIO TAKARA (a)
Cover by PAUL RIVOCHE
LANDSCAPE VARIANT COVER BY TBA
WHO KILLED SPYDER-MAN?!
• JIM RHODES’ investigation of the murder of one of TECHNOPOLIS’ few superheroes takes an unexpected and dangerous turn
• What kind of ramifications will the plans and machinations of ARNO STARK and THE KINGPIN have on BARON TONY STARK?
• As KIRI fights through her grief by continuing her work on new armored creations we see how they may change the face of Technopolis…and beyond…forever!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
*SECRET WARS SERIES
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: SPIDER-WOMAN VOL. 1 HC
Written by MARV WOLFMAN with ARCHIE GOODWIN
Penciled by CARMINE INFANTINO with SAL BUSCEMA, RON WILSON & JOHN BUSCEMA
Cover by GIL KANE
Jessica Drew debuts as Spider-Woman in her inaugural Marvel Masterworks! Raised within the arms of the terrorist group Hydra, Jessica was taught to see the world from their twisted point of view and became a top agent in their international criminal network. But she began to break the bonds of her indoctrination when she crossed paths with Nick Fury and the Thing, becoming her own woman — and soon, an incomparable Marvel hero! Join us as Jessica Drew sets out to uncover her true origins, her identity and her place in the world. She’ll employ both her spider-powers and her spy craft in battles with enemies mystical and macabre — and you’ll soon see why Spider-Woman earned a reputation as one of Marvel’s most unique series! Collecting MARVEL SPOTLIGHT (1971) #32, MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #29-33 and SPIDER-WOMAN (1978) #1-8.
272 PGS./Rated T …$75.00
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9178-0
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: SPIDER-WOMAN VOL. 1 HC — VARIANT EDITION VOL. 225 (DM ONLY)
272 PGS./Rated T …$75
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9179-7
VENOM BY RICK REMENDER: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION VOL. 2 TPB
Written by RICK REMENDER, ROB WILLIAMS, JEFF PARKER & CULLEN BUNN
Penciled by TONY MOORE, LEE GARBETT, SANA TAKEDA, JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCO, LAN MEDINA, KEV WALKER & DECLAN SHALVEY
Cover by TONY MOORE
When a portal to the underworld opens in the middle of Las Vegas, Venom must join Red Hulk, Ghost Rider and X-23 on a crusade to stop the spread of Hell on Earth. Can these tarnished heroes wrestle free of their own personal demons and band together to save the world in its darkest hour? Then, Venom faces a gauntlet of doom as Crime-Master unites Jack O’Lantern, the Human Fly, Toxin and more to destroy him! Crime-Master’s diabolical plan brings war to Flash Thompson’s family and friends — and in this war, there will be victims! Meanwhile, Venom joins the Secret Avengers, but what’s left of Flash to join the team? Even with the symbiote under control, Flash’s dark secrets put everything at risk — especially when the original Venom host, Eddie Brock, comes calling! Collecting VENOM (2011) #13, #13.1-13.4 and #14-22.
344 PGS./Rated T+ …$34.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9353-1
MILES MORALES: ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN ULTIMATE COLLECTION BOOK 1 TPB
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Penciled by SARA PICHELLI, CHRIS SAMNEE
& DAVID MARQUEZ
Cover by SARA PICHELLI
Miles Morales takes up the mantle of Spider-Man! Before Peter Parker died, young Miles was poised to start the next chapter in his life in a new school. Then, a spider’s bite granted the teenager incredible arachnid-like powers. Now, Miles has been thrust into a world he doesn’t understand, with only gut instinct and a little thing called responsibility as his guides. Can he live up to Peter’s legacy as Spider-Man? As Miles grapples with his new life, Miles’ Uncle Aaron — A.K.A. the Prowler — learns his secret! He’s got plans for his nephew, but little does he know that the Scorpion is on his tail! Plus: Universes collide, and the wall-crawlers of the Marvel and Ultimate Universes unite in the most ultimate, amazing Spider-Man story ever! Collecting ULTIMATE FALLOUT #4, ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN (2011) #1-12 and SPIDER-MEN #1-5.
