Next week is the 6th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Marvel Comics February 5 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Marvel Comics January 29 2025 new releases.
This week in Marvel Comics: Avengers space heist, Ultimate Luke Cage, future Luke Cage, Kyle Ren takes up Vader’s legacy, penultimate Namor and Scarlet Witch, Secret Wars in omnibus, so many Black Panther & Daredevil collections, and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: This is an easy pick, as Jed MacKay continues his death-grip on my most-anticipated Marvel Comics. The Avengers (2023) #23 not only continues his fun space heist romp, it has more art from by rising star Farid Karami.
This post includes every comic out from Marvel Comics February 5 2025, plus collected editions in omnibus, hardcover, paperback, and digest-sized formats.
This isn’t the typical comic releases post you can find on other sites. Why? I explain each collection and review every series with a new issue out this week. Plus, for every new release, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to Marvel Comics to find out how to collect that title in full!
There’s no other website on the internet that can claim that.
And now, onto Marvel Comics February 5 2025 new releases!
Marvel Comics February 5 2025 Collected Editions
Marvel Premier Collection: Black Panther – A Nation Under Our Feet
(2025 digest paperback, ISBN 978-1302964856 / digital)
See Guide to Black Panther. This is one of the new line of Marvel Premiere Collections, their slightly upscale answer to DC Compact Comics. These books are packaged to look more literary – like a Penguin Classic – with one complete Marvel story arc.
And, of course, this one has more heft than most since it is penned by literary superstar Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302961763 / digital)
See Guide to Black Panther. This recollects the entire Star Wars esque back half of the Ta-Nehisi Coates’s run on Black Panther with all of Black Panther (2018) #1-25.
This started out with breathless, dramatic space battles, gets a bit mired in its own myth in the middle, but winds up for a terrific finish. This run is very easy to pick up blindly since it starts with action in progress and a hero who is as confused as we are.
Captain America / Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302962807 / digital)
See Guide to Captain America or Guide to Black Panther. Whoa, three Black Panther books in a row? That’s a lot for a character that doesn’t even have an ongoing Marvel-616 book right now.
Are we gonna get a Wakanda surprise in the after-credits scene of the new Captain America movie? Or, is this just Marvel’s somewhat one-note way to kick off Black History Month?
One has to wonder.
Captain America Epic Collection Vol. 17: The Superia Stratagem
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302960469 / digital)
See Guide to Captain America. This collection kicks off the back third of Mark Gruenwald’s legendary run.
Marvel Premier Collection: Daredevil – Born Again
(2025 “Marvel Premier Collection” digest paperback, ISBN 978-1302965983 / Marvel Premier Digital)
See Guide to Daredevil. Another of Marvel’s new line of compact classic collections in digest format, this one contains one of the major stories to inspire the new season of the MCU Daredevil. Plus, it’s the last hurrah of Frank Miller on the character. Even if you haven’t read all of Miller’s preceding run, this is still worth reading and owning.
Daredevil Vol. 6: Mayor Fisk
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302964788 / digital)
See Guide to Daredevil. This is an exceedingly rare occurence for Marvel – a straight reprint of an existing mid-run trade paperback, but with slightly tweaked trade dress. Clearly we’re gonna see some Mayor Fisk action in Daredevil.
Daredevil Modern Era Epic Collection Vol. 4: King of Hell’s Kitchen
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302956424 / digital)
See Guide to Daredevil. This Epic is smack in the middle of Bendis’s run on Daredevil (1998) and it is unique because it is the first time David Mack’s “Vision Quest” arc from #51-55 has been included alongside Bendis’s run in a collection.
This actually isn’t the worst place to jump into Bendis’s run midway, as there’s a particularly huge story gap between #50 and 56 to make room for the Mack arc and other appearances.
Dark Web Omnibus
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302961152 / digital)
See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present) or Guide to X-Men – Age of Krakoa (2019 – 2024). I can’t say I recommend an omnibus of this oddball little event, which promise to be Inferno 2.0 but wound up as a bit of a fizzle.
How do you go so mild with the return of Maddie Pryor and Ben Reilly going bad in the same story? I’m not sure, but from main books to tie-ins this was all very forgettable (with the exception of a delightful pair of Ms. Marvel tie-in issues)
Marvel Age Treasury Edition
(2025 oversize paperback, ISBN 978-1302959098 / digital)
This is an oversize paperback collection of a pair of surprisingly great anthology issues, Marvel Age (2023) #1000 and Amazing Fantasy (2022) #1000. They bucked the trend of disposable anthologies by having several heavy-hitting short stories, especially of Spider-Man.
Caveat Emptor: Perhaps the best of all the stories was a non-fiction tale by Neil Gaiman.
