THE SECRETS OF SPACE REVEALED! Spider-Man takes on a challenge of single combat to save his new crew and finds himself between a rock and a GIANT ALIEN BEAST INTENT ON HIS DEATH! Not only does Spider-Man learn aspects of his quest that he didn’t expect, but his companions learn things about Spider-Man that THEY didn’t expect. **Witness the first full appearance of a new major character!
ASM #19 - SPIDEY VS. HELLGATE, ROUND TWO! The spacefaring SPIDER-MAN heads back to Earth - only to find HELLGATE standing in his way! Spider-Man’s finally strong enough to beat the most powerful foe he’s ever faced…right?!
The aftermath of ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM has brought Latveria to the brink of civil war. Captain America deploys to protect civilians and investigate rumors of a weapons stockpile - but when the United Nations Security Council adds their own loyal Super-Soldiers to the mix, it becomes clear that everyone wants a piece of Latveria - no matter the cost. With warring factions tearing the country apart and a team of Captains pursuing their own agendas, can Captain America hope to bring peace to Latveria? And is that even what his handlers want?
Is the bold what you’re referring to? A group of new super soldiers? Or is there something else?
My thoughts on the matter are villain spec, unless associated with Batman or Spider-Man, is significantly more miss than hit. Plus it sounds like a “team” or even potential clones…it’s possible these are one and dones…whatever they are.
But I’ve missed spec before. In fact, I deserve to be fired for missing/not highlighting Absolute Batman first prints.
I think @SpicyWasabi would be much better at this, should be my successor… .
I was thinking the Cap 6 could be a sleeper as well (Zdarsky writing) but Marvel has been pretty bad overall aside from the Ultimate Spider-Man series. Also a lot video game type titles getting published. Another Ultraman series too? Is anyone reading Ultraman these days?
Speaking of Ultraman, we get a 1st appearance in Worlds Finest 48. Also Spears is doing the Joker playing card on this one. One to keep an eye on in my opinion.
We all do, that’s why it’s called “speculation”… I wouldn’t have picked Absolute Batman as a spec either… higher print run (not that that matters though since demand is driving force but usually the new #1 main character spinoff titles don’t become winners for the most part), we got how many Batman related titles already? It’s not the main title… etc, etc.
Here’s what likely happened. There’s no description of issue 19 on Covrprice or third eye…And in search of it I may have inadvertently confused the 2nd print (15) when searching for it, and selected it unknowingly because they are listed together/adjacent.
@anthony, feel free to update the article and remove ASM #19 to prevent misinformation. I concur.
Their site isn’t very good to navigate but maybe for Marvel, grab the solicitations directly from the source itself, either Marvel’s site or Penguin’s site.
The only thing I think Diamond provided when they ruled as a monopoly was, the one stop place for all books and their solicitations. Everything else about Diamond pretty much sucked…
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