Joe Caramagna

Thor: Frog of Thunder?! When Peter Parker discovers that Thor has been transformed into a frog, he must travel to Asgard to save the Nine Realms from Loki's wrath! Then, Spider-Man teams up with X-Man Wolverine to take down the mutant Mesmero...but things get freaky when Mesmero uses his powers to switch the two heroes' personaliti es! And that's only the start of Spidey's woes, as Venom, his most dangerous foe, returns! This screen-capture adaptation is based on season one of the hit Disney XD TV show...including an episode scripted by Marvel scribe supreme Brian Michael Bendis!COLLECTING: MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN 17-20

When Spider-Man gets himself a cool new black-and-white costume, that ol' Parker luck must finally be turning, right? Wrong! In the ultimate fashion nightmare, the costume is alive - and it doesn't want to come off ! If Peter can somehow get out of the black and back into the red-and-blues, the poor shunned symbiote will bear a grudge - and when it finds Eddie Brock, who is no fan of Spider-Man himself, the terrifying Venom is born! He's destined to be the wall-crawler's deadliest villain. But if that doesn't work out, he'll be Spidey's sidekick instead! It's hard to work out which is worse! Plus, a rivalry for the ages is born when the Venom symbiote bonds with...Peter's best pal, Harry Osborn! COLLECTING: MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDERMAN (2005) 21, 24, 35; MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN 16, 19