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May “Mayday” Parker Reading Order (Spider-Girl/Spider-Woman from Earth-982)

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May Mayday Parker, alias Spider-Girl / Spider-Woman

Across the multiverse, several characters call themselves or have called themselves ‘Spider-Girl’. For example, Anya Corazon (reading order here) uses the codename since 2010. But one of the most famous ‘Spider-Girl’ is May “Mayday” Parker, from the MC2 (Marvel Comics 2) continuity — or Earth-982.

Created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz, May Parker is the teenage daughter of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson. She has made her first appearance in a What if? #105 story published in February 1998 before becoming the star of her own ongoing title. 

Marvel Comics 2 was then an imprint depicting the events taking place in the alternative timeline presented in the What If? issue. The events are the same as the main 616 continuity until the end of Clone Saga with the issue Spider-Man #75, in which Peter and Mary Jane’s baby daughter dies.

In the MC2, Peter and Mary Jane were reunited with their baby daughter by Kaine, who found the child living with Alison Mongraine, the con artist who had kidnapped the baby on instruction from the Green Goblin.

The Spider-Girl series picks up in the future when Mayday is a teenager. She began developing versions of her father’s spider-powers when she was 15, and she decides to take on crime-fighting.

To discover more about Spidey’s daughter from Earth-982, here is the May “Mayday” Parker Reading Order!

May “Mayday” Parker Reading Order

Spider-Girl (1998 – 2006)

Since 2018, Marvel re-releases the first Spider-Girl series (and maybe more after, who knows?) in the Complete Collection. The collection is for the moment incomplete, but this reading order will be updated with new releases in the future. In the meantime, you can enjoy the first Mayday Parker adventures in which, per Marvel, she faces “threats old and new – from the Venom symbiote and Kaine, to Crazy Eight and the Dragon King – and meet some of the incredible faces of the future Marvel Universe, like Darkdevil, Wild Thing, the Fantastic Five and the newest roster of the mighty Avengers!”.

Spider-Girl The Complete Collection Vol. 1 - May Mayday Parker Reading Order

During this series, Spider-Girl made a few optional appearances in other MC2 titles:

The Amazing Spider-Girl (2006 – 2009)

Following the cancellation of Spider-Girl, the book was relaunched as The Amazing Spider-Girl, still written by Tom DeFalco and penciled by Ron Frenz. May tries to live a normal life after having to quit being Spider-Girl, but it all soon changes when the Hobgoblin poses a threat.

During this series, Spider-Girl made a few optional appearances in:

The Spectacular Spider-Girl (2009 & 2010)

After 30 issues, Marvel canceled Amazing Spider-Girl but was still interested in telling stories with Mayday Parker. This period is a little bit complicated, in terms of publication.

To read about Mayday, you need to turn your attention towards the title (The Amazing) Spider-Man Family, then Web of Spider-Man.

You can first read the short comic strip series Mr. and Mrs. Spider-Man, taking place shortly after Kaine rescued baby Mayday. It bridges the gap between DeFalco’s run on The Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Girl (published in Amazin Spider-Man Family #1-4).

Then, Spectacular Spider-Girl Vol. 1 resumed Mayday’s story, for a time in The Amazing Spider-Man Family (#5-8), then in Web of Spider-Man. The title is then relaunched with a four limited series, Spectacular Spider-Girl (vol. 2), and one last Spider girl tale, Spider-Girl: The End.

All of these are collected in two trade paperbacks:

Spectacular Spider-Girl Who Killed Gwen Reilly - May Mayday Parker Reading Order

Spider-Verse (2014-2015)

It’s been a few years without news about Mayday Parker, but she’s back in the big spidey event by Dan Slott, Spider-Verse! Maybe you watched the animated movie. It’s a bit different in the comic book, where all the Spider-Men were attacked by Morlun and his family, the Inheritors, who feed on Spider-men’s force. For more details about the story and how to read everything, go check out our Spider-Verse Reading order! (it’s a great story!)

For all the Mayday’s appearances during this event, you just have to read the main trade paperback:

  • Spider-verse
    Collects Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #7-15, Superior Spider-Man #32-33, Spider-Verse #1-2, Spider-Verse Team-Up #1-3, Scarlet Spiders #1-3, Spider-Woman (2014) #1-4, Spider-Man 2099 (2014) #6-8 And Material From Free Comic Book Day 2014 (Guardians Of The Galaxy) #1.

Spider-Woman and the Web-Warriors (2015-)

At the end of Spider-Verse (in Amazing Spider-Man Vol.3 #15), May decided to take on her father’s costume and rename herself Spider-Woman. this transition is explored in the Spider-Island miniseries, a part of the 2015 Secret Wars storyline (not to be confused with the 2011 event)

After, May joined the best spider-team ever in Web Warriors, which goes on protecting realities who had lost their Spiders after the restoration of the Multiverse.

May was also among the Warriors of the Great Web when the Inheritors found a way out of their prison world and wanted revenge on the Spider-Army. She teamed up with Anya Corazon, the Prime Universe Spider-Girl, and Annie May Parker, A.K.A. Spiderling during this event known as Spider-Geddon, a direct follow-up to Spider-Verse. See our Spider-Geddon reading order for more information!

All the Spider-Geddon-related stories are also collected in the Spider-Verse/Spider-Geddon Omnibus

What to read after?

Why not turn your attention towards other members of the Spider-Verse?

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