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Chasm: Curse of Kaine #1 (Marvel, August 2024) variant cover by Salvador Larocca

Chasm, aka Ben Reilly, returns in August with the four-issue Chasm: Curse of Kaine miniseries. Steve Foxe and Andrea Broccardo send Kaine Parker on the hunt for his clone brother, who he thinks needs saving. But does Chasm even want to be saved?

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(cover by Leinil Francis Yu)

Artist Tenshi conceived of this comics power couple that makes a ton of sense — the all-clone couple of Ben Reilly and X-23. Check out part one and part two on his social media.

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This is John Romita Jr.’s cover for Amazing Spider-Man #14 (November 2022) featuring the return of Chasm.

This is Alex Maleev’s variant cover for Ben Reilly: Spider-Man #1 (January 2022).

This is Steve Skroce’s variant cover for Ben Reilly: Spider-Man #1 (January 2022).

This is a variant cover by Dan Jurgens for Ben Reilly: Spider-Man #1 (January 2022).

This is Skottie Young’s variant cover for Ben Reilly: Spider-Man #1 (January 2022).

Marvel has revealed several variant covers for their upcoming Ben Reilly: Spider-Man miniseries, and chief among them is a look at the unused costume designs Dan Jurgens did for Ben Reilly back in the 1990s. This was from around the time that Jurgens was working on Sensation Spider-Man.

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This is the cover to Devil’s Reign: Spider-Man (February 2022), part of the Devil’s Reign crossover event.

Out this week: Amazing Spider-Man #75 (Marvel, $5.99)

Nick Spencer’s run on Amazing Spider-Man isn’t even cold yet, but Marvel is wasting no time in introducing the next era of the title, this time created by a host of different writers and artists, and featuring the return of Ben Reilly as Spider-Man. 

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Coming in November as part of the “Beyond” era of Amazing Spider-Man that sees Ben Reilly take over as Spider-Man again is issue #78.BEY, which will be written by Jed MacKay with art by Eleonora Carlini, with a cover by Leinil Francis Yu. And it has the Daughters of the Dragon training Ben.

DeMatteis + Baldeon will tell stories from Ben Reilly’s past

‘Ben Reilly: Spider-Man’ launches in December.

Marvel has released some preview art for Amazing Spider-Man #75, which features the debut of the new, expanded creative team and the return of Ben Reilly. The above preview is by artist Patrick Gleason with colors by Marcio Menyz.

Marvel revealed more details and several covers for the November issues of Amazing Spider-Man, which will feature Ben Reilly in the titular role as part of the new “Beyond” era for the title. Coming up: Kraven and Morbius!

(cover by Art Adams)