New Comics & Collected Editions: Marvel Comics – March 13 2024

It’s the 11th new comic book day of the new year! This post covers Marvel Comics March 13 2024 releases. Missed last week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Marvel Comics March 6 2024 new releases.

This week in Marvel Comics: Thor’s most-titanic stories yet, a collected hunk of multi-versal Deadpool, Black Widow & Hawkeye team up, Carnage crosses over with Venom, Ghost Rider’s Final Vengeance, and more!

This list includes every comic and digital comic out from Marvel this week, plus collected editions in omnibus, hardcover, paperback, and digest-sized formats. For each new release, I’ll point you to the right guide within my Crushing Comics Guide to Marvel Comics to find out how to collect each character in full – and, if a guide is linked from this post, that means it is updated through the present day!

Marvel Comics March 13 2024 Collected Editions

Deadpool-Verse: Deadpool Corps
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302958527 / digital)
See Guide to Deadpool. Don’t confuse this collection with the “Marvel-Verse” digest-size books collecting scattershot all-ages stories for their focus character like the Wonder Man volume below. This is actually a very chunky standard-size paperback collecting all of the Deadpool Corps material from the Prelude mini-series and the 12-issue main series.

This is one of the main “Deadpool in the multi-verse” sorts of stories, which tracks well with the themes of the Deadpool & Wolverine film from what we’ve seen in the marketing material.

Immortal Thor by Al Ewing Vol. 1: All Weather Turns To Storm
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302954185 / digital)
See Guide to Thor – Odinson. This run is a massive blockbuster that somehow manages to tell a Thor story even bigger than the two runs that came before. However, if you like Thor throwing his hammer at a clearly-defined villain, this one’s not for you. It’s about the concept of Thor, of godhood, and of stories. Also, it looks absolutely gorgeous. More on this run below in the single issue section!

Marvel-Verse: Wonder Man
(2024 digest-size paperback, ISBN 978-1302954543 / digital)
Hmm, I don’t have a guide to Wonder Man, but with Marvel pumping out collections in anticipation of his debut in the MCU maybe I need to move him up the priority list! This digest-size intro to the character collects Avengers (1963) #9, Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #78, Wonder Man (1986) #1, and Avengers (1998) #14.

Moon Knight Vol. 5: The Last Days of Moon Knight
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302950910 / digital)
See Guide to Moon Knight. Jed MacKay brings his 30-issue Moon Knight series to a spectacular conclusion. Normally I’d say, “don’t start with the final volume!” However, this opens with a truly outstanding issue in the giant-sized #25, and I think you could read this brisk conclusion in order to catch up to the new Vengeance of Moon Knight (2023) title and be left hungry to catch up on the four volumes that came before.

Spider-Man: The Clone Saga Omnibus Vol. 2
(2024 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302955847 / digital)
See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (1963 – 2018). If you’ve been waiting for a complete bookshelf of Clone Saga & Ben Reilly material, now is your chance! Ben Reilly Omnibus Vol. 1 got a reprint last year, and both Clone Sage omnibuses and Reilly Vol. 2 are being reprinted in 2024.

X-Factor by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 3
(2024 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302953300 / digital)
See Guide to X-Factor. Despite being named “Volume 3” this book is actually the second volume covering PAD’s 2005 X-Factor Investigations run, since Volume 1 was actually his brief run on X-Factor from 1991 (which has little to do with this run other than sharing some cast members).

I think this book and the first volume are extremely-fun, extremely-bingeable comic books… but, I’ve never been inspired to go back to re-read them in the past decade. Make of that what you wil.

X-Men: Red by Al Ewing Vol. 4
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302953430 / digital)
See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. While most of the X-titles dealt with the terrestrial fallout of the 2023 Hellfire Gala, this book dealt with an un-civil war on Mars headlined by Storm! I found the bulk of this final arc from Al Ewing to be a bit of a letdown, with just so much epic warfare to cover and so few pages to cover it with. However, the final issue was amazing and in the end I think Ewing achieved all he set out to do with Ororo and Arakko.

Read on for a summary of all of the Marvel Comics March 13 2024 single issue and digital releases!

Marvel Comics March 13 2024 Physical Comic Releases

Alien: Black, White & Blood (2024) #2 – See Guide to Aliens comics for this black-white-and-red anthology title.

