Chapter Summaries

Peter visited The Charity Ball with Gwen and revealed to Aunt May that he was Spider-Man. He left her with the promise that he would prevent danger from reaching her.

• Peter and Gwen visited The Charity Ball, where Martin Li explained how he balanced his healing powers with his dangerous Mister Negative side.
• Martin said The Charity Ball was thriving and thanked an anonymous donor, while Peter kept quiet about his donations.
• Peter told Aunt May he had come to help and asked Gwen to assist elsewhere before speaking with her privately.
• Peter revealed that he was Spider-Man and explained how he had gained his powers and become an Avenger.
• Aunt May asked whether something had happened, and Peter said it had not but promised to make sure it would not.

Peter gathered allies at the Web-Slinger Base to prepare for the hunt for Lizardman and investigate Norman Osborn’s suspicious security failures. The group divided their roles, with Peter and Cindy pursuing Lizardman while Harry, Black Cat, and Gwen prepared to draw Norman’s attention and uncover his plans.

• Peter brought Gwen to the Web-Slinger Base, where Harry learned she already knew Peter was Spider-Man.
• Peter gave Dr. Jonathan Drew a vial of Dr. Connors’ blood so he could make an antidote and a serum for Peter.
• Black Cat brought Kraven the Hunter, who examined Lizardman’s biological fragment and set out to track him.
• Peter covered the room with Venom and explained why he suspected Norman Osborn had deliberately left Osborn Industries vulnerable to intruders.
• Peter assigned Harry to seek information from his father and Black Cat to infiltrate Osborn Industries as decoys, while Gwen agreed to help expose Norman’s secrets.
• Peter planned to contact the NYPD and join Cindy in hunting Lizardman.

Otto Octavius learned that Norman Osborn had anticipated his scheme and used it to bargain with the Pentagon over the Savage Force Project. The chapter ended with Bullseye killing Otto during his transport to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.

• Otto Octavius received a call from Norman Osborn while officers transported him to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.
• Norman revealed that he had footage proving Otto’s plot and explained how he had prepared for the Pentagon’s attempt to gain control of Osborn Industries.
• Norman explained that Richard Parker had reworked Nathaniel Essex’s Savage Force Project and that Peter Parker’s Spider-Man origin had been engineered as part of Norman’s plans.
• Norman told Otto that he had reached an agreement with the Pentagon and thanked him for providing a valuable bargaining chip.
• Bullseye shot Otto Octavius through the head, then left the scene after the vehicle stopped.

Peter revealed his identity as Spider-Man to Captain George Stacy and warned him that he might die confronting Lizardman. George remained committed to protecting New York and agreed to take precautions against Curt Connors’s plan.

• Gwen called Captain George Stacy and arranged for him to meet Spider-Man on a rooftop.
• Peter removed his mask and revealed himself to be Spider-Man, explaining that he had called George to warn him about Lizardman.
• George shared why he continued serving as a police officer and told Peter and Gwen that he would not stop protecting the city.
• Peter explained that Curt Connors might spread a mutation across New York and described Lizardman’s resilience and rapid healing.
• George agreed to watch high ground and use sustained fire from anti-materiel weapons or autocannons if police encountered Lizardman.

Harry searched Norman Osborn’s study and found documents about Herbert Edgar Wyndham’s abandoned Savage Force proposal and the anti-Earth built in the Negative Zone, then sent photographs to Peter. As Harry continued looking for evidence of Norman’s intentions, Black Cat searched Norman’s hidden laboratory and found a preserved spider labeled Richard Parker.

• Harry returned to the Osborn mansion and used Peter Parker’s master key to search Norman’s study for evidence of his plans.
• Harry found reports about the Savage Force Project, the creation of anti-Earth, and genetically modified organisms passing its barrier, then photographed the documents and sent them to Peter.
• Harry suspected Norman had deliberately left the report for him but continued searching because it did not reveal Norman’s true intentions.
• Norman watched Harry through surveillance and left his office while Gwen followed him.
• Black Cat entered Norman’s office, found his hidden laboratory, and searched for the Goblin Mask, pumpkin bombs, Individual Power Armor, and a Flying Skateboard.
• Black Cat found a preserved spider labeled Richard Parker and took it as a gift Norman had left for Peter.

Gwen secretly recorded Norman Osborn admitting that he arranged Doctor Octopus’s assassination and engineered Peter’s path to becoming Spider-Man. She then discovered Norman’s closely guarded proposal for a device meant to treat dissociative identity disorder, which warned that a trial could worsen the condition.

