It’s the 9th new comic book day of the new year! This post covers Marvel Comics February 28 2024 releases. Missed last week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Marvel Comics February 21 2024 new releases.
This week in Marvel Comics: Gang War ends, Tony Stark’s X-era, nostalgic Power Pack perfection, the conclusion of unexpectedly great turns on Punisher & White Widow, 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 February 28 2024 Collected Editions
The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 8: Spider-Man’s First Hunt
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302953447 / digital)
See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). This collects the arc that directly precedes Gang War and vaguely follows up on Dark Web with a focus on new comedy character Rep-Rap. It was fine, but ever since the initial meta-arc of this book wrapped up in issue #25 it has felt a bit directionless. I wouldn’t call this a jumping-on point.
Daredevil Modern Era Epic Collection: Underboss
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302956332 / digital)
See Guide to Daredevil. This recollects Brian Bendis’s run from the start. However, it is not the same mapping as Daredevil by Bendis & Maleev Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1 because it collects the typically skipped arc from #20-25! This is the first time that arc has ever been collected in sequential order along with the issues that surround it.
The Invincible Iron Man Vol. 2: The Wedding of Tony Stark and Emma Frost
(2023 paperback, ISBN 978-1302947590 / digital)
See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark. If you haven’t been reading Iron Man I imagine that title might warrant an eye-roll or the assumption that this is a big sales gimmick forcing a romance between Tony and Emma. In reality, this is a surprisingly organic outgrowth of the continuing plot of Fall of X extending out of the 2023 Hellfire Gala.
In this collection, Iron Man is 100% an X-book, and here’s a secret: Gerry Duggan is way better with a solo title with one or two characters than a big team book, so importing Emma here means he has room to really have fun with both her and Tony. Issues #9-10 are perfection, especially if you’ve also been reading Duggan’s X-Men (2021).
Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Two-In-One Vol. 7
(2024 hardcover, ISBN 978-1302955090 / digital)
See Guide to Fantastic Four. This volume collects through issue #82, bringing us tantalizingly close to the end of this series with issue #100. That’s 17 issues, which would be big for a Masterworks… but issue #99 stars ROM, so it cannot be reprinted! Will Marvel simply wrap this supporting line up with a hefty Volume 8? Place your bets now and we’ll find out in two years, since this line tends to be an every-other-year release.
Marvel-Verse: Mary Jane
(2024 digest-size paperback, ISBN 978-1302954659 / digital)
This digest-sized volume collects a number of random Mary Jane stories. I guess if your young reader is dying to know who Mary Jane is it could be a decent primer, but so is literally any Spidey story before “One More Day.”
Miles Morales: Spider-Man Vol. 2: Bad Blood
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302948535 / digital)
See Guide to Spider-Man – Miles Morales. This book started so strong for me, and I loved Cody Ziglar’s voice for Miles. Unfortunately, it’s been on a downward trend for me after the beginning of this book. Federico Vicentini joins the art team fresh from Moon Knight, but his angular characters and busy layouts don’t work as well in daytime scenes where the lead isn’t in bright white to contrast with the backgrounds. Also, an arc with Blade and his daughter was a slog. I’m really hoping Ziglar can strike out on his own with something interesting after the subsequent Gang War arc that follows this book so we can get back to how strong it was to begin with.
Moon Knight: City of the Dead
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302952365 / digital)
See Guide to Moon Knight. I recommend skipping this comic, an inessential side-bar mini-series whose concept of a trip to the realm of the dead far outstays its welcome just to introduce the Scarlet Scarab in a belated tie-in to the MCU D+ series..
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Rise of the Sith Vol. 1
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302957803 / digital)
See Guide to Star Wars Legends (Old Expanded Universe). In 2024 Marvel is reprinting many Star Wars Epic Collections for the first time since their original publication back in 2015! This book of the old (i.e., no longer canon) expanded universe continuity collects stories that occurred in the years immediately prior to The Phantom Menace.
