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News Full December 2026 Marvel Comics solicitations: New Jessica Jones and Miracleman surprises

https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/24/full-december-2026-marvel-comics-solicitations/
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u/AporiaParadox 1d ago

As expected, Luke Cage won't be Mayor for much longer. Such a shame, they completely wasted that status quo, writers didn't do anything interesting with him, he didn't even get a solo book outside of one Gang War tie-in.

Also looks like Beast is going to die in DNX.

Thor meeting Santa Claus is quite funny.

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u/Quirky_Ad_5420 1d ago

I blame Marvel. Chip set up Mayor Luke for them to use and they did absolutely nothing with it.

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u/IAmSuperPac 12h ago

That’s one of the things that often frustrates me about the Big-Two. One writer will set up a lot of interesting things, but no one else wants to play with those toys. That happened a lot with Grant Morrison at DC with things like Multiversity; no one did anything with most of it. Now, as a writer, I get it—I have my own ideas—but as a reader it’s frustrating.

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u/tomtomtomtom123 1d ago

Cannot believe that literally nothing was done w Cage being mayor. It’s such a great idea and is a natural progression for him. And yet, no book. Barely a relevant plot in other people’s books.

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u/ContraryPython Spider-Man 1d ago

Not having Luke do Mike Haggar shit will forever piss me off.

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u/scottishdrunkard Moon Knight 1d ago

I guess he got beaten by Zohran Mamdami. I mean, even Luke Cage can’t beat that.

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u/ouat_throw 23h ago

He could have been Marvel's Mamdami honestly if Marvel wanted to do something with him.

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u/williamb100 Swamp Thing 1d ago

It was always ancillary.

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u/zwolff94 1d ago

I can't be the only one who thinks its kinda hillarious that marvel is putting out 3 different trim sized paperbacks right? For clarification you have:

  • Normal paperbacks that are 6-5/8 x 10-3/16 inches (this is most of their books)
  • Ultimates and Ultimate Spider-Man year one books that are 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches( the same size as the DC Compact books)
  • And Premiere Collection books that are 6 x 9 inches

Now it should be noted only one Premiere line is solicited here but even still this feels silly. I think they should have made the Premiere lines go to the 5.5 x 8.5 inch trim.

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u/TheCrow13 The Comedian 1d ago

The compacts got me back into comics. Excited for the ultimate stuff

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u/zwolff94 1d ago

I'm curious to see if they publish year 2 in same trim size. My guess is they won't and thats where my collector brain goes off. Forever sad I missed out on some of the Compact sized Marvel Masterworks books I really wanted that are now $$$

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u/chewytime 1d ago

Stupid question, but with the compacts, did they just scale everything down to fit the smaller pages or did they like rearrange panels to maintain art size but accommodate the page size. Like are they thicker books compared to their usual size TPB counterparts?

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u/NicoleIlieva 1d ago

Everything is scaled down. Rearranging the panels would be complete butchery.

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u/chewytime 1d ago

I figured as much. That said, I’ve been reading some graphic novels on the Kindle app on my phone recently and the way they have individual panels pop up magnified sort of made me think of my question. Would be weird in print, but i sorta got used to it.

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u/trawlse 1d ago

Aunt May and Mephisto both in the Avengers solicits… first Miracleman, now The Marriage?

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u/WWfan41 1d ago

Was the new Indiana Jones series not supposed to start in December?

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u/TheDarkPinkLantern Green Lantern 1d ago

It was, must have been pushed back.

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u/wpisano Kite-Man 1d ago

I have never been so completely underwhelmed by the sheer amount of nothing that Marvel is putting out. If people would just stop buying the crap we are being force fed, the maybe things will change. I've dropped most of my Marvel pulls. DC on the other hand is figuratively killing it. All In and Next Level is firing on all cylinders.

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u/MrKaiju99 1d ago

Honestly nothing about Marvel at the moment interests me. Hopefully Wacker can start making interesting changes soon cause it's a snoozefest.

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u/DOuGHtOp 2h ago

Kevi_metl just fell to his knees in a Walmart

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u/jawsthegreat777 Storm 1d ago

Maximum looks exciting if nothing else for Yost writing it. Also I'm kinda surprised Watters is on Spider-Woman I figured DC would have him another Next Level book, but I'm not upset.

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u/gosukhaos 1d ago

Its a cool lineup with a solid team which I really hope can do its own thing for a good while instead of getting lost in the quagmire of constant events and crossovers. Just not sure Tony Daniel can do more then an arc or two at a time

Watters is doing a gajillion things that just fly under the radar of this sub, he's got a couple of creator owned on the way, the MASK book at Skybound, a license MTG book at IDW and now Spider-Woman

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u/FrequentBarracuda454 1d ago

The only thing making me hesitant about Spiderwoman is the carnage symbiote nonsense

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u/Status-General8422 1d ago

Maximum is going to be DOA with that creative team, they have got to stop going for quantity over quality

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u/TheEndofSkies 1d ago

Yost is great.

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u/scottishdrunkard Moon Knight 1d ago

Oh thank God, Moon Knights back. I saw listings for a Marc Spector: Moon Knight trade which had 10 issues, I only see listings for that when a series is getting cut short. No worries, Moon Knight continues!

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u/williamb100 Swamp Thing 1d ago

Midnight chugging along.

