DC/Marvel: Superman/Spider-Man #1

by Mark Waid, Jorge Jiménez (Artist), Tomeu Morey (Colorist)

LEGENDARY CREATORS TAKE ON THE MAN OF STEEL AND YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN! Written by Mark Waid, Tom King, Matt Fraction, Sean Murphy, Gail Simone, Christopher Priest, Greg Rucka and Jeff Lemire Art by Jorge Jimenez, Jim Lee, Steve Lieber, Sean Murphy, Belen Ortega, Daniel Sampere, Nicola Scott and Rafa Sandoval The Last Son of Krypton meets your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!

When journalists Clark Kent and Peter Parker find themselves chasing the same story, the conspiracy they uncover could change the world — especially if Brainiac and Doctor Octopus have anything to say about it. (And we bet they do!) Good thing our intrepid newshounds are secretly Superman and the amazing Spider-Man. Brought to you by legendary storytellers Mark Waid and Jorge Jimenez.

And don't miss these bonus stories: Tom King and Jim Lee tell a tale of Lois Lane and Mary Jane Watson. Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber revisit Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen... and Carnage! Sean Murphy, meanwhile, takes us to the future with Superboy (Legion) and Spider-Man 2099. Gail Simone teams up with Belen Ortega for a look at what happens when Power Girl meets Punisher. Christopher Priest and Daniel Sampere show us a time when Superboy Prime (who reads all the comics) decided to visit Spider-Man right after he got the black suit. Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott take us on an exciting race — between the Daily Planet and the Daily Bugle. Plus, we finally get to answer the age-old question of who would win in a fair fight, Pa Kent or Uncle Ben! Just kidding, those guys are too nice to fight each other, but Jeff Lemire and Rafa Sandoval will take us deep into the past to see the two men bond in the face of adversity. Celebrate 50 years of DC/Marvel crossovers with eight new original stories by some of DC’s top talent!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Marvel, Spider Man, Superman, Comic Book, Humor

68 pages, Paperback

Published March 25, 2026

About the author

Mark Waid is an American comic book writer widely known for shaping modern superhero storytelling through influential runs on major characters at both DC Comics and Marvel Comics. Raised in Alabama, he developed an early fascination with comic books, particularly classic stories featuring the Legion of Super-Heroes, whose imaginative scope and sense of legacy would later inform his own writing. He first entered the comics industry during the mid 1980s as an editor and writer for the fan magazine Amazing Heroes, before publishing his first professional comic story in Action Comics. Soon afterward he joined DC Comics as an editor, contributing to numerous titles and helping shape projects across the company. After leaving editorial work to focus on writing, Waid gained widespread recognition with his long run on The Flash, where he expanded the mythology of the character and co-created the youthful speedster Impulse. His reputation grew further with the celebrated graphic novel Kingdom Come, created with artist Alex Ross, which imagined a future DC Universe shaped by generational conflict among superheroes. Over the years he has written many prominent series, including Captain America, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, and Superman: Birthright, bringing a balance of optimism, character depth, and respect for comic book history to each project. Waid has also collaborated with notable artists and writers on major ensemble titles such as Justice League and Avengers, while contributing ideas that helped clarify complex continuity within shared superhero universes. Beyond mainstream superhero work, he has supported creator owned projects and experimental publishing models, including the acclaimed series Irredeemable and Incorruptible, which explored moral ambiguity within the superhero genre. He later took on editorial leadership roles at Boom Studios, guiding creative direction while continuing to write extensively. In subsequent years he expanded his involvement in publishing and digital storytelling, helping launch online comics initiatives and advocating for new distribution methods for creators. His work has earned numerous industry awards, including Eisner and Harvey honors, reflecting both critical acclaim and enduring popularity among readers. Throughout his career Waid has remained a passionate student of comic book history, drawing on decades of storytelling tradition while continually encouraging innovation within the medium. His influence extends across generations of readers and creators, and his stories continue to shape the evolving language of superhero comics around the world today through enduring characters imaginative narratives and thoughtful reinventions of familiar myths within popular culture and modern graphic storytelling traditions.

Reviews

[Benji's Books · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another fun collection of crossovers that do exactly what they set out to do: entertain.

Recommended

[zachariah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Auraman and Aura-man team up to show off their aura

[Layli Chee · Rating 5 out of 5]

“We did it, partner.”

I loved this crossover with my whole heart. Superman and Spider-Man complement each other perfectly—it just works so well, I was smiling the whole time.

The first three one-shots were my favorites (like, genuinely so good!!), but the rest were still really enjoyable too—random, heartwarming, and weirdly funny.

And I loved the subtle mentions of Batman. Lol. I actually paused every time I caught it. Is this… foreshadowing something? Because I wouldn’t say no to a Batman and Spider-Man team-up.

