(W) Jed MacKay (A) Dev Pramanik (C) Rachelle Rosenberg (L) Cory Petit (CA) José Luis Soares Pinto, Rachelle Rosenberg (VCA) Alex Ross, Adam Gorham and Fabi Marques, Marvel Games Marvel Tokon: Fight Souls, Rod Reis
THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS! With the lives of his closest friends and some newly forged allies on the line, Marc Spector makes one hell of a gambit! But will the price be too high?! And will this put MOON KNIGHT at odds with the likes of DAREDEVIL BLADE, GHOST RIDER and CLEA forever?!
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
(W) Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan (A) Rod Reis
Kara and Kal experience something they’ve never felt before … the restorative power of a yellow sun. But a storm is coming, and with it, a challenge that will push the young adventurers to their very limit. But from the dark clouds comes a helping hand … but are they friend or foe?
(W) Jed MacKay (A) Netho Diaz (I) Sean Parsons (C) Arthur Hesli (L) Clayton Cowles (CA) Netho Diaz, Sean Parsons, Arthur Hesli (VCA) Juan Frigeri, Steve Skroce, Arc System Works and PlayStation Studios, Rod Reis
3K works toward a viable build of the X-Virus, brought back from the Age of Revelation. Until now they have been frustrated — but when the Chairman realizes that the missing piece of the puzzle lies within Magneto, 3K moves on the X-Men’s home base in Alaska.
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.
(W) Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan (A) Rod Reis
MEMORIES OF KRYPTON! After their run-in with the Lantern Corps, Kara has taken Kal back to Krypton… but the real Krypton no longer exists. This one is of her own making. A shimmering city of blue constructs that shelters them from the pain of their loss. Kara could call it home and keep her cousin safe… but she’d be living a lie. Fortunately, the arrival of an interdimensional imp will help change her mind.
(W) Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan (A) Rod Reis
KARA AND KAL AGAINST THE LOBO GANG! Kara and Kal have lost their ship and, light-years from their destination of Earth, are now forced to seek travel from a busy spaceport. Conviction alone won’t be enough to keep Kara and her baby cousin safe from the vagabonds and swindlers of the planet — and Czarnian bounty hunters put the duo right in their crosshairs. Fortunately for them, there’s a full-spectrum squad of Green Lanterns nearby.
(W) Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan (A) Rod Reis (C) Rod Reis
ETHAN PARKER, GRIFFIN SHERIDAN, AND ROD REIS TAKE SUPERGIRL ON A NEW ELSEWORLDS JOURNEY! Kara Zor-El lives a life of small problems. How are you supposed to hold a floppy little baby like her new cousin Kal? Who should she ask to the spring formal? And when will her father and her uncle Jor-El stop squabbling? But the planet Krypton has big problems… like the militaristic dictator Zod ruthlessly crushing dissent and threatening to unleash the planet’s most dangerous weapons on the opposition. And when things boil over and Krypton begins to burn, Kara and her infant cousin will find themselves trapped together in a prototype rocket, struggling to survive in a hostile universe that doesn’t care if they live or die… and which might prefer the latter!
Breakout writers Ethan Parker and Griffin Sheridan (Eisner Award nominee Kill Your Darlings) join visionary artist Rod Reis (New Mutants) to tell the story of teenage Kara and infant Kal, sent on their journey through the stars together, not apart… that is, as long as Kara can keep him alive!
Marvel recently announced DNX, an all-new event series by Jed MacKay and Federico Vicentini kicking off in September. The storyline sees the X-Men and the Fantastic Four unite against 3K in a race to stop the supervillain group from unleashing a virus that forcibly—and horribly—transforms humans into mutants! Built up since the start of MacKay’s run, DNX will be preceded by two pivotal lead-in chapters this August, X-Men #35 and #36, each packed with shocking developments that set the stage for the highly anticipated event.
The X-Men have met their match in 3K, a cabal of mutant supervillains brought together by a common goal: MAKE MORE MUTANTS. Their plan involves unleashing the X-Virus on the world, an event that triggered one of the darkest timelines imaginable in Age of Revelation. Cyclops and the 3K’s Chairman, A.K.A. founding X-Man Beast, both witnessed the horror of that future and returned home with renewed missions: the X-Men to prevent it, 3K to own it. While the X-Men seek out the Fantastic Four to help save one of their own, 3K prepares to unleash the X-Virus in a major population center. X-Men #35 and #36 by MacKay and artists Tony S. Daniel and Netho Diaz lead directly into the saga as the X-Men’s current Beast—a younger Hank McCoy restored to a more innocent time in his life—grapples with the dark reflection he sees in the Chairman, while 3K targets Magneto, whose mysterious illness is revealed to be directly tied to the X-Virus.
In X-Men #35, Hank McCoy, the bouncing blue Beast, is haunted by a ghost—not of his past, but of his future…and his present. The Chairman of 3K, an older, amoral version of himself, represents one of the greatest threats the X-Men have faced since the fall of Krakoa, and Beast must struggle with his own terrible potential.
In X-MEN #36, 3K works toward a viable build of the X-Virus, brought back from the Age of Revelation. Until now they have been frustrated—but when the Chairman realizes that the missing piece of the puzzle lies within Magneto, 3K moves on the X-Men’s home base in Alaska.
Check out the main covers for X-Men #35 and #36 by Tony S. Daniel and Netho Diaz, along with a variant cover by Rod Reis. Stay tuned for news about DNX in the weeks ahead, including additional True Believers Blind Bag variant cover reveals!
From his throne on Arakko, the powerful and ancient mutant known as Apocalypse will make his presence felt on Earth once again as he recruits Jubilee on a dangerous quest to secure a mysterious Celestial artifact in Tomb of Apocalypse #1 by rising star writer Ashley Allen and artist Domenico Carbone. When an unknown device from Mars crash lands outside the X-Men’s home at Haven House, Jubilee answers the call in a bid to prove herself as more than just a babysitter for the Outliers. Activated by her mutant powers, the device sends both Jubilee and Wolverine across the world to a desert outpost in Egypt being excavated by armed mercenaries – the Tomb of Apocalypse! As they descend deep into the earth to uncover what Apocalypse has planned for humanity, mutantkind, Earth and Arakko, they’ll discover they’re not alone as they cross paths with long-time allies Rictor and Shatterstar.
Allen and Carbone are pulling from years of X-Men storytelling and long-simmering plot points across multiple eras of mutant history to light the way forward with Jubilee and Wolverine leading the charge. How will the former mallrat react to being pulled into Apocalypse’s machinations and who else might the X-Men encounter in the underground maze full of puzzles and death? The Tomb of Apocalypse will reveal itself across this five issue limited series with major changes coming for those who dare to enter it.
ANCIENT AND UNFATHOMABLE POWER!
From his exile in space, the shadow of the mutant called Apocalypse looms over all life on the pale blue dot from whence he hailed. Once dedicated to ensuring the strongest and fittest mutants would inherit the Earth, now Apocalypse’s attentions have turned to a new deadly undertaking – for which he will need the unique abilities of…Jubilee and Wolverine!
Check out the main cover for Tomb of Apocalypse #1 by Rod Reis and variants by Ivan Shavrin and Fabrizio de Tomasso below and place your pre-orders at your local comic shop today!
