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Cover: Mark Beachum & Joe Rubinstein

Web of Spider-Man #15

Name: Web of Spider-Man #15
Brand: Marvel
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Jun 1986 · Marvel · 0.75 USD; 0.40 GBP; 0.95 CAD

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“Fox Hunt”

★ 1st appearance — Chance

About this Issue

Web of Spider-Man #15 is the debut issue of Chance (Nicholas Powell), a high-tech mercenary whose unique gimmick — wagering his own fee against the odds of completing a job — gave Spider-Man's rogues gallery one of its more conceptually distinctive copper-age additions. The same issue also serves as the auditory first appearance of the Foreigner, a shadowy master assassin created by writer Peter David, whose voice-only cameo here seeded a major subplot that would grow across multiple Spider-Man titles throughout 1986 and beyond. That cross-title coordination, engineered through an informal creative handshake between David Michelinie and Peter David, illustrates the increasingly networked editorial approach Marvel applied to its Spider-Man line during this era. Both characters introduced here went on to appear in the 2024 Sony film Kraven the Hunter, giving the issue a small but real footprint in live-action adaptation history.

writer David Michelinie · artist Mike Harris · inker Kyle Baker · colorist Bob Sharen · letterer Rick Parker · cover Mark Beachum, Joe Rubinstein

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History

The issue was written by David Michelinie with interior art by penciller Mike Harris and inker Kyle Baker, and carried a cover by Mark Beachum. It was released on February 25, 1986, with a June 1986 cover date, during Michelinie's early tenure on the Web of Spider-Man title. The Foreigner's voice-only appearance in this issue was arranged by design: according to Marvel's own published account, Peter David called in a favor with Michelinie to plant a teaser for a villain David was developing for his concurrent run on Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man — an early example of deliberate cross-title world-building between two writers on the same Spider-Man franchise. An editorial revision also affected the finished pages: at least one interior page drawn by Harris and Baker was restructured before printing, with panels redistributed across pages 22 and 23 rather than appearing as originally laid out.

Trivia · 7 facts

First full appearance of Chance (real name Nicholas Powell), a compulsive-gambler-turned-mercenary who wagers his own fee against the success of each job, armed with a high-tech suit featuring wrist blasters, ankle jets, and a helmet granting 360-degree vision.
First auditory/voice-only appearance of the Foreigner, a master assassin and head of the elite 1400 Club, created by writer Peter David and designed to resemble actor Patrick McGoohan; his full visual debut came the following month in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #116 (July 1986).
Written by David Michelinie; interior art by penciller Mike Harris and inker Kyle Baker; cover art by Mark Beachum; cover date June 1986, on-sale February 25, 1986.
Story title: 'Fox Hunt' — Spider-Man pursues the veteran jewel thief Black Fox, believing him responsible for a murder actually committed by Chance on orders from the Foreigner.
Chance's cameo appearance, behind the scenes, occurred one issue earlier in Web of Spider-Man #14; issue #15 is confirmed as his first full appearance across multiple reference sources.
Both the Foreigner and Chance received live-action adaptation in the 2024 Sony film Kraven the Hunter, with the Foreigner portrayed by Christopher Abbott.
The issue was collected in the Web of Spider-Man Omnibus Vol. 1 (Marvel, 2011), which gathers the first 18 issues of the series.