It’s ironic that while Tom Holland’s Peter Parker continues to swing around the Marvel Cinematic Universe and will next be seen in the 2026 movie release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, one place you’ll rarely find him is in the comics. The only times this has ever happened is with printed page adaptations of Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Avengers: Infinity War, as the complicated Spidey media rights shared between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios mean strict rules on his usage. However, Dan Slott, who’s been writing Spider-Man stories since 2007, shared the sneaky, yet clever way he once included Holland’s Peter in the comics.
Among his long list of Spider-Man-related accomplishments, Dan Slott wrote the original Spider-Verse event from 2014, which inspired those animated Spider-Man movies, and its 2022-2023 follow-up, End of the Spider-Verse. However, writing these stories came with certain guidelines he had to follow, with Slott sharing on Threads:
