Giant-Size Amazing Spider-Man #1

Aug 2025 · Marvel · 7.99 USD

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Giant-Size Amazing Spider-Man #1 (June 2025) carries genuine historical weight as the first all-new Giant-Size Spider-Man anthology in roughly half a century, deliberately positioning itself in the tradition of the original 1970s Giant-Size run while introducing two characters with explicit forward momentum in the Marvel Universe: the brand-new hero Rapid, whose time-manipulation power set and personal stakes were designed from the outset to anchor future storylines, and Kid Venom's first-ever appearance in the main Earth-616 continuity after originating in alternate-universe stories. Al Ewing and Mark Buckingham's contribution doubles as a cosmological statement, using Spider-Man as a lens to re-examine the very origin point of the Marvel Universe — the first ignition of the original android Human Torch — a narrative move that touches on decades of published history across an enormous roster of characters. The issue also marks filmmaker Kevin Smith's first Marvel Comics work in roughly two decades, closing a gap left by scheduling conflicts that had kept him away since his early-2000s Spider-Man/Black Cat series.

writer Kevin Smith · artist Giuseppe Camuncoli · inker Daniele Orlandini · colorist Erick Arciniega · letterer VC's Joe Caramagna · cover Greg Capullo

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History

Marvel's Spider-Man editor Nick Lowe conceived the one-shot as a direct, good-natured answer to the long shadow cast by the Giant-Size X-Men format, recruiting an anthology of writers and artists rather than a single creative team. Smith's return was particularly notable because he had previously been offered a monthly Marvel Knights Spider-Man series but lost it to scheduling conflicts, and his last completed Marvel work dated to the early 2000s; this issue closed that two-decade gap. The announcement in March 2025 timed the release to June 11, 2025 — a window that coincided editorially with the theatrical build-up to Fantastic Four: First Steps — and the book went to at least a second printing, confirming strong retailer demand.

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Released June 11, 2025; 64 pages, rated T; cover by Greg Capullo; main story editors under Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski and Spider-editor Nick Lowe.
Four stories, four creative teams: Kevin Smith & Giuseppe Camuncoli (Spider-Man/Fantastic Four team-up); Al Ewing & Mark Buckingham (Marvel-history-spanning adventure featuring Wyn from G.O.D.S.); Chip Zdarsky & CAFU (first appearance of Rapid); Mitsuyasu Sakai & Gerardo Sandoval (Kid Venom's Earth-616 debut).
First appearance of Rapid (created by Chip Zdarsky and artist CAFU): a hero whose power is generating a localized time-freeze bubble that makes him appear to move at superhuman speed; his origin involves being caught between Electro's lightning and an experimental device built by his father, and his powers are simultaneously used to slow his father's brain-cancer progression.
First appearance of Rapid in Earth-616 continuity for Kid Venom, the symbiote character previously established in Edge of Spider-Verse stories by Mitsuyasu Sakai, here crossing into the main Marvel Universe alongside Edge of Spider-Verse's Cyborg Spider-Man.
Kevin Smith's return to Marvel Comics after approximately 20 years; his last completed Marvel work was Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do (2002–2006); he had previously been offered a monthly Marvel Knights Spider-Man book that went instead to Mark Millar due to scheduling conflicts.
Al Ewing and Mark Buckingham's story posits the first ignition of the original android Human Torch (Jim Hammond) as the foundational origin point of Earth-616's superhero age, with Wyn (from Jonathan Hickman's G.O.D.S. series) appearing alongside Spider-Man.
Variant covers by Mark Bagley, Lee Bermejo, and Scott Hepburn in addition to the main Greg Capullo cover; a second printing (cover-dated September 2025) was issued, also carrying the Capullo cover.
The issue's enormous character roster — drawn from virtually every era of Spider-Man publishing history — reflects the anthology's structural ambition to survey the entire Marvel mythos through a Spider-Man lens, rather than tell a single self-contained story.