No one’s noticed the new breed of bed bugs that have infested Manhattan Island. And why should they? Who notices bed bugs?! But when people bitten by the bugs start developing powers akin to your friendly-neighbourhood Spider-Man, that’s when the Avengers, Agent Venom, Shang-Chi, Spider-Girl and others will start taking notice!
The bizarre Spidey-foe known as the Jackal initiated this plan during INFESTED: THE ROAD TO SPIDER-ISLAND. But the web-slinger, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and Flash Thompson – the newest host of the Venom Symbiote – are going to need to learn the face of their true foe before the population of Manhattan are beyond saving…
Major Event: With the story following through the main Spider-Man series and Venom, plus numerous related tie-ins, Spider-Island is considered to be a major event.
Must-Reads: Issues marked with a ✔are essential to the story.
Anthology Issues: When an issue contains multiple stories, the relevant story is denoted with square brackets. For example, [2/5] refers to the second story of the five stories in that issue.
Spoilers: The issue descriptions and fallout section contain spoilers, so be warned!
See our comprehensive prior reading guide:
Or see previous events that directly impact this story:
- AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED – Spider-Man is transformed into a spider
- PROJECT REBIRTH 2.0 – Introducing the new Venom
- INFESTED: THE ROAD TO SPIDER-ISLAND – ‘Spider-Men’ pop up everywhere!
Want to keep it simple? Here’s the chronological reading order without story descriptions, or spoilers; must-read chapters are in bold:
- Spider-Island: Deadly Foes #1 [2/2]
- Amazing Spider-Man #666
- Amazing Spider-Man #667
- Amazing Spider-Man #668
- Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #1
- Spider-Island: Deadly Foes #1 [1/2]
- Spider-Island: I 🕷 New York City #1 [3/4]
- Spider-Island: Avengers #1
- Spider-Island: I 🕷 New York City #1 [1/4]
- Spider-Island: Spider-Girl #1
- Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1
- Spider-Island: Spider-Girl #2
- Amazing Spider-Man #669
- Spider-Island: I 🕷 New York City #1 [2/4]
- Venom #6
- Spider-Island: Spider-Woman #1
- Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive! #524
- Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #2
- Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #3
- Amazing Spider-Man #670
- Herc #7
- Herc #8
- Venom #7
- Spider-Island: Heroes for Hire #1
- Amazing Spider-Man #671
- Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #2
- Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #3
- Spider-Island: Spider-Girl #3
- Venom #8
- Amazing Spider-Man #672
- Amazing Spider-Man #673
- Venom #9
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Spider-Island: Deadly Foes #1 [2/2] After Kraven the Hunter’s resurrection (during the GRIM HUNT), the Jackal restores his first Peter Parker clone to life (aka Kaine) and takes him to his lab. He transforms Kaine into his monstrous Tarantula. Gwen Stacy clone, Abby-L, has already killed Joyce Delaney – her ‘sister’ clone – and comes gunning for the Jackal. Tarantula saves his ‘father’ and allows Abby-L to die as the lab collapses. The Jackal is approached by a woman – his new benefactor – with cell samples of great interest (leading into INFESTED: THE ROAD TO SPIDER-ISLAND)… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #666 Spider-Man uses a spider-themed freeze device to save the Young Allies from Hydro-Man’s rampage. He hears reports of multiple ‘Spider-Men’ in Manhattan, unaware that the Jackal has started recruiting them. Betty Brant is still recovering in hospital (she was mugged during INFESTED: THE ROAD TO SPIDER-ISLAND). Shang-Chi’s final test for Spider-Man is to pit him against the new Madame Web (Julia Carpenter). She warns him that, in his next challenge, Spidey will have to kill in order to survive. Jay Jameson and May Parker-Jameson prepare to leave for Boston. Jackal’s new benefactor gives him another ‘gift’ – a superhuman who he mutates into a spider-creature… |
