It's So On, Spider-Man and Wolverine Are Teaming Up In a Brand-New Series
Wolverine and Spider-Manhave been forced to team up countless times throughout the years, but a new series is giving them a reason to work together in their first ever shared ongoing book. Coming from a creative team with a lot of both Spidey and X-Men experience, this title promises to test its leads in new ways - and may just have something to do with the mysterious pasts of both characters.
Marvel Comics has announced a new team-up book: Spider-Man & Wolverine, an ongoing series by writer Mark Guggenheim and artist Kaare Andrews that arrives May 7th, 2025. Guggenheim shared the first details of the series via Polygon, revealing that the duo will be hunting for the "Janus Directory," a list of every undercover spy in the Marvel Universe.
Guggenheim also lists a number of influences, citing classic artists for both Spidey and Wolverine from the '80s and '90s as the primary inspiration behind the book’s tone, which makes sense alongside Andrews, whose own exaggerated style recalls '90s trends.
Spider-Man and Wolverine Are Teaming Up for an Ongoing Spy Adventure
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This new story is far from the first team-up between Spider-Man and Wolverine. Famously, the two heroes often find themselves at odds when put together in the same book, with Peter’s strict moral code butting up against Logan’s willingness to kill. Miniseries like Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine by Jason Aaron and Adam Kubert have played up this odd-couple dynamic, forcing the duo into increasingly absurd situations where they have to rely on each other to survive, but the new Spider-Man & Wolverine title is their first ongoing team-up book.
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Both creators behind Spider-Man & Wolverine have also worked on Spider-Man and the X-Men before in some capacity. Guggenheim wrote the series X-Men: Gold in 2017 and was also part of the rotating cast of writers in Spider-Man’s "brain trust" during the Brand New Day era in the mid-2000s. Meanwhile, Andrews worked on Ultimate X-Men #23-24 with writer Mark Millar, but more famously wrote and illustrated Spider-Man: Reign and its 2024 sequel, Spider-Man: Reign 2, both of which imagined a shockingly dark future for an older Peter Parker.
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Logan Isn't the Only One with a Checkered Past
Guggenheim’s hints to Polygon also suggest the return of some interesting continuity surrounding Spider-Man. Guggenheim has already confirmed that Logan is in the Janus Directory, but readers often forget that Peter Parker also has a connection to the espionage world. Peter’s parents, Richard and Mary Parker, were also spies, first for first the CIA and then SHIELD, which eventually led to their deaths. If their history is tied up in the Janus Directory, then this series might not just be a fun, wacky team-up between Wolverine and Spider-Man, but a mission that’s personal - and with major consequences for continuity.
Spider-Man & Wolverine #1 is available May 7th, 2025 from Marvel Comics.
Sources: Marvel, Polygon
- Created By
- Stan Lee, Steve Ditko
- First Appearance
- Amazing Fantasy
- Alias
- Peter Parker, Ben Reilly, Otto Octavius, Yu Komori, Kaine Parker, Pavitr Prabhakar, William Braddock, Miles Morales, Kurt Wagner
- Alliance
- Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Secret Defenders, Future Foundation, Heroes for Hire, Mighty Avengers, New Avengers, Web-Warriors
Spider-Man is the name given to several individuals who have employed a spider-moniker throughout Marvel Comics. Typically gaining their powers through a bite from a radioactive spider, the different Spider-Man heroes employ super-strength, agility, and intellect while utilizing webbing to swing and tangle up their foes. The most notable of these Spider-Men is Peter Parker, who remains one of the most popular superheroes throughout the world.
- Race
- Human
- Franchise
- Marvel, Spider-Man
- Created By
- Roy Thomas, Len Wein, John Romita Sr.
- First Appearance
- The Incredible Hulk (2023)
- Alias
- James "Logan" Howlett
- Alliance
- X-Men, Avengers, Canadian Army, OSS/CIA, Avengers Unity Squad, Alpha Flight, New Avengers, New Fantastic Four, Savage Avengers, Weapon X, X-Force
- Cast
- Hugh Jackman
- Race
- Human-Mutant
The human mutant Wolverine (a.k.a. Logan) was born James Howlett, blessed with a superhuman healing factor, senses, and physiology. Subjecting himself to experimentation to augment his skeleton and claws with adamantium, Logan is as deadly as he is reckless, impulsive, and short-tempered. Making him the X-Men's wildest and deadliest member, and one of Marvel Comics' biggest stars. He's played in Fox and Marvel's movie franchises by Hugh Jackman.
- Movies
- X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, X-Men Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Deadpool, Logan, Deadpool 2, Deadpool & Wolverine
- Franchise
- X-Men, Marvel
- POWERS
- Retractible claws and Adamantium skeleton. Superhuman senses, stamina, and strength. Healing factor and longevity.
- NAME
- James "Logan" Howlett
- Age
- 197 (in the MCU)
- Height
- 5'3”
- Comic Books
- Wolverine #1, X-Men #1
- Status
- Alive
