Marvel Previews #76
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMarvel Previews #76 holds a niche but genuinely contested place in modern collecting because it contains what many cataloguers identify as the first published image of Jimmy Hudson — the Ultimate Universe's Wolverine's son and the lead character of the then-forthcoming Ultimate Comics: X — months before his canonical debut in Ultimate X #1 (February 2010). The issue represents a broader phenomenon in the direct-market era: solicitation catalogs functioning as de facto 'first appearance' vehicles, a status that Bleeding Cool and others have noted can make preview books collectible in their own right. For students of the Ultimate Marvel imprint's post-Ultimatum reconstruction, this issue documents the moment Marvel publicly introduced the concept of a surviving Wolverine legacy character to retailers and readers, framing the pitch for Jeph Loeb and Art Adams's new series. Whether the solicitation art qualifies as a true character debut or merely an advertisement is an ongoing collector debate, but the issue is an unambiguous historical artifact of how Marvel marketed the post-Ultimatum Ultimate line.
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The Marvel Previews series launched in August 2003 as Marvel's own standalone solicitation catalog, a spin-off of Diamond Comic Distributors' industry-wide Previews catalog that arose from Marvel's exclusive distribution deal with Diamond forged after the collapse of the Heroes World experiment in 1997. Each issue is a 120-page, full-color, comic-book-formatted guide distributed monthly through the direct market, previewing titles scheduled to ship roughly two months later. Issue #76, carrying a December 2009 cover date and placed on sale November 25, 2009, was therefore the advance catalog for February 2010 releases — the window in which Ultimate X #1, starring the newly-conceived Jimmy Hudson, was set to arrive. The series was published under the Diamond Publications imprint and rated T+ (ages 9+).
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- Cover date: December 2009; on-sale date: November 25, 2009; published by Diamond Publications as Marvel's standalone solicitation catalog.
- 120 pages, full color; previews Marvel titles scheduled to ship in February 2010.
- Contains the first published promotional image/solicitation preview of Jimmy Hudson (James Hudson Jr., Earth-1610), Wolverine's son in the Ultimate Marvel universe — months before his canonical first appearance in Ultimate X #1 (February 2010).
- Jimmy Hudson was created by writer Jeph Loeb and artist Art Adams for the Ultimate Comics: X series, conceived as part of Marvel's post-Ultimatum reconstruction of the Ultimate line.
- Jimmy Hudson is the biological son of Ultimate Wolverine (James Howlett) and Magda Lensherr; he was raised by James and Heather Hudson in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and inherited a unique variant of his father's mutation — organic metal-coated claws rather than adamantium.
- The Marvel Previews series began in 2003 as a direct-market retailer ordering tool, separate from Diamond's main Previews catalog, because Marvel's exclusive distribution arrangement gave it its own dedicated section/catalog.
- Whether the solicitation art in this issue constitutes a legitimate 'first appearance' of Jimmy Hudson is actively debated among collectors; the Marvel Fandom wiki explicitly notes that 'conventional appearances do not apply' to Marvel Previews issues.
- After the 2015 Secret Wars event, Jimmy Hudson was among the Earth-1610 characters transitioned to Earth-616, eventually joining the time-displaced X-Men and later becoming a host for an alien Poison — extending the character's reach well beyond his Ultimate-line origins.
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