Red Hulk #9
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeRed Hulk #9 is a structural turning point in Benjamin Percy's 2025 series: after eight issues depicting Thaddeus Ross as prisoner and fugitive, the issue reasserts him as a commanding general, marshaling Deathlok, Machine Man, and Wildstreak for a deliberate offensive strike into Latveria against Doctor Doom and War-Wolf. The issue is notable for weaving together characters from across decades of Marvel's military and cyborg mythology — Simon Ryker, the classic Super-Villain Team-Up antagonist, Machine Man, Deathlok, and the long-dormant Wildstreak — into a single, coherent resistance unit during the One World Under Doom event. It also marks one of the most prominent uses of Wildstreak (Tamika Bowden) since her 1990s debut, rescuing a largely forgotten exoskeleton-wearing Black hero from the margins and giving her an ongoing narrative role. The opening image of Red Hulk hurling the Washington Monument through a Doom airship crystallizes Percy's thesis about Ross's identity as an unapologetic American nationalist, rendered in vivid political shorthand.
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The 2025 Red Hulk series was launched by writer Benjamin Percy and artist Geoff Shaw as part of the One World Under Doom publishing initiative, the duo reuniting after their collaboration on the 'Sabretooth War' arc in Wolverine. Issue #9 brought in Gabriel Guzman as interior artist in place of the series' regular penciller Geoff Shaw, who continued on cover duties alongside colorist Marte Gracia; the interiors were colored by Bryan Valenza and lettered by Cory Petit, with Mark Paniccia editing. The issue was subsequently collected in the trade paperback Red Hulk Vol. 2: Mission: Latveria, which gathered issues #6–10 of the series.
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- Released October 1, 2025 (cover-dated December 2025); written by Benjamin Percy with interior art by Gabriel Guzman and a cover by Geoff Shaw.
- Tie-in to the Marvel-wide One World Under Doom crossover event, catalogued as issue #73 of 82 in that event's publishing run.
- Story title is 'Mission: Latveria!' — the issue pivots the series' premise from Ross as captive to Ross as offensive field commander leading Deathlok, Machine Man, and Wildstreak into Latveria to confront War-Wolf and Doctor Doom.
- Captain Simon Ryker, operating as War-Wolf, serves as the primary antagonist; the Earth-616 Simon Ryker character dates back to Super-Villain Team-Up #4 (1975), while his War-Wolf transformation in this continuity debuted in Red Hulk #6 (2025).
- Wildstreak (First Sergeant Tamika Bowden) — an exoskeleton-wearing vigilante who first appeared in Fantastic Four Annual #26 (1993) and had been largely absent from Marvel's publishing for years — receives a sustained supporting role across this arc, one of the character's most prominent appearances since the 1990s.
- Interior art duties for this issue were handled by Gabriel Guzman rather than series regular Geoff Shaw, making it one of the few issues in the run with a different penciller.
- The issue was collected in Red Hulk Vol. 2: Mission: Latveria (ISBN 9781302962753), a trade paperback collecting Red Hulk (2025) #6–10.
- The Deathlok featured throughout the series is Luther Manning (Earth-7484), deepening the thematic resonance with Simon Ryker, who is Manning's original nemesis from the 1970s Deathlok stories.
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Reprinted in Red Hulk #2 (2025)
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