Chapter Summaries

After gaining superhuman strength and adhesion, Peter Parker sought a way to help Aunt May and Uncle Ben with their expenses. He entered an underground boxing match as Spider-Kid and won in seconds.

• Tony Stark accepted the card from Jino as an additional option, but Jino vanished before Tony could ask questions.
• Peter woke to find himself stuck to the ceiling and realized he had gained superhuman abilities.
• Peter heard Aunt May worry about Uncle Ben’s dangerous night shifts and decided to use his strength to earn money.
• Peter found a local notice recruiting boxers for paid fights and joined an underground tournament near Hell's Kitchen.
• Peter, fighting as Spider-Kid, dodged Thunderbolt’s punch and knocked him out with one blow, winning the match.

Peter argued with Uncle Ben about the money he had won in a fight ring, then Jino offered to help him find work at Stark Industries. Jino transported Peter to Stark’s pool party, where Stark appeared to be the only person who could see him.

• Peter came home late with a backpack full of money and told Uncle Ben and Aunt May he had won it in the lottery.
• Ben confronted Peter about the source of the money and urged him to return it, and Peter dented a steel flagpole in anger.
• Jino appeared at the park and offered to help Peter after hearing about his family’s troubles and watching his fight.
• Jino transported Peter to a pool party at Stark’s building and suggested Stark Industries as an opportunity.
• Stark asked a woman whether she could see Jino, then ended the party and offered the guests money to leave.

Jino showed Tony Stark the truth about his parents’ murder and identified Bucky as the killer, while Peter tried to comfort Tony. Tony learned about the Winter Soldier, Hydra, and the Super Soldier Serum, and was left reeling as he considered how to find Bucky and seek revenge.

• Tony offered Peter Parker an internship, but Jino said he could reveal a secret about Tony’s parents.
• Jino opened a magical light screen that showed Howard and Mary Stark being attacked and murdered on a road.
• Tony watched his parents die and reacted with intense grief, replenishing Jino’s points for a Talent Replication Card.
• Peter told Tony that his own parents had died when he was six, then mentioned that Aunt May and Uncle Ben loved him.
• Jino identified Bucky as the killer and explained the Winter Soldier’s history to Tony.
• Tony learned about S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra, and the Super Soldier Serum, then wondered how he could find Bucky and Hydra agents.

Jino left Stark Industries, confronted Obadiah, and revealed himself to Ancient One after breaking through her magical illusion. He then sought out Doctor Strange and offered to help him before he lost what mattered most to him.

• Obadiah questioned Jino in Stark Tower, but Jino compelled him to walk away and leave him alone.
• Jino shattered Ancient One’s illusion in New York and told her he would not destroy Earth.
• Ancient One accepted Jino’s assurances and left without pressing him for answers.
• Jino went to a hospital and appeared before Strange, whom his assistant could not see.
• Jino told Strange he wanted to make a deal and could help him before he lost what mattered most to him.

Jino confronted Nick Fury at a staged burger restaurant and warned S.H.I.E.L.D. not to interfere with him. Meanwhile, fired Oscorp scientist Connors injected himself with an experimental drug and regrew his missing arm, leaving him exhilarated by his restored strength.

• Jino spotted S.H.I.E.L.D. agents disguised as restaurant staff and confronted Nick Fury, who admitted he had been monitoring Jino at Stark Industries.
• Jino warned Fury that he wanted no part in the Avengers plan and demonstrated his power by shattering the restaurant's furniture.
• Jino left after complimenting an employee's cheeseburger and suggesting the employee open a burger shop someday.
• After Oscorp fired Connors for his failed research, he considered testing his tissue-repair drug on himself.
• Connors injected the drug, endured the transformation, and regrew his missing right arm.

Chief George and the police confronted Doctor Lizard on the Brooklyn Bridge, but their bullets could not hurt him. Peter arrived in a Red Hood mask, saved George, and began fighting the monster, ending the chapter as Doctor Lizard counterattacked with its tail.

• Chief George received a report that a lizard monster was attacking people on the Brooklyn Bridge and ordered officers to fire.
• Doctor Lizard shrugged off the bullets and hurled a police car toward George and his deputy.
• Peter caught the car before it crushed George, then rushed to challenge Doctor Lizard.
• Peter dodged Doctor Lizard's charge, tore off a car door, and struck the monster in the face with it.
• Peter leaped at Doctor Lizard, but the monster straightened and lashed its tail at him.

Peter struggled to protect the civilians on the Brooklyn Bridge until he called for his teacher, Jino, who descended in a blaze of light. Jino healed Peter, stopped Doctor Lizard from escaping, and killed it effortlessly.

