Captain Marvel continued to take the fight to her greatest foe: Man. Spider-Man, Nuclear Man and being Manhandled by Rogue. While Carol managed to get the upper hand on Rogue, and for a moment Nuclear Man, she fell way short of topping Spider-Man for the top character for the week. Spider-Man earned a bloated 34 points compared to Captain Marvel’s score of 14, but he appeared in twice as many books as she did. The Amazing Spider-Man took home the top solo book with 30 review points due to the continued menagerie of villains gathered while Captain Marvel scored 28 points. Carol’s rebellion in Nuclear Man’s misogynistic wasteland launched their final assault and received a boost from Carol and Rogue joining forces and bodies, but this time under Carol’s own free will. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl would have been a top contender for solo book of the week, but due to its tie-in to War of the Realms it had to settle for third-best event book of the week with 38 points.
Avengers: No Road Home‘s penultimate issue returned the series to the top of the event book performances. It scored 59 points and showed the extent of Nyx’s blackout powers with a cameo by Blue Marvel leading a team of characters in response. With one book left, the assorted stars of the book, including Vision, Hercules, Scarlet Witch and Spectrum, faced a fully powered Nyx. Asgardians of the Galaxy, a regular contender for team book of the week, tied into War of the Realms as well and just missed out on beating No Road Home with a review score of 58. The other War of the Realms book from the week, Journey Into Mystery, gathered another motley crew of characters led by Balder the Brave, and edged out the first Cult of Carnage issue with by one point (38-37). Since the majority of the team books tied into events, that left Invaders to claim the top spot for a team series with a score of 20 points. It revealed a past relationship between Namor and Professor X and earned the Atlantean King his first Antagonist of the Week title with eight points.
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Key: TU – Team-Up; LT – Lead Team; SC – Save Civilian; CD – Character Development; DA – Defeat Antagonist.
| Age of Conan: Bêlit #2 (3) |
| Bêlit – Vehicle, LT |
| Age of X-Man: Apocalypse & The X-Tracts #2 (22) |
| Apocalypse – Deception, Flight, Telekinesis, LT Colossus Dazzler – Energy, Energy Offensive, Sonics Eye-Boy – Gun, Sense, Weapon, CD (Loses hands) Genesis – Morph, Size, Sonics, Stretch Kitty Pryde – Intangibility |
| Age of X-Man: The Marvelous X-Men #3 (33) |
| Colossus – Melee, SC Jean Grey – Telekinesis, Telepathy, SC Magneto – Flight, Magnetics, Magnetics Defensive, Sense, SC Nature Girl – Weather, SC Nighcrawler – Teleport, Teleport Defensive, SC Storm – Flight, Lightning, Weather X-23 – Claws, SC X-Man – Flight, Telekinesis, Telekinesis Defensive, Telepathy, SC |
| Amazing Spider-Man #19 (30) |
| Black Cat – Melee, Probability Spider-Man (PP) – Crawl, Durability, Melee, Sense, Webs Antagonist(s) Arcade Armadillo Black Ant Black Mamba Gibbon Human Fly King Cobra Kraven Lizard Owl Puma Rhino – Melee Scorpion Stegron Tarantula Taskmaster Toad Vulture – LT White Rabbit |
| Asgardians of the Galaxy #8 (58) |
| Angela – Blade, Flight, Melee, Weapon, TU (Avengers), LT Black Panther – TU (Asgardians of the Galaxy) Captain America – Shield, TU (Asgardians of the Galaxy) Captain Marvel – Flight, TU (Asgardians of the Galaxy) Doctor Strange – Magic, TU (Asgardians of the Galaxy) Ghost Rider (RR) – Vehicle, TU (Asgardians of the Galaxy) Heimdall – Teleport, LT Iron Man – Flight, TU (Asgardians of the Galaxy) Punisher – Gun, Weapon, TU (Asgardians of the Galaxy) Skurge – Gun, Weapon, TU (Avengers) Spider-Man (PP) – Webs, TU (Asgardians of the Galaxy) Throg – Flight, Lightning, Strength, TU (Avengers) Thunderstrike – Energy, Energy Defensive, Melee, Weapon, TU (Avengers), SC Valkyrie – Creature, Energy, Flight, Personality, Weapon, TU (Avengers), SC |
| Avengers: No Road Home #9 (59) |
