Punisher #8
(W) Benjamin Percy (A) Carmen Carnero
TARGET: WADE WILSON! As the spectacle of the summer rolls on, Frank Castle finds himself at odds with the Regeneratin’ Degenerate, Deadpool! But not all is as it seems, as a mysterious interloper seems to be manipulating circumstances and people alike, setting the duo on a collision course with calamity!
Wade Wilson: Deadpool #8
(W) Benjamin Percy (A) Geoff Shaw
TARGET: FRANK CASTLE! Deadpool’s got a new mission! A new vehicle! And a new… ENEMY? Wait, are we talking about Frank Castle? “BIG GUNS” starts here, as multiple forces converge on the ultimate weapon… but only one can emerge victorious!
The darkness is coming.
On October 7, Marvel’s newest storytelling initiative, the Midnight Universe, makes its debut with a unified launch of three bold new titles: Midnight Spider-Man #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and ScieTronc, Midnight Fantastic Four #1 by Benjamin Percy and Kev Walker and Midnight X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Matteo Della Fonte. The three debut issues—the only Marvel comics released that day—will usher in a creator-driven line where some of Marvel’s most acclaimed modern talents are given free rein to reimagine the world’s greatest heroes in chilling and daring new ways. Fans can get their first taste of what awaits with the new Midnight Universe Trailer, featuring never-before-seen artwork from all three titles.
With boundaryless storytelling and rich interconnected mythology, the Midnight Universe offers an exciting entry point for new readers while giving longtime fans a thrilling new take on their favorite heroes. In Midnight Spider-Man #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and ScieTronc, Spider-Man discovers that with great power… comes something monstrous. In Midnight Fantastic Four #1 by Benjamin Percy and Kev Walker, a scientist’s curiosity accidentally unleashes ancient terrors upon the world while also transforming himself and three others in strange and horrifying ways. In Midnight X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Matteo Della Fonte, the X-Men’s battle is no longer one of acceptance, but of survival…and blood.
Check out all of the covers for the debut issues of each series!
MIDNIGHT SPIDER-MAN #1
Written by PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON
Art by SCIETRONC
COVER A STEVE BEACH REGULAR COVER – 75960621681900111
COVER B RYAN STEGMAN MIDNIGHT BLOODBATH VARIANT – 75960621681900121
COVER C PEACH MOMOKO MIDNIGHT SPECIAL VARIANT – 75960621681900131
COVER D SKAN MIDNIGHT HORROR HOMAGE VARIANT – 75960621681900141
COVER E JEEHYUNG LEE MIDNIGHT GALLERY VARIANT – 75960621681900116
COVER F CLAYTON CRAIN 3-PART CONNECTING VARIANT – 75960621681900151
COVER G PEACH MOMOKO MIDNIGHT SPECIAL VIRGIN VARIANT – 75960621681900117
COVER H ERIC CANETE VARIANT – 75960621681900161
COVER I INHYUK LEE VARIANT – 75960621681900171
COVER J INHYUK LEE VIRGIN VARIANT – 75960621681900118
On Sale October 7
MIDNIGHT FANTASTIC FOUR #1
Written by BENJAMIN PERCY
Art by KEV WALKER
COVER A KEV WALKER REGULAR COVER – 75960621680200111
COVER B RYAN STEGMAN MIDNIGHT BLOODBATH VARIANT – 75960621680200121
COVER C BEN HARVEY MIDNIGHT SPECIAL VARIANT – 75960621680200131
COVER D E.M. GIST MIDNIGHT HORROR HOMAGE VARIANT – 75960621680200141
COVER E JEEHYUNG LEE MIDNIGHT GALLERY VARIANT – 75960621680200116
COVER F CLAYTON CRAIN 3-PART CONNECTING VARIANT – 75960621680200151
COVER G BEN HARVEY MIDNIGHT SPECIAL VIRGIN VARIANT – 75960621680200117
COVER H LEINIL FRANCIS YU VARIANT – 75960621680200161
COVER I ROD REIS VARIANT – 75960621680200171
COVER J ROD REIS VIRGIN VARIANT – 75960621680200118
On Sale October 7
MIDNIGHT X-MEN #1
Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN
Art by MATTEO DELLA FONTE
COVER A DIKE RUAN REGULAR COVER – 75960621668000111
COVER B RYAN STEGMAN MIDNIGHT BLOODBATH VARIANT – 75960621668000121
COVER C SKAN MIDNIGHT SPECIAL VARIANT – 75960621668000131
COVER D BJÖRN BARENDS MIDNIGHT HORROR HOMAGE VARIANT – 75960621668000141
COVER E JEEHYUNG LEE MIDNIGHT GALLERY VARIANT – 75960621668000116
COVER F CLAYTON CRAIN 3-PART CONNECTING VARIANT – 75960621668000151
COVER G SKAN MIDNIGHT SPECIAL VIRGIN VARIANT – 75960621668000117
COVER H ALESSANDRO CAPPUCCIO VARIANT – 75960621668000161
COVER I ITO VARIANT – 75960621668000171
COVER J ITO VIRGIN VARIANT – 75960621668000118
On Sale October 7
The darkness is coming.
