SPIDER-MAN

Thousands of people have been displaced by the devastating levels of rain water and flooding as Hurricane Harvey continues to devastate southeastern Texas. Many of those who have been displaced by the natural disaster have been taken in at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. RELATED: Scott Snyder Donates Dark Nights: Metal #2 Pay to Harvey Relief As adults and children take shelter in the convention center, one person is trying to brighten the younger victims’ spirits by dressing as our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Stef Manisero of Spectrum News in Austin captured the video of this would-be Peter Parker greeting children and brightening their day just a bit as they face hardships they can’t possibly comprehend. Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man making kids smile at the GRB: pic.twitter.com/K2NSweXAE4 — Stef Manisero (@StefManisero) August 29, 2017 The George R. Washington Center has a capacity of 5,000, but reports

In “When We First Met”, we spotlight the various characters, phrases, objects or events that eventually became notable parts of comic lore, like the first time someone said, “Avengers Assemble!” or the first appearance of Batman’s giant penny or the first appearance of Alfred Pennyworth or the first time Spider-Man’s face was shown half-Spidey/half-Peter. Stuff like that. Reader Mark G. wrote in to ask a bit of a strange question, in that it is more of a regular question than a When We First Met specific suggestion, but it was close enough that I figured I’d count it. He wanted to know if they ever explained how no one ever recognized Peter Parker’s voice coming from Spider-Man’s mask, even when people were really close to him, like J. Jonah Jameson has been around Spider-Man a lot over the years and is always trying to expose his secret identity, and yet he never seems to notice that Spider-Man sounds just like his loyal photogra

This is “Foundationed Deep,” a feature where we look at particular odd/strange/interesting instances of retroactively connecting different comic book characters (for instance, Uncanny X-Men #268 retroactively established that Wolverine knew both Captain America and the Black Widow from World War II). Today, we learn the surprising history shared between Spider-Man and Jessica Jones… It all started in Alias #22 (by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos) where we learned Jessica Jones’ secret origin. She went to high school with Peter Parker and had a huge crush on him… Before she mustered up the courage to act on her feelings, her family was in a horrible car accident where they all died and Jessica was put into a coma (she was exposed to chemicals in the accident that ended up giving her superpowers). When she came out of the coma and returned to school, she had another run-in with Peter Parker in Alias #23 and it did not go well… Later on

Comic Book Questions Answered – where I answer whatever questions you folks might have about comic books (feel free to e-mail questions to me at [email protected]). Reader George W. wrote in to ask, “What happened to the spider after it bit Peter Parker?” Well, in that very first story by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Amazing Fantasy #15, they’re pretty clear that the spider dies right after biting Peter (although, it also says that spiders are insects)… However, years later we learned in Amazing Spider-Man (Volume 3) #4 that the spider then also managed to bite Cindy Moon before it died… Amazingly enough, though, we DO know what happened to the spider as it was the main plot line behind the launch of Spider-Man’s Tangled Web, which opened with a Garth Ennis/John McCrea/James Hodgkins storyline that introduced the villainous The Thousand, who turned out to be an old classmate of Peter Parker. The young lad…well….dude ATE the fre

Marvel Comics has provided CBR with an exclusive first look at Amazing Spider-Man #32. On sale next Wednesday, September 13, the issue from scribe Dan Slott and artist Greg Smallwood sees Norman Osborn come to grips with his failed showdown with Spider-Man and flirt with returning to his classic villainous alter ego, the Green Goblin. Take a look at CBR’s exclusive Amazing Spider-Man #32 preview below. RELATED: The Hulk/Spider-Man Crossover That Was…Until It Wasn’t RELATED: Miles Morales Has Been Written By A Person Of Color – And That Matters RELATED: Nightwatch Movie Rumored to Be In Development; Spike Lee Eyed to Direct RELATED: Peter Parker Returns to the Daily Bugle in Marvel Legacy AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #32 DAN SLOTT (w) • GREG SMALLWOOD (a) Cover by ALEX ROSS VENOMIZED GREEN GOBLIN VARIANT COVER BY FRANCESCO MATTINA Norman Osborn’s goblin-free battle with Spidey didn’t go the way he had hoped…Now, Osborn needs to find an e

Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and forty-fourth week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. As we’ve been doing it for some time now, one legend today, one tomorrow and one Sunday. Let’s begin! COMIC LEGEND: Frank Miller helped promote a band in a Spider-Man annual, even doing an ad inside the comic for the band! STATUS: True For a while there, Denny O’Neil and Frank Miller had a thing where they would did back-to-back Amazing Spider-Man Annuals. These annuals were the highlights of O’Neil’s run as the writer on Amazing Spider-Man, with the first annaul featuring a Doctor Strange team-up and the second one featuring Spider-Man dealing with Punisher and Doctor Octopus. It was awesome to see Frank Miller draw the Marvel Universe like that. Anyhow, in the 1980 Amazing Spider-Man Annual, there is this creepy bad guy who takes control of a whole crowd of people at CBGBs as part of a demonic pos

Spider-Man is one of the most popular characters in comic book history. And across all the films, comics, TV shows and games we’ve seen hundreds of different looks for the wall-crawler. Some have become just as iconic as the original red and blue costume, like Miles Morales’ red and black suit. In each of the movies, we’ve seen Peter designing his new costume or tinkering with his current one. Because of the type of hero that he is, artists have a lot of free rein with the character. Comics gave us the Symbiote black suit, the Iron Spider costume and then there’s the Spider-Verse, in which resides hundreds of different versions of our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, some great and some not so much. RELATED: A Whole Other League: 15 Insane Fan-Designed Versions Of The Justice League Thankfully, fan artists can create some incredible pieces of work that play up on the different aspects of Peter Parker. For example, many have used the free running/parkour aspect of his heroics and inco

Spider-Man will square off with one of his greatest rivals in “Venom, Inc.,” a six-issue crossover that unfolds in The Amazing Spider-Man and Venom, beginning in December. RELATED: Spider-Man, Venom & the Sad, Sad Story of Eddie Brock Marvel editor Nick Lowe announced the event on the “This Week in Marvel” podcast, where he mentioned writer Dan Slott has wanted to incorporate Venom into his Amazing Spider-Man run, but the antihero was always tied up in other stories. The crossover begins in Venom, Inc. Alpha #1 by Slott, Mike Costa, Ryan Stegman and Brian Reber, before rotating back and forth between The Amazing Spider-Man and Venom, and then concluding with another one-shot issue. The story kicks off with Mania, a symbiote wearer introduced in Venom Vol. 2 #31 by Cullen Bunn and Declan Shalvey, getting ambushed by Lee Price. If you’ll remember, Price was the initial host of the Venom symbiote when this current volume l

By any definition, Spider-Man has some of the best supervillains in superhero comics. Since his earliest days, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s signature web-slinger has faced bizarre villains who’ve thrilled readers and starred in some of the most famous comic books of all time. While several Spider-Man villains are icons in their own right, some of Spider-Man’s other foes aren’t all that sinister. Every decade of Spider-Man comics has been filled with some forgettable enemies, but the 1990s were especially harsh to the wall-crawler. With never-ending crossovers like “Maximum Carnage” or “The Clone Saga,” many of Spider-Man’s lesser villains embodied the worst qualities of comics’ most extreme era. RELATED: Re-Spawn: 15 Times Marvel And Dc Totally Copied Image Comics Now, CBR is counting down the Spider-Man villains who should’ve stayed in the 1990s. For this list, we’ll be looking back at the bad guys and villain teams who helped make that era’s Spider-Man stories some of the most infamou

Marvel Studios and Sony are celebrating the continued success of their first collaboration, Spider-Man: Homecoming, by releasing the film’s first ten minutes online for free, ahead of the movie’s arrival on home video. RELATED: Spider-Man: Homecoming Is Highest-Grossing Superhero Movie of 2017 The opening footage of the film shows the origins of the villain, Vulture, played by Michael Keaton. Not only that, but it gives viewers a chance to see what Peter Parker’s perspective of his Germany trip, which later sees him face-off against a handful of Avengers in Captain America: Civil War. Just yesterday it was announced that Spider-Man: Homecoming had overtaken Wonder Woman in the worldwide box office, making it the biggest superhero movie of 2017 so far. The first solo movie focusing on Tom Holland’s web-slinger has brought in $874 million to date, leaving it just $20 million behind the highest-grossing Spider-Man movie ever, the critical