Summary

• Spider-Gwen is set to have a big year in 2024 with her own Giant-Size issue and a new limited series, making it the perfect time to dive into her comics.
• Giant-Size Spider-Gwen #1, part of Marvel's celebration of the 50th anniversary of Giant-Size comics, will feature Gwen Stacy battling a new Doctor Octopus to save her best friend, MJ Watson.
• The limited series Spider-Gwen: Smash, launching in December, follows Gwen and her band as they face a mysterious assassin and team up with Dazzler to battle Earth-65's Hulk.

Marvel is preparing for Spider-Gwen’s biggest year ever in 2024 with the launch of her own Giant-Size issue where she fights a new Doctor Octopus, as well as an all-new limited series. With Gwen Stacy’s character more popular than ever, there’s never been a better time to check out her comics.

Giant-Size Spider-Gwen #1 and details on the Spider-Gwen: Smash limited series were announced during the Marvel: Amazing Spider-Man Gang War at LA Comic Con 2023. As detailed on Marvel's website, Giant-Size Spider-Gwen is a part of Marvel’s “50th anniversary celebration of the epic Giant-Size storytelling of 1970s,” which included monumental Marvel stories such as 1975’s Giant Size X-Men #1.

The writer of the Spider-Gwen comics, Melissa Flores, was interviewed by Marvel Comics Director of Talent Relations Rickey Purdin at the convention about the details of Gwen Stacy’s newest adventures. Flores stated in the interview, “Being given the opportunity to continue to develop those relationships in this one-shot was an unexpected jolt of euphoria that I never saw coming.”

Gwen Stacy Goes One-on-One With A New Doc Ock

On March 6, 2024, Giant-Size Spider-Gwen by Melissa Flores and Alba Glez will continue this incredible trend of Spider-Gwen stories. The issue sees Gwen Stacy locked in a battle to save her best friend, MJ Watson of Earth-65, who is being hunted down by a new Doc Ock. Gwen is certainly no stranger to fighting variants of Doc Ock. This new variant, Orlando Octavius, is the adopted son of Otto Octavius who s a group of villains to capture MJ and study the Carnage symbiote still lurking within her. This 2024 special edition with cover art by Bryan Hitch also reprints 2016’s Spider-Gwen #13 by Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez.

The Giant-Size adventure follows the release of the three-issue limited series, Spider-Gwen: Smash by Melissa Flores and artist Enid Balam, previously titled Spider-Gwen On Tour. In this series, which launches in December, Gwen and her band the Mary Janes are living their best lives as a band until a mysterious assassin threatens to ruin their tour. The series will see Gwen team up with the superstar Dazzler and battle Earth-65’s Hulk, which lines up perfectly with the "Smash" subtitle. With Melissa Flores given full writing duties on Gwen Stacy, she now has a chance to update her character with this Giant-Size comic to fit her own limited series continuity.

Spider-Gwen Gets the Giant-Size Adventure She Deserves

Gwen Stacy has had an excellent 2023 full of comic announcements and a prominent role in the film Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse. This once shy and reserved Earth-65 Spider-Woman has come a long way from her debut in 2014’s Edge of Spiderverse. From facing Earth-65 Peter Parker aka the Lizard, to ing the Spider-Army and fighting her own Gwen variants, Spider-Gwen is more than ready to continue her growth with her series and her Giant-Sized adventures.

Spider-Gwen: SMASH #1 goes on sale Dec. 13, 2023 and Giant Size Spider-Gwen #1 will be released on March 6, 2024 from Marvel Comics!

Source: Marvel