Spider-Gwen: Smash #3 for Sale - First Appearance of Carnage - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Spider-Gwen: Smash (Marvel, 2024 series)
Issue: #3
Publication date: April 2024
Key date: 2024-04-00
On-sale date: 2024-02-14
Indicia publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
Price: $3.99
Pages: 32
Barcode: 75960620764000311
Rating: Rated T+

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Carnage - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

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: David Nakayama; inks: David Nakayama; colors: David Nakayama	Ghost-Spider, Gwen Stacy, Hulk, Rick Jones
1	-	credits, title page	1	letters: typeset
2	-	comic story	22	script: Melissa Flores; pencils: Enid Balám; inks: Elisabetta D'Amico; colors: Fer Sifuentes-Sujo; letters: VC's Ariana Maher	Bruce Banner, Alison Blaire, Betty Brant, Carnage First, Dazzler, Ghost-Spider, Gloria Grant, Hulk, Rick Jones, Megan Gwynn, Pixie, Natasha Romanoff, Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson
3	Next:	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: David Nakayama; inks: David Nakayama; colors: David Nakayama

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Variant Edition - Stormbreakers - Lucas Werneck Cover	barcode 75960620764000331
Variant Edition - Stormbreakers - Jan Bazaldúa Cover	barcode 75960620764000321
Variant Edition - Rickie Yagawa Cover	barcode 75960620764000316

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Spider-Gwen: Smash #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-95655-4	2024	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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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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