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$4.99 0 0 1 1 1 RATED US T 7 5 9 6 0 6 0 9 9 4 4 3 BONUS DIGITAL EDITION – DETAILS INSIDE! FRANK D’ARMATA LEISTEN JAY GREG LAND PETER DAVID 1 KNULL, THE PRIMORDIAL AND MALICIOUS GOD OF THE SYMBIOTES, HAS BEEN FREED FROM HIS PRISON AT THE EDGE OF THE GALAXY. AFTER THE FIRST SECRET WARS, PETER PARKER RETURNED OLDER THAN MEMORY AND IMPRISONED FOR MILENNIA, THE GODKING OF THE HOME TO NEW YORK CITY WITH A BRAND-NEW COSTUME ABYSS HAS LED A HORDE OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SYMBIOTE DRAGONS HE THOUGHT HAD BEEN CRAFTED BY ALIEN TECHNOLOGY. ACROSS THE COSMOS WITH A TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION AND DEATH IN THEIR WAKE. IT COULD RESPOND TO HIS EVERY THOUGHT, SHAPE-SHIFT TO MIMIC HIS CIVILIAN CLOTHING AND EVEN GENERATE A NOW, THEY HAVE ARRIVED TO EARTH -- THE GALAXY’S FINAL LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST SEEMINGLY ENDLESS SUPPLY OF HIS UNIQUE WEBBING! THE KING IN BLACK. NOW, IN HIS SLEEK ALL-BLACK COSTUME, PETER PARKER BALANCES HIS PERSONAL LIFE, HIS PHOTOGRAPHY JOB FOR THE DAILY BUGLE AND HIS SUPER-HEROICS AS HE SWINGS THROUGH THE CITY AS THE AMAZING FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN! THOUGH UNBEKNOWNST TO PETER, HIS ALIEN COSTUME MAY BE MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE… THE SWORD AND THE SPIRIT PART ONE PETER DAVID WRITER // GREG LAND PENCILER JAY LEISTEN INKER// FRANK D’ARMATA COLORIST VC’s JOE SABINO LETTERER GREG LAND & FRANK D’ARMATA COVER ARTISTS ALEX SAVIUK & CHRIS SOTOMAYOR; SYMBIOTE SPIDER-MAN: GEOFF SHAW & FRANK MARTIN; KING IN BLACK No. 1, January 2021. Published Monthly by MARVEL WORLDWIDE, INC., a KHARY RANDOLPH & EMILIO LOPEZ; subsidiary of MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104. © 2020 SUPERLOG VARIANT COVER ARTISTS 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 PATRICK McGRATH KING IN BLACK LOGO DESIGN institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. $4.99 per copy in the U.S. (GST JAY BOWEN KING IN BLACK TRADE DRESS DESIGN #R127032852) in the direct market; Canadian Agreement #40668537. Printed in the USA. KEVIN FEIGE, Chief Creative Officer; DAN BUCKLEY, President, Marvel Entertainment; JOHN NEE, ANTHONY GAMBINO PRODUCTION DESIGN Publisher; JOE QUESADA, EVP & Creative Director; DAVID BOGART, Associate Publisher & SVP of Talent Affairs; TOM BREVOORT, SVP of DANNY KHAZEM ASSISTANT EDITOR Publishing; DAVID GABRIEL, VP of Print & Digital Publishing; JEFF YOUNGQUIST, VP of Production & Special Projects; DAN CARR, Executive Director of Publishing DEVIN LEWIS EDITOR Technology; ALEX MORALES, Director of Publishing Operations; DAN EDINGTON, Managing Editor; RICKEY PURDIN, Director of Talent Relations; SUSAN CRESPI, Production NICK LOWE EXECUTIVE EDITOR Manager; STAN LEE, Chairman Emeritus. For information regarding advertising in Marvel Comics or on Marvel.com, please contact Vit DeBellis, Custom Solutions & Integrated C.B. CEBULSKI EDITOR IN CHIEF Advertising Manager, at [email protected]. For Marvel subscription inquiries, please call 888-511-5480. Manufactured between 10/23/2020 and 11/02/2020 by FRY COMMUNICATIONS, SPIDER-MAN CREATED BY STAN LEE & STEVE DITKO MECHANICSBURG, PA, USA. .

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