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Peter Parker woke up from the battle of his life to find himself broke, badly injured and his Aunt May
still missing after a mysterious kidnapping. His wife, Mary Jane, refused to stay in hiding any longer
and has promised to help him, but their investigations are going nowhere. Patrolling New York, he’s
found nothing except a drug-addled, rampaging Doctor Octopus and a problem with a pursuing SWAT
team he never expected...

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NOT COMPLETELY
HELPLESS HERE

GOING TO
LIKE GWEN,
KNOW YO!
LIKE IT, BUT THAT'S,
JUST THE WAY
IT IS.

protect her?
 GET YOUR
HANDS OFFA ME
YOU PIGS!

Ny ONLY ABOUT
\y TEN TIMES A DAY
BUT HE'S GOTTA BE
HAD_SO FAR. BOY LOOKS
MORE LIKE ANT-MAN
THAN SPIDER:

WELL, WELL, WELL. IF IT ISN'T

MISTER HIGH-SCHOOL TEACHER.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, AND HAPPY. WHAT'S UP,
PARKER? SOMEOF THE JONAH? YOU FINALLY
BIGGER BOYS BEEN STEALING FOUND THAT NICKEL
YOUR LUNCH MONEY YOU LOST?

CRAZY WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE ANYWAY,

SPIDER-MAN STUNT? PARKER? WE'RE TRYING TO PUT THIS
ISN'T THIS, LIKE, THE ELEVENTH STORY TO BED ABOUT ALL THOSE
TIME YOU'VE PULLED THE OLD BREAK-INS AT OSCORP
“CASH-REWARD-FOR-HIS: INTERNATIONAL.
SECRET-IDENTITY I TOOK
THING? PICTURES OF
WHO CARES? TAKING DOW!
SOME ANONYMOUS, OCTOPUS LAST NIGHT, AND
BILLIONAIRE DONATES FIVE WONDERED WHAT YOU GUYS,
MILLION BUCKS TO BOOST OUGHT O1 OF THEM. _~THaT
THOUGHT /. AMATEUR
OUR CIRCULATION, WHO —ERAP? THEY'RE ALL OUT
AM ITO SAY NO? OF FOCUS AND COMPLETELY
OFF-CENTER, PARKER, YOU
WERE DOING BETTER WORK
THAN THIS WHEN YOU WERE
\ IN HIGH SCHOOL!

HEY, DAD. ¥
READY TO GO
NG WAS HE ON THE AB SOME
LOOSE OUT THERE, HUH? LUNCH?
TEN AT THE
? HE DIDN'T EVEN KILL
"ANYBODY! THIS HARDLY
MADE THE LATE-NIGHT,
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ay IN QUEENS:
Lee <| My Aunt May is seventy-two years old.
she pops twelve pills a day and has

I KNOW YOU
KNOW I'M DANGLING
HERE, OSBORN, SO YOU
CAN STOP TRYING TO
‘ANNOY fs

ANNOYING YO
IS THE ONLY PLE) RE
I'VE GOT LEFT IN LIFE
PARKER.

WHAT DO YOU WANT ANYWAY,

BOY? CAN'T YOU SEE I'VE GOT
PLACES TO GO AND PEOPLE TO y DON'T
SEE? I HOPE THIS DOESN'T HAVE PUSH YOUR LUCK. IF
ANYTHING TO DO WITH DEAR, IT WASN'T FOR THE LACK
OLD AUNT MAY AGAIN? SHE'S. OF GLOATING YOU'D BE
TOP OF MY LIST FOR
THIS KIDNAPPING.

TO SEE IF
7” _YOU CAN SHED A
LITTLE LIGHT ON WHAT
HAPPENED TO HER. I'VE
GONE OVER THE DETAILS
A MILLION TIMES, AND STILL.
COME UP WITH NOTHING,
BUT MAYBE THERE'S
‘SOMETHING I’M
MISSING HERE.
MAYBE I'M
JUST TOO NORMAL
TO SEE WHAT THIS Gby's
UP TO, BUT YOU'RE THE
KING OF THE KOOKS, RIGHT?
MAYBE YOU CAN FIGURE
OUT WHY HE HASN'T BEEN
BACK IN TOUCH.
 EXCUSE ME
A MOMENT, PARKER.
I’M JUST CHECKING TO
MAKE SURE IT ISN'T APRIL
FIRST. HAVE YOU HONESTL’
COME HERE UNDER THE
DELUSION THAT I MIGHT
ACTUALLY HELP YOU
IN
7— ALWAYS KINDA HAD A
GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT,
_A RIGHT? I MEAN, YOU'VE KNOWN
WHO I WAS PRETTY MUCH FROM
THE START, BUT YOU'VE ALWAYS
“a HAD’ THE MANNERS
TO KEEP THIS TO YOURSELF.

