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Leah Williams Carlos Gómez Carlos Lopez 2 LEAH WILLIAMS CARLOS GÓMEZ CARLOS LOPEZ RATED US T | $3.99 0 0 2 1 1 7 5 9 6 0 6 0 9 5 1 2 4 BONUS DIGITAL EDITION – DETAILS INSIDE! MARY JANE WATSON CAME FROM A BROKEN HOME AND BORROWED FAMILIES. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TOUGH JUST TO LAND ON HER FEET, BUT THAT WAS NEVER GOING TO BE ENOUGH FOR HER. THOUGH HER AMBITION TO REACH OUT TO THE WORLD AS AN ACTOR HAS BEEN SIDELINED BY OTHER OBLIGATIONS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND OCCASIONAL DISASTERS, MJ IS FINALLY GETTING HER CHANCE. WHILE HER PARTNER, PETER PARKER (A.K.A. SPIDER-MAN) SUPPORTS HER BACK IN NEW YORK CITY, SHE’S GOT A STARRING ROLE IN A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE! BUT THERE’S MORE TO THE DIRECTOR THAN MEETS THE EYE. THE AMAZING MARY JANE AN AMBITIOUS BIOPIC OF SPIDER-MAN VILLAIN MYSTERIO--TAKING A SYMPATHETIC VIEW OF QUENTIN BECK AND STAFFED WITH OUTSIDERS (LIKE MJ) WHENEVER POSSIBLE--WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN GREENLIT IF SUPERSTAR DIRECTOR CAGE McKNIGHT WEREN’T ATTACHED. WELL, HE’S NOT--AFTER MARY JANE GOT SUSPICIOUS, “CAGE” REVEALED HE WAS MYSTERIO IN DISGUISE. HE BEGGED HER TO GIVE HIM A CHANCE--LIKE MOST OF THE CREW, THIS WAS HIS LAST HOPE OF MAKING SOMETHING MEANINGFUL. MJ AGREED TO KEEP QUENTIN’S SECRET-- EVEN FROM PETER/SPIDER-MAN. MORE INVESTED THAN EVER, MARY JANE KNOWS THE ROAD AHEAD WILL BE TOUGH--BUT SHE DOESN’T YET KNOW THE FILM’S ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF MYSTERIO’S OLD CRONY VULTURE AND HIS GANG THE SAVAGE SIX. ANTHONY GAMBINO WRITER LEAH WILLIAMS PRODUCTION DESIGNER ARTIST KATHLEEN WISNESKI CARLOS GÓMEZ EDITOR COLOR ARTIST NICK LOWE CARLOS LOPEZ EXECUTIVE EDITOR LETTERER VC’s JOE CARAMAGNA C.B. CEBULSKI EDITOR IN CHIEF JOE QUESADA HUMBERTO RAMOS & EDGAR DELGADO CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER COVER ARTISTS DAN BUCKLEY PRESIDENT TERRY DODSON & RACHEL DODSON ALAN FINE VARIANT COVER ARTISTS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AMAZING MARY JANE No. 2, January 2020. Published Monthly by MARVEL WORLDWIDE, INC., a subsidiary of MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 135 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10020. BULK MAIL POSTAGE PAID AT NEW YORK, NY AND AT ADDITIONAL MAILING OFFICES. © 2019 MARVEL No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. $3.99 per copy in the U.S. (GST #R127032852) in the direct market; Canadian Agreement #40668537. Printed in the USA. Subscription rate (U.S. dollars) for 12 issues: U.S. $26.99; Canada $42.99; Foreign $42.99. POSTMASTER: SEND ALL ADDRESS CHANGES TO AMAZING MARY JANE, C/O MARVEL SUBSCRIPTIONS P.O. BOX 727 NEW HYDE PARK, NY 11040. TELEPHONE # (888) 511-5480. FAX # (347) 537-2649. [email protected]. DAN BUCKLEY, President, Marvel Entertainment; JOHN NEE, Publisher; JOE QUESADA, Chief Creative Officer; DAVID BOGART, Associate Publisher & SVP of Talent Affairs; TOM BREVOORT, SVP of Publishing; DAVID GABRIEL, VP of Print & Digital Publishing; JEFF YOUNGQUIST, VP of Production & Special Projects; DAN CARR, Executive Director of Publishing Technology; ALEX MORALES, Director of Publishing Operations; DAN EDINGTON, Managing Editor; SUSAN CRESPI, Production Manager; STAN LEE, Chairman Emeritus. For information regarding advertising in Marvel Comics or on Marvel.com, please contact Vit DeBellis, Custom Solutions & Integrated Advertising Manager, at [email protected]. For Marvel subscription inquiries, please call 888-511-5480. Manufactured between 10/25/2019 and 11/05/2019 by LSC COMMUNICATIONS INC., GLASGOW, KY, USA. .
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