Next week is the 11th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Marvel Comics March 12 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Marvel Comics March 5 2025 new releases.
This week in Marvel Comics: Nocenti’s Daredevil finally in omni, more X-Manhunt (whether we like it or not), Kylo Ren chases Vader’s Legacy, Aaron’s Namor concludes, Miles Morales goes Epic, a huge Hudlin Panther omnibus, Stark Insurgent begins, and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: In a week without any big debuts, I’m left to get excited over some of my favorite ongoing titles, and high on that stack right now is Deadpool (2024) #12! Cody Ziglar is on quite a run of perfect, hilarious Deadpool stories that make excellent use of his supporting cast, and I’m loving his crossover conflict with Miles Morales.
This post includes every comic out from Marvel Comics March 12 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 March 12 2025 new releases!
Marvel Comics March 12 2025 Collected Editions
Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin Omnibus
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302963484 / digital)
See Guide to Black Panther. Finally, after waiting an eternity for the pair of Christopher Priest Black Panther omnibuses, we continue to the next sequential run with this massive 50+ issue omnibus covering the entirety of T’Challa’s 2005 run as well as the first arc of his 2009 series and the oft-reprinted Flags of our Fathers mini-series.
While Priest tends to get all of the attention when it comes to being a modern classic run, Hudlin introduces Shuri, presides over T’Challa’s wedding to Storm, and spends much more time on the ground in Wakanda developing the culture beyond the architecture introduced by Priest in his 1998 run.
This leaves us with just one more Panther omnibus of odds and ends prior to Marvel Now. T’Challa never had a solo during Now, and we already have his next pair of omnis – from Ta-Nehisi Coates! However, we also need a second “Early Years” omnibus covering his Bronze, 80s, and 90s material prior to Priest.
Daredevil By Nocenti & Romita Jr. Omnibus Vol. 1
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302963729 / digital)
See Guide to Daredevil. This collects the first half of Ann Nocenti’s run on Daredevil with no skipped issues – a 33-issue run of very well-loved comics (plus a crossover with Punisher (1987) #10). The second volume will contain more non-Nocenti material, as it will likely follow the “no skips” Epic Collection mapping of this series.
Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts Omnibus Vol. 1
[AKA Doctor Strange Vol. 3]
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302962173 / digital)
See Guide to Doctor Strange. A long-awaited third classic Doctor Strange omnibus, which finally pushes into his excellent Bronze Age material. This takes us to almost a the content of three Masterworks per omnibus, unlike the extraordinarily slim original pair of Strange omnis, which together only covered three MMWs!
Marvel-Verse: Thunderbolts
(2025 digest-size paperback, ISBN 978-1302954680)
I don’t know what the story is with this continued line of digest-size, semi-all-ages, introductory volumes from Marvel, which recently never seem to turn up in direct market sources or on Amazon. Are these going direct-to-Scholastic for kid sales or have they all been canceled? I’m not sure, but this collects a series of single issues that have absolutely not one single thing to do with the comic book Thunderbolts, but do feature a smattering of team members from the movie version.
Miles Morales: Spider-Man Modern Era Epic Collection Vol. 1: Hero in Training
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302961053 / digital)
See Guide to Spider-Man – Miles Morales. This collects the start of Miles’s story in the Ultimate Universe, when he was a much younger and more inexperienced character.
I’ve eventually gotten over Marvel aging him up, but there was a magic to this period that no one managed to recapture with his character until the Spider-Verse films and now the current Cody Ziglar run.
NYX Vol. 1: What Comes Next Will Be Marvelous
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302959326 / digital)
See Guide to X-Men – From the Ashes. This comic started out as such a bright spot on the X-Men line, with a first three issues that gave us three very deep looks into individual young mutants who were part of the Krakoan diaspora – Sophie Cuckoo, Kamala Khan, Laura Kinney, Anole, and Prodigy.
Unfortunately, the wheels came off this plot very quickly after that, with a rushed end to the first arc that the book never recovered from. Still, I think lovers of the Krakoan age (and of Academy X) will take some delight in this first story arc.
