FREE SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN: NECESSARY EVIL (MARVEL NOW) VOLUME 4 PDF Dan Slott,Ryan Stegman | 112 pages | 11 Feb 2014 | Marvel Comics | 9780785184737 | English | New York, United States Necessary Evil | Marvel Database | Fandom The storyline sees a dying Otto Octavius swapping bodies with Peter Parker and allowing Parker to die in his body. However, he later learns about responsibility Superior Spider-Man: Necessary Evil (Marvel Now) Volume 4 redeems himself. Adopting the alias "Superior Spider-Man", he becomes a superhero and is determined to prove himself as a better Spider-Man than Parker ever was, and a better man than Octavius. The series is a continuation of the " Dying Wish " storyline, which ended the long running series The Amazing Spider-Man. The series ended with issue 31, which determined the fate of Octavius's mind, and was followed up by a relaunch Superior Spider-Man: Necessary Evil (Marvel Now) Volume 4 The Amazing Spider-Man series, with the first volume depicting Parker regaining his body and the Spider-Man mantle. In Mayit was announced that the series would return for two additional issues 32 and 33 that fill a gap left by an earlier storyline, as well as lead into the " Spider-Verse " storyline. They were released in August It served as a continuation of the history of Otto Octavius after the events of "Go Down Swinging", and also serves as a tie-in to the "Spider-Geddon" storyline. Ina new volume of The Superior Spider-Man debuted as part of the " Spider-Geddon " storyline, with 12 new Superior Spider-Man: Necessary Evil (Marvel Now) Volume 4 written by Gage. Marvel Comics first teased the announcement of The Superior Spider-Man in September by releasing an image of the word Superior without the creative team. After Peter Parker 's death at the " Dying Wish " storyline's climax in The Amazing Spider-ManOtto Octavius Superior Spider-Man: Necessary Evil (Marvel Now) Volume 4 implanted his mind into Peter's body, determined to prove himself the "Superior" Spider-Man by being both a better superhero and person than Parker ever could be. Octavius earns public acclaim when he defeats the Sinister Six. Unbeknownst to Otto, he is subconsciously held back by Parker's consciousness which still exists within his body, buried underneath Octavius's own, intent on stopping the villain and reclaiming his life. Peter proves unable to influence Octavius in any more than the slightest of ways. Otto inadvertently causes himself to share Peter's genuine love for Mary Jane Watsonand so pushes her away for her own safety. When his old Sinister Six teammate Superior Spider-Man: Necessary Evil (Marvel Now) Volume 4 resurfaces, Octavius attempts to convince his old friend to give up crime. Upon the discovery that Vulture employs children as henchmen Otto brutally takes the Vulture down, blinding him in the process. Vulture's remaining henchmen are taken in by the Green Goblin. His decision to execute Massacre sits ill with his teammates in the Avengers and they bring him in for questioning after a brutal beating of pranksters Jester and Screwball. Octavius defeats Parker, then seemingly eliminates Peter by erasing Peter's memories. Police Captain Yuri Watanabe questions the officers present during the Massacre killing. An autopsy reveals Massacre was unable to fire a gun and was shot point blank, confirming Yuri's suspicions. The Green Goblin hacks the Spider-Bots tech to allow his followers to bypass detection. Former Vulture henchmen torch Mary Jane's nightclub in revenge for an earlier failed attempt. Mary Jane believes Peter will come to rescue her, but is saved by local firemen. Otto becomes closer with Anna Maria Marconi. The Green Goblin declares himself the Goblin "King", as his army grows. Spider-Man is asked to supervise Alistair Smythe 's execution. As the execution begins, mini Spider-Slayers Superior Spider-Man: Necessary Evil (Marvel Now) Volume 4 Smythe to attempt escape. Jonah Jameson tells Spider-Man to ensure that Smythe dies by any means necessary. Otto predicts Smythe's every escape attempt and eventually fatally stabs Smythe. Smythe attempts to transfer his mind into Spider-Man, but Otto also planned for this possibility. Later, Spider-Man uses a recording of Jameson's kill-order to blackmail Jameson. Otto then assaults Shadowland, the domain of Kingpin and the new Hobgoblin, with his arach-naught tanks and army of Spiderling minions. Kingpin flees and frames his death with a body double. The Goblin's soldiers rejoice in the fact their boss now owns over half of New York's organized crime. Spider-Man publicly reveals Phil Urich as the new Hobgoblin. Phil realizes that he has nowhere to run and takes Norah Winters hostage. Urich is later freed by Menace and brought to the Goblin King, then given new armor and the "Goblin Knight" title. Otto in the present attacks Tiberius, but is stopped by Spider-Man He returns to find them surrounded by explosive chronal energy. This causes Peter's consciousness to re-emerge. Tyler destroys his time machine in the future, stranding Spider-Man Carlie Cooper discovers that Spider-Man's funds comes from a secret account. Spider-Man punches Superior Spider-Man: Necessary Evil (Marvel Now) Volume 4 and webs her for the police. Angelina Brancale, Otto's former girlfriend, learns Octavius is dead. She restarts her VR power suit and becomes Stunner again. Otto shuts down her VR interface and takes it back to his base. When she awakes, Otto appears holographically as his old self, and tells her he has moved on. Lamaze drops his accusations after also being visited by Otto. Carlie believes their minds have swapped, but she is kidnapped and brought to the Goblin King. Crime Master is just a common criminal who has purchased the costume from Hobgoblin. Otto then turns on Flash. Flash flees to a hospital, before going to meet Peter Parker. Otto asks Flash to come to Parker Industries, under the guise of giving him prosthetic legs. Flash doesn't realize Otto intends to remove the Venom symbiote. At the lab, Superior Spider-Man: Necessary Evil (Marvel Now) Volume 4 Venom symbiote attaches itself to Otto. Superior Venom dispatches criminality more ruthlessly than ever before. Iron Man carries Flash to confront Superior Venom. Superior Venom is ambushed by Flash in Iron Man's armor. During the mental struggle between the Venom symbiote and Otto, Peter's consciousness separates Otto from the Venom symbiote, letting it to re-bond with Flash. Meanwhile, the Goblin King sprays Carlie with goblin serum and transforms her into "Monster". He offers Octavius a truce if Otto submits to him. Otto refuses. The Goblin King attacks and destroy his Spider-Base. Otto and Living Brain barely escape. Only Anna Maria is kidnapped. Spider-Man comes to help, but Otto abandons him to save Anna Maria. After hesitating about whether to save a young girl, Amy Chen whom Otto had helped via brain surgeryor go after the Goblin King, Otto realizes that saving Anna Maria is beyond him, and allows Peter to take back control of his body. During his fight with the Goblin King, he loses the last serum, before removing the Goblin King's mask, revealing him to be Alchemax's associate Mason Banks. Superior Spider-Man: Necessary Evil (Marvel Now) Volume 4, he confirms he is indeed Norman Osbornhaving undergone plastic surgery to move undetected, allowing him build the Goblin Nation, hijack Octavius' security network, and secretly having secured Alchemax to be inherited by his grandson. Without his mask, the spider-bots recognize Osborn as a threat and administer the goblin anti-serum. He escapes and vows revenge, proclaiming that "they'll never see [him] coming". Tiberius reobtains and intends to sell the Spider-Slayers on the black market. Jameson then resigns as mayor of NYC. During the time Superior Spider-Man was missing after the Horizon Lab explosion, [35] he was teleported towhere he used the future technology to find a way back, but instead discovers the existence of the Inheritors. After the defeat of the Inheritors, Superior Spider-Man returns to his spot in the Earth timeline but has no recollection of the Spider-Verse events. It is later revealed that Otto had used the technology acquired in to make a copy of his consciousness right before being sent back, and stored the copy in his gauntlets and programmed it activate in days. When the gauntlets reactivated the duplicate made an octobot body out of the gauntlets. This duplicate would initially plan to take control of Peter's body, while hiding inside the Living Brain. However, after learning that his original self sacrificed himself and willingly gave Peter his body back, Otto due to his massive ego and lack of his former self's final memories believes that Peter's body corrupted his Superior Spider-Man: Necessary Evil (Marvel Now) Volume 4 self's personality and instead decided to get a new body modeled after his own physique, after causing the Living Brain to self-destruct. After finding out his original body has been stolen by New U Technologies and was being restored Otto infiltrated New U's lab and transferred his consciousness into his renewed body and quickly destroyed a copy of Peter Parker's consciousness created as a side effect of Peter inhabiting Otto's body as it died before reclaiming his title as Dr. Octopus and making a pact with The Jackal who was secretly Ben Reily, a clone of Peter Parker having initially been a hero but due to being killed and resurrected countless times by Miles Warren, his creator and the original Jackal, he was driven over the edge and for the time being went down a more malicious path to perfect New U Technologies currently flawed cloning process.