• Gwen explored Norman’s private lounge while he spoke about his former friend Otto Octavius and the revenge that led Norman to have him killed.
• Norman lamented that Peter no longer trusted him and revealed that Richard’s project and a technology expo had helped turn Peter into Spider-Man.
• Gwen recorded Norman’s admissions and searched the room for documents while he continued complaining that Peter would have made a better heir than Harry.
• Gwen found a proposal Norman kept close and read that its theoretical device for treating dissociative identity disorder could instead worsen the condition.

Kraven tracked Lizardman to Otto Octavius's old sewer laboratory, where Lizardman had created serum and an atomizer to make more of his kind. They fought, and Lizardman escaped toward the Hudson with serum and the dispersal device, while Kraven alerted Spider-Man and attached a tracker to his tail.

• Kraven followed traces of Lizardman through the sewers and decided to hunt him with his Adamantium weapons.
• Lizardman found Otto's old laboratory, made Lizardman Serum and an atomizer, then went to the Hudson River to forage for fish.
• After the serum finished refining, Lizardman packed the vials and atomizer and prepared to leave the laboratory.
• Kraven found Lizardman and attacked, destroying a vial, wounding him, and taking two serum vials before Lizardman escaped.
• Kraven called Spider-Man with Lizardman's location, warned him about the toxic bite, and reported that he had placed a tracker on Lizardman's tail.

Peter and Cindy fought the Lizardman in the Hudson River to seize his serum, and Cindy recovered the remaining vials while Peter pursued him with a reversal dose. As Peter confronted the fleeing Lizardman, he suddenly recalled a spider biting Gwen and fell from the sky.

• Dr. Jonathan gave Peter and Cindy the ready reversal serums and said Peter’s own serum was still being made.
• Peter and Cindy headed to the Hudson River, where the Daily Bugle reported that the Lizardman was swimming across it.
• Peter restrained the Lizardman while Cindy trapped him in a web net and took the atomizer and remaining serum.
• The Lizardman’s venom dissolved the webbing, and Cindy carried the recovered supplies away while Peter followed him with the reversal serum.
• The Lizardman threw an oil drum at Peter, triggering a memory of a spider biting Gwen at a science expo nine months earlier, and Peter fell from the sky.

Peter pursued Lizardman across the Hudson, rescued people from a capsized speedboat, and used reversal serum to partially restore Dr. Connors. A growing multiversal call and worsening symptoms forced Peter to leave through a spatial rift, leaving Connors behind.

• Peter chased Lizardman while another Earth’s urgent call repeatedly interrupted him.
• Peter saved everyone aboard a speedboat after Lizardman flipped it, then continued pursuing him.
• Peter restrained Lizardman and forced reversal serum into his mouth after discovering he had hidden a vial there.
• The serum partially reversed Lizardman’s transformation, but Connors remained altered because of the Erskine Serum.
• Peter opened a spatial rift and left, telling Connors to alert the Avengers, Cindy, or Reed if he remembered what happened.

Venom and Peter crossed into Earth-65, where Spider-Woman Gwen Stacy was still grieving Peter Parker’s death and evading the police. After Gwen saw a figure resembling Lizardman fall into the Hudson River, another Gwen Stacy from Earth-616 appeared at her home asking about a living Peter Parker.

• Venom took control of the unconscious Peter, dispersed the Lizardman serum, and learned that Spider-Woman was wanted for Peter Parker’s death.
• Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 reflected on Peter’s death while fleeing the NYPD and ended a phone call with her father, Captain Stacy.
• Gwen saw a figure resembling Lizardman fall into the Hudson River, searched for him, and found nothing.
• Gwen returned home and met a long-haired woman who introduced herself as Gwen Stacy from Earth-616 and asked whether she had seen a living Peter Parker.

Peter crossed into Earth-65 and found two Gwens: the local Gwen Stacy and Gwen from his own universe, who had followed him through a portal. As Peter and the Gwens discussed his disappearance and the missing Lizardman, Cindy Moon received an offer to join the Spider Legion.