| ✔ | Spider-Island: The Avengers #1 (p.1) Some of Flag-Smasher’s ULTIMATUM troops suddenly find they have spider-powers. |
| Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1 (pp.1-2) Shang-Chi wakes from a dream in which he kills Fat Cobra of the Immortal Weapons, wrapping him in webs and covering him in spiders. Shang-Chi seeks out Spider-Man to talk about this dream, using his new spider-powers to move through the city… | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #667 (pp.1-11) Peter Parker’s girlfriend Carlie Cooper has suddenly developed spider-powers which Peter thinks he… transmitted to her. The Jackal – guarded by his Tarantula and Spider-King – gathers all the criminals who’ve gained spider-powers and gives them all Spider-Man costumes. |
| Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #1 (pp.1-10) The Holy Ghost Church – Cloak & Dagger’s base of operations – is demolished. They’re asked to tag along to Bryant Park… | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #667 (pp.12-15) Peter and Carlie see May and Jay off as they leave New York. The Avengers, Young Allies and Cloak & Dagger oppose the rampaging super-criminals… |
| ✔ | Spider-Island: Deadly Foes #1 [1/2] (pp.1-6) Phil Urich recalls his origins, from his transformation into the heroic Green Goblin to becoming the Kingpin’s right-hand man as the Hobgoblin. Phil continues to watch and manipulate Daily Bugle reporter Norah Winters who calls in her boyfriend Randy Robertson to help her when Phil doesn’t show up to film for her. Phil decides to kill Randy… |
| Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #1 (p.11) Cloak & Dagger continue to fight the ‘Spider-Mans’… | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #667 (pp.16-20) Carlie swings to join the fight against the Spider-Mans, with Peter pursuing as Spider-Man. But Spidey gets pummelled by his friends when they mistake him for one of the crooks. |
| Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #1 (pp.12-13) Dagger leaves partway through the fight! | |
| Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1 (pp.3-4) Shang-Chi discusses his dream with Madame Web…Amazing Spider-Man #667 (pp.21-22) Madame Web observes while Shang-Chi joins the chaos… | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #667 (pp.21-22) Madame Web observes while Shang-Chi joins the chaos… |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #668 (pp.1-2) The Avengers convince Spider-Man to leave them to it to avoid the confusion. |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #668 (pp.3-7) Mayor J Jonah Jameson’s Anti-Spider Patrol shut down the fight. Norah Winters films Peter Parker – displaying spider-powers – sending out a call-to-arms to all the good New Yorkers to fight back! |
| ✔ | Spider-Island: Deadly Foes #1 [1/2] (pp.7-20) Randy finds Norah and is immediately attacked by the Hobgoblin. But Randy’s new powers allow him to fight back. Hard! Randy beats the Hobgoblin, but breaks up with Norah for filming him instead of helping him. Phil emerges and wins favour with Nora who kisses him… |
| Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #1 (pp.14-20) Dagger joins her secret evening class. In Chinatown, Mister Negative visits seer Suan Ming who has seen a vision of Dagger killing him… | |
| Spider-Island: I 🕷 New York City #1 [3/4] Six-year-old Charlotte uses her spider-powers to capture the two criminals before they can steal from her house… | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #668 (pp.8-11) The Jackal fills his Spider-King with 2000 mutated spider embryos. Out of costume, Peter Parker leads the spider-powered New Yorkers to assist the heroes against the criminal Spider-Mans… |
| ✔ | Spider-Island: The Avengers #1 (p.2-20) Flag-Smasher and his spider-powered ULTIMATUM terrorists attack the United Nations. Hawkeye (struggling with his new spider-powers), Ms Marvel and Jessica Jones get unwanted ‘help’ from Frog-Man. Hawkeye uses his powers to hurl ULTIMATUM’s bomb out the building. Frog-Man vomits chipotle in Flag-Smasher’s face and Ms Marvel punches him into the floor. |
