Just in case the Bane Dark Knight Rises image released on Friday eclipsed buzz for the myriad other comic book movies making their way to the big screen, Marvel have hit back by releasing the first poster for next year’s The Amazing Spider-Man.

Coming over a year before the flick’s actual unveiling, this is definitely one to file under ‘massive tease’. That said, the poster at least gives us the film’s official logo, whick copes well with the elongated title but isn’t massively eye-catching.

As for the mysterious (bloodied?) fabric in the background, is that Peter Parker’s Spidey suit post-battle damage? It certainly looks that way. But what’s most enticing about this new image is the possibility that this poster could actually be the first piece in a jigsaw that will eventually be the film’s official one sheet. Stranger things have happened in the cutthroat world of viral marketing…