Edge of Spider-Verse #3 - First Appearance of Night-Spider, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Edge of Spider-Verse (Marvel, 2022 series)
Issue: #3
Publication date: November 2022
Key date: November 2022
On-sale date: September 14, 2022
Indicia publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
Price: $4.99
Pages: 40
Barcode: 75960620399400311
Rating: Rated T+

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Why this issue matters

First appearance (cover) of Night-Spider - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

First appearance (cover) of Sakura Spider - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

First appearance (cover) of Hida Haruka - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Josemaria Casanovas; inks: Josemaria Casanovas; colors: Josemaria Casanovas	Felicia Hardy, Hida Haruka First, Night-Spider First, Pavitr Prabhakar, Sakura Spider First, Spider-Man
1	-	credits, title page	1	letters: typeset
2	Average Reluctant Teenage Super Hero	comic story	5	script: Nikesh Shukla; pencils: Mark Bagley, David Baldeón, Paco Medina, Gerardo Sandoval, Abhishek Malsuni; inks: Mark Bagley, David Baldeón, Paco Medina, Gerardo Sandoval, Abhishek Malsuni; colors: Edgar Delgado, Israel Silva, Andrew Crossley, Erick Arciniega; letters: VC's Joe Caramagna	Pavitr Prabhakar, Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom, Rhino, Aleksei Sytsevich, Venom
3	The Almost Perfect Crime	comic story	13	script: Dan Slott; pencils: Sumeyye Kesgin; inks: Sumeyye Kesgin; colors: Brian Reber; letters: VC's Joe Caramagna	Araña, Anya Corazon, Felicia Hardy, Night-Spider First, Jean DeWolff, George Stacy
4	A Hero Blooms	comic story	10	script: Sanshiro Kasama, Zack Davisson; pencils: Hikaru Uesugi; inks: Hikaru Uesugi; colors: Hikaru Uesugi; letters: VC's Joe Caramagna	Julia Carpenter, Hida Haruka First, Madame Web, Sakura Spider First
5	Next Issue:	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Kris Anka Design Variant	barcode 75960620399400321
Kris Anka Cover	barcode 75960620399400331
Unknown Comics - Tyler Kirkham NYCC 2022 Variant	barcode 75960620399400319
Unknown Comics - Tyler Kirkham Virgin Variant	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Unknown Comics - Tyler Kirkham Variant	See the GCD record for identification notes.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Edge of Spider-Verse #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-94717-0	2022	On eBay ›
Spider-Verse: Across the Multiverse #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-95733-9	2024	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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