Thunderbolts: The Saga of the Winter Soldier
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302956684 / digital)
This is not a Thunderbolts collection! It collects Winter Soldier’s initial run of appearances in Captain America (2004), and then two much later mini-series – a flashback in Rick Remender’s Winter Soldier: The Bitter March (2014) #1-5 and a snappy 2018 mini-series from Kyle Higgins & Rod Reis that I really enjoyed.
Personally, I would’ve loved if they doubled the size of this book to include all of Winter Soldier (2012) #1-19, which has been his most-definitive solo outing to date while not acting as Cap.
Thunderbolts: The Saga of Yelena Belova [AKA White Widow]
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302956622 / digital)
See Guide to Black Widow. This collects no Thunderbolts material! Instead, it compiles Yelena Belova’s first two significant outings – her debut mini-series and her first solo mini series – plus Winter Guard (2021) #1-4 and some other odds and ends.
She only made about 50 appearances prior to 2024 and these are truly all of the best of them, so if you’re interested in the character this is a perfect buy.
X-Men by Jed MacKay Vol. 1: Homecoming
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302959364 / digital)
See Guide to X-Men – From the Ashes. Jed MacKay’s X-Men flagship didn’t really begin to boil for me until after this first collection. It has some decent one-off adventures, but it takes a while for MacKay’s oddball cast to click – Cyclops, Magneto, Beast, Magik, Psylocke, Quentin Quire, Temper, and Juggernaut. Plus, I’m simply not much of a fan of Ryan Stegman’s art.
X-Men: The Age of Apocalypse Vol. 1 – Alpha
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302963941 / digital)
See Guide to Marvel Universe Events – Age of Apocalypse. Many of us collected edition aficionados agree that it’s a little weird that Marvel is going back to print on this alternate reality saga without rebranding it as Epic Collections.
Read on for a summary of all of the Marvel Comics March 12 2025 single issue releases!
Marvel Comics March 12 2025 Physical Comic Releases
Alien: Paradiso (2024) #4 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Aliens comics. I have not enjoyed this series about xenomorphs being unwittingly unleashed on a resort planet. With the focus primarily on some annoying criminals and a pair of marshals with zero personality, there’s really no one to root for or against.
All-New Venom (2024) #4 (digital) – See Guide to Venom. Last issue was by far my favorite of this series, because we got into seeing Venom in action! Plus, Dylan Brock got to confront him face-to-face about taking the symbiote, rather than us following a Greek Chorus of people speculating on the identity of the person inside.
Dylan Brock’s caustic speculation about Venom’s identity is crueler and more tied up with his emotions than the broadly comedic whodunit about Venom’s identity Ewing was crafting previously. Ewing had a great setup, but he didn’t grow it enough or give us intriguing enough suspects. Throw in Night Thrasher or Dagger or some other 90s nostalgia. Keep us guessing.
On top of that, it looked freaking cool! Carlos Gomez and Frank D’Armata really played with the transformative qualities of the symbiote and his webs in a way that made every panel pop.
I think there’s some real potential to a series that primarily focuses on the symbiote and less on the person inside, so I’m kinda enjoying the mystery. I’ll be curious to see what happens after next issue when the reveal arrives. Will the entire tone of the book change?
The Amazing Spider-Man (2022) #69 (digital) – See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). It’s the penultimate issue of “The 8 Deaths of Spider-Man” and we’re back to Joe Kelly steering the ship into the finale of this 2022 volume.
I think Kelly’s had a potentially tight Doctor Doom & Cyttorak story here, but the bloat of extending it to 10 issues, having Justina Ireland pinch-hit in the middle, and adding a pair of utterly useless .DEATH issues have deflated the impeccable energy of Kelly’s opening pair of scripts. I feel like i’ve been squinting to try to make out the best parts of this story over the past few months.
That said, since Kelly is penning the end of this and the launch of the next volume, I wonder if the final issue out later this month will simply wrap this saga up neatly. Surely Kelly will add some little twist to give him a fun status quo to work with at the start of Amazing Spider-Man (2025).
