Blood Hunt is Marvel Comics‘ big summer event for 2024. The story finds vampires working a magic ritual to block out the sun and take over the world. This will lead to many characters, heroes and villains, being turned into vampires as part of the invasion. One of the converted villains is revealed in the opening pages of Amazing Spider-Man #49.
This Spider-Man Blood Hunt tie-in features art by John Romita Jr. and a script by Zeb Wells. The preview shows Peter Parker in the thick of things, doing whatever a spider can to fight the vampires in Manhattan. However, unbeknownst to Spidey, one of his enemies, the White Rabbit, has joined the war on the side of the vampires.
The first three pages of Amazing Spider-Man #49 can be viewed below:
Spider-Man’s Enemy White Rabbit Explained
First appearing in 1983’s Marvel Team-Up #131, White Rabbit was originally a young woman named Lorina. Born to wealth, she was seen only as a bargaining chip for improving her family’s fortunes. However, Lorina dreamed of being more than a trophy wife, finding solace in her family’s library. Her favorite book was Alice in Wonderland, and she wished she could escape into a fantasy world, just like Alice.
Lorina killed her husband and used her inheritance to begin a career as a supervillain. Dubbing herself the White Rabbit, she was an ineffectual, small-time supervillain, whose robberies were limited to fast food franchises. Despite this, she wound up building a rivalry with Spider-Man’s self-proclaimed sidekick, Frog-Man. This brought her into conflict with Spidey, who had to step in to save the equally incompetent hero and villain from each other.
After stints as a henchman for the villains Arcade and the Hood, Lorina tried forming her own animal-themed gang, the Menagerie. More recently, she joined with the all-female criminal enterprise known as the Syndicate. However, the team mostly wanted her for her money. Given that record, it seems unlikely that vampire powers will make White Rabbit any more of a threat to Spider-Man.
Amazing Spider-Man #49 arrives in comic shops everywhere on May 8, 2024.