Secret Wars by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus
(2024 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302959777 / digital)
See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present) or Guide to Marvel Universe Events. People have wanted Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars (2015) reprinted in oversize format for years now. The problem was that the story doesn’t make so much sense on its own. You either need some selections from Hickman’s Fantastic Four run to characterize the big Doom conflict at its center, or part of his Avengers to give context to what is happening at the start.
Marvel decided to go with the latter, and while that significantly double-dips the Jonathan Hickman Avengers omnibuses I still think it’s a better idea than just going back to print on this OHC (which has no precedent).
The Ultimates by Deniz Camp Vol. 1: Fix the World
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302957513 / digital)
See Guide to Marvel Ultimate Universe. There’s no question The Ultimates (2024) was one of Marvel’s deepest books of the year last year. There are few authors in Big Two superheroes right now mixing commentary and action as deftly as Denis Camp. This come packaged with its own perfect prelude with Ultimate Universe (2023) #1, so you really can read this cold and fully appreciate it (even without having read Hickman’s somewhat static Ultimate Invasion (2024) #1-4).
Read on for a summary of all of the Marvel Comics February 5 2025 single issue releases!
Marvel Comics February 5 2025 Physical Comic Releases
The Avengers (2023) #23 (digital) – See Guide to Avengers. Jed MacKay loves finding ways to incorporate Black Cat into his runs, since she was the character who unexpectedly made him Marvel’s rising star.
Last issue the Avengers dug into a hilarious Ocean’s 11 style space heist only to discover Black Cat was one step ahead of them. And, speaking of rising stars, this is illustrated by Marvel’s undisputed break-out art star of 2024 – Farid Karami.
Sign me up! MacKay really hasn’t disappointed on this run, and part of that is knowing when to lighten the mood a bit between heavier Authority-style stuff. Plus, the solicit promises my favorite group of hapless intergalactic Marvel mercenaries: Technet!!!
Namor (2024) #7 (of 8) (digital) – See Guide to Namor – The Sub-Mariner. I’ve come around on this Jason Aaron Namor maxi-series of double-length issues just in time for this penultimate issue. It’s not great, but it’s fine, and there are some shining moments within it.
To me, the magic of this book is not the present day plot of seven warring potential kings of the seas, but in the flashbacks investigating key moments of Namor’s own development as a ruler. We’ve seen plenty of inserted flashback material to Namor’s youth before. Yet, I feel Aaron is telling a very specific story here about re-evaluating the moments that made Namor a more brutal king as he realizes he may have learned the wrong lesson from them in his youth.
Clearly this is building to a climax of Namor reclaiming his rightful place as the ruler of Earth’s oceans. I think those earlier issues read better as a binge (especially because issues #1-2 are quite weak), so this is a fine time to catch up.
Phoenix (2024) #8 (digital) – See Guide to X-Men – From the Ashes. This book by Stephanie Phillips has all of the right ingredients to be a memorable solo run from Jean Grey, but it just can’t seem to get there.
I don’t understand why this comic is dragging its feet! Why is it still so unsure of who Jean is and how to voice her? Why does it need to surround our star – one of Marvel’s most-recognizable characters – with such a big supporting cast to keep out of panels?
There are so many great elements here and I know Phillips is capable of doing great things with them because I’ve read her indie work. It is so odd to watch a book have every possible exciting element to succeed in its corner (including David Curiel on colors!) only for it to drop the ball issue after issue.
For my full thoughts on last issue, check out my one minute review of Phoenix (2024) #7 from this week’s “Crushing Comics Live.”
Power Man: Timeless (2025) #1 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Luke Cage – Power Man. Luke Cage is busy being the mayor of New York City in the present day, but in the future we glimpsed in Timeless (2023) #1 he is one of the few remaining heroes of a future Earth.
Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly penned that one-shot, which was pretty damn cool, and they’re back for this series. While I’m sure they’ll craft this #1 to be something you can simply pick up and enjoy, I’d absolutely recommend going back for that issue.
Scarlet Witch (2024) #9 (digital) – See Guide to Scarlet Witch. We just had an issue of this book two weeks ago and the next issue is a finale, which means that Marvel is hurrying this along in time to launch Wanda into… something else.
But, before we go, we get this Black Cat team-up drawn by Jacopo Camagni! Damn, Felicia Hard is having a big week this week. I am totally here for the current crop of Marvel writers being obsessed with Felicia Hardy. There’s no “too much” of Black Cat, in my opinion.
I admire that Steve Orlando has engineered a way to continue telling one-shot Wanda stories in a unique narrative vocie while also developing an ongoing arc about her new trainee Amaranth. There’s no question that Orlando’s Marvel comics in 2024 were stronger than any of his Big Two work that came before, and a lot of that was down to the evolution of his pacing.