• Peter woke on the Empire State Building in Earth-65 and went to the Stacys' house to find the local Gwen.
• Gwen from Peter's universe rushed to greet him and explained that she had crossed into Earth-65 through Strange's portal.
• Peter learned that the Avengers had opened a portal after Cindy sensed he was alive and Strange said Peter's uncontrolled power had taken Lizardman with him.
• The local Gwen asked Peter and Gwen from his universe why they had come, who the Lizardman was, and whether he was the one she had seen fall from the sky.
• Cindy heard that S.H.I.E.L.D. had taken a Lizardman into custody, then a man offered her a Spider Lantern Ring and invited her to join the Spider Legion.

Peter explained Earth-65’s spider-powered people to Gwen and set out with her to find Dr. Connors, whose unusual movements led them to an invisible S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft carrier. Surrounded by agents, Peter identified himself as Spider-Man from Earth-616 and asked them about the Lizardman.

• Peter told Gwen about Cindy Moon, the irradiated spiders, and the serum that had given Agent Jessie Drew spider powers.
• Peter left a communicator with Gwen, warned her not to join the Web Legion, and departed with Gwen to track Connors.
• Peter and Gwen followed Connors’s abnormal movement signal and flew toward an invisible aircraft carrier.
• Peter landed on the carrier and told the armed S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that he and Gwen, disguised as Ghost, had come to find the Lizardman.
• An eyepatched woman ordered the agents to lower their weapons and demanded that Peter prove he was not an enemy.

Peter and Gwen negotiated shelter aboard Peggy Carter’s Helicarrier and learned that Earth-65’s Curt Connors had disappeared. Peter planned to find him to reverse Dr. Connors’s transformation, while he and Gwen settled into the cramped quarters S.H.I.E.L.D. provided.

• Peggy Carter agreed to house Peter and Gwen in exchange for their help fighting crime, then took them to see Dr. Connors.
• Dr. Connors recognized Peter and learned that Otto Octavius was dead and that Peter could help return him to normal.
• Gwen’s investigations revealed that Norman Osborn had arranged Otto’s murder to gain leverage over the Pentagon, but Peter decided not to confront Norman openly.
• Peggy told Peter that Earth-65’s Curt Connors had disappeared after a Lizardman attack on Midtown High School’s graduation dance five months earlier.
• Peter and Gwen reached their assigned room and found a cramped space with a three-level bunk bed and small tables.

Earth-65 Gwen called Peter from another universe for advice, but refused his offer to accompany her to see the Parkers and soon faced a new attacker. Meanwhile, Earth-65 Harry Osborn confronted Peter aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. carrier, seeking Spider-Woman and learning that she was Gwen.

• Earth-65 Gwen called Peter and admitted she was unsure what to do after her Peter died; Peter offered to go with her to see Uncle Ben and Aunt May, but she declined.
• Gwen reflected on her guilt over her best friend's death and her fear that the Parkers wanted revenge, then headed to school by swinging through the city.
• Gwen's Spider-Sense warned her as a bald man with dark green wings swooped toward her and demanded they settle things once and for all.
• Aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. carrier, Peter and Gwen discussed his call and their differing ages before Harry Osborn arrived with information about the Lizardman case.
• Harry asked Peter whether he knew Spider-Woman's identity and said he wanted revenge for his friend; Peter revealed that Spider-Woman was Gwen and asked whether Harry believed Gwen had killed Peter Parker.

Peggy Carter arranged for Peter and Harry to watch Spider-Woman fight Vulture, while Cindy Moon negotiated with Matt Murdock to trade goods and warned him that Spider-Woman was alive with special friends. The chapter left Peter and Harry preparing to talk with Gwen about Peter as Cindy struck a deal with Matt.

• Peggy Carter identified Gwen Stacy as Spider-Woman and arranged a livestream of her fight with Vulture.
• Peter and Harry watched Spider-Woman struggle against Vulture, and Peter decided to go find her with Harry.
• Spider-Gwen landed on a garbage truck, then encountered Peter Parker and Harry Osborn, who said they needed to talk about Peter.
• Matt Murdock beat Adrian Toomes for information about Spider-Woman, and Cindy Moon intervened to claim Toomes and ask about Alexei Sytsevich.
• Cindy told Matt that Spider-Woman was alive and had brought special friends, then offered him a crate of goods in exchange for money.

Spider-Gwen learned that Cindy Moon led S.I.L.K. and had orchestrated the Lizardman serum experiments. S.H.I.E.L.D. prepared to capture Cindy and her three powered operatives, while offering Gwen a chance to clear her name if she joined the mission.