Ultimate Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man Omnibus
(2024 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302957551 / digital)
See Guide to Ultimate Marvel. A long-awaited reprint of this key omnibus, though the thinking is this event book may not line up perfectly with omnibuses in the Ultimate Spider-Man line now that it is pressing forward.
Ultimate X-Men Omnibus Vol. 2
(2024 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302950118 / digital)
See Guide to Ultimate Marvel. This collects the second third of this 100 issue series, as well as the pair of Fantastic Four team-up one-shots.
Read on for a summary of all of the Marvel Comics February 28 2024 single issue and digital releases!
Marvel Comics February 28 2024 Physical Comic Releases
The Amazing Spider-Man (2022) #44 – See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). This is the final issue of the Gang War arc. I just caught up on it today, and it has been an interesting journey. At no point in any of the Gang War tie-ins do you get a good idea of which group has the upper hand, despite a map appearing on the recap page of each issue. In Amazing Spider-Man, it has mostly focused on a trio of main factions that tie in closely with the ongoing plot – those of The Rose, The Beetle, and one other player I won’t spoil.
However, the result of that is these issues have included relatively little of Spider-Man as they jump around between our various gangs – and, its not like Peter is appearing anywhere else right now! It’s well-executed and I’m invested in the ongoing Beetle/Tombstone drama, but I’m read to get back to some Spidey-focused action.
Avengers: Twilight (2024) #3 – See Guide to Avengers Flagship Titles (2010 – Present) for this Chip Zdarsky non-continuity series.
Cable (2024) #2 – See Guide to Cable. Fabian Nicieza’s first issue did a lot of heavy lifting – tying in to the Fall of X, digging up some great nuggets of Cable continuity from the 90s, bringing back Teen Cable (who I portmanteau as Table), and introducing a new future threat happening in the present day.
I appreciate Nicieza packing that much story into 30 pages, but it also made it hard to get a feel for the actual tone of this story. I’m very interested to see if things solidify in issue #2, or if it makes just as many narrative leaps as the first one.
Carnage (2023) #4 – Sorry, still no Carnage guide – it’s been a wild month here in NZ… but, it should be one of the next 2-3 Marvel guides I debut to Patrons of CK. I remain mixed on this morbid Torunn Grønbekk run, which is bringing the Carnage symbiote back together with Cletus Cassidy – by way of lots of murder!
Dead X-Men (2024) #2 – See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. Steve Foxe is cooking up something truly wild in this Fall of X finale series. It really acts as a bridge between the Fall of the House of X and the Rise of the Powers of X, using the team of recently-deceased X-Men on a mission that is at once rooted in the present day and unmoored in time. I love the concept and cast of this series and there are plenty of nods to continuity (both old and recent). I had so much fun with issue #1, and this is in my top three pulls of the week.
Giant-Size Fantastic Four (2024) #1 – See Guide to Fantastic Four. There’s no telling what this Namor-focused issue will hold in store, since it’s not by current writer Ryan North but instead by Fabian Nicieza, who has never had a run on Fantastic Four.
The Immortal Thor (2023) #7 – See Guide to Thor – Odinson. I am absolutely gobsmacked by this Al Ewing, Nic Klein, & Matthew Wilson Thor series, which is saying a lot since I’ve loved nearly every Thor comic from 2013 to present. Ewing is brewing something huge here. It’s “immortal” in a totally different way than his Immortal Hulk (2018).
Hulk is an undying monster who feeds on rage and the fear beneath it. Thor is a god who is startlingly mortal but who will live forever in myth. Ewing has set up both main story and a meta-story about that myth, and it’s the meta that will be the focus of this issue as it continues the story of an adventure of a younger Thor & Loki that may or may not have happened in the manner it is being told.
The Invincible Iron Man (2022) #15 – See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark. You’ve already heard me rhapsodize about this one, above. I don’t just love it because it’s an X-Men book. I love it because Tony Stark caring about mutants and their fate gives him an external motivation that he almost always lacks because he is such a self-involved, self-driven character.
I have a feeling Iron Man purists might be rejecting this run, but as someone who has read a lot of Iron Man I think this concept allows us to get closer to the center of Tony Stark than a lot of other recent works have.
