Amazing Spider-Man Writer Teases Spider-Man Hunting Kraven

Kraven the Hunter returns in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man.

July 31, 2023, 12:40pm

The hunter is becoming the hunted in The Amazing Spider-Man. Decades after Sergei Kravinoff took his life in Kraven’s Last Hunt, Kraven returned in The Grim Hunt when the Kravinoffs clan — his wife, Sasha, and his children, Anastasia and Alexei Kravinoff — resurrected Sergei to kill his archenemy, Spider-Man. Cursed with “unlife” unless he dies by Spider-Man’s hand, Kraven once again set his sights on the wall-crawler in the six-part “Hunted” arc in Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 5. Sergei’s “Great Hunt” ended with his second death breaking the curse — not by Spider-Man, but by Sergei’s cloned offspring, the Last Son of Kraven.

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But in September’s Amazing Spider-Man #33 — from writer Zeb Wells and artist Patrick Gleason, with a cover by John Romita Jr. — Kraven is once again tangled in Spider-Man’s web. Recently revealed cover art shows Spider-Man, clad in his classic ’80s black-and-white costume, stalking his prey on the streets of New York.

“There’s a lot of history between Spider-Man and Kraven. Something happens in Spider-Man’s life that puts him in a bad mood, and he decides that he’s going to get revenge on Kraven and hunt him down,” Wells teased during Marvel Comics’ panel at San Diego Comic-Con. “So it’s a fun reversal of the usual [dynamic], and it’s fun to see Spider-Man get some revenge for Kraven’s Last Hunt.”

The special over-sized issue Amazing Spider-Man #31 (on stands August 9th) sets up the “big Spider-Event” of Wells and Romita’s second year on Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 6, according to Marvel, and will feature more preludes and glimpses of some of the biggest unannounced Spider-projects to come. Amazing Spider-Man #32 (on sale August 23rd) teams Kraven with the Queen Goblin before “Spider-Man’s First Hunt” begins in Amazing Spider-Man #33 (on sale September 6th).