Secret Wars Brings Back The Spider-Marriage

“Spidey’s been around for over 50 years,” he says. “For close to half of that time, he was married to Mary Jane. As someone who came onto the book right after the marriage was written out, I can tell you that there's an extremely vocal section of our readership who were—and are to this day—very passionate on this subject. And that, right there, is probably one of the single, biggest understatements I've ever said during a Spider-Man interview.

“As a Spidey writer, the Spider-Marriage has been a locked off part of the Spidey U. toy box. It’s taken something as big as Secret Wars—an event where every rule can be broken, where nothing is off limits—it’s taken something this epic to give me the freedom to go to the Powers That Be and ask, ‘Can we bust the lock?’”

Fans of that era of Spider-Man stories will recognize the Peter and MJ of RENEW YOUR VOWS right away. But that does not mean the world they live in matches the environment of the Spider-books of that time.

“This is the Pete & MJ you knew and loved in late 80’s and early 90’s of [AMAZING SPIDER-MAN],” Slott asserts. “Well, if they’d had a baby. And if Venom and all of Spidey's greatest enemies were—Ah. Sorry. Got ahead of myself there for a second. Just forget I said that.”