On October 7, Marvel’s newest storytelling initiative, the Midnight Universe, makes its debut with a unified launch of three bold new titles: Midnight Spider-Man #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and ScieTronc, Midnight Fantastic Four #1 by Benjamin Percy and Kev Walker and Midnight X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Matteo Della Fonte. The three debut issues—the only Marvel comics released that day—will usher in a creator-driven line where some of Marvel’s most acclaimed modern talents are given free rein to reimagine the world’s greatest heroes in chilling and daring new ways. Fans can get their first taste of what awaits with the new Midnight Universe Trailer, featuring never-before-seen artwork from all three titles.
With boundaryless storytelling and rich interconnected mythology, the Midnight Universe offers an exciting entry point for new readers while giving longtime fans a thrilling new take on their favorite heroes. In Midnight Spider-Man #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and ScieTronc, Spider-Man discovers that with great power… comes something monstrous. In Midnight Fantastic Four #1 by Benjamin Percy and Kev Walker, a scientist’s curiosity accidentally unleashes ancient terrors upon the world while also transforming himself and three others in strange and horrifying ways. In Midnight X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Matteo Della Fonte, the X-Men’s battle is no longer one of acceptance, but of survival…and blood.
On October 7, Marvel’s newest storytelling initiative, the Midnight Universe, makes its debut with a unified launch of three bold new titles: Midnight Spider-Man #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and ScieTronc, Midnight Fantastic Four #1 by Benjamin Percy and Kev Walker and Midnight X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Matteo Della Fonte. The three debut issues—the only Marvel comics released that day—will usher in a creator-driven line where some of Marvel’s most acclaimed modern talents are given free rein to reimagine the world’s greatest heroes in chilling and daring new ways.
Get a first look at all three debuts!
Midnight Spider-Man #1
Midnight Fantastic Four #1
Midnight X-Men #1
Marvel continues to pull back the curtain with the covers for Midnight Spider-Man #3, Midnight Fantastic Four #3, and Midnight X-Men #3, all arriving on December 16.
The new artwork offers a glimpse at the darkness ahead from Reed Richards’ ruthless pursuit of knowledge and Peter Parker’s gut-wrenching transformation to the holy war erupting in the shadows between mutants, humans, and Empyres! The newly revealed covers tease even more of what’s to come, from Cyclops, the last of the X-Men, taking a young mutant under his wing to the unimaginable horrors of Oscorp’s experiments and the Fantastic Four’s daring journey into the cosmic unknown.
Read on to learn more!
MIDNIGHT SPIDER-MAN #3
Written by PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON
Art by SCIETRONC
COVER A STEVE BEACH REGULAR COVER
On Sale December 16
THE PARKER INCIDENT!
As Peter Parker frantically searches for a way to reclaim his humanity, Oscorp hunts the emerging urban legend THE SPIDER-MAN in their first breakthrough on the path to a post-mortality future. Meanwhile, in Oscorp’s deepest, most top-secret labs, Doctor Octavius has used the lessons of the “Parker Incident” to engineer the world’s second synthetic mutant… a living horror that will make even Spider-Man obsolete.
MIDNIGHT FANTASTIC FOUR #3
Written by BENJAMIN PERCY
Art by KEV WALKER
COVER A KEV WALKER REGULAR COVER
On Sale December 16
FINDING THE HIDDEN WORLD!
The Four head to the Jornada del Muerto desert in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was detonated by Oppenheimer and the Los Alamos labs. And here they discover the residue of another world, left behind by a crack in the firmament.
MIDNIGHT X-MEN #3
Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN
Art by MATTEO DELLA FONTE
COVER A DIKE RUAN REGULAR COVER
On Sale December 16
NO MUTANTS. NO MERCY.
Weapons of Earthly and Heavenly construct. Realms that exist between old failures and the shiny new sins of expedience…
Easter Sunday. Sunrise service. A quiet Midwestern suburb. And something has just fallen out of the sky. Grab your baskets! Mad Cave Studios has announced Egg Hunt, a new four-issue sci-fi horror series from bestselling writer Benjamin Percy, artist Raúl Fernández, colorist Giada Marchisio, and letterer Micah Myers.
Easter Sunday in the Midwest. Sunrise service. The Lord has risen, and the hungry will come. A visitor crash-lands in the woods surrounding the picket-fence suburbia where little Piper lives with her mom Tina and her nasty stepdad Don. The world is frightening and alien for both Piper and her new…friend… but on this day of cosmic forgiveness, when her family falls apart, the unlikely pair may find their own salvations.
The series features a main cover by Martín Morazzo, with variants by Cully Hamner and Valentine De Landro, including a De Landro virgin variant, Hamner foil variant, and Morazzo glow-in-the-dark variant.