[Ali Safwan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Disgustingly obvious fan-service, made for normies who will inevitably point and clap at the characters they recognize from their favourite Saturday morning cartoon (i love it sm, I'll take 20 more of these babies)

[Rory C · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good Friday 2026

I got my copy of DC's Superman/Spider-Man #1 yesterday and this is what I thought of the different stories contained within.

Superman Spider-Man "Truth, Justice, and Great Responsibility" - 3/5 Stars

Should it be expected that the main story be so generic and safe? Mark Waid has been underwhelming me lately. At least artist Jorge Jiménez is providing some beautiful panels but in regards to story it doesn't offer up much more than what I could have imagined myself. "With great power, comes great response abilities" is a great line though.

Lois Lane & Mary Jane "The World's Finest" - 4/5 Stars

Some personal preferences are going to show through in this review (and why shouldn't it?) but I enjoyed the second story by Tom King considerably more. There were fun moments, knowingly self references to past storylines and a surprise guest star (from a character that normally annoys me but I actually felt it was pretty cool. Go figure?). I'd normally bang on about how overrated Jim Lee's art is but I really liked it here (especially of the aforementioned guest-star). What this painfully reminded me though, is the fact that Mary Jane and Peter aren't actually together in the mainstream continuity.

Superboy-Prime & the Amazing Spider-Man
"Pages" - 2.5/5 stars

Cool art but overall the story was complicated and unsatisfying. I think I need Superboy-Prime explained to me again.

Superboy & Spider-Man 2099 "Beyond the Cobwebs of Tomorrow - 3/5 stars

Never read Spider-Man 2099 or the Batman books that Sean Murphy had such success with, but found this to be an enjoyable read. Don't think it's a spoiler to say Batman Beyond shows up (an obvious crossover character for Spidey 2099) and if any story deserves a follow up part, whether in the Marvel Spider-Man/ Superman special or even it's own miniseries, it would be this one.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen & Carnage "Jimmy Con Carnage" - 5/5 stars.

Pure comedy genius. Loved the Jimmy Olsen mini series Matt Fraction and Steve Leiber did and it's a wonderful treat to see them do more stuff. I would commission a 12 part sequel with Jimmy Olsen on assignments set in the Marvel Universe in a heartbeat. Unfortunately the ending of this particular story means it can never happen. So funny.

Jonathan Kent & Ben Parker "The Bridge" - 2.5/5 stars

Ok. I completely misunderstood who the characters I was reading about were until I got to the final page (I was quite tired at the time). As a result I didn't feel the need to go back and re-read it though. It was just ok.

Daily Planet & Daily Bugle "Bias" - 3.5/5 stars

Clever idea. Great to have Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott working on this together and I hope there more from them in the pipeline.
Have to admit I was again confused by the final line of the story.

Power Girl & The Punisher "Blind Date" - 4.5/5 stars

It might seem a little confusing for this story to appear within this anthology and Gail Simone gave a wonderful explanation in a heartfelt online post about Gerry Conway, a creator on both of these characters. I love it and am "shipping" both of these characters hard to have their own ongoing series. A great way to end the book.

Overall score 3.5/5 stars. Goodreads doesn't do .5 stars so I'll round it up to 4. Had a good time overall.

Now I have to double check I've ordered Marvel's Spider-Man/Superman #1.

[B.A.G. Studios · Rating 4 out of 5]

Truth, Justice, and Great Responsibility
Wow! I hate to seem surprised, but I didn’t have a ton of faith I’d enjoy reading this book. I mean, the premise is designed to be gimmicky, I thought that would be the end of it. Now I’m not saying it’s brilliant fiction, but damn if this wasn’t a hell of a time! Brainiac teams up with Doc Ock, and this crossover treats it as if the two worlds were always just as one, like the Batman vs. TMNT movie from a few years back does. That means they can make great references, call backs, connections, and more subtle nods all without having to over-explain them. Very clever throughout, never too eye-rolly considering what we’re doing here, and a great time. Exactly what I’d want from something like this. Continuity be damned, who cares, you know the basics of all these characters, now go. I’ll also say this feels like what a crossover between Superman: TAS and Spectacular Spider-Man might’ve felt like.
The only nitpick I have is Waid’s Peter Parker is a little overly quippy for my tastes, a little too close to Deadpool, and I really don’t like “For the last fershlugginer time”, I just… what is that? Idk, not a huge dealbreaker, just my tastes, I prefer him written a little toned down from this.

Worlds Finest - Mary Jane & Lois Lane
Oof.
Yeah, no, I’d have guessed this was Tom King even if I hadn’t seen it ahead of time.
This is soooo deconstructive that it becomes cringy. I can handle a wink-and-nod, but that’s what this whole story is. Just tell the story straight, you can make comparisons without saying “lol ain’t it cute and quirky?”
Oof.

