Next week is the 9th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Marvel Comics February 26 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Marvel Comics February 19 2025 new releases.
This week in Marvel Comics: Red Hulk returns, Rogue & Ka-Zar, a final New Mutants Epic, the end of Ewing’s Eddie Brock, Jack of Heart Masterworks, the West Coast gets romantic, the Amazing X-Men, and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: This is wild, but my pick is Rogue: The Savage Land (2025) #2! Can this be real? Is Krisis really highlighting a flashback retcon mini-series? If you read issue #1 you’d understand – as did literally every person who read this book who chimed in during my live stream review last month. Tim Seeley, Zulema Scotto Lavina, Rachelle Rosenberg, & Ariana Maher are delivering something that’s incredibly fun and that feels entirely on-voice who Rogue was at the end of Claremont’s run.
This post includes every comic out from Marvel Comics February 26 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 26 2025 new releases!
Marvel Comics February 26 2025 Collected Editions
The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 12: Dead Wrong
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302959456 / digital)
See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). This collection puts a wrap on Zeb Wells’s run with several issues of decompressed knock-down, drag-out fight with Tombstone. Not much of a climax, nor does it particularly resolve anything about this run – all of that happened in the prior arc/volume.
The Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection Vol. 11: Nine Lives Has the Black Cat
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302960483 / digital)
See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (1963 – 2018). This is an Epic Collection you can very much enjoy on its own, as it has the earliest appearances of Black Cat, Felicia Hardy – each a self-contained story!
Also, this inches us closer to complete Epic coverage through the start of the Clone Saga – we’re only missing Epic Collection Volumes 12-14 & 16 to have a straight run from Volume 1 to Volume 27!
The Incredible Hulk Vol. 4: City of Idols
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302960834 / digital)
See Guide to Hulk – Bruce Banner. I found this Las Vegas arc of Incredible Hulk (2023) completely unreadable. It made little sense, was hard to follow, and barely registered as a Hulk comic.
Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man Vol. 18
(2025 hardcover, ISBN 978-1302962159 / digital)
See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark. As all of the Masterworks lines press further into the 1980s, Iron Man reaches as far as 1984. This late 100s Iron Man run from Denny O’Neil isn’t particularly notable, but I am intrigued by the fact that this reprints all of Jack of Hearts (1984) #1-4 by Bill Mantlo.
New Mutants Epic Collection Vol. 4: Fallen Angels
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302956653 / digital)
See Guide to New Mutants & Young X-Men. It’s the FINAL New Mutants Epic Collection! We now have the entire 100 issues, 7 annuals, and 2 specials completely collected in eight Epic volumes.
It’s wild to say that when back in 2012 I was excited just to get a seventh New Mutants Classic collection wrapping up the end of Chris Claremont’s initial run on the title, which is also covered in this volume. Marvel has truly revolutionized their method of keeping their backlist collected and in print.
Spider-Man: Reign 2
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302947217 / digital)
See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). A part two of the previous 2006 out-of continuity series. I’ll just provide a line from its Wikipedia entry with no further comment:
It is revealed that [MJ] died of cancer brought on by exposure to Peter’s radioactive semen during intercourse over the years.
Venom by Al Ewing Vol. 8: Venom War
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302960308 / digital)
See Guide to Venom. I usually read every single Marvel comic, but Ewing’s “Venom War” beat me into submission. I’m still trying to force my way through the many tie-ins of the even months after it concluded.
This brings Ewing’s run on Eddie Brock to a close, since for the moment Brock is not in the Venom symbiote in All-New Venom (2024) – instead, he’s bonded with Carnage in their own series by Charles Soule.
Read on for a summary of all of the Marvel Comics February 26 2025 single issue releases!
Marvel Comics February 26 2025 Physical Comic Releases
The Amazing Spider-Man (2022) #68.DEATHS (digital) – See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). While I’m no fan of the intense bloat of this “8 Deaths” storyline, I am a fan of the creative team on this issue: Christos Gage & Mark Buckingham!
Gage never gets the credit he deserves for being one of the most-consistent Spidey-writers of the past 15 years. He might not be a name seller on this own, but his Spidey is always on-voice and rarely dull. Plus, he was the reliable collaborator who keep the wheels of Dan Slott’s run spinning whenever Slott was behind on a deadline.
