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Cover: Leonardo Romero

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #3

Apr 2025 · Marvel · 3.99 USD
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #3 (2025) is the issue in which the Enforcers — Montana (Jackson Brice), Ox (Raymond Bloch), and Fancy Dan (Daniel Brito) — make their first full appearance in the alternate-universe continuity designated Earth-86445, bringing three of Spider-Man's oldest Silver Age adversaries into the modern animated-tie-in era. The issue deepens the storytelling stakes of the prequel series by having Spider-Man suffer a decisive early defeat at the Enforcers' hands, reinforcing a classic theme from Peter Parker's origin period: that raw power and courage are not enough without experience. It also advances the parallel coming-of-age narrative by weaving together Peter's double life at his new school with the criminal pressure being applied by the Silvermane-led Manfredi crime family, demonstrating that the series is doing substantive character work rather than simply recycling the animated show's plotlines. As a chapter in the five-issue limited series that served as the official print prequel to the Disney+ animated series, this issue represents a deliberate attempt to use the monthly pamphlet format to give the television audience deeper backstory than the screen could contain.

writer Christos Gage · artist, inker Eric Gapstur · colorist Jim Campbell · letterer VC's Joe Caramagna · cover Leonardo Romero

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History

The series was written by Christos Gage with interior art and inks by Eric Gapstur, colors by Jim Campbell, lettering by VC's Joe Caramagna, and edited by Jordan D. White, under editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski. The cover of the standard edition was by Leonardo Romero, with Benjamin Su and a Marvel Animation variant also released on the same February 19, 2025 ship date. The comic was conceived as a direct prequel to the Disney+ animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, which itself had premiered on January 29, 2025 — meaning issue #3 arrived in shops on the same day the animated show's first season concluded its weekly release window, tightly synchronizing the two media. The series ran five issues, making #3 the narrative midpoint and the issue that formally centers the Enforcers as the primary antagonist force working under Silvermane.

Trivia · 8 facts

  • Published February 19, 2025 (cover-dated April 2025); part three of a five-issue limited series.
  • Written by Christos Gage, with art and inks by Eric Gapstur, colors by Jim Campbell, letters by VC's Joe Caramagna, and a cover by Leonardo Romero.
  • Edited by Jordan D. White; published under editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski; rated T (13+).
  • First full appearance of the Earth-86445 iterations of the Enforcers — Fancy Dan (Daniel Brito), Montana (Jackson Brice), and Ox (Raymond Bloch) — working as enforcers for the Manfredi crime family (led by Silvermane).
  • Spider-Man is beaten and nearly killed in his first encounter with the Enforcers, tarnishing his early reputation as a crime-fighter in Queens — a story beat that directly echoes the tone of the original 1960s Lee/Ditko adventures.
  • The classic Earth-616 Enforcers trio (Montana, Ox, Fancy Dan) originally debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #10 (March 1964), created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko; this issue transplants those characters into the animated-universe continuity.
  • Nico Minoru (Peter's best friend and classmate, an alternate-universe variant of the Runaways character created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona in Runaways #1, 2003) continues her supporting role established in issue #1.
  • The issue was released in shops the same week the first season of the Disney+ animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man finished airing, positioning the comic as both prequel reading and a bridge to the show's second season.

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Full credits

artist, inker Eric Gapstur
colorist Jim Campbell
cover pencils, inks Leonardo Romero

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Reprinted in Votre fidèle serviteur Spider-man - Vieille école / Nouvelle école #1 (2025), Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man: Old School / New School #[nn] (2025)

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