Missing Marvel Launches

[WebSlingWonder]

Hey all,

I know this may be kind of redundant, but I wanted to highlight a few of the missing Marvel launches from their released solicits. Some of these may stay in print, others may go digital. I'm curious to see which you'll see!

EVENTS

"THE DARKHOLD" - Scarlet Witch event that was supposed to start in June; limited series starting with "Alpha" ending with "Omega". Focused on various magic characters teaming with Wanda to explore the Darkhold.

"INFINITE DESTINES" - Annual Event across several annuals; included the new hosts of the Infinity Stones meshing with the Marvel Heroes; also included a side-stody called "Super Spy vs. Super Spy" where Nick Fury, Agent of Nothing, faced Phil Coulson, Agent of Mephisto.

"OUTLAWED" - The initial one-shot has been released but subsequent tie-ins are on pause; included "Champions", "New Warriors", "Power Pack", "Magnificent Ms. Marvel", "Ghost-Spider", and "Miles Morales: Spider-Man". All except MM are missing in print or digital (GS is now digital only); focused on the teen heroes being outlawed by the government.

NEW SERIES
(Includes new ongoings, mini series, and one-shots not yet given a new date)

The Marvels
Silk
Non-Stop Spider-Man
Shang-Chi
Juggernaut
Children of the Atom
America Chavez: Made in the USA
W.E.B. of Spider-Man
Black Widow
Taskmaster
Black Widow: Widow's Sting
Widowmakers: Red Guardian and Yelena Belova
The Punisher vs Barracuda
Werewolf by Night
The Union
Marvel Zombies: Resurrection
How to Read Comics the Marvel Way
Champions
New Warriors
Power Pack
The Darkhold: Alpha
Empyre: Spider-Man
Empyre: Thor
Empyre: Ghost Rider
Empyre: the Invasion of Wakanda
Empyre: Stormranger
Empyre: Squadron Supreme
X-Men: Marvels Snapshots
Avengers: Marvels Snapshots
Spider-Man: Marvels Snapshots
Captain Marvel: Marvels Snapshots
Civil War: Marvels Snapshots
Web of Venom: Wraith
Immortal Hulk: The Threshing Place

I didn't include current series because I know y'all know the list. This list is by no means comprehensive.

[your_name_here]

I was really excited for the Shang Chi series, hopefully it’ll be announced soon.

[Frontier]

That's a lotta books...

[Personamanx]

There's definitely a few there I was interested in, but most of them are probably being delayed until the market stabilizes somewhat which isn't a bad thing. There's gonna be some titles dropped entirely, and more than a few will go digital. Most can be sat upon more or less indefinitely, and the Black Widow stuff just needs to come out in a window around the movie's new release date.

[Iron Maiden]

Makes you wonder if Marvel is taking a serious look at all these titles and wondering if they need to thin it down.

[skyvolt2000]

Makes you wonder if Marvel is taking a serious look at all these titles and wondering if they need to thin it down.

Then they shouldn't have greenlighted them.

Some of those books have been listed and preorders have been made. With some folks having already paid for those books.

I don't care how many folks prayed to Satan over that Warriors books-but folks have paid for that first issue in stores and even on Ebay. I doubt those stores owners want to refund money.

[Digifiend]

That's a lotta books...

Yeah, there's over 180 individual issues in the April, May and June solicits that haven't been rescheduled. I did a count of them in another thread, basing it on the Marvel Database (Fandom) category page called COVID Delay.

Confirmed news so far:

Black Widow, Taskmaster, Widowmakers, and Widow's Sting are all probably now due in November - they were delayed because the Black Widow movie was.

Some of the Empyre tie-ins not already rescheduled have been cancelled. Though we don't know if it's all of them - digital first from July is still a possibility at this point.

The Darkhold TPB is scheduled for December to tie-in with the WandaVision Disney+ series. They'll probably end up double shipping this from September (it has seven issues) so the TPB can still be released on time.

Speculation:

Ghost-Spider is digital only, as is 2020 Ironheart. Both of these are Outlawed tie-ins, as is Miles Morales #17 out next week. I'll be surprised if Ms. Marvel, Miles Morales and Champions aren't going digital as well, from July. I think that issue of Miles only made it to print because it was originally due out on April 1st. The fact issue #18 hasn't yet been resolicited is something we have to take into account when guessing what they're planning. If it's not going digital, it'll be a three month gap between issues for Miles (it's two months for most books) and at least five months for Champions and Kamala's solo.

[Anthony W]

INFINITE DESTINES" - Annual Event across several annuals; included the new hosts of the Infinity Stones meshing with the Marvel Heroes; also included a side-stody called "Super Spy vs. Super Spy" where Nick Fury, Agwnt of Nothing, faced Phil Coulson, Agent of Mephisto.

Ugh...Why can't Marvel just figure out a way to bring back the Nick Fury from the Ultimate Universe and then bring him over to the main universe like they did for Miles? It's such an obvious fix.

[WebSlingWonder]

Ugh...Why can't Marvel just figure out a way to bring back the Nick Fury from the Ultimate Universe and then bring him over to the main universe like they did for Miles? It's such an obvious fix.

It was an obvious fix, but now Nick Fury Jr. is so ingrained in the main Marvel Universe that it would be awkward.

[WebSlingWonder]

Then they shouldn't have greenlighted them.

Some of those books have been listed and preorders have been made. With some folks having already paid for those books.

I don't care how many folks prayed to Satan over that Warriors books-but folks have paid for that first issue in stores and even on Ebay. I doubt those stores owners want to refund money.

I don't know if Marvel shouldn't have greenlit them; no one could have predicted the whirlwind of COVID-19, so they had no clue it would hit comics this hard.

[WebSlingWonder]

That's a lotta books...

It is! I was surprised at the list just by how many #1's and new series were supposed to launch. I didn't even include the Infinitr Destinies annuals, which adds like 8 or so issues.

[Frontier]

It was an obvious fix, but now Nick Fury Jr. is so ingrained in the main Marvel Universe that it would be awkward.

Is he, though? He feels pretty irrelevant most of the time and only makes very sporadic guest appearances. I sometimes forget he exists half the time.

[WebSlingWonder]

Is he, though? He feels pretty irrelevant most of the time and only makes very sporadic guest appearances. I sometimes forget he exists half the time.

I guess when I think ingrained, I meant he shows up often enough without reference to his father. And Sr. hasn't shown up at all since his new role as the Unseen.

[Anthony W]

It was an obvious fix, but now Nick Fury Jr. is so ingrained in the main Marvel Universe that it would be awkward.

Lmao no, no he isn't. He really isn't. He is just the current/least liked Nick Fury. He is not ingrained into anything. You can replace him tomorrow with Ultimate Nick and no one would blink.

[WebSlingWonder]

Lmao no, no he isn't. He really isn't. He is just the current/least liked Nick Fury. He is not ingrained into anything. You can replace him tomorrow with Ultimate Nick and no one would blink.

No need to be a jerk. I answered this one from Frontier saying that he's at least referred to more often than his father.