ReadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2025

Marvel So You've Been Bitten by a Radioactive Spider

How to Survive the Marvel Universe

Daniel Kibblesmith author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Chronicle Books

Published:4th Dec '25

Should be back in stock very soon

Marvel So You've Been Bitten by a Radioactive Spider cover

The Marvel Comics Universe is full of action, adventure, danger, and cosmic peril. Be ready for anything with this illustrated action handbook—whether you have newly developed super-powers, you need to pilot an Iron Man suit, or Galactus is here to eat the Earth.

Written by Marvel Comics and Emmy-nominated humor writer Daniel Kibblesmith, this official illustrated guide to surviving and thriving in the Marvel Universe uses comics-tested advice to steer readers through what to expect when exposed to gamma rays, bonding with a symbiote or—ow!—feeling an unexpected sting at the science fair. Featuring practical information such as wall-crawling tips, along with emergency information (you’ve been plunged into the Quantum Realm) and day-to-day guidance if your cat turns out to be a Flerken, you suspect someone of being a Skrull, or are facing a Doombot, this is the must-have handbook as you live in the world of Marvel’s mightiest heroes.

© 2025 MARVEL

“Funny…[with] an entertaining tongue-in-cheek tone, and filled with great jokes. And Kyle Hilton's artwork is clean and charming, with a kid-friendly vibe that will appeal to the book's younger readers…The book has a breezy, faux-mundane how-to tone that juxtaposes the fantastical situations it offers advice on.”—Boing Boing
“As holidays are coming up, this makes a perfect gift book for the comics fan in your life…it will sit proudly on my bookshelf…”—Fanboy Planet

ISBN: 9781797233543

Dimensions: 178mm x 127mm x 18mm

Weight: unknown

148 pages