Learn more about the exciting new King in Black one-shots coming in March and check out the cover for the final issue!

 New York, NY— December 16, 2020 — Earlier this month, KING IN BLACK #1 hit stands, and fans finally saw masterminds Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman plunge the Marvel Universe into darkness with the long-dreaded arrival of Knull. With four issues left and multiple exciting tie-in issues, things are just getting started. It’s all leading up to the final showdown in KING IN BLACK #5, which will bring this epic event to a close. Be there when the very fate of all symbiotes is decided, and the future of the saga of Venom is revealed. Check out the haunting cover by Ryan Stegman below and ask yourself: what is a god to a non-believer?

 Also out in March will be essential one-shots starring some of your favorite Marvel heroes. Spidey is in for the fight of his life when the city around him erupts into chaos under Knull’s influence. Find out if he has what it takes to turn the tide in the action-packed KING IN BLACK: SPIDER-MAN by writer Jed MacKay and artist Michele Bandini. The war for Hell’s throne meets the war against the God of Symbiotes when Johnny Blaze gets caught in the madness of King in Black in KING IN BLACK: GHOST RIDER by writer Ed Brisson and artist Juan Frigeri. Scream makes her highly-anticipated return in KING IN BLACK: SCREAM by writer Clay McLeod Chapman and artist Garry Brown.Will her return be short-lived or does she hold the key to putting a dent in Knull’s symbiotic armor? And newlywed Young Avengers Wiccan and Hulkling’s honeymoon is taken over by symbiotes in KING IN BLACK: HULKLING AND WICCAN by writer Tini Howard and artist Luciano Vecchio. Also spinning out of KING BLACK, everyone’s favorite Korbinite finds a new destiny in BETA RAY BILL, a new series written and drawn by Daniel Warren Johnson.

Check out these KING IN BLACK titles and so much more. To snag any of these comics, trades, or related volumes through Amazon, simply click on the name of the highlighted/underlined series below. If you’re interested in X-MEN related releases coming this March, click HERE. If you’re interested in New Marvel #1’s hitting shelves this March, click HERE! Enjoy and God Bless! Don’t miss the pulse-pounding final chapters of KING IN BLACK when they arrive this March.

KING IN BLACK #5 (OF 5)

DONNY CATES [W] • RYAN STEGMAN (A/C)

CONNECTING VARIANT COVER BY LEINIL FRANCIS YU

TATTOO VARIANT COVER BY IAN BEDERMAN

SKETCH VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN

VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG

DRAGON VARIANT COVER BY DAVE RAPOZA

SPOILER VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN

WRAPAROUND VARIANT COVER BY BRETT BOOTH

WHAT’S A GOD TO A NONBELIEVER?

40 PGS./Rated T+ …$5.99

 

KING IN BLACK: GHOST RIDER #1

ED BRISSON [W]• Juan Frigeri (A) • Cover by WILL SLINEY

Variant cover by GERALD PAREL

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH VARIANT COVER BY JEN BARTEL

THE WAR FOR HELL’S THRONE MEETS THE KING IN BLACK!

All Ghost Rider wants is to destroy Mephisto, round up an army of escaped demons, and secure his seat on the throne of hell. Is that so much to ask? But now a dark god from space has shown up to throw the world into chaos, and some of Johnny’s old friends have come to ask for his help. It may take everything they’ve got to stop this madness. Maybe even…the devil himself?

40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99

 

KING IN BLACK: SPIDER-MAN #1 

JED MacKAY [W] • Michele Bandini (A) • Cover by Carlos Gomez

VARIANT COVER BY FEDERICO VINCENTINI

DEADPOOL 30TH VARIANT COVER BY ROB LIEFELD

ALL WEBBED UP WITH NO PLACE TO GO!

40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99

 

KING IN BLACK: SCREAM #1

CLAY McLEOD CHAPMAN [W]• GARRY BROWN (A) • Cover by InHYUK LEE

Stormbreakers variant cover by R.B. SILVA

VARIANT COVER BY RYAN BROWN

SCREAM RETURNS!

• Andi Benton has faced other symbiotes before, but never has she faced the power and might of KNULL himself!

• Does SCREAM have what it takes to put a dent in Knull’s symbiotic armor?

• Or is this the end for SCREAM?

40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99

 

KING IN BLACK: WICCAN AND HULKLING #1 

TINI HOWARD [W]• LUCIANO VECCHIO (A) • Cover by JIM CHEUNG

Variant Cover by RUSSELL DAUTERMAN

STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO

NO TIME TO CELEBRATE!

Wiccan and Hulkling are freshly off the marriage altar and overdue for a proper celebration. So when the Shi’ar invite them for an all-expenses paid vacation at their glitziest beach resort, you know Wiccan’s already got their bags packed. But they’ll have to hold the champagne — because Knull and his symbiote army are expanding across the galaxy! Tini Howard and Luciano Vecchio give everyone’s favorite Young Avengers a honeymoon to die for!

40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99

 

BETA RAY BILL #1 (OF 5)

DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON [W]• DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON (A/C)

Stormbreakers variant cover by IBAN COELLO

Headshot variant COVER by TODD NAUCK

variant COVER by RYAN STEGMAN

SKETCH VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN

variant COVER by CHASE CONLEY

variant COVER by WALTER SIMONSON

FROM THE PAGES OF DONNY CATES’ THOR AND SPINNING OUT OF THE EVENTS OF KING IN BLACK!

