Green Goblin Returns - And So Does Gwen Stacy?! - In June's SPIDER-MAN Solicits From Marvel Comics

Green Goblin Returns - And So Does Gwen Stacy?! - In June's SPIDER-MAN Solicits From Marvel Comics

It looks like Marvel has a huge summer planned for Spidey as the Green Goblin will make his long-awaited return in Amazing Spider-Man #50 before Gwen Stacy rises from the dead in Spectacular Spider-Men!

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By JoshWilding - Feb 22, 2024 04:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics

This June, Marvel Comics looks set to make some major changes to Spider-Man's corner of the Marvel Universe in the pages of both Amazing Spider-Man and Spectacular Spider-Men. The former will celebrate its 50th issue with Zeb Wells (Deadpool & Wolverine) as writer, and it's time for Green Goblin to make his return. 

The stage was set for this some time ago, and while it sounds like there's more to Norman Osborn's return to evil than meets the eye, we're sure many of you will be hoping this has the makings of the next great Spider-Man vs. Green Goblin story. 

Talking of the Goblin, it was decades ago that he murdered Gwen Stacy; well, over in Spectacular Spider-Men (Peter Parker and Miles Morales' first ongoing team-up series), it looks like Gwen has somehow returned from the dead. 

The two wall-crawlers will be battling Jackal so we're guessing clones are involved; however, with it clear Marvel Comics has no plans to revisit Peter's romance with Mary Jane Watson, perhaps now is the right time to give Gwen a second chance at life?

That would undoubtedly divide opinion, but she is Spidey's first true love and that cover is bound to generate speculation in the build-up to the launch of the new series from the creator of the hit Spectacular Spider-Man animated series. 

Check out the full solicitation details for both issues below.

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #50
Written by ZEB WELLS with MARV WOLFMAN, NIKESH SHUKLA & more
Art by ED McGUINNESS with TERRY DODSON & more!
Cover by ED McGUINNESS

GUESS WHO’S BACK?!
• THE GREEN GOBLIN RETURNS in this landmark and massive issue of ASM that boasts not only a double-sized main story but some instant Spider-Man classics by legends and legends to be!
• The Sins of Norman Osborn have found their way home and Norman shows his true color – green. But is it truly that simple?
• Spidey and Gobby’s brutal fight is one for the ages and you don’t want to miss this ending.
• PLUS! MARV WOLFMAN RETURNS TO SPIDER-MAN! NIKESH SHUKLA tells a story that will stay with you for a long time. And more!

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THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MEN #3
Written by GREG WEISMAN
Art & Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS

• Love is in the air at the Empire State University Coffee Bean as Miles Morales and Kamala Khan get their first date alongside Peter Parker and – GWEN STACY?!
• You aren’t going to believe this issue of the best new book of 2024.

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Crtdacct2say
Crtdacct2say - 2/22/2024, 4:08 PM
Awful. Also Kamala should be with Bruno or no one
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 2/22/2024, 4:48 PM
@Crtdacct2say -
rebellion
rebellion - 2/22/2024, 4:13 PM
Can they bring THE marriage back instead of these 3 gimmicks that they have kept in rotation for the past several years?
supermanrex
supermanrex - 2/22/2024, 5:21 PM
@rebellion - the marriage is back and kids in ultimate spiderman by hickman. its good shit.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 2/22/2024, 5:28 PM
@supermanrex - Maybe, but it's not the developed Spidey gaining these things. It's a new Peter who already has those things and is now becoming Spider-Man.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 2/23/2024, 2:23 AM
@dagenspear - exactly
supermanrex
supermanrex - 2/23/2024, 9:33 AM
@dagenspear - well we cant get everything we want. sometimes you just enjoy the product you are giving as is or move on. comics are cyclical. at some point they will bring them back to together in 616. maybe sooner than later since this is going through the roof with sales in the ultimate universe. they already said that this universe will be used to try out shit and see how people react.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 2/23/2024, 2:35 PM
@supermanrex - Not getting everything we want is different than getting it and it being needlessly taken away because people in charge of it wanted Spidey to be hip and young and playin the field and wrote it that way for no actual character based or really story reason.

Or... people could still stay engaged and criticize the cheap and weak writing tactics involved in the product.
Forthas
Forthas - 2/22/2024, 4:17 PM
They absolutely should bring back Gwen Stacey. She is better for Peter than Mary Jane Watson.

