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Earth-90214

Earth-90214

In 2009, Marvel started a new line of comic books with a "Noir" theme, taking many of their superheroes and placing them in the 1930's. The Noir storylines remained pretty similar to the character's originals, adding many of their already supporting cast, but there were often unforeseen twists and variants from the original.

Name:
Earth-90214
Aliases:
Start year:
2009
First issue:
cover

Overview

Marvel Noir takes place on Earth 90214. Here the heroes of the regular Marvel Universe (Earth 616) had appeared decades earlier. Some of the leading titles for the Noir series were Spider-Man, Iron Man, and X-Men. Most of the Noir books are made of a four-part series of noir comics.

Many standard characters from the main story arcs were also brought along into the 1930's atmosphere. For a better description of these characters' Noir version see their "Alternate Versions" section.

Comics

Volumes:

  • Daredevil Noir (2009)
  • Daredevil Noir (2010)
  • Iron Man Noir
  • Iron Man Noir
  • Luke Cage Noir (2009)
  • Luke Cage Noir (2010)
  • Punisher Noir (2009)
  • Punisher Noir (2010)
  • Spider-Man Noir
  • Spider-Man Noir
  • Spider-Man Noir: Eyes Without a Face (2009)
  • Spider-Man Noir: Eyes Without a Face (2010)
  • Wolverine Noir (2009)
  • Wolverine Noir (2010)
  • X-Men Noir

Similar Title:

Deadpool Pulp is a lot like the Marvel Noir concept only it takes place in a different world on a later date (after WWII).

Other Media

Video Games

  • In Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, there are levels taking place in the Spider-Man Noir universe. Unlike the other Spider-Man characters, in the Noir gameplay there is a focus on using stealth to take down your opponents. This game added a 1930's version of the Spider-Man villain Hammerhead as one of its first main bosses. And, while playing as Spider-Man Noir, you must defeat the Noir versions of Vulture and Goblin.

Movies

  • In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, a science experiment dragged a few Spider-Man variants to Earth-1610, including Spider-Man Noir. Earth-90214 can be seen when he describes his origins and after he is returned to his home reality. Spider-Man Noir is voiced by Nicolas Cage.

Television

  • Spider-Man Noir is an upcoming television show on Amazon Prime. It is a spinoff of the Spider-Verse movie with Nic Cage returning to play the character in live-action. The character is now referred to as Ben Reilly and his alias is The Spider.

Issues

February 2009

March 2009

April 2009

May 2009

Volumes

2009