Gage has written some X-Men before as well, which is a good thing because this one shot is an all X-Men issue – with Peter off the table and the team trying to contain the thread of Cytorrak’s children without him.
Here, he is teamed with Mark Buckingham. Yes, that Mark Buckingham, the creator of Fables and the inker of Generation X (1994) #1! He doesn’t do too many interiors these days, so it’s going to be exciting to see him here.
Blade [Red Band] (2024) #5 – See Guide to Blade. Blade’s physical-only mature readers series continues.
Captain America & Volstagg (2025) #1 (digital) – See Guide to Captain America – Steve Rogers. This is the second “random pairing” one-shot from J. Michael Straczynski, who ought to have a restraining order against him when it comes to approaching Cap comics after his abysmal and quickly-cancelled 2023 run on the character.
Add to that art from Bernard Chang, who has generally been unimpressive in his run at Marvel (maybe due to their house coloring style) and this might be my least anticipated book of the week.
Fantastic Four (2022) #29 (digital) – See Guide to Fantastic Four. Ryan North did it again last month – turned in an all-time great Fantastic Four story that delved into new aspects of the teams powers and personalities.
It turned out to be a prologue to his “One World Under Doom” event – with Reed and Sue emerging from their adventure into a fully Doom-controlled world (and presumably moving right into their appearance in the first issue of the event from two weeks ago.
I’m curious to see what North does with this title during the nine issues of his lengthy event. For the past few years we’ve seen several event writers struggle to keep their main books relevant when they’ve pushed the major beats of their plot into their event title. This is a different situation, because this Doom event did not begin its life as an arc that North pitched for F4. Marvel was steering in this direction with or without him, and they wisely elected to do it with him since he is a freaking genius.
From the solicit, it sounds like this issue will continue from One World Under Doom (2025) #1 with Doom’s rule still undisputed and the various members of the team trying to distract themselves from the situation until someone (Reed or otherwise) figures out the next sreps.
Hellhunters (2024) #3 (digital) – See Guide to Ghost Rider. Phillip K. Johnson writes this WWII France intersection between Nick Fury, Captain Carter, Logan, and a US soldier turned Ghost Rider.
Issue #2 felt insubstantial as it focused on the quartet of allies as they moved through Nazi-occupied France. Nothing really happened except them walking and encountering Logan fighting a demon. However, I did enjoy tthat the colors settled down from issue #2 to let Adam Gorham’s pencils do more of the heavy lifting.
I think if you like that sort of story and setting that this will be mildly fine for you. It’s hard not to enjoy canonical characters we love beating up Nazis at least a little!
Hellverine (2024B) #3 (digital) – See Guide to Daken – Akihro (eventually). I was excited to spend some time with Akiro with a new lease on un-death, which is what the first issue hinted it might be.
Instead, this is just more of Percy’s unnecessarily grim-bad take on Ghost Rider merged with his equally grim-bad take on Wolverine. Raphael Ienco’s art keeps it mildly readable, but this Ghost Rider story doesn’t feel unique to Daken in the slightest.
Iron Man (2024) #5 (digital) – See Guide to Iron Man. I regret to inform you that every issue of this book by Spencer Ackerman is so damn boring.
Hooray… they’re mostly one-shot stories so far! That’s a trend in comics that I loooove. But, each one-shot is just based on the most boring concept, and then it just builds and builds and talks and talks about more boring stuff until the entire thing is just a massive castle of boredom.
I’m not against Tony being the underdog, or Tony engaging in corporate warfare or Tony having to downgrade his armor. In fact, I’m totally into all of those ideas!
Last issue, Tony had a gem inhabited with a magical virus that will eat up his own magical armor problems if he would just let it in. Or something. Scarlet Witch was there and Ironheart and The Cavalry and it was still so boring as fuck. I could not tellyou a single thing that happened other than them talking about magical computer viruses and rebooting.
Also I think I hate the shiny 00s colors from Alex Sinclair. Truly, this comic is a slog, and we don’t even have launch artist Julius Ohta’s lovely armor designs to appreciate.