The RT score for Dune 2 has actually gone up! Did not expect that!
GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/22/2024, 4:28 PM
Somehow, Gwen Stacy returned...again
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/23/2024, 4:55 AM
@GhostDog - Fool me once shame on you, fool me every 3 years or so since her death in the early '70s and... well I just ain't buying it.
marvel72
marvel72 - 2/22/2024, 4:53 PM
So same old shit.
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 2/22/2024, 9:34 PM
@marvel72 - I can't lie, I'm digging that Ed McGuinness cover.
marvel72
marvel72 - 2/23/2024, 9:28 AM
@KennKathleen - He seems a strange choice for Spider-Man,he did Hulk and Red Hulk and that fitted with his art style.
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 2/23/2024, 11:04 AM
@marvel72 - it was a stamp to the timeline. The above pic made me look for the details and posture of both characters. It's an interesting image. Made me think of the Humberto Ramirez Spider-Man days...
TheLight
TheLight - 2/22/2024, 4:55 PM
I can't even stomach the idea of Gwen Stacy anymore after...

Well you guys know what I mean.


Marvel can't get enough of tormenting Spider-Man.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 2/22/2024, 5:27 PM
@TheLight - No. I don't. What?
TheLight
TheLight - 2/22/2024, 6:23 PM
@dagenspear - Dude please don't make me say it. It basically ruined Gwen's reputation. But if you really want to know, just look up Sin Past.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 2/22/2024, 7:20 PM
@TheLight - Last I remember that's been retconned away to have been false memory implanted.
TheLight
TheLight - 2/22/2024, 8:30 PM
@dagenspear - Sadly not by me. That scar still lingers.
Nomis929
Nomis929 - 2/22/2024, 4:59 PM
"...but she is Spidey's first true love."

No, that would be Betty Brant.
Dotanuki
Dotanuki - 2/22/2024, 5:09 PM
It’s all a circle.
grif
grif - 2/22/2024, 5:18 PM
no air left in the tire


Order66
Order66 - 2/22/2024, 6:05 PM
Been saying for a long time the original Gwen Stacy should come back and stay alive. Time to update that storyline.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 2/22/2024, 6:14 PM
@Order66 - Nothing needing to update.
Amuro
Amuro - 2/22/2024, 7:18 PM
They won't bring back the marriage between Peter and MJ because now there is Ultimate Spider-man to cover that (long awaited) ground and it seems like that series is doing a fantastic job with it.

It's best to have the two universes focus on very different approachs to the concept of Spider-man.

Now, to be honest, I have stopped reading The Amazing Spider-man for years now (for very obvious reasons) and I'm not planning to take it back. I'll try my hand with the new Ultimate Spider-man as soon as it is published in my country, it's more or less the answer to many of the problems and criticisms that I had with Amazing for more than a decade now and I'm loving everything I've seen about it so far.
Batmangina
Batmangina - 2/22/2024, 9:15 PM
Is this the Gwen who hooked up with Norman Osborn? I hope so.

That was EPIC storytelling. 🤣

What a [frick]ing joke the entire comic genre is - movies/TV/comics - what the actual [frick] happened?

At least I have the Bronze Age to keep me warm.

When the only ones in comics with green hair were The Hulk and the Joker and not the GenderFluid Bullpen of 'Creatives'
dagenspear
dagenspear - 2/23/2024, 3:37 AM
@Batmangina - That's been retconned as implanted memories from what I heard, in recent years. That story also I don't think had anything to do with politics like that.

You seem like you want genderfluidness, considering you're bringing it up out of nowhere.
MarvelZombie616
MarvelZombie616 - 2/23/2024, 1:50 AM
A lot of Marvel comics have been crap for a while.
Amazing Spiderman especially has been unreadable for years.

The Green Goblin will always be his archenemy, but Norman has been interesting the last time during Dark Reign.

Gwen Stacy has returned a few times now, it isn't interesting anymore
Spider-Gwen is another story.

I thik 600 or 700 was my last issue.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 2/23/2024, 2:26 AM
Calling something that hasn't been received yet an instant classic...
BeyondTheGrave
BeyondTheGrave - 2/24/2024, 5:46 AM
This run has been...awful; they trash Spidey at every turn, do anything they can to make him unlikable and the only thing it hurts is the sales of the comics, not the love for Peter Parkers Spider-Man.

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