I'M GUESSING
THAT MEANS THERE'S
STILL A LITTLE NORMAN
IN THERE, DOING WHAT HE
CAN AGAINST THE
HORRIBLE LATEX

OH, PARKER. THIS IS

PARKER, PARKER, SWEETER THAN
PARKER, JUST WHEN I HARRY MUMBLING AND
THINK YOU CAN'T MAKE TUMBLING OVER HIS FIR:
ME SMILE ANYMORE, YOU FEW WORDS, IT REALLY (5.LET
GO AND PULL SOME- ME ANSWER THIS REQUEST WITH
THING LIKE THIS. A VERY BRIEF ANECDOTE
HAVE YOU GOT A
SECOND?

ABOUT A ONE OF THE GUARDS IN HERE TRIED. IT WAS OBVIOL

MINUTE TO BEFRIEND ME RECENTLY--ALWAY HE WANTED SOME-
AND_A HALF AS COURTEOUS AS THE OTHERS THING AND, AFTER
‘OSBORN WERE RUDE, AND ALWAYS TRYING TO A FEW DAYS, HE
SNEAK ME LITTLE TREATS WITH FINALLY SHOWED
WHATEVER I WAS HAVIN: HIS HAND.
FOR DINNER

“HER DOCTORS TESTED HER

HARDLY GET OUT OF BED IN THE FOR EVERYTHING FROM CANCER
MORNINGS AND JUST FELT WHAT TO MULTIPLE SCLERO:
SHE DESCRIBED AS A HORRIBLE THE SCANS ALL CAME BAC!
TOOTHACHE FROM HEAD TO TOE. NORMAL. ALL THE BLOOD TE:
WERE CLEAR AND YET THIS
WOMAN JUST SEEMED TO GET
WORSE AND WORSE.
LIKE HE'D SCRA
BORED, I TOLD HIM, Al
‘0 DO. WHY NOT
CHALLENGE?

DO YOU THINK
HAPPENED? SHE
GOT BETTER...
 MWELL, SHE STARTED
GETTING PAINS IN HER
KIDNEYS LAST WEEK AND
THEN HER NEUROLOGICAL
FUNCTIONS BEGAN
BREAKING DOWN.

"BY THE WEEKEND, THE ORIGINAL

PAIN WAS BACK TEN TIMES WORSE
THAN IT EVER WAS, AND BY
YESTERDAY MORNING, SHE'D GONE
COMPLETELY BLIND."

ONE OF THE
CLEANERS WAS TELLING ME
THIS MORNING SHE GOT RUSHED
INTO THE HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT
AND NEEDS A MACHINE TO.
BREATHE NOW.
THE BAD NEV
E'S NEVER COMING
OUT OF THIS COMA AND.
OH DEAR ME, I DO BELIEVE
THAT POOR LITTLE WIFE WILL
BE PUSHING UP THE DAISIES
BY THE END OF
THE WEEK.

NOW ASK ME AGAIN FOR TI

FAVOR YOU WANTED, PARKER.
ASK ME AGAIN FOR HELP AFTER
LOCKING ME UP AND RUINING MY
s AND ENDANGERING
LIFE TO THIS
DEGREE.

OH,
POOR BABY.
WHAT DO you
MEAN ENDANGERING
YOUR LIFE? YOU'RE IN
A HIGH-SECURITY CELL.
YOUR SKIN'S
PRACTICALLY BULLET:
PROOF.