416 PGS./Rated T+ …$34.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9778-2
MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN: WEB WARRIORS VOL. 2 DIGEST
Adapted by JOE CARAMAGNA
Featuring screen-capture images from MARVEL’S ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN: WEB WARRIORS
Spider-Man teams up with the Marvel Universe’s greatest heroes in stories straight from the smash hit DISNEY XD animated series!
• Spider-Man journeys to the fabled city of K’un Lun to aid Iron Fist. But when Spidey takes Fist’s place in a combat tournament, he faces a powerful warrior known as the Scorpion!
• Spidey and the Hulk switch minds! And as the web-swinger goes on a rampage, the Incredible Spider-Hulk takes on the Thing!
• The Lizard has made his lair in the sewers beneath Midtown High! Spidey and Mary Jane must venture into the depths, aided by the Janitor Stan (The Man!)
• Envious of the carefree Deadpool, Spider-Man spends some time with the madcap mercenary. But he’s about to learn just how serious Deadpool’s life can be!
Collecting MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN: WEB WARRIORS #5-8.
88 PGS./All Ages …$9.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9384-5
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I WANT to buy RYV, but don’t trust the writing team to get the characters right and am gonna wait on reviews to see if I should bother.
Ummmmm, no Spider-Gwen this month????
I’ll wait and see if RYV is worth buying
as a collection.
Honestly, I’m thinking probably won’t be.
MAKE MINE MARVEL!! Cos it sure saves
a lot of money not buying as many issues
as I used to since OMD and marvel’s
snarky attitude to fans.
Spider-Island, Spider-verse, and the Mighty Defenders (mainly because of She-Hulk though). ‘Nuff said.
Mac Lowe ruined Black Cat’s character and brought back Mayday in a way he KNEW would piss people off and even admitted as much at a convention.
Guys, we don’t know if this will be a full on Reboot yet. We just know this is Battleworld and our status quo for now.
With Spider-Man I think Slott is too in love with his own shit and continuity to pull a mega reboot. This will likely have ramifications on the real Peter Parker as opposed to just being a married Spider-Man story for the sake of it. Lowe said this will resolve Peter’s love life issues but if this has jack to do with the normal Spider-Man how could this do that? At the same time if they were gonna pull a Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow with Spider-Man why do it with this AU version and not the 616 version, even the asinine post-OMD AU version?
Okay. I see where this is going. Baby and/or MJ endangered and/or killed, Spider-Man goes into revenge mode and brutalises/kills someone/comes very close to breaking his moral code. This prompts him to retire/renounce his family/realise he shouldn’t have had a family/make a deal with the Devil/some BS like that
The Civil War thing sounds fucking asinine considering how asinine the Civil War was in the first place.
And did they seriously doa comic called Hail Hydra due to an internet meme?
@13
Sure Michael, but…. spYder-man ???
The only comic on this list that I was half tempted to buy was RYV, just to see where they were going with the married Spider-Man…but then I saw that it’s written by Dan Slott, so I changed my mind. After seeing how he loves to troll the fanbase over the years, I don’t trust him at all to handle this…No thank you!
Thanks for saving me money again this month, Marvel!
@#9 RDMacQ — Fixed it for ya, Mac. 😉
@#11 jack — That’s exactly what I’m thinking will happen, too. And I believe for this story, Peter is going to kill Venom.
@#12 Markus Krenn — Perhaps, in the particular universe where Armor Wars came from before it became part of Battleworld, Peter Parker lost both his Aunt May and Uncle Ben to the burglar and was adopted by Ben Urich?
Peter Urich Spyder-Man ????
I predict Peter will kill someone with his bare hands to save MJ and/or his daughter. That’s the line.
@7 – I know, I should be right there with the rest of you, but for some reason I’m thinking that they intend this to be a “enjoy this one last story of a married Spidey because you’ll never see him married again after our universal reboot!” story. I don’t know why.