Part creature feature, part suburban nightmare, Egg Hunt brings cosmic horror crashing into the Midwest, pairing the terror of first contact with a child searching for salvation in a home already coming apart.
Egg Hunt #1 goes on sale November 18, 2026. At 32 pages, each issue is priced at $4.99, with select specialty variants priced at $6.99.
The all-new, all-disturbing Midnight Universe begins on October 7, and Marvel Comics has unveiled new variant covers for all three debut issues—Midnight Spider-Man #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and ScieTronc, Midnight Fantastic Four #1 by Benjamin Percy and Kev Walker, and Midnight X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Matteo Della Fonte.
Bringing greater clarity and consistency to the variant cover collecting experience, the Midnight line will debut all-new ongoing variant cover programs. Starting with issue #1, each MIDNIGHT series will feature recurring themes across Covers labeled A-E, along with additional variant covers. Covers revealed today include:
Punisher #7
(W) Benjamin Percy (A) Farid Karami
DAMAGED GOODS! Frank Castle’s one of the most dangerous tactical minds in the Marvel Universe, but for all his firepower, he remains just a man! IN THIS ISSUE, one of his failures drags itself kicking, screaming and bleeding to Frank’s door to look him dead in the eyes!
Wade Wilson: Deadpool #7
(W) Benjamin Percy (A) Alex Lins
REVENGE OF THE BADPOOLS! If you thought WADE WILSON was bad, wait till you get a load of these horrific offshoots of the Merc With the Mouth! But even more horrific is what they want with Wade — and now BLIND AL!
This past weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, writer Benjamin Percy took the stage at the Marvel Comics: Next Big Thing Panel to unveil the second half of “Big Guns,” the upcoming four-part crossover between his runs on Wade Wilson: Deadpool and Punisher. Announced last month, “Big Guns,” featuring artwork by series artists Geoff Shaw and José Luis Soares, kicks off in September. Fans can get a special first look at the crossover including the main covers for all four issues, Josemaria Casanovas’ complete four-part connecting cover artwork, and interior pages from the opening chapters!
Across both acclaimed ongoing series, Percy has taken Marvel’s two trigger-happy icons back to their roots with uncompromising, no-holds-barred storytelling, aligning the fates for this dangerous and ultra-violent showdown! “Big Guns” kicks off when Deadpool’s latest mess puts him in the crosshairs of the Punisher. Just as the Merc with a Mouth takes on one of the most high-stakes jobs of his career, Frank Castle seeks to settle the score—igniting a relentless clash of bullets, bloodshed, and mayhem that neither man will walk away from unscathed!
The new covers by Geoff Shaw and David Marquez reveal more deadly players entering the fray including the most dangerous man in the Marvel Universe, Bullseye, and the mysterious supervillain pulling the strings, Black Hole. Plus, the rest of Josemaria Casanovas’ four-part connecting variant covers are revealed, giving fans a glimpse at Wade Wilson’s tricked-out new ride—the Merc Mobile—which will serve as his base of operations moving forward.
WADE WILSON: DEADPOOL #8
Written by BENJAMIN PERCY
Art and Cover by GEOFF SHAW
Connecting Variant Cover by JOSEMARIA CASANOVAS – 75960621448800841
On Sale 9/2
TARGET: FRANK CASTLE!
Deadpool’s got a new mission! A new vehicle! And a new… ENEMY? Wait, are we talking about Frank Castle? “BIG GUNS” starts here, as multiple forces converge on the ultimate weapon…but only one can emerge victorious!
PUNISHER #8
Written by BENJAMIN PERCY
Art by JOSÉ LUIS SOARES
Cover by DAVID MARQUEZ
Connecting Variant Cover by JOSEMARIA CASANOVAS – 75960621516400831
On Sale 9/9
TARGET: WADE WILSON!
As the spectacle of the summer rolls on, Frank Castle finds himself at odds with the Regeneratin’ Degenerate, Deadpool! But not all is as it seems, as a mysterious interloper seems to be manipulating circumstances and people alike, setting the duo on a collision course with calamity!
WADE WILSON: DEADPOOL #9
Written by BENJAMIN PERCY
Art and Cover by GEOFF SHAW
Connecting Variant Cover by JOSEMARIA CASANOVAS – 75960621516400921
On Sale 10/14
TARGET: BULLSEYE!
Punisher and Deadpool are hunting the same weapon as Black Hole…but what good’s a gun without the greatest marksman of all time to aim it? Sounds like a job for Bullseye!
PUNISHER #9
Written by BENJAMIN PERCY
Art by JOSÉ LUIS SOARES
Cover by DAVID MARQUEZ
Connecting Variant Cover by JOSEMARIA CASANOVAS – 75960621448800921
On Sale 10/28
THE GOOD, THE BAD(POOLS) AND THE MERCS!
Black Hole pulls Deadpool and Punisher into his deadly trap, as the Badpools and Bullseye make their own plays! The chaotic climax to the wildest crossover of the year concludes with a dramatic addition to Frank Castle’s plans going forward (as well as Wade’s fortunes!)
