2025-2026 Rumor/Leak List - UPDATED List 9-9-25 (after the livestream)

hmmberto said:
For anyone who really wants to test themselves on their Spidey rogues knowledge: https://www.sporcle.com/games/buzzpop7/spiderman-60-rogues-gallery

I missed 7 total - 2 of which I knew, but didn't see in the photo.
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That was fun, and I was proud of myself, though disappointed they didn't include The Eel.

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Also mad they screwed me on "Superior Spider-Man" when it's Superior OCTOPUS, guys...sigh...
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I'm definitely gonna need a Clash figure, lol. No idea who he is, but he looks awesome. Also, had NO idea that's what Carrion looks like now. I definitely want the Maximum Carnage look instead.

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I got 90/92.

Missed Clash and Draco. Who the hell is Clash? Draco I remember but couldn't get the name of -- I still have that book and record set somewhere.
 
Not the biggest Spider-Man guy but I have just been doing a comprehensive list of characters we don't have in Legends yet which refreshed my memory of a bunch of these guys... I missed 4 names. One I'm grumpy about but I could not remember - Hitman. The other 3 I missed I still don't know who they are Override, Menace and Draco

And surprised with no Cardiac, Prowler, OverDRIVE, Calypso, Vermin... and no Pandamania and Hippo????
 
There are very few Spider-Man related figures I could be tempted by at this point but Overdrive and Calypso would do it.
 
Been starting on reading through EVERY Spidey comic this week from the beginning, and I would love to get Carolyn Trainer. But really, I'm a sucker for weirdo goofy villains, and we are NEVER getting a toyline that goes through Flash's rogues gallery... So lets just keep getting more box sets of niche nobody Spidey villains until there's nothing left to make.
 
Niko (protozoalord) said:
Been starting on reading through EVERY Spidey comic this week from the beginning,
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Really? Every Spider-Man since Amazing Adult Fantasy number 15? I'm thinking about doing the same thing. I've done it with Justice League, Avengers, Captain America and X-Men. It's amazing to watch all the changes characters go through over the decades in a compressed amount of time.
 
SDcomics said:
Really? Every Spider-Man since Amazing Adult Fantasy number 15? I'm thinking about doing the same thing. I've done it with Justice League, Avengers, Captain America and X-Men. It's amazing to watch all the changes characters go through over the decades in a compressed amount of time.
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Yep, I'm currently at ASM #15. It's a bit of a slow start, Stan Lee's walls of text were always a sluggish read for me, but I'm chipping away at it slowly. These huge run reading orders are a lot of fun, though. I've previously only really done it for Aquaman.

Spidey comics always kind of evaded me as I mostly grew up reading post-Crisis Batman (thanks Dad), grew into reading exclusively Spawn and indie comics when I became a rebellious teen, and started reading real weirdo books when I eventually returned to Marvel and DC. Been a treat reading them so far, Ditko's cartooning is stellar.
 
I started a similar Avengers run about two years ago, and kinda stalled out around 150 or so - which is crazy, because it's getting very close to some of my favorite Avengers comics ever! I'll pick it back up soon.
 
Spidey is, imo, THE character to do this with. It was where I started with comics, back in middle school. The advantage to starting then is that he grows up with you! This is, without a doubt, why I agree vehemently that we need every spider-rogue possible.

For my money, the run hits its stride when Romita takes over the pencils ... the storytelling gets a little looser, Pete's supporting cast comes into its own, and the Spidey-Peter balance is excellent.

I'd say it remains a pretty consistently awesome family of titles up through the wedding. Some underrated highlights are Roger Stern's ASM, Mantlo on Spectacular, and Claremont doing Team-Up.
 
Mantlo (and Gerber) are probably my favorite classic Marvel writers, so I'm quite excited to hit that point. I do plan on doing a similar binge for Fawcett era Marvel Family, and eventually classic Daredevil, but that's going to wait for now.

Reading Spidey in particular will probably get me a bit more excited for Marvel Legends again, fortunately and unfortunately. That part of the line is where I started collecting (with TASM2 wave Carnage, which hit right after I read Maximum Carnage), and at a glance, seems to always have something really good on the horizon.
 
I'm planning to do the same with Claremont's X-Men soon. I've read pockets of it out of order, but I want to read the whole saga over the course of a year or two. Maybe I'll get ambitious and start with Kirby/Lee's X-Men #1.

The walls of text are always my hesitation with older comics. A lot of it spells out inner monologues that were evident through subtext or character choice.

I can zip through a modern comic in 5–7 minutes. Anything written before 2000 takes at least 10.
 
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