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Superior Spider-Man #6 cover
Cover: Mark Bagley

Superior Spider-Man #6

Jun 2024 · Marvel · 4.99 USD
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“The Greater Good”

The cover of Superior Spider-Man #6 (2024) is a striking, close-up image of the Superior Spider-Man, his mask torn open to reveal a grimacing, wide-eyed face beneath — flames erupting along the split while shards of ice frame the composition on either side. It's a visceral, elemental clash rendered with real intensity by Mark Bagley, whose dynamic linework makes the heat and cold feel genuinely at war. With Dan Slott and Christos Gage steering "The Greater Good," this issue looks like it puts its lead character through the wringer in memorable fashion.

writer Dan Slott · writer Christos Gage · artist Mark Bagley · inker John Dell · inker Andrew Hennessy · colorist Edgar Delgado · letterer VC's Joe Caramagna · cover Mark Bagley

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Trivia · 8 facts

  • First appearance of Superior Spider-Boy: Bailey Briggs takes on this identity after Otto Octavius's hive-mind, channeled through Spiders-Man's spiders, possesses him at Parker Labs.
  • First appearance of the Superior Colony: the hive-mind entity formed when the possessed Spider-Boy uses a Neurolitic Scanner to spread Octavius's consciousness through the spiders of Manhattan.
  • First appearance of Oscorp Johnson, a supporting character introduced in this issue.
  • Supernova (Estrella Lopez) — who debuted earlier in the volume — learns here for the first time that it was Otto Octavius who originally imprisoned her, a revelation that sharpens her role from villain to wronged victim.
  • The issue is written by Dan Slott and Christos Gage, with art by Mark Bagley (pencils), John Dell and Andrew Hennessy (inks), and Edgar Delgado (colors); it carries a legacy numbering designation of #51.
  • Released April 24, 2024 (cover-dated June 2024), it is the second issue of the 'Superior Spider-Island' arc that comprises the back half of the eight-issue Volume 3 run.
  • The issue includes a 1:25 incentive variant by Skan Srisuwan and a Stormbreakers variant by Federico Vicentini.
  • The story threads introduced here — the Superior Colony hive-mind sprawling across New York — are a deliberate callback to the original 'Spider-Island' storyline from Slott's earlier Amazing Spider-Man run, now remixed with Otto's consciousness rather than a spider-virus.

Cast · 6 characters

Full credits

writer Dan Slott
inker John Dell
colorist Edgar Delgado
cover pencils, inks Mark Bagley

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Reprinted in Superior Spider-Man #2 (2024), Superior Spider-Man Returns Omnibus #[nn] (2025)

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