| Spider-Island: I 🕷 New York City #1 [1/4] Four criminal Spider-Mans are robbing and trashing a bank when the Punisher comes in, disguised as one of them. He kills all four and leaves. | |
| Spider-Island: Spider-Girl #1 Spider-Girl is attacked on Milton Summers High School campus by mutated members of the Society of the Wasp – a faction of the Sisterhood of the Wasp – who believe the (now defunct) Spider Society are raiding an army in Manhattan! The Hand ninja clan come to her aid and the Hobgoblin takes her to the Kingpin. He knows Spider-Girl’s true identity, shows off his new spider-powers and offers her a job… | |
| Spider-Island: Spider-Girl #2 (pp.1-3) The Kingpin gives Spider-Girl the location of the Central Wasp Nest, but she turns down his help… | |
| Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1 (pp.5-20) Shang-Chi and Iron Fist fight together and learn they’ve been experiencing the same dreams. Bride of Nine Spiders summons Iron Fist from the fray. Peter Parker notices Shang-Chi giving chase. Shang-Chi sees the Bride wrap Iron Fist in webs like in his dreams and attacks her. The Bride defeats Shang-Chi and intends taking Iron Fist to her master… | |
| Spider-Island: Spider-Girl #2 (pp.4-20) Spider-Girl heads to where the heroes just finished fighting the Spider-Mans, but they don’t want help. Madame Web insists Spider-Girl join forces with the enemy. Hobgoblin forces a team up, targeting the Society of Wasps’ All-Mother. The Kingpin joins the fight, but they’re overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Spider-Girl agrees to ally with the Kingpin… | |
| ✔ | Venom #6 (p.1-2) Betty Brant keeps an eye on Flash Thompson’s father in hospital, believing Flash is trapped in the subway. But he’s actually been given a new mission as Agent Venom… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #668 (pp.12-19) Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards) works with Horizon Labs – including their mystery scientist – to find a cure for the spider-powers epidemic. Elsewhere, Anti-Venom (Eddie Brock) starts robbing people of their spider-powers. J Jonah Jameson puts Manhattan in lockdown, but the Spider-King attacks the military lines. Agent Venom arrives on the scene… |
| ✔ | Venom #6 (p.2-7) Agent Venom takes on the Spider-King, using the half-conscious Gravity of the Young Allies to knock him out. |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #668 (pp.20-22) Carlie figures the Jackal is behind the powers outbreak and takes Pete to his last-known location – Empire State University – where they’re being observed… |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #669 (pp.1-6) The spider-powered Chance, Scorcher and White Rabbit immediately try to kill Peter and Carlie. Peter uses his Way of the Spider kung fu to defeat them. Carlie demands Peter arrange a meeting. At the Jackal’s hideout, his benefactor encourages him to initiate phase 2… |
| ✔ | Venom #6 (pp.8-16) Now a captive at Project Rebirth 2.0 in the Catskill Mountains, the Spider-King spews up thousands of tiny spiders and smashes out of his containment unit… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #669 (p.7) Venom battles the Spider-King in the hopes of prevent a similar ‘Spider-Island’ incident in the Catskills… |
| ✔ | Venom #6 (pp.16-19) Agent Venom opts to prevent the spiders escaping by taking a ‘scorched earth’ approach to the whole facility. Aaron MacKenzie realises the Spider-King is a mutated Captain America. Venom defeats him… |
| Spider-Island: I 🕷 New York City #1 [2/4] Mother of two Jane Rathsom uses her new spider-powers to juggle work, kids and grocery shopping while her husband is away on business. By the time he returns, the kids have powers, too… | |
| ✔ | Venom #6 (p.20) With the Spider-King contained, General Brad Dodge orders Agent Venom to disguise himself as the Spider-King and infiltrate his master’s lair… |
