Apr 20, 2023

July 2023 Previews

 

MARVEL ZERO
ZEB WELLS, AL EWING, GERRY DUGGAN, JONATHAN HICKMAN (W)
PATRICK GLEASON, CAFU, JOSH CASSARA, JAVIER GARRON, VALERIO SCHITI, BRYAN HITCH (A) COVER A BY PATRICK GLEASON • COVER B BY DAVID MARQUEZ
VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY JAVIER GARRÓN • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY PATRICK GLEASON
• A deluxe edition collecting Marvel’s GOLD 2023 FREE COMIC BOOK DAY titles! This giant-sized issue is jam packed with entry points into the biggest comic storylines of the year and bursting with never-before-seen bonus material including preview art, design sketches, and more!
• Spidey faces a new villain as a classic villain returns in a story that sets the stage for the next explosive year of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN!
• A shocking story reveals how Venom fits into the history of the Marvel Universe and leads into the next huge epic coming to VENOM!
• FALL OF X looms over this year’s HELLFIRE GALA! A new threat to mutantkind emerges—one with a very familiar visage!
• And with the world in disarray, the moment calls for a new alliance between the X-Men and Aveners—the all-new UNCANNY AVENGERS!
• PLUS! Preview JONATHAN HICKMAN’S two new Marvel projects, ULTIMATE INVASION with Bryan Hitch and GODS with Valerio Schiti!
48 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$6.99

 

 


VENOM #22
AL EWING (W) • RAMON F. BACHS (A) • Cover by BRYAN HITCH
Hellfire Gala Variant by JOSHUA CASSARA
Variant cover by MIKE VOSBURG • Variant cover by BJÖRN BARENDS
Venom The Other Variant by RYAN STEGMAN
BLAST IN THE PAST!
For months, Eddie Brock’s consciousness has been displaced in time! You’ve seen what happens when he’s flung himself to the far future of the Marvel Universe – now see what happens when he tries to traverse its past! Face to face with the mysterious FLEXO in the past, the part symbiotes have played in the Marvel U will take a surprising and new turn!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

 

VENOM #23
TORUNN GRØNBEKK (W) • Ken Lashley (A) • Cover by BRYAN HITCH
VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PEREZ • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PEREZ
VARIANT COVER BY KEN LASHLEY • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY KEN LASHLEY
VARIANT COVER BY JIM CHEUNG • CONNECTING VARIANT COVER BY PHILIP TAN
VENOM THE OTHER VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN • VARIANT COVER BY RYAN BROWN
SPOILER VARIANT COVER BY KEN LASHLEY • HOMAGE VARIANT COVER BY PHILIP TAN
A NEW VISION OF TOXIN!
Toxin is the offspring of the most dangerous symbiote in the history of the Marvel Universe: CARNAGE. But while Carnage and Cletus Kasady are separated and both devising machinations and plans of cosmic bloodshed and conquest, what has its progeny been doing? And will Dylan Brock or the Venom symbiote survive when they come face to face with this latest terrifying Toxin?!
PLUS: Toxin isn’t the only symbiote in this story who’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen! The symbiote family is about to grow a little larger… and what’s coming will change the continuing saga of the symbiotes FOREVER!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99


EXTREME VENOMVERSE #4 (OF 5)
ALYSSA WONG, PEACH MOMOKO AND D.J. BRYANT (W)
PEACH MOMOKO, KEN NIIMURA AND MORE! (A)
Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
SYMBIOTE VARIANT COVER BY KEN LASHLEY
VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO
VENOM THE OTHER VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN
VARIANT COVER BY TAKASHI OKAZAKI
Face front, Venomaniacs, because we’ve got even MORE never-before-seen and ALL-NEW symbiote stories to show you!
• First, Deadpool scribe ALYSSA WONG and revolutionary artist KEN NIIMURA unite to introduce a symbiotic superstar inspired by anime and manga who’s about to take the Multiverse by storm!
• Then industry superstar PEACH MOMOKO is about to make your skin crawl, with a tale of some fearsome flora the likes of which you’ve never seen! Move over, Groot, there’s a NEW plant in the spotlight of the Marvel U, and this one’s a KILLER!
• And lastly! VENOM NOIR! You’ve heard of Spider-Man Noir – now meet his totemic and terrible opposite as this reality’s symbiotic hive gets explored for the very first time!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99


EXTREME VENOMVERSE #5 (OF 5)
KELLY THOMPSON, JORDAN BLUM, CODY ZIGLAR AND MORE! (W)
GURIHIRU AND MORE! (A)
Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
VARIANT COVER BY CHRISSIE ZULLO
SYMBIOTE VARIANT COVER BY KEN LASHLEY
VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO
VENOM THE OTHER VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN
VARIANT COVER BY NICK BRADSHAW
THE CONCLUSION TO EXTREME VENOMVERSE!
• Like every issue of the summertime symbiote celebration before it, this one introduces another awesome array of symbiotes!
• FIRST! JEFF THE LAND SHARK GETS VENOMIZED! From the awesome team behind the smash-hit IT’S JEFF! Infinity Comic, Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru!
• THEN! Hope this symbiote’s got a mitt and some bubble gum because it’s getting called up to the MAJOR LEAGUES!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99

 


RED GOBLIN #6
ALEX PAKNADEL (W) • JAN BAZALDUA (A) • Cover by BJÖRN BARENDS
Connecting Variant Cover by PHILIP TAN
Venom The Other Variant Cover by RYAN STEGMAN
“NATURE VS. NURTURE” BEGINS!
CARNAGE REIGNS may be over, but Normie Osborn and the Rascal symbiote’s problems are only just beginning! For weeks, Normie’s pacified the symbiote and managed to keep the rabid killing machine inside it under control. But in this issue, Normie learns that you can’t fight nature…
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99


VENOM: LETHAL PROTECTOR II #5 (OF 5)

DAVID MICHELINIE (W) • FARID KARAMI (A) • Cover by PHILIP TAN
VENOM FACES A DOOMSDAY SCENARIO!
VENOM and SILVER SABLE’s final battle with the most dangerous foes they’ve ever fought reaches its climax, and they better win – because the fate of the entire world is on the line. It’s a battle that will change them forever, but little do they know that the real fight is about to begin…for DOOM has sprung his nefarious trap. His prize? The Venom symbiote itself!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99


CULT OF CARNAGE: MISERY #3 (OF 5)
SABIR PIRZADA (W) • FRANCESCO MORTARINO (A) • Cover by SKAN
Variant Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
LIFE LOST!
All of the symbiotes in Alchemax’s care have been STOLEN, including the FIVE LIFE FOUNDATION SYMBIOTES! Harnessing each of their unique abilities, a mysterious and CLASSIC symbiote villain has started making moves in the chaos of the Summer of Symbiotes. But WHO?! Read and find out!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

 

WEB OF CARNAGE #1
RAM V & TBA (W) • FRANCESCO MANNA (A) • Cover by KENDRICK “KUNKKA” LIM
CONNECTING VARIANT COVER BY PHILIP TAN • VARIANT COVER BY KENDRICK “KUNKKA” LIM
VARIANT COVER BY SALVADOR LARROCA • VARIANT COVER BY TBA
CARNAGE SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH!
As Cletus Kasady exacts his vengeance on an unsuspecting city and CARNAGE REIGNS across the Marvel Universe, THE CARNAGE SYMBIOTE remains left to its own devices, adrift among the stars. With its purpose renewed after the DEATH OF THE VENOMVERSE, Carnage has scant few hurdles between it and a glorious ascension to the throne of the King in Black…and the first is named MORLUN.
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$5.99