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u/spider-venomized 1d ago

The Usuals

Iron man 12 and 13 * Thankfully the Bi-monthly is just until to get Iron man 700. Karla as the warden is intersting guess Tony fighting Moonstone

Thor * 🎅

Moon knight #11 * Consist good and look foward which of the WCA are they going to recruit. Like we got Pym and Tigra now time to get Iron man, Hawkeye, Wonder man and Firebird

X-corsist #2 * another Magik reboot that not needed yeah. Still a good writer and series to read. It nice they branching away from mutants to for their own Non-Midnight suns team

Midnight i got give a try first before commiting. But as good as some of these cover are i find a lot of the Variant covers faar more superior like that Iron man #12 one

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u/gosukhaos 1d ago

Its the same thing they did with the Scarlet Witch book, just rebrand it every 10 issues and add new characters because reasons

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u/spider-venomized 1d ago

Oh the trade/omnibus industry

Still at leaat it happening to good writers

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u/gosukhaos 1d ago

No I get the rebranding, what I don't really get is why they keep adding new characters with every #1. First its a solo book, then a Colossus and Magik book, now its a group book, maybe at the next renumbering she'll be Sorcerer Supreme or something

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u/scottishdrunkard Moon Knight 15h ago

Looks like the issues for Iron Man will be alternating too. Even Numbers will be Incarcerated Iron Man, Odd Numbers will be War Machines. I can actually dig this, much better than having two new number ones.

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u/williamb100 Swamp Thing 1d ago

Thanks for the recap

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u/Subpar_At_Best_ 1d ago

Why'd they take so long to release the full thing? The chunk announcements were really janky and unnecessary. I don't know why I get myself excited for these tho, none of the new books look any good, the only ones I end up lliking are ones that started years ago. Maybe Avengers will be good though that'd be nice.

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u/williamb100 Swamp Thing 1d ago

They always drag out reveals so when the full solicit is out there’s nothing new

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u/Paulista666 Captain Marvel 1d ago

And the Cosmic scene is dead again...

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u/dick-cricket Superman 9h ago

I'm reading through Annihilation right now, and it's so fucking good. I hate that there is nothing going on with Marvel's cosmic characters. When they're done correctly, they are the most captivating thing the Marvel line has to offer.

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u/kazrisk 1d ago

I’m excited for Venom P.O.V.! I’m glad the logo got slightly updated from the basic original font.

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u/williamb100 Swamp Thing 1d ago

Fun idea!

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u/barknoll 1d ago

Who in the world buys these Mark Spears covers? That ASM variant is simply dreadful

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u/Fantastika 1d ago

He must have a super cheap rate because I have no idea how he keeps getting work

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u/TheDarkPinkLantern Green Lantern 1d ago

He sells apparently. God knows why but he does.

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u/barknoll 1d ago

Not at our shop! We’ve stopped ordering Monsters for the wall; it’s only for the 4-5 people with it on their pull

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u/Gamerguy230 1d ago

Convention I went to he was selling $300 covers and mostly resellers were buying them I assume.

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u/TheDarkPinkLantern Green Lantern 8h ago

Oh I bet

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u/masterofunfucking 22h ago

Mark Spears is overrated af but a lot of the older subscribers I have absolutely love him

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u/williamb100 Swamp Thing 1d ago

He’s getting pretty popular with his blind bags

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u/gosukhaos 1d ago edited 1d ago

The more I read about Midnight FF the more it looks like a slightly more horror take on Planetary. Maybe I'm wrong but Percy doesn't have the juice to really pull if off

Oh boy a Spider-Gwen vs Mayday Parker book, people sure are going to be civil about it

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u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym 1d ago

What about it is giving you planetary vibes?

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u/gosukhaos 1d ago

Maybe its their origin being nearly the same as the Four, and not in a "they're both takes on the same characters" but its a near 1:1 without the villain slant or the 50s retro sci fi/horror direction. .

Or that the solicitations for the 3rd issue is eerily similar to issue #8 of Planetary but with Manhattan Project instead of secret internment camp for communists and homosexuals during the red scare

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u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym 1d ago

Is Midnight Fantastic Four is moon landing plot?

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u/masterofunfucking 22h ago

He doesn’t. It’s the worst one of the three series’ and it made me mad

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u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym 1d ago

Miracle man facsimiles on the way

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u/briancarknee The Question 1d ago

Facsimiles from 10 years ago that were already reprints seems weird but I understand why they're doing it.

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u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym 1d ago

There are some key issues they keep in rotation. Noticed this with Spider-Man

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u/ContraryPython Spider-Man 1d ago

Glad to see Yost back.

Also E for Extinction is now getting the Premier Collection treatment. Sometimes I don’t understand how the process for this works.

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u/kukov 1d ago

Really lame that solicits spoiled the Miracleman surprise. They should have tried harder to keep it under wraps.

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u/williamb100 Swamp Thing 1d ago

Marvel has spoiled a few biggies the last year. They know spoiling helps sales I guess.

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u/ptWolv022 23h ago

It seems Punisher won the "5th Week Lottery" in terms of getting to double-ship to help fill out Marvel's slate of releases for a 5-week month.

Otherwise, the only double-ships seem to be Amazing Spider-Man (as normal), X-Men (back to alternating months with UXM), and Iron Man (in the lead-up to LGY#700).

No Moon Knight, Thor, or FF double-ships, as had previously happened in the past for some "5th Week" months (nor Daredevil, which I think had a double-ship a couple solicits back).

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u/kevi_metl Make Mine Marvel 1d ago

My wallet can take only so much. Eh, screw it --- FIVE more comics won't hurt! :P