Predator vs. Spider-Man #2

History

The Predator vs. Spider-Man mini-series was announced in late 2024 as the third installment in Benjamin Percy's ongoing Predator-vs.-Marvel crossover line, published under Marvel's 20th Century Studios imprint — a line made possible only after Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox. Percy, who had already written both Predator vs. Wolverine and Predator vs. Black Panther, designed the villain Skinner collaboratively with artist Marcelo Ferreira; Percy has noted in interviews that the two specifically conceived Skinner as a 'Bad Blood' Yautja — a clanless rogue — to serve as a thematic counterpoint to Peter Parker's boundless sense of responsibility. Issue #2, released May 28, 2025 (cover-dated July 2025), was inked by Jay Leisten and colored by Frank D'Armata, with a primary cover by Paulo Siqueira and Yen Nitro; it subsequently received a second printing, reflecting strong reader demand for the series.

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• Issue #2 was written by Benjamin Percy with interior art by Marcelo Ferreira (pencils), Jay Leisten (inks), and Frank D'Armata (colors); the main cover is by Paulo Siqueira and Yen Nitro.
• Released May 28, 2025 (cover date: July 2025); it is the second of four issues in the limited series, which is published under Marvel's 20th Century Studios imprint.
• The issue introduces the plot thread of a full Yautja hunting clan arriving on Earth — revealed on the last page — escalating the threat beyond the single rogue Predator, 'Skinner,' who drove issue #1.
• Skinner is established in this issue as a 'Bad Blood' Yautja: a clanless, codeless rogue who skins his victims alive and uses their flesh as a disguise — his most graphically depicted kills in the series occur in this issue when Mary Jane Watson stumbles upon his underground lair.
• Mary Jane Watson takes an active, resourceful role in issue #2, managing to get fellow passengers to safety after becoming trapped on a stalled subway train in Skinner's hunting ground — one of the series' key character showcases for MJ.
• Kraven the Hunter (Sergei Kravinoff) makes his formal operational debut in the hunt this issue, investigating Skinner's crime scenes with forensic precision and deducing the creature's approximate species, size, and lair behavior — positioning him as a rival hunter rather than a Spider-Man villain.
• J. Jonah Jameson and NYPD Detective LaPearl both appear; LaPearl's pursuit of Peter Parker (whom she suspects of involvement in the Skinner murders) provides the issue's subplot comedy and tension.
• The series is the third chapter in Percy's interconnected Predator-vs.-Marvel crossover continuity, which began with Predator vs. Wolverine (2023) and continued with Predator vs. Black Panther (2024), all feeding into the subsequent Predator Kills the Marvel Universe event.

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