Unlettered preview pages for Ultimate Spider-Man #2 reveal Spidey facing an all-too-familiar foe, The Shocker, as his first supervillain.
Ultimate Spider-Man #1 has already proven to bea huge success for Marvel. The new series, which relaunches the popular Ultimate Comics imprint, seesan older Peter Parkertake on the role of Spider-Man.
The first issue already had tons of changes, includingthe surviving Uncle Ben. The road to come is also rife with surprises, like thepotentially spoiled identity of the Green Goblin.
But the more things change, the more they stay the same. And preview pages for Ultimate Spider-Man #2 reveal he’ll still have to deal with a few familiar supervillains.
Spidey fights The Shocker in Ultimate Spider-Man #2 preview pages
Inunlettered preview pages released on Marvel.com, Spider-Man is seen facing his first supervillain, The Shocker. Spidey seems to be getting his butt kicked, which isn’t too surprising. He’s not been Spider-Man for that long, after all.
In the pages, Spidey still hasn’t found his way to his traditional costume yet. He wears a picotech stealth suit sent to him by Tony Stark, who isEarth-6160‘s Iron Lad. The suit is a plain black affair, and there’s really no indication of how (or, frankly,if) he’ll eventually arrive at this traditional costume.
However, longtime fans may appreciate the throwback. In the original run of Ultimate Spider-Man, the Shocker was one of the earliest supervillains Spider-Man dealt with.
The character became synonymous with the early days of Spidey to the point that he became a recurring tutorial boss in the Ultimate Spider-Man game. Shocker retained that status for Marvel’s Spider-Man, though he did get a huge setpiece boss fight.
Those Ultimate Comics did almost end in tragedy, as Shocker would eventually kidnap and torture Spider-Man, furious over being humiliated by a teenage superhero.
Ultimate Spider-Man #1 has already proven to be a runaway hit for Marvel, witha second printingon the way.
Christopher Baggett was a TV & Movies Writer on Dexerto’s US team and a comics expert, across DC Comics and Marvel. He also has bylines at ComicsBeat, Comic Book Resources, and The HomeWorld.