The second-most famous wielder of Mjolnir. The right-hand man to the god of Thunder. And now, a warrior without his best weapon. Beta Ray Bill is tired of playing second fiddle to Thor – and with Bill’s famous hammer, Stormbreaker, recently destroyed at the new All-Father’s hands, tensions are higher than ever. The Korbinite must strike out in search of a new weapon…and a new destiny. Assuming he can first defeat a Knullified Fin Fang Foom! Writer/artist Daniel Warren Johnson (Extremity, Murder Falcon) and colorist Mike Spicer take Beta Ray Bill on a journey beyond the shadow of a god! Plus: This oversize first issue contains an exclusive conversation between Johnson and Beta Ray Bill’s creator, the legendary Walter Simonson!

40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99

VENOM #34

DONNY CATES [W]• IBAN COELLO (A/C)

VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN

SKETCH VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN

VENOM-THING VARIANT COVER BY SUPERLOG

THIS IS IT!

• After a pulse-pounding race to the finish, VENOM #34 stands as the series’ final tie-in to the KING IN BLACK epic!

• But is this issue also the end of the Venom symbiote as we know it?!

• From maestros DONNY CATES, IBAN COELLO and JESUS ABURTOV, this one sets the stage for VENOM #200 – and EVERYTHING that follows!

32 PGS. /Rated T+ …$3.99

 

KING IN BLACK: GWENOM VS CARNAGE #3 (OF 3)

SEANAN McGUIRE [W]• FLAVIANO (A) • Cover by KEN LASHLEY

VARIANT COVER BY DAVID LAFUENTE

AMP VS. AMP, SYMBIOTE VS. SYMBIOTE, FRIEND VS. FRIEND!

• Unwittingly pulled into her bandmate Gwen Stacy’s interdimensional adventures and the Marvel Universe, MARY JANE WATSON of Earth-65 has bonded to a symbiote and become a new and deadly iteration of CARNAGE!

• As dragons rain from the sky and New York finds itself on the precipice of the abyss, it’s up to Gwen Stacy to rid MJ of the symbiotic spiders that have infected her and get them both home — while saving any civilians MJ endangers along the way!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

 

KING IN BLACK: THUNDERBOLTS #3 (OF 3)

MATTHEW ROSENBERG [W]

JUAN FERREYRA (A) • Cover by KYLE HOTZ

Variant cover by RIAN GONZALES

THE EXPLOSIVE FINALE!

• What are the Thunderbolts doing with the Sentry’s body?

• Oh…Oh, no. Really? That’s the plan??? Well, as long as everything comes out all right in the end.

• Wait, THAT’S how it ends??? YIKES.

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

 

KING IN BLACK: NAMOR #5 (OF 5)

KURT BUSIEK  [W]

BEN DEWEY & JONAS SCHARF (A)

Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU

The grand finale! As the Dark Tide threatens Atlantis, Namor, Attuma and Dorma make a desperate, dangerous attempt to save the undersea world — but even if they can manage it, it’ll come at a great cost. Learn the fate of Atlantis — of Attuma — of the Dark Tide — and the future of the Dark Tide as well. What will come out of THE KING IN BLACK for Namor and Atlantis? Watch it unfold here.

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

 

KING IN BLACK: RETURN OF THE VALKYRIES #4 (OF 4)

JASON AARON & TORUNN Grønbekk [W]

NINA VAKUEVA (A) • Cover by MATTIA DE IULIS

Profile variant cover by PHIL NOTO

Headshot variant cover by TODD NAUCK

THE LAST RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES!

Brunnhilde. Jane Foster. Dani Moonstar. Hildegarde. And the mysterious stranger who’s worn the title longer than any of them. The Valkyries are united, and at last they have a plan – but so does the King in Black. Every soul in existence is at stake – including the Valkyries’ own!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

 

KING IN BLACK: PLANET OF THE SYMBIOTES #3 (OF 3)

RODNEY BARNES & STEVE ORLANDO [W]

KYLE HOTZ & DANILO BEYRUTH (A)

COVER BY Philip  Tan

A DARK SHADOW LOOMS OVER CLOAK AND DAGGER!

PLUS: THE RETURN OF TOXIN!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

 

SAVAGE AVENGERS #19

GERRY DUGGAN [W]• KEV WALKER (A)

Cover by VALERIO GIANGIORDANO

TWO-TONE VARIANT COVER BY MICHAEL CHO

• Conan’s heist of the Hellfire Club goes awry when the mutants hire his sword to help free Storm and Cyclops from Knull.

• Join us for some March Madness starring Conan, Deadpool and the Marauders.

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

 

FANTASTIC FOUR #30

DAN SLOTT [W]• ZÉ CARLOS (A) • Cover by MARK BROOKS

THE THING-THING VARIANT COVER BY DANIEL ACUNA

“The Two-In-One Terrors!”

• Marvel’s First Family are divided and at each other’s throats!

• As the Earth-ending threat of the KING IN BLACK rages on, half of the Fantastic Four are Knullified and out to destroy their remaining friends and family!

• If that weren’t enough…an ancient force has reemerged in the Multiverse. Who—or what—is THE RECKONING?!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

 

SYMBIOTE SPIDER-MAN: KING IN BLACK #5 (OF 5)

Peter David [W]• GREG LAND (A/C)

VARIANT COVER BY DAVE RAPOZA

THE COLLISION COURSE WITH THE KING IN BLACK COMES TO A SPACE-SHATTERING CONCLUSION!

• The god-king of the symbiotes has made his presence known across space and time — will the assembled heroes of Marvel’s yesteryear be enough to stave off his suffocating darkness, or will every corner of the Marvel Universe fall to the KING IN BLACK?!

32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

 

S.W.O.R.D. #4

AL EWING [W]•

VALERIO SCHITI (A/C)

VARIANT COVER BY TBA

KRAKOA, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!

The mutants are dying. Their island is dying. Earth itself is dying. All hope for humanity as a species lies in Protocol V. Protocol V isn’t going to work.

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

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