I mean, it’s Slott writing it, so unless he miraculously regains his Spider/Human Torch mini-series greatness I don’t expect much from RYV, but I expect it’ll be just average. Mostly because it won’t be laden down with the current (and awful) continuity of Slott’s storys.
I’ve tried posting my comments twice but they keep getting caught by the spam filter. Can someone fix that?
@#7-George Berryman- Well, it USED to. Under Wacker’s tenure.
He LOVED stirring things up, and doing things that would truly piss people off. Then he’d mock people for reacting strongly. He was a guy that continually sought out controversy wherever he could.
Lowe? Not so much. He really hasn’t done anything ever since he took over editorial reigns that could be considered “Pouring salt in the wounds.” Quite the opposite. He’s listened to the fans when it came to bringing back Mayday and in making Spider-Gwen and ongoing. And his style seems far less confrontational or outright dickish as Stephen Wacker’s.
And, really, if you think about it, what would be easier? Pouring salt in the wounds, or just leaving well enough alone? Marvel hasn’t referenced the marriage in five years? Why would they logically bring it up NOW, just to piss people off and mock them? What would be the point? Why go through that effort when it would be far easier just to tell another story?
I know we’ve been burned before, but that was when someone else- someone who proved to be a very negative, spiteful and hateful little man who took pleasure in attacking those that didn’t praise him or the work he was doing- was in charge of directing content in the books. I don’t know much about Lowe at this time, but he doesn’t seem to have the same habits as Wacker. From what we’ve seen, he seems more likely to hear people out on their concerns in regarding Spider-Man and his mythos than Wacker is, which means this might not be a “pouring salt in the wound” situation like we all fear.
@6 – I dunno, Craig. The Spider-office loves – loves – pouring salt in the wound.
I got a feeling that Renew Your Vows will not be offensive to those that like the Spider-marriage, it’s be a story that portrays the marriage and Peter and MJ well. But if Marvel is rebooting the universe (as it seems like they are doing) this is their one last time they will give us a married Spider-Man. After the reboot, it will (probably) be a younger Spidey and they will do everything they can to keep him forever young and never have him get old enough to get married.
Who knows? I could be completely wrong (Prove me wrong, Marvel!). But I feel like RYV will not include anything that will be like they saying “See! This is why he can’t be married!” But at the end they’ll be saying “I hope you enjoyed that, because now we’re rebooting everything and you’ll never see a Spider-Man that gets old enough to get married ever again.”
Or it could be that the reboot is just temporary (like Heroes Reborn) or it’s not happening at all. But it just feels like it’s gonna happen. Way to listen to your audience, Marvel!
I think the “controversy” is that they are touching on the marriage again, after avoiding it for five years and pretending it never happened.
Regardless of how you feel, simply bringing it up is going to ruffle some feathers. There’s probably just as many people concerned that the story will mean the return of the marriage than it does about insisting why it’s not feasible.
However, I don’t think the story we are going to get is that the story will “ram down our throats” why Peter shouldn’t be married. Marvel has had their way for five years, and there was no reason to go back to this story. And pretty much all the imagery we’ve had of Peter and MJ together in the solicits have been positive, as opposed to OMD which was showing their union accompanied by very traumatic images. So, I think it’s going to be more “This is why Peter and MJ are important” rather than “This is why Peter shouldn’t be married.’
” The most controversial Spider-Man story of the year continues! There are some lines Spider-Man won’t cross. Right?”
Yep. This is gonna be the third part in the OMD/OMIT trilogy, with Slott ramming down readers’ throats why Peter shouldn’t be married and especially not married to MJ.
Damn, MM: USM and 2099 are both gone, I’m interested in literally nothing here.
Hey the Silver Surfer is in charge of remaking the universe. So apparently Secret Wars is really all Dan Slott. Now I’m worried.
For ASM #20.1, “The crime landscape of New York City is changed from here on out”
Well, until Secret Wars transforms the Marvel Universe. Or after that when the Marvel Universe is rebooted.