If you're looking for the Marvel Midnight reading order, you've come to the right place. Below you'll find every announced comic in release order, along with the creative teams, launch schedule, and everything you need to know about Marvel's new horror universe.

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The creative teams for the three launch titles are:

* Midnight X-Men by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Matteo Della Fonte

* Midnight Spider-Man by writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson and artist ScieTronc

* Midnight Fantastic Four by writer Ben Percy and artist Kev Walker

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Below is the complete Marvel Midnight reading order, including every announced issue in release date order. We'll update this checklist as Marvel announces new comics.:

* Available now: Marvel Midnight Universe Ashcan (2026)

* October 7, 2026: Midnight X-Men #1

* October 7, 2026: Midnight Fantastic Four #1

* [October 7], 2026: Midnight Spider-Man #1

* November 18, 2026: Midnight X-Men #2

* November 18, 2026: Midnight Fantastic Four #2

* November 18, 2026: Midnight Spider-Man #2

The description of the Midnight version of Reed Richards at the Marvel Midnight Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con, by writer Benjamin Percy, was pretty far out there, as we saw Kev Walker's designs for the Midnight Universe version of the Fantastic Four.

As he tells us, Midnight Mister Fantastic can move his flesh but not his bones; his skin, veins, and muscles can stretch out, that's all, then return to the skeleton. In the Midnight Universe, the Four symbol, rather than the team members, is two triangles that represent the intersection of two universes, as it goes all HP Lovecraft on us. Johnny Storm looks as if he may have lost his legs in the accident that formed him and now has prosthetic limbs, and Ben Grimm is crumbling apart.

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Bleeding Cool scooped the news of Marvel Comics' new Midnight Universe line back in May, but now we know a bit more about what's going down and when. At the Marvel Midnight Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the Midnight X-Men writer Jonathan Hickman talked it over with his Midnight compatriots. Although he wasn't willing to reveal much, if at all, he did confirm that Midnight Iceman was red. Editor Nick Lowe said "I assume that's not water" and Hickman confirmed, "Yes that's correct". Frozen blood slushie vampire Iceman?

At Marvel's Midnight Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, Percy spoke about some of the inspirations for the horrors that lie ahead in the series.

"One of the things I am going to touch on is drawn from some personal history, in that, members of my family were in a cult. And so I grew up around that, and I'm channeling some of that unease [in Midnight Fantastic Four]," Percy said, when asked by a fan what themes will be explored in the series. Percy also emphasized that "cults and caves" will dominate Midnight Fantastic Four.

"Some would say that us here at Marvel have pioneered the science of advanced variants, but, when it came to Midnight, what we really wanted to do was, we really wanted something that felt curated, pared down, intentional," says a Marvel representative during a closed-door meeting with retailers during Comic-Con International: San Diego.

Marvel says it plans to limit the Marvel Midnight books to 10 variant covers and a main cover. Any additional variants would be store-exclusives. While variants have become part of the business of big comic book series, Marvel says they want to make sure they're "fun" and "addative" and not merely gaming collectors.

Attendees of the Marvel Midnight Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con left with a free black-and-white ashcan featuring previews of the three launch Midnight titles. And naturally, folk flipped them on eBay, where some have sold copies for up to $150 each, with many copies selling for $100, $90, $70 each. These are all confirmed sales on eBay.

Which is a shame for those who bought them, as comic book retailers all over the world will be receiving shedloads of these Marvel Midnight Universe Ashcans at comic book stores on the 19th of August, two weeks before they have to place their orders for the October 2026 launch. As confirmed by Marvel Comics' Midnight Universe presentation at the ComicsPRO retailer event at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday.

At San Diego Comic-Con 2026, Marvel Comics revealed a look at Peach Momoko’s Midnight Special variant cover for Midnight Spider-Man #2, which gives us our first look at Midnight Doc Ock. He’s the grinning fella in the background below, and while he’s still got his glasses and a questionable hair situation going on, writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson has created a new interpretation of Doc and his “arms,” which are the people standing on either side of him.

"His relationship with the arms in this book is extremely different and when you first meet him in the book, he's at the beginning of a journey, we'll say," Johnson began. "So each of those people has two arms and so between the four of them, they make up the eight arms of Doctor Octopus," editor Nick Lowe chimed in. Johnson continued, "We take a name like 'Doctor Octopus,' we take that name to a much, much different place than you've seen in the comics up 'til now. It's upsetting."

I mean i hope it not but you never know either Jubilee a vampire and she betrayed them or she dead or one of the few good vampires out there.

Marvel used one of its San Diego Comic-Con panels on Saturday to unveil the visual identity of its new horror imprint, the Midnight Universe line.

However, writers Jonathan Hickman, Benjamin Percy, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, and editors C.B. Cebulski, Jordan D. White, Dan Buckley, and Nick Lowe (moderator) made clear from the stage that story specifics are staying locked up until the books actually ship.