• Peggy Carter welcomed Spider-Gwen to S.H.I.E.L.D. and explained that Peter Parker from another world had helped identify S.I.L.K.'s leader as Cindy Moon.
• Carter revealed that Cindy had recreated radioactive spiders and likely supplied Curt Connors with the materials for the Lizardman serum experiments.
• Harry Osborn said he would capture Cindy to seek justice for Peter, and Spider-Gwen agreed to leave that pursuit to him and the others.
• Peter asked about S.I.L.K.'s forces, and Carter identified Agent 77, Herman Schultz, and Curt Connors as Cindy's three powered operatives.
• Carter gave the group Cindy's address and said Spider-Gwen could sit out the mission, but S.H.I.E.L.D. would help withdraw the Daily Bugle's false accusations if she joined.

Cindy Moon and Hulk Spider launched an attack on Spider-Man and Spider-Gwen’s group, while Earth-616 Gwen searched Cindy’s warehouse for evidence that could turn Agent 77 against her. Gwen found the diagnostic report and spotted equipment that gave her a chance to change the fight.

• Cindy Moon revealed her spider-powered Sinister Six as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrived, and Hulk Spider challenged Spider-Man.
• Venom took on Hulk Spider, while Harry flew to fight Vulture and Spider-Gwen faced the remaining five enemies.
• Earth-616 Gwen entered Cindy’s warehouse to find the report proving Agent 77 Jessie Drew’s alien blood infection had been cured.
• Gwen found the report on the computer connected to the spider isotope serum machine and noticed its 3D printer.

Spider-Gwen fought Doctor Silk’s team until Ghost Spider from Earth-616 intervened, helping turn the attackers against one another. Gwen confronted Cindy Moon over Peter’s death, and the chapter ended as Harry joined her for a final battle against Doctor Silk.

• Spider-Gwen fought Connors, Scarecrow, Doctor Silk, Rhino, and Scorpion while trying to stand up for Peter.
• Gwen’s uploaded data angered Scorpion, who quit before Silk took control of his armor and caused its tail to break off.
• Ghost Spider from Earth-616 revealed her ability to be forgotten when people looked away and chose her name while Gwen remained Spider-Woman.
• Doctor Silk challenged Gwen over killing Peter, and Gwen admitted she could regret it later but needed to fight Silk now.
• Doctor Silk called for Rhino, but Ghost Spider secretly stopped him; Harry then joined Gwen after dealing with Vulture.

Peter defeated Hulk Spider, crushed the Spider Lantern Ring, and learned that the universe was at risk of a Web-War if outsiders interfered too much. Miguel arrived and warned that Spider-Gwen had to finish her own battle, while Peter revealed that the Web Gods were recruiting ambitious Spider-Men.

• Venom overwhelmed Hulk Spider, knocked him unconscious, and Peter crushed the ring containing him, causing a web-patterned Peter-like figure to appear before Hulk Spider vanished.
• Peter found two identical Gwens, identified his Gwen, and learned she had gained spider abilities from Spider Isotope Serum.
• Peter explained to Gwen that excessive interference could trigger a Web-War and destabilize a universe, and Miguel arrived through a spacetime tunnel.
• Miguel said Spider-Gwen had to complete the final battle herself, and Peter introduced him to the Spider Legion as an ally from Earth-928.
• Peter told the Spider Legion that the Web Gods were recruiting Spider-Men seeking to conquer their universes, while Spider-Gwen and Little Green Goblin neared victory over Doctor Silk.

Spider-Gwen and the Little Green Goblin defeated Doctor Silk with Gwen’s unseen intervention, then considered what to do after their revenge. Peter asked Gwen why she had chosen to put on the mask, leaving her to face the question alongside Harry.

• The Little Green Goblin attacked Doctor Silk with a pumpkin bomb while Spider-Gwen tried to restrain her tentacles, and Gwen secretly caused Doctor Silk to stumble.
• Spider-Gwen tore off Doctor Silk’s tentacles, and the Little Green Goblin’s bomb destroyed her control system.
• Doctor Silk tried to strip Spider-Gwen’s powers, but missed; Spider-Gwen and the Little Green Goblin then beat her.
• Peter confirmed that Gwen had intervened and asked Miguel whether her ability could trigger a Web-War; Miguel said the data was normal.
• Spider-Gwen thanked Gwen, received a multiverse-travel wristband from Miguel, and wondered what she and Harry should do next.
• Spider-Gwen asked Peter whether he had killed anyone, and Peter asked her why she had chosen to put on the mask.