Marvel have been quietly setting the comic book world into a frenzy with a multitude of single page front cover releases bringing back popular and well known Marvel comic book story-arcs of the past and adding a slightly new twist to them with no more information other than the fact that we can expect them in the Summer of 2015. They’ve been releasing one a day and whilst a lot of them are to do with the Hulk (meh) some of them involve everybody’s favourite neighborhood Spider-Man. So let’s take a look at them!

The first one was announced at this year’s New York Comic-Con and it seems to be the straw that broke the camel’s back and launched this deluge of Marvel teases. So without further ado, let’s take a look at

Secret Wars

Now, the first Secret Wars was a battle between villains and heroes in order to win their hearts desires thanks to the Beyonder. This was a significant storyline for Spider-Man because it’s during this arc that he finds and wears the black suit for the first time, completely unaware that it is in fact the symbiote Venom. However this new image teaser for Marvel’s upcoming return to Secret Wars seems to be pitting different version of our heroes against each other. Rather interestingly the only Spider-Man featured is Miles Morales’ Ultimate Spider-Man!

Could Miles Morales find his own Ultimate version of an alien symbiote whilst taking part in his own Secret Wars? Will the other Spider-Men and Spider-Women that survive the Spider-Verse be involved? No-one knows.

Jonathan Hickman will be writing Secret Wars and it will be illustrated by Esad Ribic. However this isn’t a one-off book, or a miniseries as they’ve confirmed that this storyline will run for a full year! This is partly why everyone is assuming that Secret Wars will be responsible for all of the other teasers you will see in this article. According to Comic Book Resources this storyline will also spill into agreements Marvel has with it’s merchandising partners as well!

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Next we have the big one that seems to be in the crux of all new Marvel and Spider-Man talk at the moment. You can’t go anywhere on the internet without seeing speculation about this storyline. I’m, of course, talking about the Civil War storyline that rocked the superhero world and pitted two opposing forces of heroes against each other.

It’s in the news at the moment because it’s looking like Captain America 3 will bring us the Civil War storyline to the big screen. No one really knows if Spider-Man will be a part of the cinematic Civil War for obvious reasons, Or if he will even work in a Civil War movie. But there’s absolutely no question about whether or not he will feature when Marvel bring back Civil War in their latest Summer 2015 event teaser.

Civil War

Now as you can see, our heroes are wearing the classic costumes that they were wearing during the original Civil War saga, with Spider-Man wearing the Iron Spider suit that Tony Stark gave him for revealing his true identity and joining the pro-registration side.

Those of you familiar with the original story will know that Spider-Man was pretty much a wildcard in the Civil War and joined Stark’s side only to later change sides and fight alongside Captain America. This new teaser image looks like the two opposing leaders are taking the fight for Spider-Man’s allegiances a little too seriously.

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Moving swiftly on we come to the next Marvel Summer 2015 event that will feature Spider-Man! and this one is a clear indicator that Marvel have some crazy plans for the Summer of 2015. They’re not just content bringing old stories back, but they’re happy to change them, mix them up and give us crazy new stories. I don’t think we’ll ever get a better example than this next teaser

Age of Ultron Vs Marvel Zombies

The Marvel Zombies storyline was a limited series set on an alternate dimension that explored what would happen if several of Marvel’s superheroes became Zombies, of which Spider-Man was one of them. Spider-Man and some other heroic zombies consume the Silver Surfer and eventually Galactus becoming the collective Galacti and subsequently travelling to other worlds to feed their hunger.

Age of Ultron is a slightly similar storyline with robotic entity Ultron and his sentinels having taken over the earth, leaving a few superheros left alive to fight the resistance, of which Spider-Man is one of them, thanks to being rescued by Hawkeye. Although that’s pretty much all he does in Ultron.

So, it looks like Marvel are getting two of their post-apocalytpic story-lines and smashing them together. I can only imagine that it ends up as Zombies Vs Robots with everybody’s favourite neighbourhood Spider-man and the other Marvel heroes caught in between!

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We move on to a storyline that involves both Spider-Man and the X-Men! Although we’ve recently seen Dan Slott cruelly kill off this universe’s alternate Spider-Man in brutal off-panel fashion. Those of you that are up to date with the Edge of Spider-Verse saga will know that there are a few Spider-Men to choose from but that it could only really be one!