If you want to pick up from the start of this Amaranth arc from the start, start from Scarlet Witch (2024) #6. However, all of Orlando’s Scarlet Witch has been pretty awesome, so you could certainly rewind to the beginning of his run in 2023 and start from there.
The Spectacular Spider-Men (2024) #12 (digital) – See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). This title has been so up, down, and all over the place I don’t even know what to think anymore.
Last issue was a one-shot story with a time-scrambled narrative that flashed back at least four times before flashing forward. It was so confusing that I checked issue #10 no less than five times to make sure I hadn’t missed any action to explain what was happening.
The most painful aspect of the issue wasn’t the horrible structure, but the fact that a one-shot story about microscropic members of the Seelie Court in Central Park could have been a modern classic of silly Spidey-action. But, there was no substance to it… and no laughs… and barely any Spider-Men!
This book has stopped being about our Spider-Men having fun and quipping and thwipping, which is what made the first few issues so magical. Instead, it’s about a bunch of supporting cast members talking to each other with interchangeable voices.
Since last issue was a one-shot story, you could pick this one up cold. Maybe things will turn around this issue! But, with a year’s worth of evidence on our side, I think it’s fair to call this title a bad comic book with occasional bright spots.
Spirits of Vengeance (2024) #6 (of 6) (digital) – See Guide to Ghost Rider. This is the final issue of Sabir Pirzada’s attempt to weave together all of the present day Ghost Riders into a single story.
Does it feel like this series has told a coherent story leading up to this finale? No. However, issue #5 was the exact thing I am looking for from a Ghost Rider comic. Give me the whole family of vengeance. Give me action that tracks well as bad guys think they have a way to defeat a Rider and are sorely mistaken. Give me little moments of caustic gallows humor.
This book has all of that. Ghost Rider is a property I have a lot of affection for, and all I want is to see our Riders treated well. Even if Pirzada struggled to make the broad scope of its plot cohere, I think in the end this will turn out to be a Ghost Rider book I was happy to have.
Star Wars: Legacy of Vader (2025) #1 (digital) – See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe. This is a Sequels-era book from Charles and Luke Ross following Kylo Ren.
I’m not a Sequels fan and I’d be fine without knowing anything further about Kylo Ren. As far as I’m concerned, the Skywalker Saga ended after The Last Jedi, and this book is set between that and The Rise of Skywalker.
That places this book outside of my personal Star Wars canon.
With all that said: Soule and Ross are two of my favorite creators in the expanded Star Wars universe. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that Soule has proven he’s the best of all of Marvel’s creators at weaving his stories “between the raindrops” of the stories of the films.
The Ultimates (2024) #9 (digital) – See Guide to Marvel Ultimate Universe. When it comes to this Ultimates run from Denis Camp, like Natalie Imbruglia: I’m torn.
On one hand, no one is doing superheroes like Camp right now across Marvel and DC – with so much clever social commentary baked into the eye-popping action.
On the other hand, is this “The Ultimates” or is it “What If.. the Maker Fucked With [insert character here]?”
Every second issue of this book introduces us to yet another Ultimate Universe version of a brand-name hero. I’m exhausted by the pace and the ever-growing cast. I’m ready to give that a rest.
This one introduces Luke Cage, with the headline “meet the man who has been quietly sabotaging the Maker’s Council from behind bars.” I’m 100% sure that Camp is going to deliver some interesting thoughts on the carceral state and social justice along the way.
And, it could be that Camp is speed-running through introducing all of the major players of the Marvel Universe for a very specific reason: to put them on the table for a swiftly-approaching Ultimates vs. Maker event. We saw that Hickman was forced to pump the brakes on the pace of his Krakoa plotting. I feel absolutely certain that this new Ultimate line was built with that experience in mind and the deliberate “one self-contained story a month” pace of these books is part of his response.
Wolverine (2024) #6 (digital) – See Guide to Wolverine – Logan. Last issue continued to deliver strong stuff, with Nightcrawler helping Logan get out of the line of fire of his mysterious Gold Adamantium-enhanced enemies. This issue has them all fighting.
Given the gradual decline of Saladin Ahmed’s incredibly similar run on Daredevil (2023), I’m trusting less and less that he will sharpen this story to a fine point. Both books began with a similar vibe of “it’s a slow start, but this’ll hit the gas soon enough.” If I’ve got a reason to be optimistic this might still go somewhere, it’s that Ahmed has such a spectacular handle on Logan’s voice and inner life.
But… I would have said the same for Daredevil a year ago.
That’s for Marvel Comics February 5 2025 new releases! What were you already pulling? And, did I convince you to check out anything new? Sound off in the comments below.
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