WHAT THEY WERE

DOING WITH OTTO.
OCTAVIUS LAST NIGHT
PETER. ASK YOURSELF
WHY ALL OF My
OFFICES ARE BEING
BURGLARIZED
RIGHT NOW
 I'm calling MJ every twenty
minutes, but nothing’s happenin
‘An old friend named Liz Osborn w
‘on the phone trying to talk her into
2 high-school reunion and it took
nearly an hour to shake her off.

it must be BEAUTIFUL to
have a normal life. I pause for
a second and imagine what it
must be like when your oniy
concer is what to wear to an
old school GET-TOGETHER.
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What's Venom au’
secret event uptow
really be Aunt May?
be behind a!
fe) Like anyone else who's
Peay exhausted all rational
Hf] possibilities, I decide
NIH e's time z paid a visit
© @ PSYCHIC...

DON'T WORRY
ABOUT IT. I TAKE
IT YOU'RE ONE OF THE,
UH, TELEPATHS HERE,
RIGHT? LIKE JEAN
GREY USED
TO BE?

OH, I'M
TERRIBLY SORRY,
THE TEACHERS SAY IT'S
VERY RUDE TO PEEK INSIDE
SOMEONE'S HEAD WHENEVER
THEY'RE WEARING THEIR
MASK. PROMISE YOU WON'T
TELL? T'LL BE IN BIG
TROUBLE IF
YOU DO.

DON'T BE
SILLY. WHY WOULD
I BE OFFENDED? WOULD
IT BOTHER YOU IF T
CALLED YOU AND YOUR
FRIENDS HOMO
SAPIENS?
 WHAT? I'M GOD, I'M
SORRY. I DON'T | SUCH AN'IDIOT. I
UNDERSTAND. / WAS ANSWERING THE
QUESTION YOU'RE GOING
TO ASK SIXTY UH, RIGHT.
SECONDS FROM NOW, LISTEN, DO YOU
SPIDER-MAN. REALLY THINK IT'S A
GOOD IDEA TO LEAVE
My TEMPORAL YOUR GATES OPEN LIKE
PERSPECTIVE IS STILL THIS? T MEAN, THERE'S
Kino
MOMENT.OF Sexeiwy AT THEOF Po
AND ALOT STILL A LOT WHO
‘OUT THERE OF PEOPLE
KINDA
REALLY JUMBLED
MY CHAT COMES OUT
WITH MUTANTS:
HAVE A PROBLEM

OH, I KNOW. I'VE

SEEN THEM STANDING
OUT THERE WITH THEIR
SIGNS AND STUFF, BUT
THEY NEVER ACTUALLY SET
FOOT ON THE GROUNDS OF
THE SCHOOL OR ANY-
THING. NOBODY'S THAT,
‘UPID, RIGHT?

F HOPE ¥OU DONT

MIND ME USING THE WORD DON’T BE SILLY
PN peraBY THE WAY.
“MUTANT”, aren HY WOULD
WHY WO I BE OFFENDED?
WOULD IT BOTHER YOU IF I
THE
WORDPOLITICALLY CORRECTIT
1S THESE DAYS. CALLED YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS
KINDA CHANGES ALL HOMO SAPIENS?i
THE TIME.
iit

THAT WAS
THE QUESTION I
WAS ANSWERING.
EARLIER, BY THE
Way.
NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN. APPARENTLY, SOME KID IN
SPIDER-MAN. MISS FROST ASKED ME SAN ANTONIO TURNED INTO A
TO PASS ALONG HER APOLOGIES, “SENTIENT THERMONUCLEAR.
BUT SHE HAD TO DISAPPEAR ON | REACTOR AND, WELL, YOU
AN X-MEN EMERGENCY WITH MY KNOW HOW THESE
DAD AND A COUPLE OF THINGS GO.
THE OTHER GUYS.
 I'M RACHEL
SUMMERS, IN ¢

MISSING
THING.
SOMEBODY SAID ALL
MY CLONES WERE FAR-
FETCHED, 2M GOING
JEAN GREY? TOOv SEND THEM
TUALLY, I’M HER palate 2
TER FROM A

ASKED YOU TO BRING?

JEWELRY SEEMS TO.
WORK BEST WHEN WE'RE
TRYII IND_A WOMAN
‘OR SOME REASON.
NOBODY REALLY
KNOWS WHY.

