Gwen Stacy Leads Marvel's New UNLIMITED Update

Radiant heroine of Spider-Verse, Gwen Stacy makes her digital debut on Marvel Unlimited this week with a twenty-title upgrade to the voluminous comic archive. The much-anticipated Gwen Stacy premiere is complemented by the series launch of Guardians of the Galaxy’s Nebula, Spirits of Ghost Rider: Mother of Demons one-shot, and Wolverine: Facsimile Edition #1, reprinting the all-time classic from comic book legends, Chris Claremont and Frank Miller. Each week, Screen Rant takes a look at the latest update to Marvel Comics' digital library, Marvel Unlimited - here are just a few of the standout titles in this week’s Pull List!

Amazing Spider-Man’s enduring legacy intertwines many of this week’s Marvel Unlimited titles, as the inspirational archetype and the deep, yet comfortingly familiar, lore influences all of the Marvel Universe in some subtle and distinctive manner. New additions marked by the spider-bite include island-adventure in Venom, the tragedy of Morbius, The Living Vampire, Marvel’s Spider-Man: The Black Cat Strikes Again, The Amazing Spider-Man, Symbiote Spider-Man, and this week’s nonpareil title, Gwen Stacy.

Drawing on realism rather than radioactivity, Gwen Stacy is a sublime comic book collaboration between industry-pros Todd Nauck, Rachel Rosenberg, and Christo Gage, with Nick Lowe and consulting editor Ralph Macchio adding their spider-sense to the five-issue limited series. Campaigning for class president, warding off the advances of high-school creeps, and cramming to keep that solid GPA, Gwen scarcely has time to fight for her father’s honor when extortion and and murder-rap hound the incapacitated captain of the NYPD. Exploiting Amazing Spider-Man’s vast and eclectic history, Gwen Stacy is set within the Spider-Verse of mid-1960s with era-accurate appearances from the cursed Osborn family and all their goblins, Kingpin’s classic stooges, Montana and Ox, the doomed Ben Parker, and “a new law firm,” Nelson & Murdock — there’s even a cameo from bookworm Peter Parker, reading up on “Advanced Adhesives” at the library.

Nebula, a less-subtle femme fatale premieres this week, taking the tragic tale of the paranoid android to new lows with intergalactic abduction, blackmail, and secret sciences. The limited series from Morbius writer Vita Ayala and artist Claire Roe, with colorist Mike Spicer, finds the cybernetic assassin and heir to Thanos’ harvest of sorrow dabbling in the depravity that has marked Nebula as both villain and reluctant anti-hero. The morally-ambiguous Nebula #1 touches down this week on the Marvel Unlimited digital library.

From deep in the vaults, Marvel Unlimited unearths comic book gold with Wolverine: Facsimile Edition #1, the landmark Logan title from halcyon days of 1982. Written and illustrated by acclaimed creators Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, Wolverine: Facsimile Edition #1 draws together the Uncanny X-Men author whose exhaustive work with artist John Byrne built the legacy of the mysterious mutant, Weapon X, and the artist that realigned the flagging Daredevil comic in the early 1980s with a minimalist and martial-art driven masterwork that brought the Man Without Fear back from relegation. And, it should be noted, this issue features the first utterance of a phrase that will live in infamy, “I’m the best at what I do. But what I do best isn’t very nice.” Take a trip down memory lane with Wolverine: Facsimile Edition #1, new this week on Marvel Unlimited.

Catch the continuing “Dawn of X" titles, Excalibur, X-Force, and X-Men, among the twenty new titles added to the Marvel Unlimited library this week — and don’t miss a digital upgrade to the back catalogue on Wednesday including X-Men (1991) #4, the debut of Omega Red and Hulk: Future Imperfect (1992) #1 with Maestro’s first appearance. All this week on Marvel Unlimited — available on the App Store, Google Play, and online.

Marvel Unlimited: Week of August 17, 2020/Street Date - February 12, 2020