VENOM BY AL EWING & RAM V VOL. 4: ILLUMINATION TPB
Written by AL EWING
Penciled by BRYAN HITCH & CAFU
Cover by BRYAN HITCH
Meet Venom’s most powerful form yet! With the truth about Eddie Brock, Bedlam and the Garden of Time revealed at last, Eddie has no choice but to fight heaven, Earth, space and time to get back to his son. But it may all be for naught. Eddie’s greatest fears are at the precipice of being realized as Dylan may still succumb to the darkness within him! Eddie has faced down many monsters in his time, but few have been as terrifying as the one born of his own rage. Witness Bedlam’s return to the Garden of Time – and see what’s become of Eddie after DARK WEB! Battered, beaten and brutalized, his grit, determination and faith have wavered at times, but never broken. Collecting VENOM (2021) #16-20.
112 PGS./Rated T+ …$15.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-94850-4
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16

RED GOBLIN VOL. 1: IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY TPB
Written by ALEX PAKNADEL
Penciled by JAN BAZALDUA
Cover by INHYUK LEE
The newest – and deadliest – Red Goblin! Spinning out of the pages of VENOM, young Normie Osborn receives his own symbiote at last! Will Normie fulfill his destiny as the grandson of the original Green Goblin? Or will he and his symbiote finally break the cycle and make a difference for the better? Meanwhile, a new Goblin King reigns under the streets of New York as the leader of a resurgent Goblin Nation! But why has he kidnapped Norman Osborn? And why has he siphoned off gallons of Osborn’s Goblin Serum-infused blood?! That can’t be good! Things get even worse when Cletus Kasady returns to New York, determined to paint the town blood red! Normie’s determination to prove himself puts him on a nightmarish collision course with Carnage! Collecting RED GOBLIN #1-5.
120 PGS./Rated T+ …$17.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-94863-4
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16


VENOM MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION: AGENT VENOM TPB
Volume #4 in the Venom Modern Era Epic Collections
Written by DAN SLOTT, RICK REMENDER, ROB WILLIAMS & JEFF PARKER
Penciled by HUMBERTO RAMOS, TONY MOORE, TOM FOWLER, STEFANO CASELLI, LAN MEDINA,
LEE GARBETT, SANA TAKEDA, JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCO, KEV WALKER & MORE
Cover by JOE QUESADA
America has a new hero! Flash Thompson is Spider-Man’s biggest fan. That inspired him to join the Army, where he became a decorated soldier. Though he lost his legs, Flash never lost his dignity — or his desire to serve. Now, the government has offered him a chance to don a familiar alien symbiote and protect his country once again as its most lethal operative: Agent Venom! But how long before Flash starts losing control to the symbiote? And when Jack O’Lantern blackmails Flash into following the merciless Crime-Master, can Venom complete the mission and save his loved ones? Plus: After a portal to the underworld opens in the middle of Las Vegas, Venom must join Red Hulk, Ghost Rider and X-23 to stop Hell on Earth! Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) #654 (B STORY) and #654.1, and VENOM (2011) #1-16 and #13.1-13.4.
496 PGS./Rated T+ …$44.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95262-4
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16

SPIDER-MAN 2099: DARK GENESIS TPB
Written by STEVE ORLANDO
Penciled by JUSTIN MASON
Cover by NICK BRADSHAW
A future filled with new heroes and villains! Steve Orlando (SCARLET WITCH, SPIDER-MAN 2099: EXODUS) continues his journey through the dark tomorrow of 2099! As society begins to crumble, Spider-Man 2099 will need all the help he can get — but does the public even want him to save their neighborhood? Or do they all just want to watch this twisted world burn? When Nueva York comes under attack from Carnage 2099, Miguel O’Hara must gather new allies to stand against this terrifying threat! Enter Blade 2099: zombie hunter! Punisher 2099 reborn! Plus: future versions of Daredevil, Moon Knight, Spider-Woman and Ghost Rider! They all must face the horror of Halloween Jack, Carnage 2099 and his hive army! And death will fall on both sides! Collecting SPIDER-MAN 2099: DARK GENESIS #1-5.
112 PGS./Rated T+ …$15.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95223-5
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16