| Spider-Island: Heroes for Hire #1 (p.1) Misty Knight and Paladin join the fight against the criminal Spider-Mans. | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #669 (pp.8-13) With essentially everyone in Manhattan now infected, the Avengers try to stop people from fleeing the island. Under Jameson’s orders, Horizon Labs utilise Peter Parker’s spider-sense jammer to stop people leaving. Reed Richards discovers the bed bugs are the man-made source of the virus which is now airborne. Reed’s suggested cure is to give everyone a low-level superpower. Jameson is infected. |
| Spider-Island: Heroes for Hire #1 (p.2-5) J Jonah Jameson turns to the Heroes for Hire for help in stopping infected civilians and criminals from leaving Manhattan. Misty Knight selects a team to assist. Paladin shows signs of infection… | |
| Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #2 (pp.1-4) Shang-Chi wakes in Silver Sable’s safe house. She gives Shang intel to help him locate the Bride of Nine Spiders… | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #669 (pp.13-22) The number of spider-powered people impacts the Web of Life, causing pain to Madame Web. Carlie and Spider-Man fight the spider-powered Shocker… with four extra arms! Carlie also takes on a monstrous form. The Jackal’s benefactor, Ana Soria aka the Queen, celebrates her impending victory… |
| ✔ | Spider-Island: Spider-Woman #1 Mister Fantastic theorises Alicia Masters should be immune to the Spider-Virus due to an experiment Hydra carried out on her, years ago, which could lead to a vaccine. Gypsy Moth beats Spider-Woman to Alicia and takes her to her employer, the Queen; using her powers to make the Thing believe Spider-Woman is Gypsy Moth. She soon breaks free of the costume and rescues Alicia from Gypsy Moth. |
| Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive! #524 Overdrive charges through the Kingpin’s Shadowland lair and steals an item on his way out. The Black Panther now has four extra arms and has already adapted to his powers. He gives chase, but ends up saving Overdrive from Lady Bullseye. The ‘package’ turns out to be the young daughter of the top guy on Wall Street. Kingpin wanted to use her as blackmail to utilise the broker’s financial know-how against Wakanda… | |
| Spider-Island: Heroes for Hire #1 (pp.6-9) Misty, Shroud, Black Cat and Luke Cage take on mutated AIM agents. Paladin mutates further… | |
| Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #2 When Dagger’s college friends turned into giant spiders, she was saved by Mister Negative who took her prisoner. Now, she’s reunited with the captive Cloak. Negative wants Dagger to kill him. He switches Cloak and Dagger’s powers… | |
| Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #3 Mister Negative allows Cloak to help Dagger control her new Darkforce powers. Mister Negative later reveals to his new assistant that he made a deal with D’Spayre and knows Dagger will kill him someday… |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Venom #7 (pp.1-3) Anti-Venom operates out of a church, healing those infected the Spider-Virus. |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #670 (pp.1-11) Almost every infected person transforms into a giant spider. Spider-Man loses track of which one Carlie is. The Queen reveals her Spider-King is Steve Rogers, just as Venom comes to her disguised as the ‘Spider-King’. More infected New Yorkers turn to Anti-Venom for help. The X-Men defend the one of the spider-sense jammers keeping the spiders on the island. |
| Herc #7 Hercules – now dressed as ‘Spider-Herc’ – attacks the jammer and the X-Men. Herc recently lost his godly powers (during CHAOS WAR), making him susceptible to the Jackal’s bedbugs. Herc recalls how he gained his spider-powers and stole the costume from one of the Spider-Men. Though, he’s unaware of the Queen’s influence over him… | |