Pages
My head hurts, and this sucks.
To be fair I know nothing about Superboy-Prime, but now I never want to.
And it doesn’t even bother to end?

Beyond the Cobwebs of Tomorrow
Why are these incomplete? For God’s sake, I bought this thinking it would be a one-and-done, are you freakin’ telling me there’s more? No? Then why bother setting it up?!
I really liked this one! I’m a nut for Batman Beyond, this was a ton of fun! But no, screw me I guess, it just ends. Great setup, even though I’ve not read 2099 yet and I don’t know much about the Legion, but I think the premise is intelligent, intuitive, and most of all fun.
But that’s all that’s here. Just a freakin’ premise. There’s no story, nothing, just a setup and it’s over. You could’ve just released a few pages of fan art and gotten the gist.

Jimmy Con Carnage
Honest reaction: “WHAT?!”
This is hilarious and completely works for me. Completely antithetical to my opinion on “World’s Finest,” this is breaking the rules in the right ways. And it’s hilarious. Certainly not what I expected.

The Bridge
First thing I’ve read from Jeff Lemire, and I like it. Super simple, if it were prose it would be flash fiction, but it’s very good. It’s exactly what you’d expect from the premise, and for that I’d describe it as comfort food.

Bias
I love Greg Rucka. He writes excellent political intrigue disguised as action, and here it sits rather undisguised yet still just as entertaining. I think the argument breaks down a little if they don’t press Jameson further into saying he assumes Superman has no alias, because… I mean, he’s still anonymous, mask or no. But nevertheless, this felt classic. Like the last story, exactly what you’d expect from the premise, but I’m saying that in the positive. I bought this cover for a reason, I don’t want it all reinvented, but I do want it competent and worth my while. Most of these stories have understood and delivered on that.

Blind Date
I’ve never read The Punisher nor Power Girl, so I’m not necessarily the best judge. But if I had to guess, this will please Power Girl fans and not one Punisher fan. This feels like the kind of story you could tell at only DC and make a knockoff called The Penalizer or something, nothing about this has to be a crossover event, but I can’t say I wasn’t at least mildly amused, and the one big joke it has is legit very funny to me. Still, weird note to end on.

[Tim Nash · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mark Waid and Jorge Jimenez do a good job here, but my experience suffered from having read the 1976 original right before.

That oversized issue was essentially a trade in and of itself, which meant we got a full six or so chapters; introductions for Supes, Spidey AND each of the villains, then a few chapters of story and a prologue.

This issue went the modern "annual" route. the first third is the main story, and the rest of the issue is made up off 3-5 page stories from different creative teams.

Waid and Jimenez main story is good, it's just too short. And the brevity of it means there's no time for double page spreads or any other thing that would let Jimenez flex a little.

The rest of the other stories vary in quality.
Tom King and Jim Lee are fine. Though I discovered I don't like a Lee drawn Spider-Man.

Gail Simone's Punisher/Supergirl is a bit of fun.

The highlight, far and away though, is Matt Fraction's Jimmy Olsen and Carnage. If you've read Fraction's Jimmy before, you know what to expect. And he doesn't miss a beat returning to that character.

The rest I've already forgotten. And there's at least three others I reckon.

So yeah, can't give this more than 3. If Goodreads could do half stars, Fraction would have earned it though.

[Steve-Coolio · Rating 5 out of 5]

These Marvel/DC crossovers so far have been so much fun! The main story by Mark Waid felt like one of his fun “World’s Finest” comics, but with 100% more Spider-Man which rules lol

Dock Ock with Kriptonite arms might also be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen lol

The Jimmy Olsen/Carnage story was so hilariously out-of-pocket. Did not expect them to just straight kill him lol

The Lois Lane/MJ and Uncle Ben/Pa Kent stories were also pretty sweet.

[Jacob Weckerle · Rating 5 out of 5]

The art in every story was positively superb (Special shout out to the double page spread by Jorge Jimenez, my God it was gorgeous). I really loved the character interactions. Seeing these two worlds collide like this was great fun, and they all felt very true to their characters. I could read Superman and Spider-Man saving people all the live long day. Amazing stuff

[Lauren K · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the Superman/Spider-Man, Jimmy Olsen/Carnage, and Power Girl/Punisher stories. I was hoping the titular story would be longer. The rest didn’t do much for me, but at least the artwork is beautiful

[Jonny Tarry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Need a miniseries of the Power Girl/Punisher team-up

[Bryan Ford · Rating 4 out of 5]

Who does Tom King have dirt on that would allow him to keep writing for DC?

[Madison · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was fun! I loved the Lois and Mary Jane story the most lol. The two of them just bonding was so funny. I liked the Powergirl and Punisher one a lot too. That was was good. I really liked the Jonathan Kent and Ben Parker one too. This was good!