House of M

House of M is a storyline that focuses on the reality warping powers of the Scarlet Witch who we’ll be seeing in the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron film. A group of heroes decide to kill Wanda Maximoff as her shattered psyche and reality warping powers are too dangerous. As a result Scarlet Witch creates a pocket reality with everyone getting their deepest wish granted, Magneto rules the House of M with mutants cruelly controlling humans, and Spider-Man is a celebrity married to Gwen Stacy.

Wolverine gradually begins convincing the heroes, including Spider-Man that their reality has been warped and they eventually lead the fight to Magneto who clearly manipulated his daughter into creating this world. The resulting fight causes Scarlet Witch to utter ‘No more mutants’. We’re then given a world where the majority of the mutant population have lost their powers

The House of M Spider-Man is a conflicted one. He pretty much goes insane after having nightmares of events that actually happened in the original universe (like the deaths of Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy) and consequently invents a Green Goblin persona in order to force his non-mutant origins to come out, as he is believed a mutant in the House of M world.

However this new teaser suggests a happier House of M than the one we’ve seen in the past. For a start Magneto and Wolverine are clearly on the same page with Magneto leading the heroes. This couldn’t be further from what actually happened in the storyline. So what we’ll be seeing in Summer 2015 remains a mystery!

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This next one is mind-blowing for several reasons. Back in Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man #3 Brian Michael Bendis teased the end of the Ultimate Universe when he had a crazy criminal dressed as Captain Marvel scream “They are converging, the earths are converging, only one will remain!”. This seemed to tie into the legitimately announced ‘Time Runs Out’ event that’s due in 2015 which saw two planets seemingly heading on a collision course. But no-one honestly thought Marvel would be ending the Ultimate universe right?

Ultimate Universe: The End

Well you can’t get any closer to saying “We’re ending the Ultimate universe” than an Ultimate universe comic entitled ‘The End’ that shows all of our Ultimate Universe characters staring at what appears to be an eclipse. Just like the very clear planetary collision that was teased when the ‘Time Runs Out’ event was announced.

So, it genuinely looks like the 616 universe and the Ultimate universe are going to come together with only one of them remaining at ‘The End’. Where this leaves Miles Morales or Ultimate Jessica Drew is anyone’s guess but if the Ultimate universe is ending you have to accept that their chances of survival aren’t going to be great.

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The next one is pretty much just for Spider-Fans as it brings back one of the biggest events in Peter Parker’s history, his wedding to Mary Jane Watson. Of course it was then infamously erased when Peter did a deal with the Devil but it still happened at some point! Now Marvel seem intent on basically trolling Spider-Man fans by bringing the wedding back.

The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows

I guess we’re going to see what happens if Peter and MJ’s wedding doesn’t get removed from all continuity thanks to a deal with the devil and more importantly we’re going to see what happens when their child isn’t still-born and then abducted by Norman Osborn to never be seen again. Are we finally going to see a version of Peter Parker that’s actually happy and content??

I know that there will be a lot of people out there that will be beyond happy that the events of One More Day are getting undone, to undo the undoing of Spider-Man’s marriage. But what does this actually mean for Spider-Man? Is his Aunt May actually going to die again? Does he marry MJ independently of any deal with the devil. Does his daughter grow up to be a 616 universe version of Mayday Parker?

Why have you done this to me Marvel?

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The final teaser that involves Spider-Man isn’t the Hulk Vs Maestro teaser that was released a couple of days ago, even though it features Spider-Man’s mask on the front cover it doesn’t really have a lot to do with Spidey, and he’s not massively involved in the storyline. No, the final teaser is a redo of a very popular and pretty big Marvel storyline.

Avengers Vs X-Men

As you can see the front cover has the iconic Avengers Vs X-Men banner but instead of the serious nature of the original artist Skottie Young has added a comedic flair with his typical cartoon-ised ‘baby’ versions of the comic book characters.

The original Avengers Vs X-Men happened because of the Phoenix Force and Hope Summers. The Avengers wanted to put Hope Summers in protective custody but Cyclops wouldn’t allow it leading to a full on battle between the two super-powered parties. Spider-Man pops up frequently stopping Cable in a prelude and getting bested by Hope during the fight. He also baits Magik and Colossus into taking eachother out when they become members of the Phoenix 5.

The most interesting thing about this teaser image though is the presence of Inhumans Medusa and Blackbolt. They weren’t around in the original story and the fact they’re on this cover will do nothing to halt the growing rumours that Marvel are trying to replace the X-Men with the Inhumans because of the fact that Fox own the X-Men’s movie rights.

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