Widowmaker (Marvel Comics)
| Widowmaker | |
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Cover of Widowmaker #1 (December 2010) by Jae Lee.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Bi-weekly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date(s) | December 2010 – January 2011 |
| No. of issues | 4 |
| Main character(s) |
Black Widow Hawkeye Mockingbird |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Jim McCann Duane Swierczynski David Lopez Manuel Garcia |
| Written by |
Jim McCann Duane Swierczynski |
| Penciller(s) |
David Lopez Manuel Garcia |
| Inker(s) | Alvaro Lopez Lorenzo Ruggiero |
| Letterer(s) | Cory Petit Nate Piekos |
| Colorist(s) | Nathan Fairbairn Jim Charalampidis |
| Editor(s) | Rachel Pinnelas Charlie Beckerman Bill Rosemann Ralph Macchio |
Widowmaker is a four issue comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics starring superheroes Black Widow, Hawkeye and Mockingbird. Widowmaker continues the storyline staged in Hawkeye & Mockingbird #6 by Hawkeye & Mockingbird creators Jim McCann and David Lopez and the Black Widow creative team of writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Manuel Garcia.
In July 2010, Marvel Comics announced that Hawkeye & Mockingbird writer Jim McCann and Black Widow writer Duane Swierczynski will be collaborating on Widow Maker, a four-part crossover that will take place in Hawkeye & Mockingbird #7-8 and Black Widow #9-10 starting in December 2010 and running through January 2011. The idea for a crossover was originally incepted when the writers found out that their respective titles would be launching around the same time. McCann explained, "It's a logical crossover; there is a shared history between Hawkeye and Black Widow, the books operate in the world of super hero super spies, and the fans have been asking for this since the books were announced. So, give them what they want!" When coming up with ways that Black Widow, Hawkeye and Mockingbird could all interact, McCann threw out the idea of revealing the origins of Ronin and introducing a new Ronin. In the comic book the new Ronin surrounds himself with the Dark Ocean Society, of which McCann did extensive research stating, "I actually did a lot of research for this in Japanese spy craft and secret societies. The Dark Ocean Society in Japanese is actually called Genyōsha, but we couldn't call it that in Marvel because we have something called Genosha and it might confuse everybody". McCann also researched Japan–Russia relations for the comic book's setting on the disputed Kuril Islands revealing that the week that Widowmaker #1 came out, talks broke down between Russia and Japan over the real life Kuril Islands.
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