| Herc #8 Under the Queen’s orders, Herc attacks the jammer tower. The X-Men barely hold their own before he transforms into a half-human, half-spider creature. The goddess Arachne appears before the Queen and orders her to relinquish her control of Hercules. She then stops Wolverine from delivering Herc a killing blow. Arachne and Herc have sex right in front of the webbed-up X-Men. While she’s away, A Nancy (actually Anansi) steals Arachne’s tapestry, only for Elektra to take it from him… | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #670 (pp.12-14) The super-powered Jameson finds himself fighting alongside Spider-Man… |
| ✔ | Venom #7 (p.4) A Miles Warren clone reports back to the Queen… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #670 (pp.15-16) / Venom #7 (pp.5-7) The Queen sends ‘Spider-King’ to kill Anti-Venom; Aaron McKenzie informs Mister Fantastic that Venom is obtaining the cure… |
| ✔ | Venom #7 (pp.8-9) Agent Venom ignores Betty’s request to see his father before he dies and heads to Our Lady of Saints Church to find Anti-Venom… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #670 (pp.17-19) J Jonah Jameson makes a desperate move, turning to the Spider-Slayer (Alistaire Smythe, the man who killed Jonah’s wife during BIG TIME!) to help him shut down Spider-Island. The Queen’s influence takes hold of Jonah, transforming him and ordering him to kill Smythe… |
| ✔ | Venom #7 (pp.10-11) Agent Venom’s attempt to tranquillise Anti-Venom fails when Brock hits him first… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #670 (p.19) Agent Venom and Anti-Venom clash… |
| ✔ | Venom #7 (pp.11-17) The two Venoms’ fight heads outside. Anti-Venom tries to burn away the Venom Symbiote. It jumps back to Brock to bond with him, but Flash begs it to come back to avoid losing the city’s one chance for a cure. |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #670 (pp.19-20) Mary Jane Watson finally gains Spider-Virus powers and escapes the mutated New Yorkers… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #670 (p.21) / Venom #7 (p.18) Venom delivers Anti-Venom to Horizon Labs, though Brock believes Agent Venom’s intentions were to kill him… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #670 (pp.22-23) Just as Smythe realises he has the answer that will save New York, the mutated and enraged J Jonah Jameson bites into his neck… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #671 (pp.1-7) Mary Jane saves the people under attack from giant spiders at Our Lady of Saints Church. At the NYC Emergency Centre, Spidey stops the mutated JJJ from killing Alistaire Smythe, but he might be too late. Mister Fantastic creates a cure for the Spider-Virus… |
| ✔ | Venom #7 (p.19-20) Flash Thompson makes it to the hospital to be with his father as he dies. |
| Spider-Island: Heroes for Hire #1 (pp.10-20) Misty Knight abandons her post as the co-ordinator ‘Control’ to find Paladin self-quarantined in his apartment in a mutated human-spider form. She contains him with the webbing from her own mutation as she begins to change, too… | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #671 (pp.8-9) At Horizon Labs, the mysterious scientist ‘Number Six’ sets up the process to drain Anti-Venom Symbiote to create the cure. Then, out of sight, he unmasks as Michael Morbius and departs Horizon… |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Venom #8 (pp.1-3) Aaron MacKenzie tests his version of the cure on the Spider-King. Flash Thompson receives orders to kill the Queen… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #671 (pp.10-23) Spider-Man rejoins the fight alongside the other heroes. General Dodge at Project Rebirth reports to Reed Richards that Steve Rogers is cured. Madame Web orders Horizon to turn the jammers off. Tarantula attacks Spider-Man at Horizon, then tries to release a toxin into the cure. Horizon alter the jammers’ frequency to reactivate Spidey’s lost Spider-Sense. With that, he knocks Tarantula into the cure. Kaine is restored to human form and his clone-degeneration scars are healed. The frequency change increases the Queen’s power, as she discovers when she kills the Jackal for failing her… |
| Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #2 With Sable’s intel, Shang-Chi locates the Bride of Nine Spiders in a dilapidated mansion where he frees Iron Fist and they defeat her together. But she’s just pawn of their true foe, the Incan spider-god Ai Apaec. Shang-Chi stands reading to fight him, bearing four extra arms… | |
| Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #3 (pp.1-17) Shang-Chi faces Ai Apaec in a furious one-on-one fight, until he’s joined by Iron Fist, the Bride of Nine Spiders and the other Immortal Weapons. The spider-virus fully transforms Shang-Chi only for his human form to burst forth from the spider with Iron Fist’s help. Shang-Chi brings the ceiling down on Ai Apaec. | |
| Spider-Island: Spider-Girl #3 (pp.1-17) Spider-Girl leads a small army of Hand ninja assassins against the Society of Wasps. But she eventually understands Madame Web’s advice and sides with the All-Mother to fend off the swarm of giant spiders and take the spiders down together without killing them. After their victory, Hobgoblin kills the All-Mother. Spider-Girl talks Kingpin out of killing Hobgoblin… | |
| ✔ | Venom #8 (pp.4-15) Venom breaks into the Queen’s lair. She telekinetically catches the bullet he fires at her and her scream strips him of his Symbiote. Flash almost escapes, reuniting with his ailing alien costume. But the Queen catches up to him and wails on him… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #672 (p.1) The rejuvenated Steve Rogers is flown to Belvedere Castle where the Queen’s been secretly stationed… |
| ✔ | Venom #8 (pp.15-16) Steve Rogers arrives and punches out the Queen… |
| ✔ | Venom #8 (pp.17-20) / Amazing Spider-Man #672 (pp.2-3) Steve Rogers battles the Queen until Venom picks up Steve’s electro-shield and stabs her in the back with it. She transforms into a colossal spider-form… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #672 (pp.4-11) Peter gives Kaine his Stealth Suit. The two Spider-Men face the gigantic Spider-Queen, but they’re outmatched! Mary Jane swings in and inspires Spidey. They head to Carlie’s precinct where Spidey retrieves Doctor Octopus’ Octo-Bots… |
| Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #3 (pp.17-20) Shang-Chi joins the battle to save New York from the Queen, fighting alongside the Immortal Weapons. | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #672 (pp.12-22) Steve Rogers leads the Avengers, X-Men, Young Allies, Kaine, Spider-Hercules, Shang-Chi and the Immortal Weapons against the Spider-Queen! Spidey’s Octo-Bots take a sample of the cure to everyone in Manhattan. This reduces the Queen’s power, giving Kaine the chance to deliver the killing blow. From the Empire State Building, Spidey and MJ look out over the city they helped save… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #673 (pp.1-5) Over a million Manhattan residents have been returned to human form, all stark naked and looking to go home. Spider-Man heads to the airport to find Aunt May. MJ appears to still have her spider-powers… |
| ✔ | Venom #9 (pp.1-12) The Hijacker uses his tank to rob a bank while everyone’s still in shock. Agent Venom intercepts him, but Hijacker escapes while mowing innocents down in his tank. The anger takes hold of Flash as his Symbiote takes the more monstrous Venom form. Hijacker runs him down and launches his tank into the air… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #673 (pp.6-7) Reed Richards hails Eddie Brock as the hero of Spider-Island. May and Jay finally get their flight. Kaine tells Peter he’s leaving town and, as advised by Madame Web. And he’s keeping the Stealth Suit. |
| ✔ | Venom #9 (pp.13-17) Venom stowed away under Hijacker’s tank and mercilessly beats him when they get to his hideout. Finally, Venom bites off Hijacker’s head. |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #673 (pp.8-19) Carlie realises Peter is Spider-Man and leaves him for lying to her. Doctor Strange reveals the spell that protected Peter’s identity has weakened. Madame Web offers Spidey sympathy for the loss he’s about to experience. Spider-Man turns down the chance to remove his spider-powers and uses it to cure MJ instead… |
