Thanks to arias-98105 for the heads up on this one! It's still very early days, but based on preliminary information posted on the Hachette Book Group website, we have the closest thing to confirmation that Spider-Girl: The Complete Collection Vol. 3 is on it's way next year. Here's a link to the page and the text from the solicitation:
Spider-Girl: The Complete Collection Vol. 3
- ISBN: 9781302923716
- Publisher: Marvel
- Imprint: Marvel
- On Sale: Aug. 11, 2020
- Format: TRADE PAPERBACK
- Edition: N/A
- Price: $44.99 ($57.00 in Canada)
- Category: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
- Territories:
- Size: 6-5/8" x 10-3/16"
- Pages: 448
- Unit Weight: 0
- Carton Weight: 0
- Carton Qty: 40
- Country of Origin: USA
- Substitute ISBN:
- EAN: 9781302923716
Description: Who will lead the New York underworld? Will the Green Goblin go good or give grief? What secret is Mary Jane keeping? And who is the mysterious new Spider-Man? There are plenty of questions to answer as the adventures of May "Mayday" Parker continue! As a vicious gang war heats up, Spider-Girl struggles to keep order - but when a longtime foe is killed in the crossfire, May finds herself targeted by his family! Can the newest New Warriors help Spider-Girl win the war and survive two vengeance-crazed villains? Wall-crawling gets crowded when a new Scarlet Spider swings into action - and Peter Parker mulls a return to the webs! But even with her dad as backup, can May defeat Apox the Omega Skrull? Plus, startling secrets of Mayday's past are revealed! Guest-starring the Fantastic Five!
COLLECTING: SPIDER-GIRL (1998) 33-50
COLLECTING: SPIDER-GIRL (1998) 33-50
While, as I mentioned, it's still very early and these sorts of things are often subject to change, I have to mention the apparent omission. While it collects Spider-Girl #33 through to #50, this chunk of issues has usually been reprinted together with Spider-Girl #51. You may remember Spider-Girl #51 was an inventory story written by guest writer Sean McKeever with art by Casey Jones which introduced the character Aftershock. As an inventory story, it does not fit seamlessly between the issues published immediately before and after it's publication. Spider-Girl #50 sees Mayday hang up her costume and quit only to seemingly have returned to her super heroic career without any explanation the following issue with this strange story order.
For reference, the Spider-Girl Digests, which were previously the closest we've gotten to a full reprinting of the original series, placed the story in Spider-Girl #51 between Spider-Girl #35 and #36 in Digest Vol. 7. I think this is a perfect place to put the story, as May had recently regained her powers in Spider-Girl #33, Mary Jane is not visibly pregnant at this point in the series (whereas she was around #50) and the ongoing plots at the time had a natural gap which allows for the addition of further unseen adventures.
Hopefully, the wonderful collection editors at Marvel will see this and make the change before the Volume goes to the printers. It's worth mentioning Spider-Girl: The Complete Collection Vol. 1 changed the placement of the Spider-Girl #1/2 story from the placement seen in the Digests. Whereas the Digests reprinted Spider-Girl #1/2 directly after Spider-Girl #21, the Complete Collection putting the story right after Spider-Girl #13. I'm curious about where future issues and side-stories that haven't been collected together will be ordered or placed.
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