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7 59606 08814 0 WAIT A MINUTE – DID SPIDER-MAN JUST TURN HIMSELF INTO THE POLICE?!

He sure did! But it’s not just the police and…kind of complicated.

I WANT EVERY DETAIL!

Peter has a sort-of-maybe-kind-of half sister, Teresa Parker. She’s a superspy who stole classified data from a rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. division called THE GRAY BLADE—and became a fugitive in the process! They’ve turned to the Tinkerer’s super smart and very respectable brother THE MASON for help but—

I WANT SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DETAILS!

The Gray Blade ambushed Peter at his apartment so Peter punched his way down through every floor in the building to escape. But while Peter was free, the police went to arrest his Aunt May. So Pete turned himself in...

OH. I WAS HOPING FOR A “MAY IN PRISON” STORY. DID ANYTHING ELSE AWESOME HAPPEN?

Well, Peter also recently revealed his secret identity to J. Jonah Jameson. That’s pretty awesome, right?

I GUESS. IF YOU LIKE OLD DUDES.

We do.

WRITER ARTISTS COLOR ARTIST LETTERER CHIP ZDARSKY ADAM KUBERT & JUAN FRIGERI JASON KEITH VC’s TRAVIS LANHAM

COVER ARTISTS ASSISTANT EDITORS ASSOCIATE EDITOR EDITOR ADAM KUBERT & MORRY HOLLOWELL ALLISON STOCK & TOM GRONEMAN DEVIN LEWIS NICK LOWE

EDITOR IN CHIEF CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AXEL ALONSO JOE QUESADA DAN BUCKLEY ALAN FINE

SPIDER-MAN CREATED BY STAN LEE & STEVE DITKO

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wow, no kiddin’?

I know geez, no it ain’t a need for the --and they’re popular tone, pal. a gonna go through opinion lotta high-up you to get him! I’m would around people want I’ll just trying to be you mind here, but spider-man let him friendly-- stepping outside I always brought know. for a bit while I liked that in-- ta lk to mr. guy. officer… parker hoffman, here? is it? uh, sure…sure thing. ESCAPE PLANS

mr. parker.

please, my father was mr. parker. call me a lawyer.

I’m afraid this isn’t a “lawyer” situation, mr. parker.

…well, that doesn’t sound shady at all.

I’ve left spider- you several signal? messages, mr. parker. look, my name is I don't agent know. he mintz. rushed me out of my where is building your former last night employee? as your goons I don’t stormed know. it. he said you weren't how do real cops, we contact which him? is why I ran.*

*a wildly distorted view of last issue! --chip welp, another I’d suggest great plan, parker. you start I just wanted to save aunt remembering may, but these gray blade how to contact yahoos mean business! spider-man. they must've infiltrated the nypd somehow!

we’ll be transferring I've got to you shortly get out of to a facility here! I can more… easily bust out, designed…to but they'd elicit the definitely truth. make the spidey connection then!

and I need to find teresa! she escaped the cops, but where could she have gone? I have to-- whoa, what-- uhhhhh…

hey, stupid-- whoa, and I’m --looks the wasp and… pretty sure like you’re I wanna say… “wasp” is in some hot taken. I’m a water, matchstick? eh? literal oh man, spy. har har, teresa, I’m we’re here to glad to see bust you out. you! how’d you ant-man gave us escape the guys some loaners staking out my so we could apartm ent? get in and out through the air vents.

this’ll keep them out for a little while, but we should wait, skedaddle! fine by did you… me. just … give me my helmet and let’s …did ant-man our you not way out of bring me a uhhhh… here! helmet? I did it! hurry! I confess! we don’t know I’m the spidey what parker’s --of… strangler! capable--

this is we’re mintz. parker’s running out escaped! of options…

I'll kill them all!

I can’t help myself! I see a spider-man, I just lose control!