First Look: January's Spider-Man Comics
Posted Oct 15, 2007 12:00 am
Updated Nov 19, 2007 12:08 pm
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #549
Written by MARC GUGGENHEIM
Pencils & Cover by SALVADOR LARROCA
Variant Cover by DAVID FINCH
Saddle-up Spider–fans as the thrillingly thrice-monthly adventures continue!
In this issue, meet the villain from the fifth Spider-Man movie today! Marc (Wolverine, Blade) Guggenheim and Salvador (newuniversal, Uncanny X-Men) Larroca bring you the next great Spidey Villain... MENACE! But that's not all! The mysterious JACKPOT makes her "Brand New Day-Debut!" Plus the mystery of the Spider-Tracer Killer deepens. Not nearly 'Nuff said!
32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #550-551
Written by MARC GUGGENHEIM
Pencils & Cover by SALVADOR LARROCA
Jackpot! Spidey vs. the Police! Menace! Triumphs, twists, turns and tragedy pack these two issues by Marc Guggenheim and Salvador Larrocca. And would you believe...Spider-Man sued? (Hey, that's what we get for having a former lawyer write these things...)
32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES
SPIDER-MAN #35
Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Penciled by CORY HAMSCHER
Cover by PATRICK SCHERBERGER
Venom is back ...but says he wants to bury the hatchet with Spider-Man. No, not in his head. In fact, in order to show Spidey how much he's reformed, he wants to become the web-spinner's official sidekick. But one night "on patrol" with a homicidal maniac as a partner has Spidey wanting to hang up the web-shooters himself!
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
SPIDER-MAN: WITH GREAT POWER... #1 (of 5)
Written by DavID Lapham
Pencils & Cover by Tony Harris
After the spider-bite…before the great responsibility! Meet Peter Parker, "Midtown High's only professional wallflower," a hapless young nerd suddenly gifted with great power…no strings attached! Happy at home with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, but plagued by the bullies and mean girls of high school, see what Peter does when the bite of a radioactive spider gives him the strength to take the things he wants. Fame? Money? Fast cars? Girls? This dweeb's up to his pencilneck in 'em! Surely things can't suddenly be this easy… It's a side of Spider-Man's early life you've barely glimpsed, written by David Lapham (Stray Bullets TERROR, INC.) with art by Tony Harris (Ex Machina)!
32 PGS./Cardstock Cover/Rated A …$3.99
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #118
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils & Cover by STUART IMMONEN
It begins here…"Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends!" Things are changing in the young life of Peter Parker: Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four is now his buddy---and the hot–headed super hero has taken a liking to Peter's classmate, Liz Allen! But something is horribly wrong with Liz—something that will soon affect the life of every student at Midtown High—including Peter's ex-girlfriend, Kitty Pryde!
32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99
WHAT IF? SPIDER-MAN VS. WOLVERINE
Written by JEFF PARKER & PAUL TOBIN
Penciled by CLAYTON HENRY
Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR.
Spider-Man is a killer.
In 1987, Peter Parker followed Wolverine to Russia, who was on the trail of a friend working for the KGB. Realizing that the KGB would eventually kill his friend, Wolverine wanted to put her out of her misery. Peter tried to stop him, but accidentally killed the friend instead. Haunted by his actions, Peter fled home into the waiting arms of Mary Jane.
But WHAT IF…Peter never went home? WHAT IF…the Spider never came out of the cold?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES TWO-IN-ONE #7
MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #29
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #33
64 PGS./All Ages …$4.99
SPIDER-MAN FAMILY
(OCT072159)
96 PGS./ALL AGES…$4.99
SPIDER-MAN
BACK IN BLACK
(OCT072162)
96 PGS./ALL AGES…$4.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN VOL. 8:
FORCES OF NATURE DIGEST
Written by PETER DAVID
Penciled by POP MHAN
Cover by PATRICK SCHERBERGER
All-new, all-ages, all-action fun featuring the Grey Gargoyle and – glub blub blub blub – HYDRO-MAN!!!!!!! Plus, it will be awfully hard for our resident Wall-Crawler to crawl said walls when Whirlwind's blowin' 'em down!
Collecting MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #29-32.
96 PGS./All Ages …$7.99