[Cybernex007 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty solid overall, all the stories had at least one aspect I enjoyed but it’s how many of those felt half baked with no sign of continuation in the marvel side of the crossover. But even with the small disappointments sprinkled throughout…Gail Simone really hit a home run with that final story, great way to end it but of course the headline story with Waid and Jimenez is really where it’s at!! I’m immediately fell in love with the pre-established dynamic between spider-man and Superman, and more importantly Peter Parker and Clark Kent, as if they’ve been colleagues for years. A lot better than getting them up to speed with each other, and that’s gives the added benefit of the worlds already existing with everyone together which gives way for some major deadly team ups…which brings is to the start if this issue as we find Doc Ock sulking away in a basement in his own self pity, disappointed that the world doesn’t recognize his accomplishments. But with some alien tech he is tinkering away with, he has the chance to shoot right up to the big leagues…as he now has his arms on none other than brainiac!! A robbery has occurred at STAR labs metropolis branch, which ultimately brings star reporter Clark Kent and a shutterbug with some hot tips who was just flown in from NYC, Peter Parker!! Clark is a close friend with the head scientist at STAR so he is able to get some extra secret info the other reporters didn’t get on what was stolen. Turns out they were testing with fast neutrons, which Peter immediately geeks out about as he is fully away of all the tests using radiation to efficiently transmit data as nothing can block it. But what makes STAR here so different is that they were testing it using Kryptonite. This sent a shiver down Clark’s spine and the two immediately set off to find Doc Ock, especially after Peter confirmed the claw marks in the entry point of the robbery were his tentacles. As Clark undresses down an alley and gets going, Peter needs a bit more time to shove his clothes into his bag before using his web launches to catch up to Superman. Unfortunately things are already going really well for brainiac and doc Ock. Turns out brainiac needs his help utilizing the neutron tech as brainiac is dying. He was tricked into downloading a virus that is eating away at him, and now he wants to offload the virus into the minds of humans using the technology. Doc Ock is fully on board as he sees all the potential brainiac can offer him through the stars to get away from this ungrateful mud ball. As their machine is activated the effects are immediate as even though it doesn’t seem like they are targeting specific people, the Kryptonite effects of the neutron transmission still hurt Superman, causing Spider-Man to catch him from falling off the daily planet. They immediately put the pieces together of k-radiation flooding the air, but Superman realizes very quickly that all over the city innocent people are being affected. Instead of finding Otto and Brainiac they have to spend a lot of time running all over metropolis saving people from runaway trucks, trains, building fires, and everything else. There is a particularly cool moment where Superman has to rush into a burning building to save some people, so in order to make sure he is protected spidey wraps him up in webbing. Eventually Superman realizes that Otto could not have done all of this alone and finally looking up he sees the broadcast device. Superman orders spidey to go find Otto in his hideout while Superman flies up, up, and away to get to brainiac! But the moment Superman busts down brainiac’s ship wall he instead finds Otto now outfitted with a swarm of Kryptonite tentacles. Turns out the two of them have swapped places and now spider-man is left dealing with brainiac as he desperately tries to fight his way through to disable the machine. Superman is able to get far pretty quickly with Otto by using his words instead of his fists, reminding him the it’s not too late to reform and how he is reminded of an article Clark Kent wrote years ago calling him brilliant. Just this sliver of recognition, and the bloody nose from Superman punching him even while weakened by Kryptonite, seems to get Otto. But brainiac doesn’t have the same emotions as he is fully willing to bring down the entire guiding around them just to kill spider-man, which of course puts Peter in a very iconic position now that he is trapped under rubble. Brainiac didn’t see any point in sticking around and decided to jump away to a different outpost. But at that exact same moment the brainiac ship hovering above earth began to power down, and without power it started to pull into earth’s gravity as it sped up right towards a crash landing in the heart of metropolis. Superman immediately flew out to try and stop it but with all the k radiation in the air he doesn’t have a chance. The only chance he has is spider-man getting to the controls and shutting the system down and of course spider-man is all out of web fluid to easily fwip the machine off. With Superman in his ear inspiring him, spider-man recreates a very iconic panel as he lifts the rubble off of him and quickly rushes over to turn off the machine. Giving Superman the strength he needed back to recreate another iconic moment as he lifted the brainiac ship away. Doc Ock was taken in and Perry paid Peter for the front page worthy pictures, with an open invitation to come back and work for the Planet, he may even be able to give Olsen some tips, lol. As Clark and Peter retreated to the daily planner rooftop, Clark couldn’t help but ask Pete why he continued to work for the daily bugle as they continue to smear his name with hateful “news.” Peter has two reasons, firstly the only person ever getting her is him and second he finds it hilarious that Jonah had no clue he was paying spider-man to go to college. But Peter admits it must be nice for Clark to operate in a city that loves him. Superman offers a ride home for spider-man, but not without a tour of the city…first stop…the Superman museum, lol.