| Black Panther – TU (Blue Marvel) Blue Marvel – TU (Ms. America), LT Conan –TU (Hercules) Hawkeye (CB) – Arrow, TU (Hercules) Hercules – Melee, Strength, TU (Vision) Hulk – TU (Hercules) Iron Patriot – Vehicle, TU (Blue Marvel) Lightning – TU (Blue Marvel) Ms. America – TU (Blue Marvel) Pod – TU (Blue Marvel) Rocket Raccoon – Melee, Tech, TU (Hercules) Scarlet Witch – Flight, Magic, Magic Defensive, TU (Hercules) Spectrum – Energy, Intangibility, Morph, TU (Hercules) Vision – Flight, Intangibility, Melee, TU (Hercules) Voyager – Flight, Teleport, TU (Hercules), LT Wasp (NvD) – Flight, TU (Blue Marvel) Antagonist(s) Nyx – Durability, Flight, Heal, Magic, Teleport, CD (Restores her full power) |
| Captain Marvel #4 (28) |
| Captain Marvel – Durability, Energy, Energy Offensive, Flight, Melee, Strength, CD (Lets Rogue reabsorb her) Echo – Vehicle Hazmat – Weapon She-Hulk – Melee, Tech, LT Spider-Woman (JD) – Crawl, Energy, Energy Offensive Antagonist(s) Nuclear Man – Tech Rogue – Absorb, Durability, Melee, Strength, CD (Reabsorbs Captain Marvel) |
| Dead Man Logan #6 (15) |
| Captain America Dr. Cecilia Reyes Forge – Tech Glob Hawkeye (CB) Jubilee Logan – Claws, Sense, CD (Returns to the Wastelands) Wolverine – Claws, Sense, CD (Meets his older self) |
| Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #5 (12) |
| Doctor Strange – Magic, Teleport, TU (Spider-Man) Spider-Man (PP) – Agility, Crawl, Melee, Strength, Webs, TU (Doctor Strange), CD (Learns Aunt May has cancer) |
| Invaders #4 (20) |
| Captain America Human Torch (JH) – Flame, Flight Professor X – Telepathy, Telepathy Defensive, TU (Namor), CD (Enlists Namor to help him find other mutants) Winter Soldier Wolverine – Crawl Antagonist(s) Namor – Durability, Flight, Melee, Strength, Weapon, TU (Professor X), CD (Teams up with Professor X to find other mutants) |
| Savage Sword of Conan #4 (4) |
| Conan – Blade, Strength, Weapon |
| Spider-Man/Deadpool #49 (14) |
| Deadpool – Fourth Wall, Gun, TU (Fantastic Four), LT, CD (Confirms he exists in a fictional world) Gwenpool – Fourth Wall, TU (Deadpool) Spider-Man (PP) – Webs, TU (Fantastic Four), LT, CD (Realizes Deadpool’s sense of a fourth wall exists) |
| Symbiote Spider-Man #1 (15) |
| Black Cat Spider-Man (PP) – Crawl, Durability, Melee, Strength, Symbiote, Webs, DA (Human Fly) Antagonist(s) Human Fly – Acid, Flight Mysterio – Teleport, Weapon |
| Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #43 (38) |
| Black Panther – Melee, TU (Spider-Man) Blade – TU (Spider-Man) Captain America – TU (Spider-Man) Captain Marvel – Flight, TU (Spider-Man) Daredevil – Agility, TU (Avengers) Iron Man – Flight, Suit, TU (Spider-Man) Loki – Magic, Teleport, TU (Squirrel Girl) She-Hulk – Melee, TU (Spider-Man) Spider-Man (PP) – Webs, TU (Avengers), SC Squirrel Girl – Durability, Melee, Speed, Strength, TU (Loki) Wolverine – TU (Avengers) Antagonist(s) Malekith – Creature |
| Unstoppable Wasp #6 (6) |
| Mockingbird Wasp (JvD) Wasp (NvD) – Flight, Tech, CD (Begins therapy sessions to treat her bipolar and repair friendships) |
| War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery #1 (38) |
| Balder – Creature, Weapon, TU (Spider-Man), LT, CD (Learns about his new sister) Death Locket – Tech, TU (Balder) Druid – Artifact, TU (Balder) Freyja – Magic, LT Hawkeye (KB) – Arrow, Vehicle, TU (Balder), LT, DA (Slaughter-Man) Roz Solomon – Vehicle, TU (Balder) Spider-Man (MM) – Crawl, Melee, Webs, TU (Balder), SC Thor Wonder Man – Durability, Flight, Strength, TU (Balder) Antagonist(s) Ares Sindr |
| Web of Venom: Cult of Carnage #1 (37) |
| Man-Wolf – Claws, Morph, Sleuth, TU (Misty Knight), CD (Bonds with the Carnage symbiote) Misty Knight – Bionics, Sleuth, TU (Man-Wolf) Antagonist(s) Carnage – Symbiote Doppelganger – Melee Shriek – Sonics |
| Winter Soldier #5 (2) |
| Agent 13 Winter Soldier |
| X-23 #11 (18) |
| Honey Badger – Claws, Claws Offensive, Durability, Heal, Melee, Sense, Tech, CD (Leaves Laura) X-23 – Claws, Claws Offensive, Heal, Melee, Sense, Tech, LT, CD (Loses Gabby) |
| X-Force #6 (17) |
| Cannonball – Flight Domino – Weapon Kid Cable – Weapon Shatterstar – Weapon Antagonist(s) ADAM Unit Zero – Computer, Sense Ahab – Teleport Prestige – Melee Stryfe – Teleport |
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