Who are the Mary Janes
The Mary Janes are a band, not a super-team: the four-piece Gwen Stacy drums for on Earth-65, the reality where she, not Peter Parker, got the spider-bite. They first appeared in Edge of Spider-Verse #2, cover-dated November 2014, by Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez, the issue that introduced Spider-Gwen.
That shared debut is the point. Spider-Gwen arrived with a whole life already attached, and the band is the center of it: Mary Jane Watson fronts the group, Betty Brant plays keyboard, and Glory Grant plays bass, with Gwen behind the kit and sneaking out to be Spider-Woman. The push-and-pull between the band and the mask gives the Spider-Gwen comics their grounded, music-scene texture, which became a signature of the character on the page and on screen.
Notable issues
- Edge of Spider-Verse #2 (2014): first appearance of the Mary Janes and of Spider-Gwen.
For collectors
The Mary Janes share their debut with Spider-Gwen, so the key is Edge of Spider-Verse #2 (2014), one of the most sought modern Marvel keys. Its value is driven entirely by the first Spider-Gwen; the band is along for the ride in the same issue.