The rest of the book is packed with SEVEN more stories but honestly it feels like this first one up should have just been cut to give room to the other unfortunately half baked stories. Honestly the most redeemable thing about the Tom King written Lois Lane/Mary Jane Watson story…is Jim Lee’s pencils. The entire story revolves around them being bystanders to a fight on a bridge involving Superman and spider-man against a mutant hunting sentinel. They spend their time making jokes about being damsels in distress and all the usual crap they deal with, ignoring how much they have grown as powerful characters that can save themselves in more modern comics, only to continually slip back into those roles with really off putting dialogue throughout. For example, at one moment Lois and MJ climb from a bus spider-man is keeping Jo from falling into the water below. The moment they get up Spider-Man hugs her tight and says he was so worried and that if anything happened to her he couldn’t go on…really? For some reason whenever spider-man or Superman talked it was with the most generic lines that didn’t even sound like them. But there is a problem here, why is a sentinel hunting them in the first place there are no mutants here? That’s when Lois and MJ look over to find the one other person who hasn’t run from the bridge and is currently digging through a car speaking French with a Cajun accent looking for his pack of cards. Lois was able to fill his need with her own pack of cards, arming Gambit in the process. Lee with a double page spread on gambit is really cool…why is it in a story supposedly centered around Lois and MJ?! As gambit saves the day and the two see reunited with their respective heroes, they immediately fall into back into the damsel role as the fall into their here’s arms. Like come on, that’s what we have to work with?! Pfttt.

Unfortunately the next two stories have a lot of potential…only if they could have retrieved page space from the last story. First up Peter Parker returns home to find someone sneaking through his stuff, as in the other room none other than SuperBoy Prime is eyeing his symbiote suit. I love how hilariously casual prime is anger breaking in to try and talk to his costume, I especially love how Prime taps into his comic book nerd routes to reference secret wars where Peter got the suit and is even able to figure out what issue of ASM he is around based on spider-man not actively using the suit anymore. I’m not exactly sure how Prime convinced Peter to don the suit and head out with him into the city…but he did and suddenly they went from Peter’s room to saving a little girl and her dog from a runaway truck. But then prime takes Peter and leads him towards the sky as he introduces Peter firsthand to his ability to punch through realities. Turns out after Prime pissed odd a lot of dimensional entities, one of them, a collector, trapped him in a cage and he is unable to get home. Prime’s world exists inside one of millions of turning pages and to know where to jump he needs surgical precision…what he needs Peter’s spidey sense, without it they could be stuck in this dimension clever. But Peter is really out of place on this dimension, he tries to swing on a comic only for Prime to warn him off of it as if he falls into one of those other realities he could be lost forever. As Peter falls off of it he falls right into the hand of the high evolutionary, who is the current architect of the trap Prime is stuck in. But it turns out this is all a double cross, prime only lead spider-man and the symbiote suit here in order to trade places within the evolutionary’s trap. Spider-man is not on board with this plan and immediately shoots webs at the high evolutionary’s face to try and swing out of there. Prime is a bit of a morally ambiguous character, and seeing Peter escape like that he immediately jumps back in to try and help him get into as well. The dialogue gets a little choppy here as the two seem to be helping each other to the and her out, but the story just ends with them still in the dimensional with loose plans on how to take down the high evolutionary. Now I will say this dimension is so cool, the entire time they were surrounded by flipped open comic books with small events. Most of the time the events pertained to them in their current forms so there is a lot of black suit spider-man and infinite crisis in the background, but still cool.

Next up in Sean Murphy’s gorgeous art taking on a time displaced Spider-Man 2099 and SuperBoy!! But in reality this is a batman beyond story in disguise as even though the two are time displaced they needed a place to go to and they chose Neo Gotham of 2039. We immediately see Miguel swinging around the city after destroying a few Lexcorp buildings as two voices try and figure out who he is. It doesn’t take a genius to realize this is Terry and Bruce after one of the voices says “schway.” After Miguel finished up with the Lexcorp buildings his next target seemed to be the alchemax building, but before he could get there he was knocked to the ground from his swing by SuperBoy! The two went at it for a bit, Miguel filling Clark’s eyes with webbing and as they jumped around Miguel came in for a swing attack…only to run into a cloaked floating Batmobile as Terry was forced to reveal his presence. It’s very clear that Murphy wanted a Batman beyond / spider-man 2099 story first and foremost as the two immediately class gantlets in the coolest fashion. But as Miguel tries to run SuperBoy just scoops him up and forces him to calm down so they can all talk to figure out why the time traveled here. Ultimately the strength of his story is the character interactions, how Miguel calls Terry’s teeth showing through his mask as freaky and how SuperBoy can hear Bruce talking in Terry’s earpiece. But when it comes down to it Miguel explains he is from a future run by a tyrant doom who was empowered by technology developed after Lexcorp and alchemax merged. SuperBoy explained he came from the 30th century where it is currently ruled by Lex after using cybernetics made by this mega corp and he came back to stop them as well. As it turns out Lex was last scene at the source wall Donnie Jr’s time for a triple team up to head on over there (just casually I guess?) to find and stop him. And that’s just where the story ends, come on really?! These last two stories, big promises with little reward.

