RATED T | $3.99 US PETER DAVID 0 0 4 1 1 GREG LAND JAY LEISTEN 7 5 9 6 0 6 0 9 9 4 4 3 4 BONUS DIGITAL EDITION – DETAILS INSIDE! FRANK D’ARMATA AFTER THE FIRST SECRET WARS, PETER PARKER RETURNED HOME TO NEW YORK CITY WITH A BRAND-NEW COSTUME HE THOUGHT HAD BEEN CRAFTED BY ALIEN TECHNOLOGY. IT COULD RESPOND TO HIS EVERY THOUGHT, SHAPE-SHIFT TO MIMIC HIS CIVILIAN CLOTHING AND EVEN GENERATE A SEEMINGLY ENDLESS SUPPLY OF HIS UNIQUE WEBBING! NOW IN HIS SLEEK ALL-BLACK COSTUME, PETER PARKER BALANCES HIS PERSONAL LIFE, HIS PHOTOGRAPHY JOB FOR THE DAILY BUGLE AND HIS SUPER-HEROICS AS HE SWINGS THROUGH THE CITY AS THE AMAZING, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN! THOUGH, UNBEKNOWNST TO PETER, HIS ALIEN COSTUME MAY BE MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE…
THE SWORD AND THE SPIRIT PART FOUR
AFTER MR. E—A SHADOWY BEING CREATED BY KNULL AS AN EARLY PROTOTYPE OF SYMBIOTES—BONDED WITH ALISTAIR SMYTHE, HE ATTACKED THE AVENGER BLACK KNIGHT AND TOOK HIS ONE-OF-A-KIND WEAPON, THE EBONY BLADE. SPIDER-MAN—WITH THE HELP OF KANG THE CONQUEROR, ROCKET RACOON AND CAPTAIN MARVEL—IS ON MR. E’S TAIL TO THE COSMIC HUB KNOWN AS KNOWHERE! BUT SPIDER-MAN ISN’T THE ONLY ONE AFTER MR. E, AS ULIK THE TROLL CRASHED DOWN TO TAKE THE EBONY BLADE FOR HIMSELF!
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