Deadpool (2024) #12 (digital) – See Guide to Deadpool. Y’all, this Cody Ziglar comic is nothing but fun month after month. It’s the most fun I’ve had with a Deadpool comic in over a decade and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to let up anytime soon.
The current crossover with Ziglar’s Miles Morales has looked great, crackled with action, and delivered jokes on page after page. Deadpool has the right supporting cast in Ellie, Taskmaster, and his big red symbiote dog and it has brought the irreverent joy back to his character.
Absolutely pick this series up from issue #10 and then dive right into this hilarious crossover!!!
Hellhunters (2024) #4 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Ghost Rider. I’m beginning to mildly enjoy this Phillip Kennedy Johnson World War II Ghost Rider book set in occupied France.
I know that sounds like I’m damning it with faint praise, but I think all of the elements are coming together for something compelling. Unfortunately, that’s happening at issue four of a five-issue mini-series.
This book has been paced like an ongoing that has plenty of time for a leisurely set-up of its team in the first arc rather than a limited series that has a fixed number of pages and panels to make its impact. Storywise, nothing has happened except for a few occasional skirmishes with nazis.
I think even if this issue is total perfection, the pacing of this series has already defeated it. BUT… I think Sal Romero as a WW2 Ghost Rider is pretty darn cool, and I think following him into another series could have some legs.
Hellverine (2024B) #4 (digital) – See Guide to Daken – Akihiro (eventually). If there are no Akihiro fans than I am dead, because I will always have love for my pansexual murder son, his mohawk, and his bone claws.
I think the challenge of this book is that it’s trying to serve two masters by being both an Akihiro comic and a Ghost Rider book. I enjoy that last issue pulled Daken back to the small Japanese town of his birth, which tacks closer to his identity than anything we’ve seen with him in a while now. However, I also think Daken works the best as a fun character who fucks and fights his way out of every tense situation (and into some more), and that element has so far been missing from the slow burn horror-suspense vibe of this comic.
I’d say Ben Percy is a better fit for Akihiro’s voice than he was for Logan, but I feel Hellverine is already out of time to catch fire. And yet… this isn’t solicited as a limited series at the moment, so maybe it will make it to a second arc?
Iron Man (2024) #6 (digital) – See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark. I’m really struggling with this Spencer Ackerman series. I like that Ackerman is staying focused on one-shot stories that feel like substantial reads, but I’m not sure he could tell us what this book is actually about. Is it board room shenanigans? Magical armor? Dim jokes about in-suit A.I.?
There’s no reason it can’t be about all of those things. The problem is a real lack of characterization of Tony Stark at the center of them all. We saw him beaten down and defiant in the first two issues, but after that I’ve lost the sense of who he is in this run.
I think modern Iron Man runs tend to live or die by either centering on Tony the human being in the armor OR bringing a big concept to Iron Man. Knauf had Iron Man lead shield. Fraction focused on Tony’s regrets. Gillen took Iron Man to space. Bendis focused on Tony’s identity. Cantwell had Iron Man face off against Korvac. Duggan had Tony try to write a memoir and deal with the coopting of his brand.
We’re six issues into this run and I’m not sure what Ackerman wants to to be about. There’s no Tony and there’s nothing big. I’m hoping with this issue kicking off a “Stark Insurgent” arc we’re going to see some more specificity around Tony’s plans. Plus, Julius Ohta is back on this issue, and he is by far my favorite thing about this book so far.
Namor (2024) #8 (of 8) (digital) – See Guide to Namor – The Sub-Mariner. After a rocky start that saw Namor craving a golden shower (god I wish I was kidding), this book kept getting stronger and stronger as Aaron connected the themes of Namor’s rebellious youth to his present day rejection of the title of King of the Seas.
Ultimately I think those uneven early issues hold this one back from being a strong recommendation, but I’m certainly interested to see how Aaron resolves things with this character he has come back to again and again over the years. I strongly suspect this is going to reset Namor to a very classic status quo to leave him open to future uses after what adds up to an entire decade of him being damaged in some way.