OOH, SHE
WAS SPUNKY, WASN'T

LIGHT |
NO THAT? SHE ALWA\
YOU WERE,
 GOD. THIS WAS MOVED INTO A NEW
VIOLENT, PLACE. YOU AND THE
WASN'T IT? RED-HEADED GIRL HAD
PAID FOR IT AND SHE
ABSOLUTELY LOVED
LIVING IN MANHATTAN,
BUT SHE WAS REALLY
REALLY WORRIED THAT
YOU GUYS COULDN'T
AFFORD IT.
SHE LOVED
THE RED-HEAD, TOO,
INCIDENTALLY. SHE JUST
THOUGHT
LITTLE CRAZY
TIMES ANS

WHAT'S:
HAPPENING?
WHAT ARE YOU
SeeING? A
SHE HAD THE
CHAIN ON THE DOOR,
BUT IT DIDN'T MATTER. SHE
THOUGHT IT WAS A JEHOVAH'S
WITNESS, BUT HE SNAPPED
THE CHAIN LIKE IT WAS MADE
OF LICORICE, AND THEN

i
HE HELD HER UP AGAINST
THE WALL AND...

SHE PASSED
OUT, BUT SHE KNEW
/. HIM, SPIDER-MAN. YOU.
KNOW 'HIM, TOO, BUT HE'S
DIFFERENT FROM HOW HE
USED TO BE. HE’S NOT
HUMAN ANYMORE. HE'S.
OH, GOD. SHE WAS
WHO DID
IT, RACHEL? WAS
\T VENOM? WAS IT
EDDIE BROCK?

DON'T
KNOW. I
COULDN'T
 OKAY, TRY TO. I’M THINKING, I'M THINKING.
FIGURE OUT WHERE THIS ISN'T THE KIND OF STUFF I
SHE IS NOW. PLEASE, |USUALLY DO. PROFESSOR x WAS MIT's VAGUE.
TRY TO FIGURE OUT | THE ONE WHO SPECIALIZED IN MEAN, THIS RING
WHERE THIS GUY MISSING PERSONS, BUT I'M, MUST 'BE REALLY
TOOK HER DEFINITELY GETTING
INFORMATION HERE,SOME AA Ov, BUT..

I'M NOT
SURE YOU WANT
TO HEAR THIS,
SPIDER-MAN.

PLEASE!
JUST TELL
‘ME WHAT YOU'RE
SEEING HERE,
RACHEL!
 HEY, SADIE.
THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL
OAT
i YOU GOT THERE, VY

IN'T NO ANIMAL SKIN, JOANNIE. ME AND

ILD_NEVER SUPPORT WHAT THEY BEEN DOING
BEAUTIFUL BEASTS OUT THERE IN AFRICA
‘AND OFA STUF .
NO, THIS
LITTLE BEAUTY
USED TO BE
ONE OF THE
AVENGERS.

DON'T YOU
TIGRA? THE CUT!
WITH THE Bi
KRAVEN THE HUNTER SOLI
THIS FOR A HUN

AH, KRAVEN’S
KID'S AS PHONY OH, YEAH. \
AS HIS OLD MAN, AND YOU'RE SUCH \e=
MORRIE AN EXPERT ON
TIGRA, RIGHT?,
JUST THAT THAT AIN'T
TIGRA OVER THERE. TIGRA’S
BEEN LIVING IN L.A.FOR THE
LAST SIX MONTHS. SHE TEAMED
UP WITH WONDER MAN AGAINST
BOOMERANG JUST A
FEW WEEKS AGO.
 U LIKE
MAKING ME LOOK
STUPID, MORRIE? BECAUSE
THAT'S WHAT Y
DONE, YOU IDIOT. ~Wow yoy
GET IN THERE AND
1y ME THI

YOU THINKIN
TING INTO THE WHOLE Ss I'M HERE TO
COSTUME THING AFTER il ‘AS GREEN 'S BUY MYSELF A LITTLE
‘ALL THESE YEARS? me RESPECTABILITY,
‘AH, T NEVER
FOR

iG O
ANGELO HERE.

WOMB THAT GAVE ME

MY BEAUTIFUL
GIACOMO?

