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Explore the covers for Marvel’s Midnight Universe Launch!

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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 Nightmare Begins in the New Trailer for Marvel’s Midnight Universe

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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.

Get a First Look at the Debut of Marvel’s Midnight Line and Covers Revealed for the Third Issues

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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 SPIDER-MAN #3

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 FANTASTIC FOUR #3

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…

MIDNIGHT X-MEN #3

Avengers: Secret Wars gets a Marvel Premier Collection collecting the pivotal event

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The end has arrived. The unstoppable wave of interdimensional Incursions has obliterated universe after universe until only two remained — the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe. Their collision has left nothing but Battleworld a vast, patchwork planet forged from the shattered remnants of countless realities.

On this broken stage, heroes and villains struggle to survive. Strange new domains rise. Familiar faces return in shocking new forms. And at the throne of creation itself sits Doom — absolute master of all.

VISIONARY. DEFINITIVE. UNMISSABLE.

From master storyteller Jonathan Hickman comes the definitive Marvel saga — the cataclysmic event where the Fantastic Four, Avengers, Spider-Man, the X-Men and more face their final battle as the entire Multiverse falls!

COLLECTING: Secret Wars (2015) #1-9, Free Comic Book Day 2015 (Secret Wars) #0 (A story)

Story: Jonathan Hickman
Art: Esad Ribic
Color: Ive Svorcina
Letterer: Chris Eliopoulos, Clayton Cowles

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Avengers: Time Runs Out gets a Marvel Premier Collection and collects the lead up to Secret Wars

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One by one, the realities of the Multiverse have collided and been destroyed, leaving the Marvel Universe as one of the last standing. Now the final Incursion is drawing near — and in the wake of the desperate, world-shattering actions taken by the shadowy group of heroes known as the Illuminati, the Avengers are fragmented. While one group seeks to confront their former Illuminati allies, another takes the fight to a dark new threat! But what has become of Tony Stark and Doctor Strange? Will all the battles they’ve endured — and the sacrifices they’ve made — prepare the Avengers for the inevitable? Time runs out as the stage is set for SECRET WARS!

COLLECTING: Material from Avengers (2012) #35-44; New Avengers (2013) #24-33

Story: Jonathan Hickman
Art: Jim Cheung, Paco Medina, Nick Bradshaw, Dustin Weaver, Mike Deodato Jr., Mike Perkins, Valerio Schiti, Szymon Kudranski, Dalibor Talajic, Stefano Casselli, Kev Walker, Mike Mayhew
Ink: Mark Morales, Guillermo Ortego, Juan Vlasco, Nick Bradshaw, Dustin Weaver, Rick Magyar
Color: Frank Martin, David Curiel, Dono Sanchez-Almara
Letterer: Cory Petit, Joe Caramagna

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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Marvel Reveals New Midnight Covers

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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:

  • MIDNIGHT SPIDER-MAN COVER B BY RYAN STEGMAN, a MIDNIGHT BLOODBATH VARIANT, blood-soaked covers showcasing the terror of the Midnight Universe.
  • MIDNIGHT FANTASTIC FOUR #1 COVER D BY E.M. GIST, a MIDNIGHT HORROR HOMAGE VARIANT, chilling re-creations of iconic horror images.
  • MIDNIGHT FANTASTIC FOUR #1 COVER I BY ROD REIS, an additional variant cover that will also be available as a virgin variant (Cover J).
  • MIDNIGHT X-MEN #1 COVER H BY ALESSANDRO CAPPUCCIO, an additional variant cover spotlighting the Midnight versions of Magneto, Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver.
  • MIDNIGHT FANTASTIC FOUR #1 AND MIDNIGHT X-MEN #1 COVERS E BY JEEHYUNG LEE, prestige painted covers of the haunting Midnight Universe.

SDCC 2026: Marvel’s Midnight Universe Gets the Spotlight

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The light had its turn.

At the Marvel Comics: Midnight Universe Panel at San Diego Comic-Con, all three Midnight writers—Jonathan Hickman, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, and Benjamin Percy—shed more light on their bold titles and their shared vision for this terrifying new line. Revealed during the panel were the second issue covers for each title—Midnight Spider-Man, Midnight Fantastic Four, and Midnight X-Men—along with the unveiling of additional variant covers. Attendees also received an early black and white Midnight Universe ashcan preview, which will be available at local comic shops in the near future.

