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Phillip Kennedy Johnson and ScieTronc open the Midnight Universe with a Spider-Man origin built entirely around one idea: power makes monsters. In Midnight Spider-Man #1, Peter Parker is eighteen, broke, and running an anonymous pop-science blog called Sagan Rituals that spends all year taking corporations to task. His father's lesson wasn't "with great power comes great responsibility" — it was "power makes monsters, every time. The stronger something is, the more monstrous it becomes." Uncle Ben is suing Oscorp over the deaths of Peter's parents. Oscorp has quietly bought three companies running gene therapy, private prisons, and human experimentation. And the Augustine Project, with Otto Octavius's signature on the paperwork, is already on test subject 2518.
Then Felicia Hardy walks into Curt Connors's office — not as Black Cat, but as Oscorp's vice president of talent relations — and offers Peter a contract with a midnight deadline. What happens after he signs is the twist that defines this entire series, and it is not the one you are expecting from a Spider-Man first issue.
Why Midnight Spider-Man #1 matters:
- Midnight Spider-Man #1 launches Marvel's Midnight Universe horror imprint alongside Midnight X-Men #1 and Midnight Fantastic Four #1, all released October 7, 2026.
- The issue reverses Spider-Man's core mantra: "power makes monsters" replaces "with great power comes great responsibility."
- Felicia Hardy debuts as an Oscorp executive rather than Black Cat.
- Otto Octavius is confirmed as part of Oscorp's Augustine Project, and Curt Connors appears with both arms intact, removing his classic motivation for creating the Lizard formula.
- Aunt May is absent from the issue entirely, with dialogue implying she and Uncle Ben have separated.
Midnight Universe creative teams:
Midnight Spider-Man #1 — Phillip Kennedy Johnson, ScieTronc, Neeraj Menon, Joe Caramagna
Midnight X-Men #1 — Jonathan Hickman, Matteo Della Fonte, Arthur Hesli, Cory Petit
Midnight Fantastic Four #1 — Benjamin Percy, Kev Walker, Frank D'Armata, Joe Sabino
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Midnight Spider-Man #1
Writer: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Artist: ScieTronc
Colors: Neeraj Menon
Letters: Joe Caramagna
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Released: October 7, 2026
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