• Doctor Lizard battered Peter across the bridge while Peter kept fighting to shield the fleeing crowd.
• Badly wounded, Peter called out to his teacher for help as people watched the battle on television.
• Jino descended from the sky in a pillar of light and healed Peter with Healing Magic from Heaven.
• Doctor Lizard tried to escape into the sea, but Jino seized it and dragged it back onto the bridge.
• Doctor Lizard charged Jino, who crushed its body with a gesture.

Jino said goodbye to Peter and gave him a pendant that could contact other universes, then returned to Luthor Manor. Peter was left with a surprise visit from Gwen, while Lana Lang and Chloe arrived at the manor in bikinis to go swimming.

• Jino told Peter he was leaving for his home universe, and Peter tearfully pleaded with him to stay.
• Jino gave Peter a cross pendant for contacting other universes, then vanished after promising a farewell surprise.
• Peter opened the door to Gwen, who said she had come to check on his fever, and he pretended to still feel ill.
• Jino returned to Luthor Manor and told Clark he had visited another universe and met a boy much like him.
• Lana Lang and Chloe arrived at the manor in bikini outfits and announced they planned to go swimming.

Arthur arrived in Smallville and saved Lana Lang from a seaweed attack at the beach. He asked to speak with Jino Luthor about something important, and Jino revealed his identity to him.

• Jino and Clark went to Smallville Beach with Lana Lang and Chloe, though Jino stayed out of the water.
• Seaweed wrapped around Lana Lang’s ankle and dragged her underwater, and Clark swam after her.
• Arthur sped through the water, freed Lana Lang, and revived her on the shore.
• Clark introduced himself to Arthur and grew wary after sensing his unusual strength.
• Arthur asked for directions to Luthor Manor, saying he had something important to tell the Justice League’s leader.
• Jino revealed that he was Jino Luthor and caught Arthur when his legs nearly gave way.

Arthur told Jino that his brother Orm planned to use Atlantis’s Continent Vibrator to trigger a tsunami, and Jino offered to back Arthur as Atlantis’s king. The Justice League approved helping Arthur overthrow Orm, and Batman began outlining a plan.

• Jino revealed that he knew Arthur’s parentage, and Arthur explained Atlantis’s history and Orm’s plan to flood the continents.
• Arthur said he would replace Orm as king and pursue peace between Atlantis and the land.
• Jino welcomed Arthur as an ally and proposed working together to overthrow Orm.
• The Justice League voted to help Arthur, and Batman began presenting the plan.

The Justice League divided its forces among the oceans to counter Atlantis’s invasion, while King Orm dismissed Nuidis’s warnings against war. In the Arctic, Jino ambushed the Atlantean Eighth Army Group and crushed its soldiers.

• Batman assigned Clark, Arthur, and Faora to the Atlantic Ocean, Kara Zor-El, Shazam, and Batman to the other Atlantic front, Diana to the Indian Ocean, and Jino to the Arctic Ocean.
• Nuidis warned King Orm against rushing into war, but Orm rejected his advice and ordered him to obey.
• Commander Paul detected a high-temperature figure approaching his soldiers in the Arctic blizzard and ordered them to stay alert.
• Jino cut Paul in half with his heat vision and deflected the Atlantean warriors’ energy weapons.
• Jino used his Bio-field to crush thousands of Atlantean soldiers into the snow.

Orm prepared Atlantis to wage war on humanity, but a survivor reported that the Pacific Ocean forces had been slaughtered by one person. Orm found the massacre and confronted Jino Luthor, then vowed to kill him.

• Orm dismissed warnings about Jino Luthor and announced that Atlantis would destroy humanity.
• Nuidis questioned the war as a survivor from the Pacific Ocean front arrived, claiming that a demon had killed the entire force.
• Orm rushed to the Pacific Ocean and found it covered with Atlantean corpses.
• Jino admitted that he had killed the troops to teach Orm a lesson for planning to destroy the land.
• Orm gripped his trident and roared that he would kill Jino.

Jino easily defeated Orm, who then summoned the sea monster Kemora in a desperate attempt to turn the battle around. Clark, Kara Zor-El, and Faora cut off Kemora’s attacking tentacles, leaving the wounded monster roaring beneath the sea.

• Jino shattered Orm’s trident and knocked him deep into the ocean with a punch.
• Orm invoked his ancestry and attacked Jino again, but Jino struck him across the face and left him battered.
• Orm, realizing his forces had lost, announced that he would unleash Sea Monster Kemora.
• Arthur explained that Kemora was a giant sea monster whose emergence caused disasters and demanded sacrifices from the Atlanteans.
• Orm called out to Kendra, and Kemora rose from the sea and attacked the people in the sky with its tentacles.
• Clark, Kara Zor-El, and Faora used Heat Vision to sever Kemora’s tentacles as the monster roared beneath the water.