Midnight X-Men #1, Midnight Fantastic Four #1, and Midnight Spider-Man #1 will have a unified launch, hitting stands together on October 7 as the only new Marvel comics released that day, a first for Marvel. The line will also introduce ongoing variant cover programs, with recurring themes across Covers labeled A-E. Bringing greater consistency and clarity to the variant cover collecting experience, this new program allows readers to choose their favorites and ensure that their local comic shop knows exactly what they’ll want, every month, without question.

Befitting the line’s ominous tone, the main covers of the Midnight titles will be presented in Cloaked Cover trade dress that conceals the full artwork until readers open the issue. With the exception of the debut issues, the full artwork will remain shrouded in shadow, only revealing themselves to those who pick them up on stands. While the newly revealed #2 covers offer a glimpse into the horrors ahead, new variant covers spotlight Iceman’s chilling new form, Peter Parker’s monstrous transformation and more.

MIDNIGHT SPIDER-MAN #2

Written by PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON
Art by SCIETRONC
COVER A STEVE BEACH REGULAR COVER
COVER C PEACH MOMOKO MIDNIGHT SPECIAL VARIANT
COVER F PEACH MOMOKO MIDNIGHT SPECIAL VIRGIN VARIANT
On Sale November 18

Where is Peter Parker?

A new Oscorp employee is missing. An NYC teaching assistant is missing. In Queens, a municipal services tech didn’t clock in this morning. And for some reason, Oscorp defense contractors are scouring their building’s security tapes… for a spider.

MIDNIGHT FANTASTIC FOUR #2

Written by BENJAMIN PERCY
Art by KEV WALKER
COVER A KEV WALKER REGULAR COVER
On Sale November 18

Reed Richards—haunted by a past he can barely recall and a scientific breakthrough he can barely understand—begins his tenuous working relationship with Sue, Johnny, and Ben at Storm Systems. They’re about to test out one of their theories—a theory that will revisit and redefine the perils of the atomic age.

MIDNIGHT X-MEN #2

Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN
Art by MATTEO DELLA FONTE
COVER A DIKE RUAN REGULAR COVER
COVER C SKAN MIDNIGHT SPECIAL VARIANT
COVER G SKAN MIDNIGHT SPECIAL VIRGIN VARIANT
On Sale November 18

Eat. Prey. Love.

Preview: Spider-Man: Long Way Home #2

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Spider-Man: Long Way Home #2

(W) Jonathan Hickman (A) Adam Kubert

FRANK CASTLE in possession of the COSMIC CUBE! Alone in the jungles of South America, Frank’s mission is to keep the Cube out of the wrong hands. In pursuit: a hulking green monster that has wiped out his squad. Fresh on the scene is SPIDER-MAN. who has been tasked by S.H.I.E.L.D. to acquire the Cube on their behalf. Spidey and HULK may be hunting Frank, but they’re about to find out that sometimes the prey is deadlier than the predators.

Spider-Man: Long Way Home #2

Preview: Foundations

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Foundations

Writer: Jonathan Hickman · Nick Spencer
Artist: Mike del Mundo · Mike Huddleston

From the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner Award-nominated creator of East of West, The Manhattan Projects, Decorum, and more comes this ambitious, science fiction universe presented by comics titan Jonathan Hickman.

Across a distant solar system and countless millennia-long cycles, a war has been fought between the forces of magic and science, and order and chaos. When astronaut and explorer Tajo Vallar undertakes a doomed expedition to a dormant moon full of mysteries, the conflict begins anew, and more dangerous than ever before!

Foundations

Preview: Foundations

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Foundations

Writer: Jonathan Hickman · Nick Spencer
Artist: Mike del Mundo · Mike Huddleston

From the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner Award-nominated creator of East of West, The Manhattan Projects, Decorum, and more comes this ambitious, science fiction universe presented by comics titan Jonathan Hickman.

Across a distant solar system and countless millennia-long cycles, a war has been fought between the forces of magic and science, and order and chaos. When astronaut and explorer Tajo Vallar undertakes a doomed expedition to a dormant moon full of mysteries, the conflict begins anew, and more dangerous than ever before!

Foundations
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