#Marvel Pays Tribute to Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia Manga After Release of Final Volume
Marvel Comics has paid tribute to Kohei Horikoshi’s superhero manga series My Hero Academia with two new illustrations featuring characters from the series with Spider-Man and Black Cat. The 42nd and final volume of the series was released in Japan on December 4, 2024.
The first illustration by comic penciller Humberto Ramos features Izuku Midoriya and All Might with the web slinging Spider-Man.
The second illustration by colorist Edgar Delgado features Black Cat in an ensemble with various female characters from My Hero Academia, which include Mt.Lady, Star and Stripe, Ochaco Uraraka, Tsuyu Asui, Momo Yaoyorozu, Setsuna Tokage, and Mirko.
Fans pointed out online that Mirko’s skin tone was significantly lighter in Marvel’s initial post of Delgado’s illustration. A revised version was later added on Marvel’s official website. Delgado clarified in a Bluesky post that the change was already made and blamed the error on a “very very tight deadline and no sleep.”
Horikoshi, who is also a big Western comics fan, provided the following statement on the art exchange, and also announced he was working on his next manga:
I feel really lucky over the success of MHA, so I know there’s a lot of pressure around my next move. I’m planning to start a new manga as soon as I possibly can.
I was thinking to committing myself to simply drawing my next project, and letting someone else write the story, but my editor advised me ‘It will be better if you do it all yourself.’ With that in mind, I’ve slowly started writing and drawing the thumbnails of my next manga. However, there are still several events left surrounding MHA, so for a while I’ll still be committed to supporting and promoting it.
The original manga series was serialized from Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from July 7, 2014 to August 5, 2024. A total of 42 tankobon volumes were released.
The series has inspired a TV anime adaptation that has so far contained seven seasons, several manga spinoffs, video games, and four anime films. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime series worldwide, outside of Japan.
Viz Media releases the manga in English for North America, and describes the main synopsis as:
Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn’t got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny…
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