Ultimate Spider-Man #12

Name: Ultimate Spider-Man #12
Brand: Marvel
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Feb 2025 · Marvel · 4.99 USD

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“December”

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Issue #12 closes the first full year of Jonathan Hickman's Earth-6160 Ultimate Spider-Man run by pivoting the book from domestic drama to genuine dread: readers learn that the 'Peter' who has been quietly attending the Parker family Christmas party is, in fact, the sentient picotech suit AI impersonating him while the real Peter and Harry Osborn are already Kraven's captives. The issue opens the three-part 'Kraven's Hunt' arc — a deliberate structural echo of the 1987 'Kraven's Last Hunt' — while the unsettling reveal of the suit's black-tendriled, dark-eyed face plants the seeds for this universe's homegrown Venom analog. The Kraven cameo here is also the first time Sergei Kravinoff (Earth-6160) is seen as an active, autonomous threat rather than merely one face in the Sinister Six boardroom, cementing his role as the series' most personal villain to that point.

In "December," Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto deliver a tense, emotionally charged chapter where the warmth of the Parker family’s Christmas is shattered when Mary Jane uncovers a chilling truth: Peter is gone, replaced by an uncanny A.I. imitation. As the holiday cheer fades, Kraven holds the real Peter and Harry Osborn hostage, setting the stage for a confrontation that could redefine everything.

writer Jonathan Hickman · artist, inker Marco Checchetto · colorist Matthew Wilson · letterer VC's Cory Petit · cover Marco Checchetto

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History

The series was announced at NYCC 2023 as the flagship title of Marvel's second Ultimate Universe imprint, with Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto — a partnership forged on Daredevil — tasked with building an entirely new Spider-Man mythology from the ground up on Earth-6160. Issue #12 shipped on December 18, 2024, with a cover date of February 2025; it was edited by Wil Moss (with Michelle Marchese as assistant editor), colored by Matthew Wilson, and lettered by Cory Petit. Checchetto teased the 'Kraven's Hunt' arc publicly before the issue's FOC date, confirming the three-issue run (#12–14) in November 2024.

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Written by Jonathan Hickman; art, inks, and cover by Marco Checchetto; colors by Matthew Wilson; letters by Cory Petit; edited by Wil Moss — the full creative team that launched the series in January 2024.
Released December 18, 2024 (cover date February 2025); serves as the conclusion of the series' second arc and the close of its first in-continuity year.
Issue #12 opens the three-part 'Kraven's Hunt' story arc (issues #12–14), a structural homage to the classic 1987 storyline 'Kraven's Last Hunt' transplanted into the Earth-6160 setting.
The issue's twist ending reveals that the silent 'Peter Parker' attending the Christmas party is the picotech suit's AI acting as a stand-in, while the real Peter and Harry Osborn (Green Goblin) have already been kidnapped by Kraven the Hunter on Wilson Fisk's orders.
Earth-6160 Kraven (Sergei Kravinoff) is reimagined as a billionaire oligarch whose family was exiled from the Eurasian Republic during the 'Rasputin Purge'; he controls Staten Island as a Sinister Six lieutenant — a significant departure from both the mainline and the original Ultimate (Earth-1610) incarnations.
The picotech suit's late-issue manifestation — showing black eyes and dark tendrils when confronted by MJ — plants the visual foundation for Richard Parker II's black-suited Spider-Man identity, this universe's equivalent of the Venom symbiote.
The issue's character roster spans three generations of the Parker and Watson families, including MJ's mother Madeline Watson, Aunt Anna Watson, and her sister Gayle Watson, foregrounding the domestic-drama storytelling approach that defines the Hickman run.
J. Jonah Jameson appears in an atypical 'grandfather figure' role during the Christmas party, a deliberate character inversion by Hickman from the antagonistic boss of mainline continuity.