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Spider-Boy #14

Feb 2025 · Marvel · 4.99 USD
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“The Boy Without Fear, Chapter 3: Know Your Enemy”
About this Issue

Spider-Boy #14 is the third chapter of the 'Boy Without Fear' arc and the issue where Makawalu 'Maka' Akana — operating under both her Funhouse alias and her adopted Spider-Girl identity — gets her most substantial early character examination, with a flashback sequence formally connecting her power-copying origin to a prior clash with Spider-Boy and Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) alongside Stegron. The issue also continues the narrative integration of Hulkette and Enormo, two characters who had just made their full debut one issue earlier as the first New Champions figures introduced into the main Spider-Boy title, cementing the Madripoor tournament arc as a showcase for an expanding youth-hero ecosystem within Earth-616. Structurally, the issue deepens Dan Slott's central thesis for the series: that Bailey Briggs functions best when pushed into situations far beyond his weight class, here literalized by a globe-spanning martial-arts tournament populated by world-class killers including Bullseye and Bengal.

writer Dan Slott · artist, inker Paco Medina · artist, inker Humberto Ramos · colorist Erick Arciniega · letterer VC's Joe Caramagna · cover Paco Medina

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History

Written by Dan Slott with art by Paco Medina and Humberto Ramos, colors by Erick Arciniega, and letters by VC's Joe Caramagna, the issue was edited by Ellie Pyle and released on December 25, 2024 with a February 2025 cover date. It sits within the ongoing second volume of Spider-Boy, a series Slott wrote for its entire 20-issue run before departing Marvel for DC Comics in 2025 — making the 'Boy Without Fear' arc part of the title's mid-run creative peak before its conclusion. The Madripoor tournament setting draws explicitly on Enter the Dragon-style martial-arts cinema, a genre touchstone Slott has cited through the series' plotting.

Trivia · 8 facts

  • Story title: 'The Boy Without Fear, Chapter 3: Know Your Enemy' — part of the ongoing 'Tournament of the Open Maw' arc set in Madripoor.
  • Written by Dan Slott; pencils by Paco Medina and Humberto Ramos; colors by Erick Arciniega; letters by VC's Joe Caramagna; edited by Ellie Pyle.
  • Released December 25, 2024 (cover-dated February 2025); rated T (13 and up); 32 pages.
  • Makawalu 'Maka' Akana — the character operating as both Funhouse and Spider-Girl — receives an extended flashback sequence revealing how she previously battled Spider-Boy and Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) while copying the powers of both Kamala and Stegron simultaneously; Ms. Marvel and Stegron appear only in this flashback.
  • Hulkette (debuted Spider-Boy #13) and her mentor Enormo continue as supporting tournament participants; Hulkette was originally created by artist Mirka Andolfo for Marvel's New Champions variant cover program on Sensational She-Hulk #1.
  • Spider-Girl / Funhouse (Maka Akana) was created by Dan Slott and designer Michael Cho; her power is psychomimetic — she can temporarily copy the skills, knowledge, and superpowers of anyone she makes direct eye contact with, a unique mutant ability rather than a spider-derived one.
  • Bengal (Duc No Tranh) and Tigriss (Minh Tranh) appear among the tournament combatants facing Spider-Boy and Daredevil.
  • The issue shipped with four cover variants: a standard Paco Medina/Edgar Delgado cover, a Rose Besch variant, a 1:50 Rose Besch virgin incentive variant, a Doaly variant, and a Natacha Bustos Winter Holiday variant.

Cast · 16 characters

Full credits

writer Dan Slott
artist, inker Paco Medina
artist, inker Humberto Ramos
cover pencils, inks Paco Medina

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Reprinted in Marvel Comics (II) #19 (2025), Spider-Boy #3 (2025)

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