Nick Fury vs. Fin Fang Foom (2025) #1 (one-shot) (digital) – Alas, I do not yet have a Nick Fury guide, though it has been near the top of my list for quite some time now.
This is the third of J. Michael Straczynski one-shots of unlikely team-ups, and this time it’s with Eisner-winner Elena Casagrande – one of my favorite artists! It appears to be a throwback story to the original Nick Fury in his Howling Commandos days, and I think throwing that grounded squad up against Marvel’s own big daddy kaiju Fin Fang Foom is a delicious combination.
Phoenix (2024) #9 (digital) – See Guide to X-Men – From the Ashes. I think it’s funny that of all books to escape the grasp of this Xavier crossover, it is Phoenix – perhaps his greatest and most-dedicated student.
That might be a good thing. Marvel seems to be pushing hard to keep Jean separated from current mutant happenings on Earth in order to establish her as a cosmic character. Her book is even meriting another arc even as three other ongoings from the “From the Ashes” launch bite the dust at issue ten.
Unfortunately, I thought last issue was the worst yet of this cosmic series. Artist Alessandro Miracolo was not a hit with fans on the first few issues, so I’m surprised he was invited back. And, it felt like the issue mostly just recapped Uncanny X-Men (1963) #137 – a 40+ year old book that most X-Men fans have dedicated to memory!
It makes me wild with rage that we finally have an adult Jean Grey ongoing series with Thanos as the big bad and yet we’re getting a big pile of nothing in some issues of the book. And now, with that Thanos confrontation simmering, this issue’s solicit teases that it’s just about Jean rising “to new power and prominence in the galaxy!”
Fuck that, y’all. Can we have a fight? Can we have Jean getting involved in a more complex way with the people she sees herself as shepherding, instead of just using the dull-as-rocks Adani as a stand-in for all of them?
If this comic ends without telling one great Jean-in-Space story I will never forgive this creative and editorial team.
Power Man: Timeless (2025) #2 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Luke Cage – Power Man. Issue #1 of this Lanzing/Kelly comic with Bernard Chang turned out to be even more pointless than I surmised in my write-up last month.
Future Luke Cage has the powers of so many heroes that he’s an nigh-invincible meteor of might, and he crashes through time and space into our present day Milky Way to have a forgettable space fight and save some planet from some fate. I dunno, I literally cannot remember anything about this comic except for how much I hated every second of it.
The future version of Power Man was fascinating in his own timeline, but importing him to the present day just gives us Old Man Luke crossed with The Sentry. Meanwhile, last month Ultimates (2024) #9 was out on the same release day with one of the best Luke Cage stories of all time. Seeing the two books side-by-side really drove home how this title could really be about any hero – because there’s nothing distinct about its rendition of Power Man.
I think I could understand this if there was the sort of unbelievable fan fervor over Timeless Power Man the way there was for Gwenpool or Cosmic Ghost Rider, but I haven’t heard a single peep about him from fandom in the year since his debut. I think the wiser way to develop him with longevity in mind would be to let him have his own continuity, not drag him into the present day of Marvel 616.
Sabretooth: The Dead Don’t Talk (2024) #4 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Sabretooth. I was starting to believe we might have something special on our hands with this turn-of-the-20th-Century Sabretooth book – especially thanks to artist Michael Sta. Maria.
Then, last issue had to go and remind me that this is still being written by Frank Tieri. All of the violence that Victor Creed committed against rival gangs in issue #2 turned out to be just to get something brutal onto the page. Last issue, all the gangs were back in action, plus we got a sexy super-ninja from K’un L’un specifically so she and Creed could fight, set fire to a brothel, and then end their bloody confrontation with a fuck while the building literally burned down around them.
Who at Marvel is letting this guy write for their intellectual property in 2025!? I guess there are some mouth-breathing machista comic fans for whom it is peak comics-making to see Creed slice his way through an old-timey NYC where woman only get speaking roles if they’re going to be literal sex objects.
Personally, I think Tieri had something potentially magical with a more grounded (and still bloody) mob story in the first two issues, but his base instincts spoiled what could have been.