The Amazing Spider-Man (2022) #45 – See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). Gang War concluded with last issue, and the letters page teased that we’re now heading into “Phase 3” of Zeb Wells’ run on the title. That’s not too far off the pace and length of Nick Spencer’s preceding run. I think Wells’ has accomplished a lot less than Spencer in a similar amount of issues, but I think his Spidey is much better.

I admire Marvel for giving him time to wrap up his plans despite a pretty loud negative sentiment in fandom about this book. I was in its corner to start, but I’m starting to wonder if anyone is capable of writing a good Spidey flagship in the wake of Dan Slott’s definitive never-ending run.

Avengers: Twilight (2023) #4 – See Guide to Avengers Flagship Titles (2010 – Present) for this Chip Zdarsky alternate future series.

Black Widow & Hawkeye (2024) #1 – See Guide to Black Widow or Guide to Hawkeye. Neither Natasha nor Clint have gotten much solo focus recently, so I’m interested to see what Stephanie Phillips can do with them. Phillips has been hard at work on tons of mini-series for Marvel, but she hasn’t had the kind of breakout moments she has shown on her indie work and at DC. I think she’s a terrifically intelligent writer, so I’m willing to stick with her as she makes her way through the Marvel Universe.

Blood Hunt Diaries (2024) #0 – This will live on the Guide to Marvel Universe Events once Marvel announces some more Blood Hunt titles and the structure of this vampire-focused event becomes clearer.

Carnage (2023) #5 – CK Spoilers: Carnage will be the next Marvel guide to launch to all Patrons of CK later this month, so now is the time to join as a supporter for as low as $1USD a month! I had trouble clicking with the first few issues of this grim Torunn Grønbekk title, but everything really snapped into place for me with issue #4! Now, what Carnage as a dark god wants is more clear to me, and his conflict with Flash Thompson as Anti-Venom feels more specific. Also, it doesn’t hurt that I’m a huge fan of Thompson as Venom. Now we’re heading into a crossover with Ewing & Grønbekk’s beleaguered Venom title – and hopefully it gives both books some clarity of purpose rather than dragging them down.

Dead X-Men (2024) #3 – See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. I had high hopes for this Steve Foxe series, but despite a very cool concept it is turning out to be a hot mess. Even if you’re completely addicted to the idea of the many fractal version of Moira’s future created by Sinister’s Moira engines, now you have to get interested in fractal version of her past and how disturbing that past could disturb the present to change Evil Moira. Too much of this book is focused on explaining a badly tangled plot, to the point that it hardly matters who the characters are. (For instance, Dazzler has already accomplished a mission a lot like this in Greg Pak’s X-Treme X-Men (2012), but there’s no reference to that, and in a loud fight we see her kicking an enemy rather than using her powers. Hot. Mess.)

Fall of the House of X (2024) #3 – See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. I found Fall of the House of X (2024) #2 to be an all-around clumsy issue from Gerry Duggan and Lucas Werneck. Duggan had every character voice wrong and Werneck’s artwork was unusually rough and fuzzy – and I don’t just mean how he draws Wolverine and Nightcrawler! It’s fascinating to see this “big hero X-Men” mini-series flopping (for me, at least) while Gillen captures perfect Hickman vibes on the sibling series Rise of the Powers of X. It makes me really worry for the sort of basic spandex-clad take on X-Men might arrive with the upcoming relaunch.

Ghost Rider: Final Vengeance (2024) #1 – See Guide to Ghost Rider. Despite the word “final” in the title, this is actually a new series continuing Ed Brisson’s run on the character, but with a new rider inhabited by the Spirit of Vengeance. I’m actually a secret Ghost Rider fan, so I’ll have to catch up on his past two year’s of comics by issue #2 next month!

The Immortal Thor (2023) #8 – See Guide to Thor – Odinson. I am completley agog at what Al Ewing, Martín Cóccolo, and Matthew Wilson are doing on this book. Issue #7 may have been the most gorgeous Thor comic book of all time, which is saying a lot considering we’ve had both Russell Dauterman and Esad Ribic on the character in the past decade. Al Ewing is really playing with the idea of “stories within stories” in a way similar to how both he and Kieron Gillen did on Loki, and it’s interesting to see that same theme play out for Thor – who is less comfortable in the world of fiction and lies than his brother.