Red Hulk (2025) #1 (digital) – See Guide to Red Hulk. It’s a new Red Hulk book tying into “One World Under Doom” and starring the original flavor Red Hulk, rather than the Version 2.0 character briefly spotted in Sam Wilson: Captain America (2025).
This return is being written by Benjamin Percy, who I used to dig at DC but I haven’t enjoyed at all for the past half decade on Wolverine or Ghost Rider. Maybe he’s got the right vibe for a militaristic Hulk book, especially with a strong art team on his side with Geoff Shaw & Bryan Valenza.
Rogue: The Savage Land (2025) #2 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to X-Men – From the Ashes (2024 – Present). Issue #1 of this Tim Seeley retcon comic was the sleeper hit of the week for me and seemingly everyone else who read it in the comments of my Crushing Comics Live stream.
The issue fits perfectly between the pages of Uncanny X-Men (1963) #269, when Rogue popped out of her journey through the Siege Perilous into the Savage Land after being MIA for over 20 issues!
The incredibly savvy thing about picking this period for a retcon series it that it’s a time when we already know tons of action occurred off-panel for a character we love while the main cast was dealing with X-Tinction Agenda in issues #270-272. There’s no shoe-horning to be done here – this is a story that truly has been waiting to be told for over 30 years.
Tim Seeley’s inner monologue for Rogue is perfection, and the all-women art team of Zulema Scotto Lavina on pencils, Rachelle Rosenberg on colors, and Ariana Maher on letters are delivering vivid, exciting panels.
If issue #2 is as strong and as fun as issue #1 I’d say we have a certified hit on our hands. PLEASE can we get Seeley on a present-day X-Men book in print? He’s also killing it on the Astonishing X-Men Infinity Comic arc he’s writing right now.
Sabretooth: The Dead Don’t Talk (2024) #3 (digital) – See Guide to Sabretooth. This is a wild thing to consider, but… is this Frank Tieri book about Victor Creed in the early 1900s one of Marvel’s best X-books?
If the answer to that question is “yes,” that’s largely due to Michael Sta. Maria’s incredibly artwork and colors from Dono Sánchez-Almara & Javi Laparra, which give this turn-of-the-century world a surprising amount of heft.
Is this is the same brutal take on Sabretooth that Tieri always brings to the table? Yes, and it’s slightly jarring to picture him as a mover-and-shaker in NYC street gangs. But, I enjoy the idea that an earlier version of Sabretooth was a lot more clever and controlled than the rage monster of the present day.
This is a character who has often been denied textured in order to make him seem monstrous, so I’m in favor of Tieri showing us some of the making of that monster.
Sentinels (2024) #5 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to X-Men – From the Ashes (2024 – Present). The conclusion of the Alex Paknadel mini-series about hybrid human sentinels.
This one never clicked with me, but a lot of X-Fans dug it! I think if you go into it looking for a non-mutant book and also don’t mind weak artwork, bad coloring, and non-existent characterization, you’ll love it!
Sorry, y’all. No matter how hard I squint at this run I truly cannot say a single positive thing about it. I think it was a complete and utter catastrophe. There was nothing particularly compelling aside from the very slight reveal from the end of last issue. Maybe if that had been the anchor of the story in issue #1 it could have felt like this comic went somewhere.
We were promised a deeply personal story about characters who suffered loss at the hands of the villains in some of Marvel’s biggest events. That’s an amazing pitch that could’ve made this a real standout, but the comic never once delivered on that.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Adaptation (2025) #1 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe comics. Although I already know the full spoilers of this final Star Wars sequel film, every time I try to watch The Rise of Skywalker I bounce right off of it within 10 minutes.
Maybe this Jody Houser & Will Sliney adaptation will be my way to finally consume the JJ Abrams finale that I consider to be apocryphal when it comes to extending Star Wars canon.
TVA (2024) #3 (digital) – See Guide to Spider-Gwen – Ghost-Spider. I’m absolutely obsessed with this quirky little multiple-realities team-up comic, which snuck into my Top 10 Comics of 2025 list after issue #2. It’s headlined by Spider-Gwen and Captain Carter and which feels like it is 100% in-continuity with Loki Season 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine.
A huge element of that is Pere Pérez delivering some career-best artwork with Guru-eFX on colors, but I don’t want to lose sight of the clever simplicity of Katharyn Blair’s script. It’s not easy to make a book staffed with multiversal variant characters feel lightweight and easy to understand. Blair makes it look effortless.
