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First Look At Marvel's Spider-Man/X-Men/Venom Crossover, Dark Web

Bleeding Cool scooped the news that Dark Web would be a thing at Marvel Comics back in February 2022, before they revealed all for Free Comic Book Day, with Madelyne Pryor as the Goblin Queen and Ben Reilly as Chasm teaming up for what looked like a new Inferno.

At the Diamond Retailer lunch today at San Diego Comic-Con we got some new looks and new news. And learned happens when Spider-Clones team up. And a promotional image by Ryan Stegman. And planned for November 2022. How many Spider-characters, mutants,  clones and symbiotes can you see in this image?

UPDATE: Here's the Marvel PR:

This November, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is on a collision course with mutantkind in DARK WEB, which will be written by AMAZING SPIDER-MAN scribe Zeb Wells. New preview art from Ryan Stegman offers a glimpse at what's to come in the crossover, with the Goblin Queen herself Madelyne Pryor looming over iconic characters like Spider-Man, Black Cat, Venom, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Iceman, Magik, Mary Jane Watson and more. Ben Reilly also appears as Chasm, the new identity he assumed at the end of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #93 by Wells and Patrick Gleason.

"Get ready to get to know the most terrifying new member of Spidey's Rogues Gallery," Editor Nick Lowe teased in March. "Part of the point of 'Beyond' was the creation of Chasm and we have HUGE plans for the artist formerly known as Scarlet Spider, so keep your eyes peeled Web-Heads."

Okay lads and lassies, chaps and chapesses, get down and dirty with this. Today sees the return of the Diamond Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic-Con, the likes of which we have not seen since 2019. I mean comic bookshop retailers have certainly had lunch in that period, but not on Diamond Comic Distributors' dime and not at San Diego. In that period, they have also lost a number of publishers such as DC Comics and IDW, though Marvel is very kindly sticking around. No sign of Dark Horse, Image, Dynamite though, as well as Marvel it's just AfterShock, Valiant and Boom Studios sponsoring this. It appears that Bleeding Cool are the only press who have turned up, with Jimmy Leszczynski and his son, Jimmy Leszczynski. Let's see what they all have to say… and you can read all about it by following the Bleeding Cool Diamond Retailer Lunch tag. Stay tuned!

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