ALL TO
PLEASE.
GREAT

WAITING:
 YOU ALL KNOW ME. YOU ALL
KNOW MY REPUTATION WHEN
IT COMES TO SUPPLYING HIGH- WHEN SOI SAY
BELIEVE ME
THAT WHAT
QUALITY WEAPONS, NAMES I HAVE FOR YOU TONIGHT
‘AND COSTUMES. JUST OUTCLASSES ANYTHING
WE EVER SOLD ON THE
MARKET BEFORE.

THIS 1S NOT THE

BEETLE MOVING ON
AND SELLING UP. THIS:
'S NOT THE LOOTER
TRYING TO MAKE A
LITTLE CASH.
THis Is A
CLASS ONE SUPER-
CRIMINAL WHO'S BEEN
FEATURED ON THE
FBI'S MOST WANTED WE LIVE INA
MORE CONSISTENTLY VERY DANGEROUS:
THAN ANYONE OUTSIDE| WORLD, MY FRIENDS.
MAGNETO, RED SKULL, OUR CHOSEN PROFESSION
‘OR VICTOR VON HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY
DOOM HIMSELF. COMPETITIVE AND I DO
NOT HAVE TO REMIND
YOU ABOUT THE SCARS PURELY A
INFLICTED ON THE BUSINESS DECISION,
VULTURE THESE LAST,
FEW DAYS.
po My DEAR TINKERER, PURELY
A BUSINESS DECISION.

WHAT I'M,
OFFERING YOU
TONIGHT IS AN
OPPORTUNITY TO
PROTECT YOURSELVES
LIKE YOU NEVER HAVE
BEFORE, WHAT I'M
OFFERING YOU NOW
IS A ONCE-IN-A-
LIFETIME SHOT AT
THE MAJOR
LEAGUES...
LADIES AND ic
GENTLEMEN, TONIGHT’S
AUCTION Is FOR VENOM
HIMSELF.
 NO, MISTER
WHAT ARE MARKO, THIS GENTLEMAN
YOU TALKING IS EDDIE BROCK, VENOM’S
ABOUT? THAT HUMAN HOST. MISTER BROCK
AIN'T VENOM! AND VENOM COEXIST IN A
STRANGE, SYMBIOTIC
RELATIONSHIP WHERE EACH
PARTY REQUIRES THE
OTHER TO SURVIVE.
VENOM, AS YOU Se
MAY HAVE HEARD, IS
A SUPER-POWERED, ALIEN
PARASITE. MISTER BROCK,
UNFORTUNATELY, HAS:
CANCER AND WOULDN'T LIVE
SIX MONTHS WERE HE
DISCONNECTED FROM THIS,
‘OPPORTUNISTIC
ORGANISM.

BECAUSE, My HE'S HAD A

OLD FRIEND, MISTER BROCK CRISIS OF FAITH, IT
HAS SEEN A CERTAIN MEL SEEMS, AND TELLS’ ME
GIBSON MOVIE, WHICH, HE THAT HE'S READY TO SUFFER
SAYS, HAS CHANGED HIS'LIFE THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS
FOREVER, AND NOW HE WISHES ILLNESS NOW. HE'S GIVING:
TO EXORCISE THIS BEAST @ THE ALIEN UP TO WHOEVER
FROM HIS HEART. MAKES THE MOST
=
GENEROUS OFFER.

AUCTIONING A
PSYCHOTIC KILLER TO A
GANG OF SUPER-VILLAINS?
THAT DOESN'T SOUND TOO
CHRIST -LIKE. WHAT ARE YOU
BOING, BROCK? GIVING THE
PROCEEDS TO CHARITY?

THAT'S EXACTLY
WHAT I'M DOING,
MYSTERIO. THE PIECE OF
TRASH WOULD ONLY FIND A WELL SAI
INEW HOST ANYWAY, AND AT MISTER BROCK.
LEAST THIS WAY ALL THAT
DIRTY MONEY YOU GUYS: NATURALLY,
BID GOES TO A GOOD YOU'LL WANT TO ‘CHECK
CAUSE. THE GOODS BEFORE YOU
MAKE A BID, SO I'D LIKE TO
WARN ANY EPILEPTICS IN THE
AUDIENCE TO LOOK AWAY
FOR A SECOND AS OUR
FRIEND HERE GETS INTO
CHARACTER,

in,
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eye.
act:
|
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BROCK?

JEEZUS!
I THINK
I'M GONNA

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