Next week is the 18th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Marvel Comics April 30 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Marvel Comics April 23 2025 new releases.
This week in Marvel Comics: Ultimate Mysterio’s mystery revealed, Doom’s Division hits Japan, Earth X recollected, our biggest Jeff collection yet, TVA concludes, NYX ends, Fantastic Four counts down, a Spider-Man Modern Era Epic, and more!
Marvel has 15 comics for sale this week (not counting FCBD and giveaways) and only 3 of them are ongoing titles. If that’s not a state of emergency indicating how much trouble Marvel’s line is in, I don’t know what is!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: An easy pick for me this week, since I loved the first issue of this series so much – Doom’s Division (2025) #2! I’m happy to say that issue #1 turned out to be a favorite of the week of mine last month not just because the competition was slim (and it was) but because I loved the easy way Yoon Ha Lee communicated so much information about a new set of characters and an unfamiliar culture. I’m looking forward to more.
This post includes every comic out from Marvel Comics April 30 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 April 30 2025 new releases!
Marvel Comics April 30 2025 Collected Editions
Marvel collected editions tend to hit the bookmarket on the same day as the Direct Market (or one day prior), so all of these Marvel Comics April 30 2025 collected editions should also be available from your local bookseller next week!
Amazing Spider-Man Modern Era Epic Collection: Coming Home
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302964450 / digital)
See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (1963 – 2018). This is the first “Modern Era” Epic of Spider-Man, which curiously doesn’t pick up at the start of his 1998 series! Instead, the first two years of those books will be part of the classic Epic line, and this book begins with J. Michael Straczynski writing Amazing Spider-Man (1998) #30 (and does not collect other titles in his line).
Earth X
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302962913 / digital)
This recollects the 14 original issues of the alternate EarthX future of the Marvel Universe.
Fantastic Four vs. Galactus
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302964832 / digital)
See Guide to Fantastic Four. This collects just a pair of key Galactus confrontations – his Lee/Kirby origin and one in the midst of John Byrne’s run.
Human Torch: Burn
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302960964 / digital)
See Guide to Fantastic Four. Nothing like a new MCU installment to bring out the random reprints of forgotten series! This collects half (yep, just half) of Human Torch (2003) #1-12, a short-lived solo series from Marvel’s manga-influenced Tsunami line written by Karl Kesel with art from a young Skottie Young.
It’s Jeff: Jeff-Verse
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302961695 / digital)
Awww, I definitely need a Guide to Jeff!!! This collects It’s Jeff (2023) #1, It’s Jeff: Jeff-Verse (2023) #1, and Venom War: It’s Jeff (2024) #1. The Venom War issue is all-original content (and it is HILARIOUS), but the other two issues simply reprint It’s Jeff! Infinity Comic (2021) #1-24 digital comics.
Despite this not including any of Jeff’s origins, it’s the perfect book for any Jeff-lover in your life, no matter their age and their familiarity with Marvel Rivals (where Jeff is a breakout star).
Kid Venom: Origins
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302958688 / digital)
See Guide to Venom. This is the origin story of an alt-reality Venom of 900s Japan.
Marvel: May 1965 Omnibus
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302962258 / digital)
Marvel keeps pumping out these “significant month” omnibuses collecting an entire release month of Marvel’s Silver Age, so I guess someone must be pre-ordering them? I don’t personally know any of them, but they must be out there! This one collects the line from the month that SHIELD debuted.
This collects Strange Tales (1951) #135, Uncanny X-Men (1963) #12, Journey Into Mystery (1952) #118, Tales to Astonish (1959) #70, Patsy and Hedy (1952) #101, Rawhide Kid (1955) #47, Fantastic Four (1961) #41, Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #27, Avengers (1963) #18, Tales of Suspense (1959) #68, Sgt. Fury (1963) #20, Daredevil (1964) #9, Modeling With Millie (1963) #40, Patsy Walker (1945) #122, Kid Colt Outlaw (1948) #124, Two-Gun Kid (1948) #77, and Millie the Model (1945) #130
Star Wars: Crimson Reign Omnibus
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302961848 / digital)
See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe Comics. This is effectively a “linewide” omnibus of all of the Star Wars line of Episode 5.5 comics as they tied in to a reimagined “Crimson Reign,” a story reflecting a classic of the old expanded universe that came immediately on the heels of “War of the Bounty Hunters.”
Read on for a summary of all of the Marvel Comics April 30 2025 single issue releases!
Marvel Comics April 30 2025 Physical Comic Releases
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Doom Academy (2025) #3 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Doctor Strange (& Strange Academy!) or Guide to Marvel Universe Events – One World Under Doom. I continue to find this MacKenzie Cadenhead Strange Academy remix effortlessly charming.
