Spider-Punk: Arms Race #1

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• Released February 28, 2024 (cover-dated April 2024); first issue of a four-issue limited series titled 'Arms Race, Part One.'
• Written by Cody Ziglar with art by Justin Mason and a main cover by Takashi Okazaki — the same core team that produced the 2022 Spider-Punk five-issue miniseries.
• First appearances of the Earth-138 versions of T'Challa and Shuri, who both hold the Black Panther mantle on that world, with Shuri serving as King T'Challa's on-the-ground proxy and head of the Wakanda Design Group.
• First appearances of Earth-138's Dok Ock (Otto Oktavius), Justin Hammer, Bullseye (Lester), Lizard (Curt Connors), Sauron (Karl Lykos), and Stegron (Vincent Stegron) — all debuting as members of, or antagonists connected to, the Lzrdz gang and Hammer Weapons Inc.
• First appearance of Hammer Weapons Inc. (Earth-138), the organization through which Dok Ock and Justin Hammer develop Spider-Slaying Sentinels designed to target the Spider-Band.
• The Vulture (Adrian Toomes), established in the 2022 series as the CEO of Toomestone Records and an enemy of Spider-Punk, appears here in a 'joins' capacity, shifting his allegiance rather than debuting fresh.
• The issue includes a brief flashback retelling of Hobie Brown's origin — a homeless Black teen bitten by a radioactive spider after falling into a river of toxic waste — framing the sequel's thematic concern with what heroism means once the revolution has been won.
• The series was collected in a trade paperback edition and all four issues were later made available on Marvel Unlimited; a Sony Pictures Animation Spider-Punk animated feature co-written by Daniel Kaluuya was announced in August 2025, further cementing the comic's place in a growing multimedia franchise.

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