Without weighing her scripts down with a bunch of alternate-reality mumbo jumbo she can focus on the personalities of her characters, mining them for comedic beats and creepy portents of the mystery at the core of her story.
I can strongly recommend this to any fan of Spider-Gwen or teams like Exiles. I really hope this isn’t a one-time series from TV scripter Blair, because she has a real knack for character voices that Marvel could use more of.
Ultimate Spider-Man (2024) #14 (digital) – See Guide to Marvel Ultimate Universe. I caught some flack on Crushing Krisis Live for panning the last issue of this book, which felt like it was purposefully avoiding telling the interesting parts of Jonathan Hickman’s story. Check out the stream for my one-minute rant.
I don’t understand why Hickman is pivoting so early into bad guys knowing Peter’s identity, a symbiote suit, and to someone else (spoilers!!!) being Spider-Man. We’ve barely got to see Peter do any Spidey stuff and now we’re into multiple months of him in captivity.
I guess this is our comeuppance for ruining his speedrun through Krakoa by demanding it slow down and linger on appreciating the scenery. And, if Hickman continues to follow his one-story-a-month rules, this issue will jump past much of the interesting conflict that was set up last issue to how us the situation already resolved.
I love this book overall and I think it’s some of Hickman’s best and most-personal superhero writing in many years. Yet, I’m definitely struggling with the pacing of the past few issues and what he chooses to show us on-panel versus what he decides to withhold.
Ultimate X-Men (2024) #12 (digital) – See Guide to Marvel Ultimate Universe for this Peach Momoko manga-inspired take on new mutants in Japan as it wraps up Year One.
Ultraman X Avengers (2024) #4 (of 4) (digital) – See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present) for this out-of-continuity team-up.
West Coast Avengers (2024) #4 (digital) – See Guide to Avengers West Coast. This quirky Gerry Duggan comics dropped its comedic trappings for a more straight-up supervillain conflict last issue, which took the shine of its typical charm.
I don’t think that was all Duggan’s fault. Artist Danny Kim was doing way too much with his panel layouts and it really broke up the rhythm of the script. That surprised me, because I dig his art I’ve enjoyed his ability to sell the comedy of this book so far. Check him out drawing live on a series of Sunday streams on his YouTube channel!
After that wobble, I can’t say I’m excited for this issue advertising Firestar in a romance with the delightfully surly Blue Bolt. Firestar has become one of Duggan’s pet characters who recur across projects, but I don’t think his take on her as “hot-headed” is much of a characterization.
Despite those critiques, I remain positive on this book because I think we need several different Avengers teams with different tones – especially with Jed MacKay doing a very JLA-inspired team in the flagship. I’m hoping both the art and Duggan’s writing settle down and get back to the subtle humor of the first two issues, where the team’s biggest challenge seemed to be figuring out how to be a team.
Women of Marvel: She-Devils (2025) #1 (one-shot) (digital) – A one-shot featuring little-seen hero Shanna The She-Devil and a team of Marvel women on the heels of the final issues of Blood Hunters (2024B), an all-female team Marvel couldn’t figure out how to keep in print.
Erica Schultz wrote Blood Hunters as well as the solo series of two of the cast members of this book (Wolverine & Elektra), but it’s being penned by Stephanie Phillips. I’ve dug Phillips’ solo work for years, but she’s failing to catch fire at Marvel despite headlining two pretty big ongoings right now, Phoenix and Ghost-Spider.
I admire Marvel letting folks have multiple chances, but I question who the audience is for this one-shot other than Shanna The She-Devil super-fans.
X-Men (2024) #12 (digital) – See Guide to X-Men – From the Ashes. Last issue’s straight-forward conflicts between father/son and X-Men/aliens made it one of the most-enjoyable issues of this Jed MacKay flagship to date!
This issue continues both stories, with the addition of Alpha Flight! I always love Alpha Flight, especially when they are penned by Canadian authors who can slip in some dialect and in-jokes.
I think you could easily pick this title up from issue #10 and ignore a lot of the fumbling of the first six months that came before that.
That’s for Marvel Comics February 26 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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