All of my past critiques of Strange Academy about its broad cast with amorphous personalities are out the window with a series that’s focused on a recognizable core of characters with clear motivations.
I hope fans show up for this formula so we can get more of Cadenhead writing these characters after the event is over – I think she’s the right steward for their next chapter.
Doom’s Division (2025) #2 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Marvel Universe Events – One World Under Doom. The first issue of this rebranded version of White Fox’s “Tiger Division” was an unexpected Pick of the Week for me!
Yoon Ha Lee encoded so much information about character and culture into her script without it ever feeling forced or overstuffed. I’m totally in for more of Korea’s super team and their unease with their new Doom-based branding.
Fantastic Four (2022) #31 (digital) – See Guide to Fantastic Four. Ryan North has written nearly three years of delightful all-timer Fantastic Four comics, but the glowing reputation of this series seems to be in rapid decline as logic and characterization get thrown out the window in favor of “One World Under Doom” tie-ins.
North is counting down from Four to Zero in this final arc, with the team seemingly losing their powers one by one. Yawn. I guess you’ve gotta swing big when you’re writing the line-wide event at the same time a new movie is hitting, but this book was better when it had a smaller scope.
Free Comic Book Day! This week is the first Saturday of May, which is Free Comic book day!
Marvel has a trio of issues out with new content with “Amazing Spider-Man / Ultimate Universe” (which previews the upcoming Miles/Ultimate mini-event), “Fantastic Four / Giant-Size X-Men” (previewing the upcoming North relaunch and unfortunate summer X-Men one-shots), and “Star Wars” (introducing a new Star Wars comic by… oh no… Alex Segura…).
Plus, reprint material in”Iron Man & His Awesome Friends / Spidey & His Amazing Friends” (I think this is reprint, but I’m not sure where the Iron Man story would come from) and “Ironheart / Marvel’s Voices.”
Godzilla vs. Spider-Man (2025) #1 (one-shot) (digital) – See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). These non-continuity Godzilla mash-ups continue into the 80s with a Black Suit Spidey showdown.
I hated the 70s Hulk installment from Gerry Duggan passionately, but I’m just not a big Kaiju person to begin with. Unlike Ryan North’s previous F4 one-shot, last week’s Duggan Hulk story was a total “What If” that was far outside of any semblance of existing Hulk continuity, which was a real turn-off for me. I know some readers are into that sort of thing, but I really enjoyed the grounded aspect of the F4 story in that I could tell where it was meant to fit in relation to the characters and their histories.
Hellhunters (2024) #5 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Ghost Rider (which just got a major clean-up!). This Phillip Kennedy Johnson World War 2 riff could’ve been called “Mighty Invaders” or something else to hint that these demon-Nazi hunting soldiers were a team of heroes just a shade away from an Invaders lineup.
I actually think this concept and team have enough legs to be worth more than a five-issue mini, but that might be in large part due to Adam Gorham’s artwork. Still, I appreciate how PKJ backdoor piloted this out of inventing a new Ghost Rider in his run on Incredible Hulk (2023). I always say that the Riders are the Green Lantern Corps of the Marvel Universe, and it feels right to have a Golden Age version of the rider.
Kid Juggernaut (2025) #1 (one-shot) (digital) – After a year of lovable himbo Kid Juggernaut anchoring the joyful Avengers Academy Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic (2024), we get a print collection of his origins in Kid Juggernaut: Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic (2024) #1-6 by Emily Kim.
NYX (2024) #10 (of 10) (digital) – See Guide to X-Men – From the Ashes. Welp, it’s over. Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly had a great idea to focus on Krakoa’s youth being plunged back into the real world of the New York city, but the series has been plagued with pacing problems, inconsequential filler plots, and unfortunate art change-ups.
This felt like the “From the Ashes” series that had the most potential. Maybe in the hands of a different writing or editing team we could’ve got there. Instead, this will be quickly forgotten – and I can’t say there’s much of it that makes it worth remembering.
Red Hulk (2025) #3 (digital) – See Guide to Red Hulk. I love Benjamin Percy’s approach to Thunderbolt Ross staging a break-out of Doom’s deep state prison with a bevy of late-70s favs like Deathlok and Machine Man.
Last issue reversed the formula of issue #1, giving us some Red Hulk up front and then putting the genie back in the bottle for the rest of the issue. I think it was more fun waiting for him to emerge in the first issue, but we still got somewhere in the breakout plot.
I remain positive on this Percy jam with artist Geoff Shaw, who continues to deliver work with the perfect amount of roughness for this character.
Rogue: The Savage Land (2025) #4 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to X-Men – From the Ashes, even though this is a flashback series set between Uncanny X-Men (1963) #269 & 274 for Rogue.
