Update: Spider-Man and Wolverine will team up to try to save Mary Jane Watson from the clutches-machinations of Moira X, in September 14th's Amazing Spider-Man #9 by writer Zeb Wells and artist Patrick Gleason, who also illustrated this variant cover Newsarama readers get to see first.
The issue deals with the aftermath of last month's second annual X-Men: Hellfire Gala special ... the Spider-Man aftermath, anyway.
As you can read in more detail below, Moira made a promise at the beginning of the special to kill MJ when she was done using her body to infiltrate the Gala, and appears to have fulfilled her promise at the end of the special, but off-camera, so to speak.
And hey, this is comic books, so if you don't see the body...
Marvel has already teased MJ will be part of the upcoming Spidey-X-Men crossover The Dark Web, so it's not a huge surprise she's apparently still alive, but the publisher kept her fate up in the air for a few weeks at least, originally soliciting Amazing Spider-Man #9 without spoilers, revealing "Something happens at the Hellfire Gala that sends Spider-Man and Wolverine on a dangerous mission all over creation!"
Now we know what that dangerous mission is.
Original story...
X-Men: The Hellfire Gala #1 (opens in new tab) holds all the event's secrets in its pages, and now that the annual special is out, so are they - and some of what's revealed packs quite a wallop.
From the announcement of the new X-Men team, including the winner of the 2022 fan vote, to the results of Moira X's machinations to enter and disrupt the event, there's no shortage of hot gossip to go around coming out of the biggest mutant party of the year.
Straight off the rip, X-Men: The Hellfire Gala #1, from writer Gerry Duggan
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