Things really start to pick up again on these short but sweet stories as Matt Fraction is back directing Superman’s pal Jimmy Olsen. Jimmy has been hired by the daily bugle and is new to town. His directive is to get pictures of spiderman but he doesn’t even know what the web head looks like. Pete is quick to correct him on of being spider-man, with a hyphen and if you say it without you look like a tourist, and if he wants to find spider-man all he has to do is look around and avoid any dark alleyways. I’m not really sure what’s up with Peter in this story as he seems pretty uninterested in everything. But as Jimmy sets off exploring the city he suddenly finds an alley full of webs and red bits. He immediately runs down the alley, completely ignoring the body parts scattered about, in the hopes of finding spider-man…only to run into carnage instead!! It’s not good, carnage quickly starts ripping into Jimmy and as he tries desperately to trigger his signal watch…it fails due to a firmware update. The last picture Jimmy takes is of carnage right before he killed Jimmy and it’s good enough to make the Bugle front page as proof that spider-man is a threat and a menace. At the very least Jonah proclaims that he will spend the rest of his career letting everyone know that Jimmy Olsen is the best in the world!

The next one is a fun little story about a conversation between spider-man and Superman talking about how similar their upbringings were and how great their mentors are. This conversation is showcased over a moment in the past in Kansas during a downpour where none other than Jonathan Kent found Ben Parker stranded in the rain after a bridge was washed out. Jonathan offered Ben a ride to his nearby farm in his truck, but before they could head out Ben heard someone calling for help. The two rushed over to find two kids trapped in the rocks below, and with a tornado on the horizon they quickly rush over to get the kids out and safely to the of the truck as they drive off just in time to share some warm drinks back at the farm. Very sweet.

Next up, Rucka and Scott are back together off Cheshire and cheetah to put Jonah and Lois on the hot seats on Jack Ryder’s tv show so they can argue about the bias of their respective news organizations. One side certainly hates on their hero a lot more than the other one, and ultimately the conversation boils down to Jonah hating spider-man because of his mask and the lack of accountability that comes with it if no one knows who he is. Jonah hasn’t problem with the multitudes of other heroes who are very public about their identities and what they represent, but you put a spidey or a batman in front of him and he is fuming. But they don’t have all the time in the world here and as the segment comes to an end Lois walks off with Clark, joking about breaking the news of his secret identity to Jonah.

But ask alluded to earlier, Simone really ends is on a fantastic note with this punisher and power girl crossover. We first find Frank standing outside of a club with no name in the rain as it took him a while to get a job here as their muscle solely so he can be here when most of their clientele are present, as all of them deserve punishing. But suddenly a cog is thrown into the gears of the punisher war journal as a young woman in a dress and a heart umbrella walks up for her blind date as the Karen Starr’s journal takes over, lol. She is hitting the dating game once more and is nervous, which is odd as she fought darkseid. She plays nice with Frank and even learns his name, and upon seeing he doesn’t have an umbrella she insists he take hers…I love seeing punisher out in the rain with a pink heart encrusted umbrella…perfect. As Karen walks inside she completely ignores all of the obvious villains sitting around her as she meets her date…none other than Paul Rabin!! AHAHAHAHA! He even makes a line about how no one likes him at first but he really is a nice guy…Karen was over it the second she caught his ponytail. Frank realizes that Karen and her date are innocents and he needs to get them out of the line of fire but that won’t stop him from kicking down the door with guns blazing. As soon as one gunshot is fired Karen is suddenly nowhere to be seen. Frank immediately trudges up to a very freaked out Paul to get him to leave with his date…only for power girl to rush over and break them up. Sure the ponytail is “egregious” but that’s not worthy of murder, lol, but Frank isn’t targeting Paul…the rest of the bar is, as all of the villains here have confused Paul an his ponytail for a bounty on Vandal Savage…guys, you need to go to Gotham for that…read the news whydontcha. With this realization power girl places Frank down a the two team up to start bashing heads. By the time the bar looked like a nuclear explosion went off in it, Paul ran away and punisher and PG share a drink as technically he is now her date. She asks him why he is always so prickly, which gets Frank to mention his dead family…but that’s nothing to PG as she lost her entire planet and you don’t see her putting skulls on her chest, lol. But this doesn’t have to be the end of their night, their crossover can continue somewhere more private and PG already has a nice place in Mongolia in mind…who is Frank to say no to such a good pitch as the two fly away into the night.

[Anya Valdivia · Rating 5 out of 5]

The two loves of my lives in one comic and drawn beautifully. Life is great

Wish it was longer!

