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MC2 ("Marvel Comics 2") is an imprint of Marvel Comics whose comic books depicted an alternative timeline for the Marvel Universe. The line was based on What If? #105, which is the first appearance of Spider-Girl, Spider-Man's daughter.

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The MC2 universe was conceived by writer/editor Tom DeFalco. It was set 15 years in Marvel's future, using Marvel's "chronological elasticity" to actually be able to present the stories in modern time. The goal was to produce comic books with greater "mass market" appeal than the mainstream Marvel Universe, that could be more easily enjoyed without extensive knowledge of the primary timeline's decades of continuity. Three MC2 titles were launched with October 1998 cover dates, initially planned as 12-issue limited series: However, the titles failed to attract a large fan-following, and A-Next and J2 ended as planned after twelve issues, replaced with: Spider-Girl meanwhile continued its run, as some continuity was desired among the line. However, with the collapse of a deal to sell the comics in K-Mart and Target, the new titles were cancelled after only five issues, leaving Spider-Girl as the MC2 line's only survivor, with sales gradually drifting downwards to cancellation levels.

A few spin-off miniseries were launched during the main title's run (DarkDevil and Spider-Girl Presents The Buzz), but even Spider-Girl was always kept on the brink of cancellation. Only successive efforts on the part of DeFalco and fans who campagined to save the title kept it going, even as it was one of Marvel Comics' lowest selling comics at the time. However, Marvel launched a line of small "Digest"-sized trade paperbacks in 2004, with Spider-Girl being one of the two biggest successes in the "mass market" (the other being Runaways, which was reprieved from cancellation by the digest sales), with some reports suggesting that the Spider-Girl digests had substantially outsold the monthly comics.

In 2005 a new MC2 five part limited series was released called Last Hero Standing, with the aim of the series being to go to trade paperback format quickly as a possible prelude to making digests of the other MC2 books ("The sales of the Spider-Girl trade paperbacks have been so good to the mass market and to the grade schools that Marvel wanted a limited series that would introduce the other members of the MC2 Universe to the mass market." [link])

In 2006, Marvel announced the cancellation of Spider-Girl at issue 100, and a Last Planet Standing mini-series, which would have been the end of the MC2 universe. However, a few months later, Marvel anounced they were going to relaunch Spider-Girl, under the title Amazing Spider-Girl.

Also, an alternate universes special of Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe revealed that the earth of MC2 heroes has its starting of "The Age of Marvels" 15 years earlier than it did on Earth-616 and is designated as Earth-982 while there's also two earths featuring alternate counterparts of Spider-Girl -- one in which she's raised by Kaine (Earth-1122) and one in which she has been bonded with the Venom symbiote (shown in the Earth-X mini-series, Earth-9997).

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