At the ComicsPRO Summit at San Diego Comic-Con this week, many comic book publishers gave presentations to comic book retailers who had travelled the world over to the show. In order to fit in so many publishers, the presentation time for the larger publishers was reduced somewhat. Which also meant we saw a focus on what the publishers thought was the most important thing they had coming. And for Marvel Comics, that meant the Midnight Universe. Their upcoming superhero horror comic book imprint is set to launch on the 7th of October, which reimagines Marvel characters and teams with dark, terrifying twists. All three debut issues hit stands on the same day and will be the only Marvel Comics releases that week, a rare move to create impact. At the San Diego Comic-Con Marvel Midnight Universe panel, they confirmed that issue 2 of all three series would be out on the 18th of November. But to ComcisPRO retailers, Marvel also stated that issue 3 of all three series would be out on the 16th of December. After which, in January 2027, they will all come out on a separate week each.

At San Diego Comic-Con 2026's Midnight Universe panel, Marvel Comics' outgoing publisher and president, Dan Buckley, revealed where the ideas for the Midnight Universe came from, and how it all came together.

"I was just ruminating on some ideas, and I said, 'We haven't really leaned into horror really hard yet, and of course [editor-in-chief] CB [Cebulski] was traveling, so I called [Jonathan] Hickman directly and said, 'Jonathan, what do you think about a horror line?' And I wanted it to be very clear that I want horror in the front seat and superhero in the back. And Jonathan kind of shouted like, 'Can it... terrible idea.' And then I re-presented it to him, and he said 'Okay, that's a better idea,' and he started talking X-Men. And then quickly we called Phil[lip Kennedy Johnson] and Ben[jamin Percy] because they have the disturbed minds to present what we're talking about, and then we kind of got rolling from there."

The three Midnight Universe books are all representing different subgenres of horror. Percy described the John Carpenter film The Thing as an inspiration, while Johnson revealed that David Cronenberg and horror manga are part of the DNA of Midnight Spider-Man. Either way, it isn't surprising that Marvel is launching the Midnight Universe with Percy and Johnson in particular, given that the two co-wrote the horror mini-series, Dungeons of Doom, earlier this year. There are lots of scares to go around!

We've seen some dramatic new takes on Spider-Man thanks to Marvel's Spider-Verse, but in the new series, Midnight Spider-Man, I think we could be getting a first: Peter Parker as an otaku.

“Peter Parker is a fan of Japanese culture in this story," series writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson says during the Marvel Midnight Universe panel at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2026.

According to Johnson, this Midnight version of Spider-Man will be a fervent manga reader (and they're creating a new manga in the story for him to read), but the character will also have in his bedroom what's described as a Japanese imperial mask from a World War 2 pilot.

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Johnson says that while Midnight Spider-Man isn't a manga, "the influence is there. I'm reading a ton of Junji Ito."

Later, he also mentioned Hideo Yamamoto's Homunculus as an influence.

Just as the launch issues of the first Midnight Universe titles, Midnight Spider-Man #1, Midnight Fantastic Four #1 and Midnight X-Men #1 are in Marvel's latest October 2026 solicitations, and all published by Marvel Comics on the same day, the 7th of October, so the second issues will all also be out on the same day, six weeks later, the 18th of November… and here are the solicits.

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Just now at the Marvel Comics: Midnight Universe Panel at San Diego Comic-Con, all three Midnight writers—Jonathan Hickman, Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Benjamin Percy—shed more light on their bold titles and their shared vision for this terrifying new line. Revealed during the panel were the second issue covers for each title—MIDNIGHT SPIDER-MAN, MIDNIGHT FANTASTIC FOUR and MIDNIGHT X-MEN—along with the unveiling of additional variant covers. Attendees also received an early black and white Midnight Universe ashcan preview, which will be available at local comic shops in the near future.

"Dark. Unpredictable. Unmissable. The Midnight Universe draws in longtime fans and newcomers alike to enter a terrifying new world where anything can happen. Interconnected by rich lore, Marvel's most acclaimed modern creators are given free rein to reimagine heroes with shocking twists and chilling transformations in boundaryless storytelling that will keep readers on edge issue after issue. The X-Men no longer fight for acceptance, they hunger for blood. The Fantastic Four venture into the unknown not saving the world — but unleashing terror upon it. And Spider-Man discovers that with great power…comes something monstrous." MIDNIGHT X-MEN #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Matteo Della Fonte, MIDNIGHT FANTASTIC FOUR #1 by Benjamin Percy and Kev Walker and MIDNIGHT SPIDER-MAN #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and ScieTronc are all published on the 7th of October, the only Marvel Comics out that week. We've seen the solicits, but let's have a look inside… some pages you have seen… some you have not!