Star Wars: Legacy of Vader (2025) #2 (digital) – See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe Comics. I loved the first issue of this Charles Soule, Luke Ross, & Nolan Woodard comic exploring Kylo Ren’s descent into Vader-worshipping megalomania in the run-up to Rise of Skywalker.
Having Ren directly deal with the emotional and physical baggage of his authoritarian grandfather as a way to deepen his somewhat shallow character arc from the films is a brilliant choice. And, Luke Ross has quickly risen to be my favorite artist drawing the world of a galaxy far, far away.
While this might be a total miss for sequel-haters, if you just wish the sequel trilogy had suggested a bit more depth this is a perfect book for you.
West Coast Avengers (2024) #5 (digital)- See Guide to Avengers West Coast. I’m enjoying Gerry Duggan’s lightweight scripts for for this fizzy left-coast series and its suspicious multiple Ultrons.
However, I just cannot tolerate the confusing paneling chooses from Danny Kim. They’re killing the entire comic for me. For some visual examples of what I mean, check out Crushing Comics Live. This artist has never met a panel he can resist turning into a irregular trapezoid floating in undefined black space for no discernible reason.
For folks less attuned to panel economy than I am, this book seems to be a low-key hit. It’s presenting a much looser, funnier version of Tony Stark than the main Iron Man (2024) book and this misfit, mismatchedcast of War Machine, Spider-Woman, Firestar, Blue Bolt, and of course Ultron is proving to be consistently fun.
I just wish the art was better at delivering on the punchlines!
X-Factor (2024) #8 (digital) – See Guide to X-Factor. This issue should be read after the X-Men issue below, as it’s the fifth overall chapter of the “X-Manhunt” crossover. It’s also X-Factor’s 300th issue! And, what could be a better X-Factor-themed celebration than Cyclops and Havok having a brotherly throwdown.
I’m intensely curious to see how Mark Russell handles being sucked directly into a crossover. All of his event work I’ve seen in the past have been tie-ins that existed safely off to the side of a big event.
Also, could I finally be warming to Russell’s writing on this title? Both issues #6 and #7 featured some disarming moments of real humanity for our mutants amidst Russell’s mostly-toothless biting social commentary. After five issues where the existence of this government squad felt like it was all in the service of easy jokes about bureaucracy, the cast is finally starting to click for me.
Whether I like it or not is moot, as this title is cancelled after another two issues with no immediate next steps in sight for Russell or his cast. I will forever content this was doomed by a bad fit between title and concept – this was the perfect book for reviving the “X-Statix” brand, or even “Freedom Force”! I don’t think it was ever going to succeed as X-Factor, which as a band at this point is much more about investigating things than it is about Havok.
X-Men (2024) #13 (digital) – See Guide to X-Men – From the Ashes. Jed MacKay’s X-Men flagship just keeps getting better and better as he leans away from editorially mandated “Krakoa was bad, actually” plot beats and into simply having fun with his oddball assemblage of mutants with attitude problems.
The past two issues were a fun, light-weight arc running into alien bounty hunters and teaming up with Alpha Flight. It wasn’t necessarily “important,” but it was a heck of a lot of fun and Netho Diaz drew it incredibly well. He might be my favorite interior artist at Marvel when it comes to drawing Magik at the moment.
Diaz is still drawing this issue (dare I hope he is the new regular artist?!), but it’s the first installment of the “X-Manhunt” direct crossover out this week (and fourth chapter, overall).
As of press time for this post I haven’t had a chance to read this week’s new releases yet, but every reaction I’ve seen online to the first three chapters of X-Manhunt has been 100% negative. However, MacKay has shown a Ewing-esque verve for making events work to his advantage on prior books even if his actual event – Blood Hunt – was a bit of a bomb. Plus, this seems to continue directly from this week’s Storm (2024) issue, and Storm is the best X-book right now, so maybe this will maintain the quality.
Yet, even if MacKay steers out of event morass with this one, next issue he’s back to this team being moored to their small Alaskan town as drawn by Ryan Stegman.
That’s for Marvel Comics March 12 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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