Amazing Spider-Man: Sins Rising Prelude #1

Name: Amazing Spider-Man: Sins Rising Prelude #1
Brand: Marvel
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Sep 2020 · Marvel · 4.99 USD

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“Sins Rising Prelude”

★ 1st appearance — Kindred

About this Issue

This 2020 one-shot serves as the formal narrative launch pad for Nick Spencer's 'Sins Rising' event — the second major storyline of his landmark Amazing Spider-Man run — by delivering the first-ever full origin story for Stanley Carter, a.k.a. the Sin-Eater. Where Peter David's 1985 'Death of Jean DeWolff' arc established the character's surface-level psychology and crimes, Spencer's prelude digs into Carter's childhood in the Ozark mountains, his family trauma, and his supernatural first encounter with the folk practice of sin-eating, retrofitting the villain with a mythological depth he had never previously possessed. The issue also marks the clearest in-story articulation of Kindred's role as the demonic hand behind Carter's resurrection, a thread Spencer had been weaving through his entire run, directly bridging the ongoing mystery to the Sins Rising arc proper and the subsequent 'Last Remains' event. As a Spider-Man comic that keeps its title character almost entirely offscreen — appearing only in archival footage within the story's hellish framing device — it stands as a formally unusual entry in the series, functioning more as a horror character study than a superhero adventure.

writer Nick Spencer · writer Peter David · artist, inker Guillermo Sanna · artist, inker Sal Buscema · colorist Jordie Bellaire · colorist Janet Jackson · letterer VC's Joe Caramagna · letterer Rick Parker · cover Ryan Ottley

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History

Nick Spencer, the primary writer on Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 5) since 2018, wrote the script as a standalone one-shot prelude to Amazing Spider-Man #45–49. Interior art was handled by Guillermo Sanna, with colors by Jordie Bellaire and lettering by VC's Joe Caramagna; Ryan Ottley — the regular Amazing Spider-Man artist — contributed the primary cover, while digital artist BossLogic provided a variant. The issue shipped July 22, 2020, with a September 2020 cover date, under editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski. Early solicitations had listed a different interior artist (Kim Jacinto), but all post-publication sources confirm Sanna as the artist of record for the finished book.

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Published July 22, 2020; cover-dated September 2020; a one-shot special, not part of the main Amazing Spider-Man numbering.
Written by Nick Spencer; interior art by Guillermo Sanna; colors by Jordie Bellaire; letters by VC's Joe Caramagna; primary cover by Ryan Ottley.
Delivers the first full origin story for Stanley Carter (the Sin-Eater), tracing his life from a childhood in the Ozark mountains through his S.H.I.E.L.D. service, NYPD career, and murders — including the killing of Captain Jean DeWolff first depicted in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #107 (1985).
Introduces the first appearances of Stan Carter's father and grandfather as named, depicted characters within Marvel continuity.
Frames Carter's entire story from the perspective of the afterlife, using an inventive 'hellish talk-show' framing device that functions as an unreliable narrator structure — a stylistically unusual approach for a Spider-Man title.
Reveals Kindred as the supernatural agent responsible for Carter's resurrection and forcible re-merger with the Sin-Eater persona, upgrading the character with demonic powers ahead of the main Sins Rising arc.
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) appears only as archival footage/video within the story — an exceptionally rare situation for a Spider-Man-branded comic book.
Collected in the trade paperback Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer Vol. 9: Sins Rising (October 2020), alongside Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 5) #44–47.