I appreciate Tim Seeley taking an episodic approach here to make sure each issue feels dense with plot, but it feels like we’re dealing with “monster of the week” level problems when there were several big plot beats in this period it feels like we’ve never seen in full.
Also, an art changeup this issue finds Von Randal subbing in for the spectacular Zulema Scotto Lavina, who will be back next issue. What’s the point of a single-issue fill-in for a five-issue mini-series! Just delay this a month! What’s the hurry, it’s not like it has to tie-in to anything.
I feel like this is a perfect example of Marvel’s current “keep the trains running on time” approach to storytelling, which cares very little for the end product as long as there are more than 15 comics to sell every week. They had something potentially magical and evergreen for Rogue with this series, but they’re throwing it away to hit a schedule that no one actually cares about.
Star Wars: The High Republic – Fear of the Jedi (2025) #3 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe comics. “Naboo was only a distraction” is really the line of last issue. Or of the entirety of High Republic.
Everything that Cavan Scott has ever set up in High Republic always wind sup feels rushed and inconsequential, as if we’re in a hurry to get to a more significant plot that never arrives. Nothing about it is particularly interesting or fulfilling. It’s like an illustrated wiki summary – which is what most people will win up reading about High Republic rather than revisiting these comics.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Adaptation (2025) #3 (digital) – See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe comics. Not even queen of summarizing Jody House can save this nonsense movie script, but she’s trying really damn hard.
Houser does her best to condense Rise of Skywalker down to the most important scenes, but they feel like random dice rolls of characters and motivations just like they did in the film. Also, I was surprised to see Will Sliney struggling with likenesses, which are usually his forté.
I still think this is a better (or, at least, less painful) experience than watching the movie, but that’s faint praise.
Thunderbolts Dossier Comic (2025) #1 (one-shot) – This is a promotional, non-continuity comic available to Thunderbolts* movie-goers at Regal Cinemas.
Thunderbolts: Doomstrike (2025) #3 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Thunderbolts & Dark Avengers or Guide to Marvel Universe Events – One World Under Doom. This book could be subtitled “Let’s see how bad it gets for Bucky.” Bucky Barnes AKA Winter Soldier AKA Revolution keeps trying to one-up Doom only to dig himself into a deeper hole every time.
You’d think Lanzing & Kelly would be a bit better here than their recent average, since they’ve spent a fair amount of time with Bucky as a character. Nope. “One World Under Doom” requires every hero to act Civil War levels of dumb in order to sell its central conceit. This isn’t Bucky the character, it’s Bucky the plot device. He goes to Walker, who is drunk. To Sharon, the Texas resistance. He hunts up a pretty cool Ghost Rider Phillip Kennedy Johnson just invented just so he can get promptly killed.
It’s all just so empty, though the art is strong and the actual technical writing is fine. It’s the motivations that are off. Bucky just got tens of thousands of people killed and he’s doing a train job because he wants to bloody Doom’s nose? It just doesn’t track.
But, that’s Lanzing & Kelly comics over the past year or so for Marvel and DC – big on institutional memory of cool plot beats, low on character choices making any sense.
TVA (2024) #5 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Spider-Gwen – Ghost Spider, for lack of anywhere else to put this. I’ve enjoyed every issue of this Katharyn Blair series focused on Gwen leading an unlikely interdimensional team that could easily be called “The Exiles” if not for the desire to tie in with the MCU.
Some fans cried foul because this seemingly promised a canonical tie to the MCU. Come on, people – how naive can you be?! Let’s just enjoy Gwen being voiced well and having a plot-motivated reason to adventure outside of the Marvel Universe.
Ultimate Spider-Man (2024) #16 (digital) – See Guide to Marvel Ultimate Universe. Last issue we found the Parker family on an unplanned road trip to take the heat of the Sinister Six of of Peter… only for him to randomly run into another traditional member of the Six in the southwestern desert.
It was a fun, gorgeous issue, but it continues the trend of this title – nay, this entire universe – feeling increasingly insubstantial. We’ve barely had a chance to see Peter Parker being an adult Spider-Man before inserting a kid Spider-Man sidekick for last issue’s one-off that felt less like a full story and more like replaying a video game boss fight a few times.
Weapon X-Men (2025) #3 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Weapon X. After a slam-bang action opener, the second issue of this Joe Casey mini-series completely stalled out with a length villain monologue. Weird choice in an event mini-series that had potential to spin off a new book in its wake if it was hot enough.
Wolverine and Kitty Pryde (2025) #1 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Wolverine – Logan. Papa Claremont is back with yet another retcon series for Wolverine. I think the 190s of Uncanny X-Men are already an overstuffed period of comics continuity for the team, but that’s almost certainly when this is set.
That’s for Marvel Comics April 30 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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