Top 10 Marvel Comics January 2022 Solicitations Spoilers With Avengers, X-Men, Ben Reilly: Spider-Man and More, But No S.W.O.R.D.?!
S.W.O.R.D. is MIA with its last issue solicited for December 2021, but other January 2022 picks are below from the full Marvel solicitations.
AVENGERS #52
JASON AARON (W) • JUAN FRIGERI (A) • Cover by JAVIER GARRÓN
VARIANT COVER BY LOGAN LUBERA
THE ALL-NEW MASTERS OF EVIL ARE HERE!
The Death Hunt continues as super-psychopaths the Black Skull and Ghost Goblin invade New York City to slaughter Deathloks and anyone who gets in their way, including Captain America and Captain Marvel. But the bad guys didn’t plan on having to face the world’s most dangerous young Avenger. Believe us — no one’s ever seen anything like the Starbrand unleashed!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
AVENGERS FOREVER #2
JASON AARON (W) • AARON KUDER (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY RUSSELL DAUTERMANVENGEANCE IN THE WASTELAND!
On an alternate Earth ravaged by the multiversal Masters of Evil, Ghost Rider Robbie Reyes has been taken prisoner by the planet’s dark wastelords, the brutal War Machines. And what the Rider endures at their hands will change him forever — into the most unbridled force for vengeance any universe has ever seen. That’s unless Ant-Man, Tony Stark and his bunch of ragtag heroes can pull off the mother of all rescues.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
BEN REILLY: SPIDER-MAN #1 (OF 5)
J.M. DEMATTEIS (W) • DAVID BALDEÓN (A) • Cover by STEVE SKROCE
Variant Cover by DAN JURGENS
Variant Cover by ALEX MALEEV
Design Variant Cover by DAN JURGENS
Design Sketch Variant Cover by DAN JURGENS
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT!
Iconic Spider-Man scribe J.M. DeMatteis (KRAVEN’S LAST HUNT, SPIDER-MAN: THE LOST YEARS) returns to spin his webs once more within the Spidey mythos, this time joined by explosive artist David Baldeón (WEB WARRIORS, DOMINO)! Together, they’re bringing you unlocked memories in the life of BEN REILLY, A.K.A. SPIDER-MAN!
Darkness looms over New York City as murders begin to pile up…but how are they all connected?
Do the answers Ben is looking for reside in the haunted halls of the RAVENCROFT INSTITUTE?
Find out as we return to the era when Ben Reilly was the one, true SPIDER-MAN!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
DEFENDERS #5 (OF 5)
AL EWING (W) • JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ (A/C)
Variant Cover by MIKE ALLRED
Doctor Strange’s ragtag Defenders face their final trial in the Third Cosmos, where the concepts of good and evil are locked in primal, eternal conflict. When the Masked Raider’s identity is finally revealed, will the truth be their salvation…or their undoing?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
DEVIL’S REIGN: WINTER SOLDIER #1
COLLIN KELLY & JACKSON LANZING (W)
NICO LEON (A)
Cover by FELIPE MASSAFERA
Variant Cover by TAKASHI OKAZAKIA power-mad Mayor Fisk has been gathering information on super heroes. How far will Bucky Barnes go to steal the file on his own shadowy, half-remembered past as the Winter Soldier? And what horrible revelation awaits him if he can get past the Kingpin?
Some secrets are meant to stay buried. And some doors are meant to stay closed.40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99
FANTASTIC FOUR: RECKONING WAR ALPHA #1
DAN SLOTT (W) • CARLOS PACHECO (A/C)
Variant Cover by BRYAN HITCH
Variant Cover by STEFANO CASELLIFIFTEEN YEARS IN THE MAKING — AND IT ALL KICKS OFF HERE!
In a time before the Kree, Skrull or Shi’ar Empires. Before the emergence of Galactus. Before the birth of Asgard.
There was the First War. The greatest war to ever rage across the Multiverse.
Today, it is reignited. This is the Day of Reckoning.
And all that stands between all of reality and revenge from the dawn of time are the heroes of Earth, the Fantastic Four and the mind of Mister Fantastic.
Starring the FF, She-Hulk, Jack of Hearts, the Unseen, the Silver Surfer and everyone in the whole damn Marvel Universe.
40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #40
DAN SLOTT (W) • RACHAEL STOTT (A) • Cover by CARLOS PACHECO
VARIANT COVER BY PHIL JIMENEZ • CONCEPT ART VARIANT COVER BY R.B. SILVATHE RECKONING WAR!
The opening shot of the Reckoning War has left the Earth in complete and utter chaos.
And it turns out that we are not alone. The entire universe is on fire.
The enemy has had eons to prepare for this attack – Reed Richards has had two hours to mount a defense. Johnny Storm has gone full supernova. Sue Storm has become completely invisible — even the Watchers can’t see her. And Colonel Ben Grimm, for the first time in a long time, is ready to go to war!32 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$3.99
MAESTRO: WORLD WAR M #1 (OF 5)
PETER DAVID (W) • GERMÁN PERALTA & PASQUAL FERRY (A)
Cover by CARLOS PACHECO
Variant Cover by ED MCGUINNESS
Variant Cover by RON LIM
Variant Cover by LOGAN LUBERA
Design Variant Cover by GERMÁN PERALTA
THE FINAL CHAPTER OF PETER DAVID’S MAESTRO TRILOGY BEGINS!
A.I.M., the Pantheon and even Doctor Doom have all fallen before the might of the Maestro! Finally, he may now reign over his kingdom with a firm green fist. Except he didn’t count on the Abomination rising from the dead and forming an alliance with Namor and Doom! And this dangerous new alliance is ready for war — WORLD WAR M!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
X-MEN #7
GERRY DUGGAN (W) • PEPE LARRAZ (A/C)
Trading Card Variant COVER by Russell Dauterman
HEADSHOT VARIANT COVER by Jim CheungCAPTAIN KRAKOA & THE X-MEN!
Doctor Stasis makes his deadliest move yet as Captain Krakoa takes charge of the X-Men! But what is the lie at the heart of the newest mutant hero?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
X-MEN LEGENDS #11
LOUISE SIMONSON (W) • WALTER SIMONSON (A/C)
CLASSIC HOMAGE Variant Cover by KEN LASHLEY
APOCALYPSE’S HORSEMEN RIDE FOR THE NEW MUTANTS!
Just in time to celebrate forty years of the original NEW MUTANTS, catch up with some old friends — like SUNSPOT, CANNONBALL, WOLFSBANE, BOOM-BOOM, DANI MOONSTAR, RICTOR and more — as CALIBAN leads PESTILENCE and WAR, the remaining horsemen of APOCALYPSE, in a hunt for new blood!
Witness the never-before-seen link between the New Mutants and Apocalypse in this all-new tale penned by NEW MUTANTS legend Louise Simonson!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
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