5 PETER DAVID GREG LAND JAY LEISTEN FRANK D’ARMATA
RATED T $3.99 US 1 1 5 0 0 3 – DETAILS – INSIDE! 4 4 9 9 0 6 0 6 DIGITAL EDITION DIGITAL 9 5 7 BONUS BONUS 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 FIVE
THE SHADOW ENTITY KNOWN AS MR. E—A BEING CREATED BY KNULL AS AN EARLY PROTOTYPE OF SYMBIOTES—HAS BATTLED SPIDER-MAN AND HIS ALLIES ACROSS THE GALAXY, ALL IN AN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY THE EBONY BLADE: ONE OF THE ONLY WEAPONS CAPABLE OF DESTROYING KNULL. WITH THE HELP OF MORE UNLIKELY ALLIES—THE SIBLING TROLLS ULIK AND ULICIA—SPIDER-MAN WAS ABLE TO RECOVER THE BLADE FOR THE WATCHER UATU, AND MR. E WAS TRAPPED IN THE COLLECTOR’S SHOWROOM.
PETER DAVID WRITER // GREG LAND PENCILER JAY LEISTEN INKER // FRANK D’ARMATA COLORIST
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