After Orm’s forces lost to the Justice League and Kendra was killed, Atlantis’s elders voted to remove Orm and Nuidis offered to negotiate. Jino Luthor and his companions entered the palace, where Jino tossed the wounded Orm before the throne and remarked that it looked comfortable.

• The Atlantean elders watched Kendra fall and recognized that Atlantis had lost the battle.
• Nuidis declared that they had to face the defeat, and the elders voted to remove Orm from power.
• Nuidis volunteered to negotiate with the land-dwellers to prevent further losses.
• Jino Luthor, Clark, and Kara Zor-El arrived at Atlantis’s palace, forcing the seawater aside around them.
• Jino threw the nearly dead Orm into the water, then eyed the throne and said it looked comfortable.

Jino forced Atlantis to accept a ceasefire agreement, compensation for damage to land animals, and Arthur Curry as its new king. After the agreement, Clark returned to Kent Farm and learned that his parents planned to send him to college.

• Jino told Atlantis that Batman would assess the damage from its attack and arrange compensation, and Nuidis agreed.
• Jino ordered Atlantis to replace Orm with Arthur Curry, and Nuidis accepted his demand despite the elders’ objections.
• Jino claimed the throne chair as a gift, while the furious Orm was dragged from the hall by guards.
• Clark returned to Kent Farm, where Jonathan and Martha told him it was time for him to go to college.

Clark considered college after Jonathan urged him to return to ordinary life, and Jino suggested he could attend any university. Clark learned Lana had enrolled at Metropolitan University and confronted her, where she demanded he choose her or let them part ways.

• Clark told Jonathan he did not think he needed college, but agreed to ask Jino for advice after seeing the money his parents had saved for his education.
• Jino told Clark the Luthor Family could help him attend any university and revealed that Lana had been admitted to Monte University.
• Clark went to Lana's home and asked why she had not told him about applying to college.
• Lana accused Clark of imitating Jino and drifting between women, then said she wanted him to choose her or let them go their separate ways.

Clark struggled with whether to give up on Lana Lang, so Jino took him to Monte University to ask her. At a freshman mixer, they discovered that the organizers were vampires and decided to find out what they were planning.

• At Luthor Manor, Jino told Clark not to doubt Lana Lang's feelings and offered to go ask her what she wanted.
• Jino opened a spatial rift to Monte University, and Clark followed him; both changed their appearances with the Bio-Force Field.
• Clark located Lana Lang at a freshman mixer in an old castle, where she was talking with Chloe.
• Jino noticed that three women leading the mixer had no detectable heartbeats, and Clark confirmed he could not hear blood flowing through their veins.
• Jino identified the women as vampires, stopped Clark from attacking them, and decided to investigate their plans.

At a college dance, Jino let Betty, a vampire, lure him upstairs, where he revealed his identity and subdued her. Betty confessed that the Vampire Sisterhood had about thirty-one members, but she did not know who had started the infection.

• Betty spotted Jino at the dance and led him to a room on the second floor.
• Betty revealed her fangs and bit Jino, breaking her teeth against him.
• Jino exposed his identity and used his Bio-Force Field to pin Betty to the floor.
• Jino questioned Betty, who said the Vampire Sisterhood had about thirty-one members and that Anna had turned her.
• Betty explained that each vampire could turn only one person because their blood purity was low, while Jino resolved to stop them from making more vampires.

Jino killed Betty, then trapped the Vampire Sisterhood in his Mirror Dimension and began slaughtering them. The surviving vampires attacked him, but he quickly killed Anna and two more of their number.

• Jino crushed Betty's head, killing her and leaving only ashes behind.
• Anna sensed Betty's death, and Eileen realized an experienced demon hunter had attacked them and ordered the vampires to flee.
• Jino trapped the vampires in his Mirror Dimension and identified Anna before snapping her neck.
• The vampires charged Jino, but he killed one with a Speed Force punch and another with an icy blast and a broken neck.

Jino captured Eileen, leader of the Vampire Sisterhood, and learned that vampires were hiding in Metropolis. He brought her to his headquarters and ordered Singer to alert the Justice League, while Batman received the resulting Purple Alert in Gotham.

• Jino killed the vampires in the hall and forced Eileen to reveal that she could not name the person who turned her because of a blood-bound oath.
• Eileen told Jino that many vampires were hiding in Metropolis, and he took her through a golden portal to his headquarters.
• Jino instructed Singer to record vampires as a species and contact the Justice League.
• In Gotham, Batman defeated and restrained Killer Croc as Alfred informed him that the Justice League had issued a Purple Alert.