23 Aug Spider-Man: No Way Home – Official Trailer

For weeks various fan sites have been predicting the drop date for the first trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home, and as each assumed date passes, they’ve all been wrong. That created a sort-of fan frenzy which was surprisingly (and fleetingly) sated when a very low-res version of the supposed trailer leaked online Sunday, August 22nd. In the past when trailers were leaked (Avengers: Age of Ultron) Marvel Studios would post something funny on their Twitter and IG accounts while scrambling to rush the approved trailers onto their official YouTube. Spider-Man is actually a Sony property, though.

All the same fan sites that got the projected trailer drop date wrong were proven wrong again when it didn’t drop at 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, nor 5:30 PM PST on Monday, August 23rd –even though it would have screened at approximately 6:30 CST at CinemaCon during the Sony Presentation.

SPOILER ALERT: The leak confirms very few things.

A few weeks ago, sources claimed that Lizard, Sandman, and Electro were scripted into the trailer, which was also to feature some pumpkin bombs and Dr. Octopus. This seemed to support the theory that this film is setting up a Sinister Six team that includes the above and the Green Goblin. However, the trailer that actually leaked does not feature any of the aforementioned villains except for Doc Oc.

The leaked trailer does, however, provide a capsule version of the set-up for more multi-verse shenanigans when Peter interrupts Dr Strange mid-spell while attempting to erase everyone’s memory of Mysterio’s Spider-Man identity reveal. That causes a rift (or several) in the multi-verse, and we get a glimpse of Alfred Molina reprising his role as Dr. Octopus with the words, “Hello, Peter.”

The trailer that Sony brought to CinemaCon appears to be the same as the one that leaked, and it is linked below:

Is that lawyer Matt Murdock with his trademark skinny tie at 0:30? Is that some Electro lightning at 2:13? Was that a pumpkin bomb at the 2:27 mark with the familiar laughter of Willem Dafoe?

More importantly, what the hell is this at 2:26?

While Dr. Strange made a brief cameo in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (which is the first appearance of the Sinister Six) they wouldn’t actually meet for the first time until 1965’s Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2. That story continues a whopping nine years later in Marvel Team-Up #21, which is a great joint cover of the two heroes. The former is probably a good investment spec, because high-grade copies of early Marvel Annuals are very hard to find (because of the square bindings). This hasn’t seen a lot of price movement thus far, and as the last Spider-Man annual penciled by character co-creator Steve Ditko, it’s a sound investment on the sole basis of being a Silver Age Marvel Comic.

The latter is not the first time the two share a cover, however. That honor goes to 1969’s Dr. Strange #179, followed by 1971’s Amazing Spider-Man #109. And the two first met on camera in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, of course. While I wouldn’t necessarily recommend investing in the Marvel Team-Up comic, the other two comics are wise investments. That Bronze Age run of Amazing Spider-Man has been climbing steadily and should continue to do so. Silver Age Dr. Strange comics are also generally under-valued. When you look at posted prices for the Strange Tales issues that preceded the retitled conversion to Dr. Strange with issue #169, a price correction is inevitable –and this has the added value of being the historic first cover to feature both Dr. Strange & Spider-Man. As slabs continue to be the preferred commodity in comic investing, first covers become increasingly vital.

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