| ✔ | Venom #9 (pp.18-20) Flash Thompson is home when Betty Brant gets back to their apartment. She reads Flash the letter from his father… |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #673 (pp.20-23) The city of New York (probably under J Jonah Jameson’s instruction) lights up the Statue of Liberty in red and blue as a thank you to Spider-Man… |
| Spider-Island: Spider-Girl #3 (pp.18-20) Two days after ‘Spider-Island’, Spider-Girl still has powers. She turns down the job offer from the Kingpin… |
Stories included within the event that don’t take place in regular continuity, plus other promotional releases:
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| Spider-Island: I 🕷 New York City #1 [4/4] On Earth-999, Spider-Cat puts on his costume and takes on Venom Pigeon, not realising they’re about to face an army of Venom Pigeons! But is this a computer game or is it real? | |
| Spider-Island Spotlight (2011) Previews features and interviews with the creators of the Spider-Island event. |
| Must Reads | Issue & Fallout | Event/ Crossover |
| ✔ | Marvel Point One #1 (2012) Kaine leaves New York and heads to Mexico; Kaine uses the Stealth Suit to stop a gang of thieves, which leaves him walking the rest of the way to Texas. | LIFE AFTER DEATH |
| Herc #9-10 (2011-2012) Elektra is revealed to have been hired by Baba Yaga; Hercules turns down Zeus’ offer to restore his immortality. | ||
| ✔ | Scarlet Spider #1-3 (2012) Kaine uses the Stealth Suit again, accidentally gaining press attention and being dubbed the ‘Scarlet Spider’. | LIFE AFTER DEATH |
| ✔ | Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive #525-529 (2012) The Black Panther retaliates against the Kingpin, clashing with Lady Bullseye again and seriously damaging Wilson Fisk’s operations in Shadowland. | |
| Villains for Hire #0.1 (2012) Villains For Hire #1-4 (2012) Misty Knight disbands the Heroes for Hire, though she forms a crew to take down the Purple Man’s Villains for Hire. l after the Villains’ defeat, Misty and Paladin make their feelings for each other much clearer. | VILLAINS FOR HIRE | |
| Amazing Spider-Man #676 (2012) Doctor Octopus initiates his next plan for the Sinister Six, utilising a giant Octobot and coming into conflict with the Intelligencia. | ||
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #679.1 (2012) Spider-Man finally discovers Morbius is the scientist working in Lab 6 and takes his leave of Horizon Labs after a clash with the web-slinger. | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #680-681 (2012) Doctor Octopus uses the Octobots as a weapon against Spider-Man as part of the Sinister Six’s plan for world domination. | ENDS OF THE EARTH |
| ✔ | Venom #17-21 (2012) Flash Thompson reveals his role as Agent Venom to Betty Brant; Betty is kidnapped by the Crime-Master who reveals himself to be her brother. | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #692-693 (2012) The Jackal returns, confirming that the Queen only succeeded in killing a clone; the Jackal creates clones of Andriana Soria from one of her Spider-Queen legs and uses, dubbing them his Spider-Queens; the clones are ultimately destroyed by Spider-Man and Alpha. | ALPHA |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #698-700 (2013) Spider-Man’s use of the helmet that controls the Octobots feeds data to a primary Golden Octobot that allows Doctor Octopus to switch minds with Peter Parker and take over his body; Doctor Octopus becomes the new, superior Spider-Man; this could well be the loss Madame Web warned Spider-Man about. | DYING WISH |
| ✔ | Superior Spider-Man #14 (2013) Spider-Man (Otto Octavius) destroys the Kingpin’s Shadowland; Hobgoblin’s role as his enforcer ends. | MARVEL NOW! SUPERIOR SPIDER-MONTH |
| Must Reads | Issue & Fallout | |