[Alejandro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Truly great comic book!


This comic book features a main story with Superman and Spider-man, but also includes several other short stories too making crossover with other characters of DC and Marvel. This comic book is published by DC Comics (there will be a second issue but published by Marvel Comics).


SUPERMAN/SPIDER-MAN

”Truth, Justice and Great Responsibility”

Creative Team
Writer: Mark Waid
Illustrator: Jorge Jiménez

Rating: *****

In this main story, it’s kinda a sequel or a follow-up story taken from what happened in the first iconic crossover between Superman and Spider-man, it’s not like you need to read that one, don’t worry, but this setting feels like it since DC and Marvel realities are merged and they’ve been merged like forever, and while the tone of the story is very “Silver Age”, the ambiance is in the “present” having cell phones, wi-fi, AI apps, etc…

Good ol’ Doc Ock is pissed since it seems that online community didn’t think that he’s authority on any scientific field, then Brainiac appeals to his ego asking for his help with a virus that he got during an invasion in another world. To help Brainiac with the virus, they’ll need to infect with it to everybody on Earth using fast neutrons (using them like a wi-fi network) but the catchy part is that they’ll use Kryptonite.

So, the Man of Steel and our Friendly Neighborhood got involved but the kryptonite part is causing troubles to Superman, not devastating since the quantities aren’t deadly but enough to diminish his powers and causing him certain level of pain.

This an entertained tale and certainly since I’m a fan of Doctor Octopus, I liked a lot the way that Waid knew how the character thinks and reacts to situations, plus the awesome artwork of Jiménez.


LOIS LANE/MARY JANE

”The World’s Finest”

Creative Team
Writer: Tom King
Illustrator: Jim Lee

Rating: *****

A truly awesome meeting between Lois Lane and Mary Jane Watson, where they talked about their own lives meanwhile their romantic partners, Superman and Spider-man are battling against a Sentinel, but you can guess that they won’t remain aside and soon enough they find a surprising guest character who will help with the situation.


SUPERBOY-PRIME/THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

”Pages”

Creative Team
Writer: Christopher Priest
Illustrator: Daniel Sampere

Rating: ****

An interesting approach where Superboy-Prime punches once again the multiverse fabrics to meet with Spider-man using the black suit, but in this occasion, Spider-man is a “comic book character” that Superboy-Prime knew about while reading the pages of Secret Wars!


SUPERBOY/SPIDER-MAN 2099

”Beyond the Cobwebs of Tomorrow”

Creative Team
Writer & Illustrator: Sean Murphy

Rating: *****

A time-travelling masterpiece by the author of Batman: White Knight, where the Superboy from the Legion of Super-Heroes of 30th Century meets Spider-Man 2099 aka Miguel O’Hara, where both are travelling back to 2039 to stop the merging of Lexcorp and Alchemax, since it seems that unholy corporate merging would cause disasters in the futures of both heroes. This awesome story has a totally cool guest star (technically two but you can only see one and the other you will only hear him). The story gets a kinda cliffhanger that I don’t know if it will be continued in the second issue of the crossover.


SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN/CARNAGE

”Jimmy con Carnage”

Creative Team
Writer: Matt Fraction
Illustrator: Steve Lieber

Rating: ***

Easily the weirdest crossover in the comic book, and also oddest since it has a morbid humoristic tone, where Jimmy Olsen is fired up from the Daily Planet and now he goes to work in the Daily Bugle where J. Jonah Jameson is demanding to his photographing team (Jimmy Olsen, Peter Parker and one surprising cameo character) to get more photos of Spider-man (very important the hyphen! You won’t like to be seen as a tourist!).


JONATHAN KENT/BEN PARKER

”The Bridge”

Creative Team
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Illustrator: Rafa Sandoval

Rating: ****

This is a story where Jonathan Kent, adoptive father of Clark Kent (Superman) meets Ben Parker, uncle of Peter Parker (Spider-man). Ben Parker is hitchhiking in Kansas and Jonathan Kent picks him up on his truck, during a storm, and they help a couple of kids that they fell into the water under a bridge.


DAILY PLANET/DAILY BUGLE

”Bias”

Creative Team
Writer: Greg Rucka
Illustrator: Nicola Scott

Rating: ***

J. Jonah Jameson and Lois Lane are interviewed by Jack Ryder (aka The Creeper) about the way that both newspapers approach the publishing of news about Spider-man and Superman respectively. In the TV set, there are Clark Kent in the middle of the live audience and Spider-man is sneakly watching from the top. I found odd that the debate was between J. Jonah Jameson and Lois Lane instead of bringing Perry White.


POWER GIRL/THE PUNISHER

”Blind Date”

Creative Team
Writer: Gail Simone
Illustrator: Belén Ortega

Rating: ****

Frank Castle aka The Punisher targets an exclusive restaurant where a whole bunch of supervillains are getting dinner, where by coincidence Karen Starr aka Power Girl will have a blind date…
…you can bet that sparks will come out from this situation!