Power Pack: Into the Storm (2024) #3 – See Guide to Power Pack. I find this Louise Simonson & June Brigman reunion retcon series to be an utterly delightful comfort read. Gorgeous colors by Nolan Woodard don’t hurt, either!

I don’t know if this will resonate for you if you don’t have at least a little bit of nostalgia for the early run of Power Pack. Last issue Storm made an appearance at the X-Mansion and in a mohawk and with powers, which ties this to a pretty specific slice of X-Men continuity.

Spider-Gwen: Smash (2023) #4 – See Guide to Spider-Gwen – Ghost Spider. I just caught up with the past two years of Gwen titles. This mini-series focusing on Gwen and Earth-65 Dazzler is a major course correction after a pair of messy mini-series obsessed with making countless copies and clowns of Gwen. Unfortunately, the art and colors are just not ready for prime time, and it drags down an otherwise clever little book that actually acknowledges Gwen’s continuity.

Also, I’ll mention once again how messy it is that Marvel released Giant-Size Spider-Gwen (2024) issue last week – which fully spoils the end of this series – instead of just holding it for two weeks to act as an epilogue.

Star Wars: Darth Vader (2020) #44 – See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe Comics. I’m finally caught up on this title! Vader is the solo supervillain (or, sometimes, superhero) of the Star Wars universe and his book is as susceptible to the same distractions as any other Marvel superhero book. The prior Dark Droids arc tried to focus on the internecine conflict between Vader and the Emperor, but it mostly was several issues of droid fight scenes.

Now we’ve emerged on the other side with a more complex plot of insurrection from within the Empire, but I think you had to have read this title up to issue #30 to fully appreciate it. Of course, we know there’s only so much Greg Pak can do to cast Vader as a rebel leading up to Return of the Jedi. That’s why I tend to enjoy the arcs focused on Vader’s contention with his past more than I do his machinations in the present.

Star Wars: Mace Windu (2024) #2 – See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe Comics. This series gives Mace Windu a solo mission prior to Clone Wars. I didn’t think issue #1 got particularly deep into his character or psychology, but it had some fun action for him if you like Georges Jeanty’s artwork.

Symbiote Spider-Man 2099 (2024) #1 – See Guide to Spider-Man 2099. Peter David is back to Spider-Man 2099 with this intersection between his ongoing Symbiote Spider-Man retcon series with the present-day (well… future present day) version of Miguel O’Hara.

Ultimate Black Panther (2024) #2 – See Guide to Ultimate Marvel. The first issue of this Bryan Edward Hill & Stefano Casselli series had a real failure-to-launch. It looked great, but all it did was show us recognizable Black Panther cast members with tiny alterations. There was no feeling of a huge, sweeping change to how we look at the character as we’re getting from Hickman’s Ultimate Spider-Man (and his versions of Iron Man and Thor in Ultimate Universe). I used to be a major B.E.H. enthusiast, but after five years of weak comics I’m just not sure he can turn this into a compelling title.

What If…?: Venom (2024) #2 – See Guide to Venom. We see Logan get the symbiote suit this second one-shot imagining different heroes with the power of Venom.

Wolverine (2020) #45 – See Guide to Wolverine. The “Sabretooth War” arc continues, which could have easily been an arc of X-Force. I just can’t get into this “slaughter everyone” style of storytelling when we’re about to lose the magic reset button that is Krakoa.

Marvel Comics March 13 2024 Digital-First Comic Releases

This is a list of projected Marvel Comics March 13 2024 Digital-First releases based on the recent digital release schedule. Actual releases are not confirmed until they show up on the Marvel Unlimited app.

These releases have not been quick to be released in print, though we’ve now see print versions of a few of these series trickle out a year or more after they were released.

• Avengers United Infinity Comic (2023) #23 – See Guide to Avengers (2010-Present). This is part of one mega initial arc (which isn’t quite so mega when you realize each of these digital issues is only a quarter of a print issue)
• It’s Jeff! Infinity Comic (2021) #34
• Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic (2022) #94
• Spider-Man Unlimited Infinity Comic (2023) #28 – Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018-Present)
• X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic (2021) #130– See Guide to X-Men, The Age of Krakoa