Spider-Man Comic Appearances for July 25, 2012

This week we have 7 new Spider-Man comic book appearances, but more importantly we have 4 new appearances from recently released comics...that we failed to find the first time around.

On the variant front, there is just one lone cover variant for Amazing Spider-Man #690.

This week brings us Astonishing X-Men #52 -- the follow-up to issue #51's wedding -- which sports Spider-Man clearly present at the reception.  Considering we counted #51 as an appearance with just a partial hand present, it's nice to have the confirmation in this issue.  (Of course, it was also nice to have confirmation straight from the issue's artist too.)

Here is this week's list...

Spider-Man Comic Appearances for July 18, 2012

Wow!  It's a lite week with only two comic titles featuring a Spider-Man appearance.

BUT...and there's always a but...they each have variants that combine for a total of 10 books.  Psych!

The weirdest thing for the week is that there were no core Spider-Man titles released.  That's more than made up for by the 7 versions of Avengers Vs. X-Men #8 and 3 versions of Captain Marvel #1.

Here's the list:

Spider-Man Comic Appearances for July 11, 2012

This week we have 6 new comic books featuring a Spider-Man appearance.  Spider-Men #3 makes up half that list with its regular cover and two variants.

Here's the list:

• Avenging Spider-Man #9
• Marvel Universe The Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes #4
• Scarlet Spider #7
• Spider-Men #3
• Spider-Men #3 (Pichelli Variant)
• Spider-Men #3 (Dodson Variant)

If you're lucky enough to go, have fun in San Diego this weekend.  If not, then you can watch updates on G4.

Happy boxdiving!

Spider-Man Comic Appearances for July 4, 2012

This week we have 14 new comic books (with a magazine in the mix too) that feature a Spider-Man appearance.  Not the least of which are 9 issues from the Avengers Vs. X-Men mini-series.

While there are 5th printings of the #0-2 issues, in issue #7 of Avengers Vs. X-Men (out this week) Spidey manages to make a small cameo within the 6 variant versions of the book.  It appears he may have a bigger role in upcoming issues.

Also out this week is the 2nd issue of Marvel Super Heroes Magazine.  It's a fun romp for younger readers.  This actually was released in bookstores a week or two ago, but makes its way to comic shops now.  And it still sports the newsstand barcode.  I guess it wasn't economical to print 2 versions (newsstand vs. direct) for this one.  They did the same thing with the first issue too.

Here's the list for this week:

Add One More Astonishing X-Men #51 Variant To the List

As a follow-up to a recent article, I just came across another new variant for Astonishing X-Men #51 when I was working on completing my Spider-Men #1 retailer variant collection.

Heroes Aren't Hard to Find in Charlotte, North Carolina puts on the wildly successful Heroes Convention -- also in Charlotte.  At this year's event back in June, they offered an exclusive "variant" of Astonishing X-Men #51.

The issue includes an image created by Phil Noto of Heroes owner Shelton Drum and his wife Linda.

I say "variant" because the comics weren't printed with the image, but rather the picture was professionally printed on label stock and placed on the blank area of the cover.  Not a true printed variant, but one professionally manufactured.

You can read more or get a copy on their site, and grab one of their many comic shop exclusive cover issues while you're there too.

Three Variant Comics to Watch for at San Diego Comic Con 2012

UPDATE 7/25:
So it looks like the sketch cover (pictured below) was not released.  I'm not sure where the image originated, but a few auctions made it onto Ebay before the convention began.  Oops.

There was another giveaway with a Spidey appearance at the con though.  Marvel gave away a preview version of Amazing Spider-Man #692 that also includes previews of Hawkeye #1, Captain Marvel #1 and Gambit #1.

ORIGINAL STORY:
I first reported there were 2 variants at the 2012 San Diego Comic Con with Spider-Man making an appearance, but there are actually 3 showing up.

These include:

Amazing Spider-Man #688 (regular cover)

Amazing Spider-Man #688 (sketch cover)

Astonishing X-Men #51 (with the blink and you'll miss it Spider-Man glove)

And if you can't make it to the show, you can find them on Ebay.

Spider-Man Attended the Wedding in Astonishing X-Men #51

I just got confirmation that Spider-Man did indeed take a break from saving the world -- following the "Ends of the Earth" storyline in Amazing Spider-Man -- to make an appearance at the wedding of Northstar and Kyle in Astonishing X-Men #51.

Artist Mike Perkins confirmed that is indeed Spidey's gloved hand reaching in to ask for a dance.

And if his skills haven't improved since the mess we saw in the Tobey Maguire-starring Spider-Man 3 movie, then he won't last long on the dance floor.

And speaking of gloved hands.  How incredibly awkward must it be to attend a wedding wearing a costume?

Eh?!?  I guess it's happened before...

Appearance collectors be aware there are currently 5 variants of Astonishing X-Men #51:

• Regular Cover
• Djurdjevic Cover Variant
  
• Wedding Album Variant
• San Diego Sketch Cover Variant
  
• 2nd-Printing Variant

Spider-Man Comic Appearances for June 27, 2012

This week is a bit more tame on the variant cover front with 4 alternate covers available.  10 new comics featuring a Spider-Man appearance.

Right in line with the new Amazing Spider-Man movie release, we have the Lizard front and center in the monthly title.  And we also have the 2nd issue of the very fun Spider-Men series.  Otherwise, a fairly pedestrian medium-sized week.

Here's the full list of appearances:

Spider-Men #1 - The Full Comic Shop Variant List

Spider-Man #1 has come and gone, and it's a pretty good story so far.  More importanly, the issues brings along with it a slew of comic shop retailer variant covers.  Marvel invited comic shop retailers to purchase a minimum of 500 copies to get their own personalized cover to the issue.

This issues joins the ranks of Amazing Spider-Man #666, Amazing Spider-Man #669, Avengers X-Sanction #1, and Avengers Assemble #1 to offer an exclusive retailer variant.  The number of participating stores has dropped for each issue, however even the minimum 12,000 additional issues sold for Spider-Men #1 will probably means it's a modest success for Marvel and may foretell more to come.

The following 24 stores decided to take them up on the offer:

Spider-Man Comic Appearances for June 20, 2012

This week the Spider-Man-themed company-wide variant covers continue to roll through your bank account.

There are 13 (?) new Spider-Man comic book appearances this week, and 6 of those are variant covers, while 3 others are alternate printing variants.

Now I say 13 with a question mark because the jury is out as to whether or not Spidey appears in the latest big-news issue of Astonishing X-Men #51.  Towards the end of the book during the wedding reception, it surely looks like Spidey's hand reaches into frame to tap the shoulder of one of the mutant wedding attendees.  Now Spidey isn't shown anywhere else in the book, and their aren't many non-mutants attending the wedding at all so it doesn't seem likely he would be there.  But heck, this is a comic book.  Who said there has to be rhyme or reason to anything.  I'm just working on identifying if there is another character who would be attending and have a similar glove style (e.g. red with circular lines along the fingers).

Oh well, I'll update this post with the final findings.  Here's are the other books for the week: