$3.99 0 0 2 1 1 RATED US T 7 5 9 6 0 6 0 9 9 4 4 3 BONUS DIGITAL EDITION – DETAILS INSIDE! FRANK D’ARMATA LEISTEN JAY GREG LAND PETER DAVID 2 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 TWO AFTER ALISTAIR SMYTHE WAS CONSUMED BY A MYSTERIOUS BLACK SPECTER CALLING HIMSELF MISTER E, THE RESULTING ABOMINATION TRANSFORMED ALL OTHER HUMANS IN THE RAVENCROFT INSTUTUTE, INCLUDING PETER PARKER’S COWORKER NED LEEDS, INTO SHADOW CREATURES! MEANWHILE, UATU THE WATCHER WAS CAPTURED AND PROBED BY THE TIME-TRAVELING AVENGERS VILLAIN KANG THE CONQUEROR! HOWEVER, KANG’S MACHINES COULDN’T HANDLE THE OVERLOAD OF UATU’S POWER, WHICH CAUSED KANG’S SHIP TO EXPLODE AND LEFT HIM ADRIFT IN SPACE …UNTIL ROCKET RACOON SCOOPED HIM UP! BACK ON EARTH, SPIDER-MAN WAS FACING DOWN MISTER E WHEN THE BLACK KNIGHT ARRIVED TO AID SPIDER-MAN IN HIS FIGHT AGAINST THE SHADOW CREATURES! PETER DAVID WRITER // GREG LAND PENCILER JAY LEISTEN INKER // FRANK D’ARMATA COLORIST VC’s JOE SABINO LETTERER SYMBIOTE SPIDER-MAN: KING IN BLACK No. 2, February 2021. 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