Avenging Spider-Man

Avenging Spider-Man
Promotional material from Marvel Comics showing all of the variant covers for Avenging Spider-Man #1 and announcing the free digital copies as part of the comic book.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics (#1–22)
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Superhero fiction
Publication date(s)	November 2011 - June 2013
No. of issues	24
Main character(s)	Spider-Man
Creative team
Written by	Cullen Bunn, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Kathryn Immonen, Greg Rucka, Kevin Shinick, Dan Slott, Ty Templeton, Mark Waid, Zeb Wells, Rob Williams, Chris Yost
Penciller(s)	Marco Checchetto, Matthew Clark, Gabriele Dell'Otto, Steve Dillon, Terry Dodson, Stuart Immonen, Aaron Kuder, Greg Land, David Lopez, Joe Madureira, Paco Medina, Brad Walker, Leinil Yu
Inker(s)	Rachel Dodson, Wade von Grawbadger, John Livesay, Juan Vlasco
Letterer(s)	Joe Caramagna
Colorist(s)	Dommo Aymara, Dave Curiel, Ferran Daniel, Edgar Delgado, Sunny Gho, Matt Hollingsworth, Frank Martin Jr., Rachelle Rosenberg, Chris Sotomayor

Avenging Spider-Man (abbreviated as AvSM) is an American comic book series published monthly by Marvel Comics, featuring the adventures of the fictional superhero Spider-Man. The events in the story take place in the primary continuity of the mainstream Marvel Universe along with the events of The Amazing Spider-Man and later The Superior Spider-Man. This was the first ongoing series to feature Spider-Man as the main character besides The Amazing Spider-Man since the cancellation of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and the second volume of Sensational Spider-Man in December 2008 following the conclusion of the "One More Day" storyline. Avenging Spider-Man has also been instrumental in Marvel's shift towards including codes to receive free digital copies of the comic with purchased print comic books.

The format of the series is very similar to the Marvel Team-Up comic book where Spider-Man teams up with another character in every issue. The first and second volumes of Marvel Team-Up primarily (but not exclusively) featured Spider-Man whereas Avenging Spider-Man exclusively features Spider-Man.

Marvel announced the publication in June 2011. The first issue was released 9 November 2011, with Zeb Wells as the writer, Joe Madureira as the penciller, and Ferran Daniel as the colorist. The first issue outsold both issues of The Amazing Spider-Man released in November and was the sixth best selling comic book of the month.