ultimate comics spider man by brian michael bendis volume 3

This version of the character was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli, and debuted in 2011’s Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #1, becoming a running plot thread that goes through the first year of that series.

In Marvel’s Ultimate continuity, the Prowler is Aaron Davis, Miles Morales’ uncle and shadowy figure of the criminal underworld… something that doubtlessly sounds familiar to anyone who’s seen Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Most recently, he’s forgone the Prowler identity - another character is using it, after all, as we’re about to cover - and taken up the costumed role of Hornet, because Marvel loves insect-themed heroes.

He also assumed a second costumed identity, becoming Spider-Man’s unofficial stand-in on occasions when there needs to be a Spidey but the real one is otherwise occupied, a position he irregularly filled for years. Thankfully, he didn’t have to lose a loved one to learn the error of his ways he simply had to come up with a costumed identity and run into Spider-Man, who’d set him straight.Īs it happened, Hobie was set extremely straight - he didn’t just end his potential criminal career, but flipped entirely and became a part-time hero, showing up across multiple Marvel titles for a number of years as a quasi-superhero in places like Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu, The Defenders, and Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man. (Lee and Buscema were the writer and artist for the issue, but the character’s design and name came from Romita, according to those involved.) Hobie was, in many ways, Peter Parker without the outlet of being Spider-Man - a smart teenager who couldn’t catch a break, who decided to take what was his no matter what, just as Peter had before the death of Uncle Ben. The original Prowler is Hobie Brown, a character created by Stan Lee, John Romita, and John Buscema for The Amazing Spider-Man #78 back in 1969. In Marvel’s comic book canon, the Prowler has been an identity used by a number of different people, with two main suspects depending on the different realities inside Marvel’s mighty multiverse. There are no Across The Spider-Verse spoilers in this article (as of now). Keep reading to find out the comic book history of the Prowler(s), and why the Spider-Verse has been surprisingly good to at least two of them. He’s a character whose comic book history stretches back more than half a century, even if he’s only appeared sparingly during all those years - but thanks to projects like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Across the Spider-Verse, the Prowler is arguably as hot right now as he’s ever been. There will be a buffer image and a warning before you get there!

Spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse at the very bottom of this article.

Ultimate comics spider man by brian michael bendis volume 3