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #17 – See Guide to Spider-Man – Miles Morales. Similarly, you’ve already heard me give this book some tough love, above. I’m really hoping Ziglar can snap this back to being fun and relevant for Miles now that we’re done with Gang War.
Regardless, I can’t say that I love how far Ziglar is bending Miles’s powerset here – giving him an electric sword and a new kind of focused Spider-Sense. I can never tell with Miles if changes to his character are a natural evolution, or a subtle “fuck you” to Sony to challenge them to adapt his current stories.
Power Pack: Into the Storm (2024) #2 – See Guide to Power Pack. I need to eat some crow on this one. When I wrote about the impending issue #1, I asked if we really needed new Louise Simonson & June Brigman Power Pack stories in 2024. Well, it turns out we do. The first issue was effortlessly charming, absolutely beautiful, and a perfect fit with the classic Simonson run on the Powers family.
I’m still not exactly sure who Marvel thinks is the audience for retcon Power Pack comics in 2024 beyond me, but I’m happy to be in that target group.
Punisher (2023) #4 – See Guide to Punisher. This comic proves my rule that I truly do give every book it’s own chance, because my interest in a new Punisher is zero and it’s written by my least-favorite writer at Marvel. Yet, this is a sharp, well-rounded series following a former SHIELD agent’s descent into a life of revenge where each issue stands well on its own.
It helps that Dave Wachter is one of the best artists at Marvel right now, able to handle superhero action equally as well as bullet-filled fights. This is the final solicited issue of this series, but if I’m being honest it’s good enough to deserve an extension to being an ongoing.
Resurrection of Magneto (2024) #2 – See Guide to Magneto. Al Ewing is giving us a bit of a bait-and-switch here. This series does focus on the idea of bringing Magneto back, but the mind-blowing issue #1 was all about Ororo Munroe. It was also a major level-up for Luciano Vecchio on artwork. I’ve always enjoyed Vecchio, but he usually draws very rounded, bubbly figures – like a more-cartoonish Art Adams. Here his art has an angular, kinetic quality I’ve never seen from him before. I love it!
Spider-Punk: Arms Race (2024) #1 – See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). Cody Ziglar & Justin Mason reunite for another Hobie Brown alternate-reality series.
Star Wars: Thrawn – Alliances (2024) #2 – See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe Comics. Jody House’s adaptation of the novel of the same name continues.
What If…?: Venom (2024) #1 – See Guide to Venom. Indie writer Jeremy Holt explores the alternate realities of other heroes winding up with the symbiote suit, starting with Doctor Strange.
White Widow (2023) #4 – See Guide to Black Widow. I freaking love this comic book!!! Author Sarah Gailey absolutely gets how to give a character a unique voice – she writes Yelena unlike we’ve heard her before, but in a way that makes her distinct (and that isn’t just a copy of her MCU voice). It is the absolutely hilarious story of Yelena trying to settle down to a less murderous life in a small town, but murder just won’t leave her be.
I would pre-order a full 50 issues of it right now. PLEASE, Marvel, let’s have some more comics by Sarah Gailey!!!
Wolverine (2020) #44 – See Guide to Wolverine – Logan. The brutal Sabretooth War continues to gut all of our favorite supporting characters. Nice if you’re into that sort of thing, or were dying for a follow-up to Victor LaValle’s pair of Sabretooth series with Leonard Kirk.
Women of Marvel (2024) #1 – Main-billed author Gail Simone writes stories of Marvel’s most beloved women alongside Celeste Bronfman. Erica Schultz, and Sarah Rees Brennan. The Simone A-Story will focus on Invisible Woman.
Marvel Comics February 28 2024 Digital-First Comic Releases
This is a list of projected Marvel Comics February 28 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) #21 – 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) #32
- Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic (2022) #92 – Starring Clea
- Spider-Man Unlimited Infinity Comic (2023) #26 – Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018-Present)
- X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic (2021) #128 – See Guide to X-Men, The Age of Krakoa
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