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The deaths that still shape the Spider-verse! During the early 1970s, a pair of plot lines changed comic-book mortality forever. Shock followed shock when Spider-Man lost a friend, a lover and an enemy in a dynamic drama that stunned readers as no comic deaths had before and few have since!

A chance encounter with two traumatized children leaves Peter Parker haunted by one question: "What's the matter with Mommy?" But his search for an answer finds him trapped in the Mad Dog Ward, an asylum for killers, psychopaths - and people who think they are super heroes... As the drugs kick in, Peter's grasp on reality dissolves and his memories of Spider-Man fade. Can he piece his double identity back together, discover the horrible truth behind...

"Spider-Man must contend with the cold-blooded combination of the Lizard and Morbius--one a rampaging reptile that may have cut the cord with his human host forever, the other a scientific genius with a vampiric lust for human blood. Morbius has developed a cure for the Lizard--but is there anything left of Dr. Curt Connors to save? Who exhumed the body of Connors' late son, Billy? And how can Spidey trust Morbius when every time he turns around,...

Celebrating 50 years of great responsibility! Spanning from his earliest days as a hero to the heyday of the heralded Big Time era and everything in between, a collection of Marvel Legends, venerated comic creators and awe-inspiring artists shine the spotlight on everything that makes Spider-Man the World's Greatest Super Hero!

"Someone has Spider-Man in their crosshairs, and the only person in the Marvel Universe who can save him is...Peter Parker's sister?!" -- Back cover.

Spider-Man seeks to save New York City from a destruction prophesized by an invention at Horizon Labs, and Spider-Man and Human Torch go to outer space to rescue Col. John Jameson.

Tells the story of Peter Parker, a normal teenage boy who, when bitten by a radioactive spider and given spider-like super powers, decides to fight crime as the superhero Spider-Man.

"Norman Osborn has been scouring the globe for a cure to the genetic tampering that prevents him from becoming the Green Goblin - and the long last, he's about to find it! His new weapon? The Carnage symbiote! And Green Goblin plus Carnage equals.. the Red Goblin! When Osborn strikes, who lives? Who dies? And what scars will Spider-Man bear from here on out? Experience one of the most exciting stories in Spidey lore, culminating in a cataclysmic finale...