[Drake Zappa]

Honestly? bit of a mixed bag for me; I felt like the writing was a tad inconsistent, and like the voices found here for many characters was a degree removed from how I've come to know them, but it was still a good time for the most part, with some decent art to boot! I usually like to defend Tom King, though this seems like a weaker effort than I'm used to seeing from him; he's moreso creating a vessel for Jim Lee to work through seemingly, and reduces the characters to caricatures/looney tunes style one-shot comic/cartoon versions of themselves; its tongue and cheek, like when The new Adventures of Batman and Robin had those Bruce timm harley episodes that veered into slice of life, not bad, but not the best they could've done with the characters supplied here. I found the superboy prime and batman beyond stuff interesting to see, there's some cool stuff laced throughout, but its not as readable as say the morrison issue of batman/deadpool maybe. i don't know if Waid really gets where Peter's at in this, but I love Waid, and whilst this wasn't my favourite from him, I'm willing to let it slide seeing how well he's done for dc the last few years. overall, as I say, a mixed bag; I really like parts here, really want to love others, and found certain moments lacklustre, main point? the delotto and Gerads variants are so cool!

[Jim Lang · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book #6 of 2026: I needed a weekend to shut out the real world, and this crossover treat did it. The main story by Mark Waid and artist Jorge Jimenez alone makes Superman-Spider-Man #1 worth the price. Waid perfectly captures the personalities and banter between the two heroes, and special kudos for including Clark and Peter as working journalists as well — and Waid’s characterization of Dr. Octopus is perfect, reminding us why he’s one of Marvel’s best villains. Include the brilliance of Jimenez’s art and you have a winner. Some of the back-up stories are uneven and fall flat (two actually end in unresolved cliffhangers, a strange choice), but several also hit the mark really well, with the last three short stories pulling the whole issue together perfectly. A fun addition for any collection. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4.5 stars

[Misse Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun times with Superman and Spider-Man! 4.5/5

I have to give it to the writers on this one. They really sold me with each of the stories. The dialogue was top notch. There was so much about these mini-stories that I enjoyed. I've always thought that Spidey was a beast on the mic so of course the opening story was phenomenal. I really enjoyed Superboy-Prime and the Amazing Spiderman. It was definitely a bit more my speed overall. I think of all the stories my tops were the Carnage bit and then of course Powergirl and the Punisher because who doesn't love Frank, especially when he's being "handled" by a woman?! Very pleased with this edition and looking forward to what's next!

[Norman Cook · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is pretty much the gimmicky stunt I expected. The best story in the collection is the first one with Superman and Spider-Man going against Doc Ock and Brainiac. In this alternate universe, the two heroes know each other and their secret identities and have obviously worked together before, so there's no awkward wasted space needed to get the two together. The other stories are quite a mixed bag, but they are all just fragments of stories without solid resolutions. Some are serious and some are jokey, but none are too memorable.

[Jesse · Rating 4 out of 5]

Over all a great collection. The best stories were Jimmy Olsen/Carnage by Matt Fraction and Steve Leiber, lois Lane/Mary Jane by Tom King and Jim Lee, Lois Lane/J Jonah Jameson by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott, and POWER GIRL/PUNSHER(!!!) by Gail Simone. Plus some generally good Supes stories. I quite liked it!

[Nolan McNulty · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is so hype. The story was amazing, and the art by Jimenez was just as great. It was truly awesome seeing my two faves teaming up, and some of the smaller stories were cool in this piece too, specifically Jimmy Olsen and Carnage’s story.

[Norrin Shearer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was full of great stuff! I think the superboy prime story was the weakest, but that’s partly because I don’t know anything about him so the 4th wall break dimension hopping didn’t do much for me. Otherwise? A near perfect collection of short stories. I had an absolute BLAST with this.

[Mikey Baker · Rating 5 out of 5]

read on 3/25: so much fun all of the short stories between not only spidey and superman but other iconic characters in both franchises. My favorite was Spider-Man 2099 and Superboy/Batman Beyond. A lot of references reminding us that they are very similar.

[Axx · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Two journalists on the move, standing up for truth and justice!"

[Lizzy DeMarco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Only read the Lois/MJ & Powergirl/Punisher stories but loved both of them!

[Britt Van De Woestyne · Rating 4 out of 5]

oké en waar is de gwen stacy en lana lang crossover?…

[Adi Minyan]

Soooooo peak!!!

[Jerry Aguirre · Rating 3 out of 5]

Superman and Spider-Man story was AWESOME. Way better than Batman / Deadpool. Everything else tho, mid.

[cait*･゜ﾟ･* · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️

both of my favs finally together 🥹🙏🏽