| Superior Spider-Man #15-16 (2013) Phil Urich’s role as the Hobgoblin ends; he switches his allegiance to Norman Osborn, joining his Goblin Nation as the Goblin Knight. | ||
| Amazing Spider-Man #7 (2014) Spider-Cat – or more-likely an alternate universe version – is killed by the Inheritors. | SPIDER-VERSE | |
| ✔ | Spider-Island #1-5 (2015) On Earth-19919, the Spider-Queen (Andriana Soria) is victorious and Manhattan becomes a permanent Spider-Island; Agent Venom and the Resistance work to overthrow the Spider-Queen and learn the fate of Spider-Man; this Spider-Island makes up a section of God Emperor Doom’s Battleworld (Earth-15513) after all reality is shattered. | SECRET WARS |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #6-8 (2016) With their powers still swapped, Cloak and Dagger have fallen under Mister Negative’s full control; Spider-Man frees Cloak and Dagger and find a way to swap their powers back. | |
| Sam Wilson: Captain America #9 (2016) Misty Knight’s relationship with Paladin appears to have ended; she becomes romantically involved with Captain America (Sam Wilson). | ||
| Venom #150 (2017) Flash Thompson is forcibly separated from the Venom Symbiote by the FBI; Eddie Brock regains the Symbiote, becoming Venom once more. | ||
| Venom Inc: Alpha (2018) Flash Thompson bonds with an artificial Anti-Venom Symbiote created by Alchemax and becomes Agent Anti-Venom. | MARVEL LEGACY VENOM INC | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #52.LR (2021) The Sin-Eater tries to steal the last remaining samples of the Spider-Virus to transform his followers into Arachnoids and put them against Morlun. | LAST REMAINS |
| Iron Man #5 (2021) Though he doesn’t become a member of the Avengers, Frog-Man is recruited by Iron Man to become one of his ‘under the radar’ allies in a team Tony Stark gathers to take on Korvac. | ||
| Edge of Spider-Verse #1 (2022) Spider-Girl regains her Araña identity again; Araña next faces the Sisterhood of the Wasp. | END OF SPIDER-VERSE | |
| Amazing Spider-Man #27-30 (2023) Doctor Octopus creates a new breed of Octobots called Ocktoids that can merge to become his tentacles. | ||
| Superior Spider-Man #5-8 (2024) Doctor Octopus initiates Superior Spider-Island when he mentally connects to all the spiders in New York City and take control of every human they find. |
| Collected Edition Title | Collects… |
| Spider-Man: Spider-Island | Amazing Spider-Man #659-660, 662-665 [part] Amazing Spider-Man #666-673 Spider-Island: Deadly Foes #1 Spider-Island Spotlight Venom #6-9 |
| Spider-Man: Spider-Island Companion | Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive! #524 Herc #7-8 Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #1-3 Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1-3 Spider-Island: Heroes for Hire #1 Spider-Island: I 🕷 New York City #1 Spider-Island: Spider-Girl #1-3 Spider-Island: Spider-Woman #1 Spider-Island: The Avengers #1 |
| Spider-Man: Big Time – Complete Collection vol.2 | Amazing Spider-Man #663-676 Free Comics Book Day: The Amazing Spider-Man #1 Spider-Island: Deadly Foes #1 |
| Venom by Rick Remender: The Complete Collection vol.1 | Venom #1-12 What If Venom Possessed Deadpool? #1 |
| Venom Modern Era Epic Collection: Agent Venom (vol.4) | Amazing Spider-Man #654, 654.1 Venom #1-13, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14-16 |
| Collected Edition Title | Includes… |
| Black Panther: The Man Without Fear – Fear Itself Black Panther: The Man Without Fear – The Complete Collection | Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive! #524 |
| Cloak and Dagger: Runaways & Reversals | Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #1-3 |
| Herc by Greg Pak & Fred van Lente – The Complete Series Herc: Prodigal God | Herc #7-8 |
| Heroes for Hire by Abnett & Lanning – The Complete Collection | Spider-Island: Heroes for Hire #1 |
| Punisher by Greg Rucka vol.1 | Spider-Island: I 🕷 New York City #1 [part] |
Reading Order ©Omniverse Comics Guide 2024
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