Chapter Summaries

Thor killed Thanos with a lightning-charged punch, and Peter confirmed that Thanos was dead. The Avengers dealt with Stark’s serious injuries and secured the Infinity Gauntlet and its two Infinity Stones, while the Black Order remained to be handled.

• Thor blew apart Thanos's head with lightning, killing him.
• Peter used his Spider-Sense to confirm that Thanos's corpse posed no danger.
• Peter felt the Infinity Stones tempting him to touch them and dropped the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Strange opened a portal so Peter and Friday could get the gravely injured Stark back to Earth for treatment.
• Friday placed Stark in the Regenerative Cradle at the Avengers base.
• Strange stored the Infinity Gauntlet in the New York Sanctum Sanctorum and had Wong guard it.

After defeating Thanos, Peter and Strange regrouped with Thor and prepared to leave Kampa Star. A damaged spacecraft landed nearby, and Peter discovered its passenger was Peter Quill, who collapsed after emerging.

• Thor prepared to retrieve Loki's body while Hulk offered to smash the remaining ships.
• Peter repaired his injuries, and Strange planned to leave once Thor returned.
• A burning spacecraft crashed near Thor, so Strange opened a portal and Peter and Hulk went to investigate.
• Peter and Strange identified the damaged ship as neither their own nor a Black Order craft, then found Thor nearby with Loki's body.
• Peter and Hulk approached the ship and watched its warped hatch fall open.
• Peter Quill emerged from the spacecraft, warned Peter to be careful, and passed out in Peter's arms.

Peter and Strange discovered that the unconscious Star-Lord had suffered severe soul damage, possibly from the missing Soul Stone. Peter found an injured Groot and an unconscious boy in the crashed ship, then left with them and learned the boy wore a Nova Corps uniform.

• Peter found Star-Lord unconscious, and Strange determined that his soul had suffered severe damage.
• Peter speculated that the Soul Stone might have injured Star-Lord, while Strange reviewed the status of the other Infinity Stones.
• Peter searched the spacecraft and found an injured Groot and an unconscious boy in the copilot's seat.
• Peter replanted Groot in soil and watered him, strengthening his life force.
• Peter carried Groot and the boy out of the ship, and Strange recognized the boy's uniform as belonging to Xandar's Nova Corps.

Peter and the others regrouped after the Black Order’s retreat, counted their losses, and helped Star-Lord awaken. Star-Lord explained that Ego was his biological father and a living planet, then began recounting how the Guardians discovered Ego’s true nature.

• Strange failed to open a portal, then saw Rogers and T'Challa return with their teams after the enemy warships retreated.
• Rogers and T'Challa reported their teams’ casualties and victories, including Proxima Midnight’s death and Ebony Maw’s escape.
• Peter told the others about the Guardians of the Galaxy, and Wanda used her abilities to help the unconscious survivors wake.
• Star-Lord woke, reached for his gun, and asked who the gathered people were.
• Star-Lord explained that Ego was his biological father and a conscious planet, then recounted how Ego had rescued the Guardians before they discovered his true face.

Star-Lord recounted how Ego’s scheme to assimilate the universe ended in a devastating fight that left the Guardians dead or missing, and how Nova Richard Rider joined him and Groot before their ship crashed on Kampa Star. Peter and the others were left facing the threats of Thanos, Ego, and the mysterious force that had attacked Nova.

• Ego tried to recruit Star-Lord into his plan to replace all life with himself, but Star-Lord and the Guardians destroyed Ego’s Star Core and fled as the planet began to recover.
• Star-Lord used his awakened divine power to protect the escaping ship, but Ego’s avatar pursued them; Gamora, Drax, Rocket, Mantis, and Nebula were lost, leaving Star-Lord and baby Groot alive.
• Star-Lord found the unconscious Richard Rider drifting in space, rescued him, and learned that Thanos had destroyed Xandar and that Richard was the last surviving Nova.
• Richard used his enhanced mental abilities to calculate Asgard’s coordinates, but a mysterious force attacked them near the Black Order fleet and their spacecraft crashed on Kampa Star.
• After hearing Star-Lord’s account, Peter, Rogers, and the others wondered how they could confront Ego after already fighting Thanos’s Black Order.

After Richard Rider joined Peter’s group, the expeditionaries decided to return to Earth while Thor, Star-Lord, and Groot headed to Nidavellir for a new weapon. Meanwhile, Ebony Maw recovered the bodies of Thanos and his lieutenants, but a mysterious figure on a throne erased them and ordered the forces to let Ego test Earth’s Avengers first.

• Richard Rider told Peter’s group that his mind seemed fused with his fighter’s computer, and they decided to return to Earth to recover before facing Ego.
• Thor announced he would travel to Nidavellir to have the Dwarves forge him a new weapon, and Star-Lord and Groot agreed to accompany him.
• Peter and the other Earth expeditionaries departed for Earth while Thor promised to rendezvous with them after obtaining his weapon.
• Ebony Maw arrived at Kampa Star, collected the bodies of Thanos, Corvus Glaive, and Cull Obsidian, and brought them to his master.
• The figure on the throne erased the three corpses and told Ebony Maw to let Ego test Earth’s Avengers before moving against them.

Peter took in fifteen-year-old Richard Rider, who settled into life on Earth under a new identity and attended Midtown High. Richard also secretly used his powers to stop a car fleeing a jewelry-store robbery, then escaped before the police could learn more about him.

• After Richard Rider begged to stay with Peter, Peter took him in rather than let the military or another organization control him.
• Tony Stark arranged a human identity for Richard and made Happy Hogan his legal guardian, then placed Richard in Midtown High with Ned and Betty.
• Richard secretly appeared in a yellow suit and helmet as a car fleeing police barreled toward him.
• Richard stopped the robbers’ car with his bare hands, lifted it, and flipped it onto the road, incapacitating the robbers.
• Richard told the officers to handle the rest, then leaped away as one officer wondered whether he was Superman.

After two months on Earth, Richard Rider joined Peter’s Spider Squad as the hero Nova while his powers and personality continued to change. Stark saw Richard as a potential member of the Young Avengers, and the chapter left him beginning his new role alongside Peter.

• Richard Rider asked Peter for praise after stopping a car, but Peter scolded him for causing avoidable damage and calling him teacher.
• Richard’s time in space and recent changes revealed that he could survive in space, access Xandar’s database, and steadily gain strength until he could lift ten tons.
• Peter noticed Richard’s changing personality led him to cause trouble when he tried to use his powers, leaving Peter to answer to Stark.
• Stark made Richard join Peter’s Spider Squad and considered him a promising candidate for the Young Avengers.
• Richard chose the codename Nova because he wanted to carry on the Nova Corps’ mission of protecting peace in the universe.

After Richard made his first official appearance as Nova, Peter sensed a call from a new universe and prepared to visit its Super Spider-Man. The chapter also recounted how the victors divided the spoils of the Infinity War, including the Infinity Gauntlet and Infinity Stones.

• Peter sent Richard away to continue training after criticizing his first outing as Nova.
• Peter returned to Manhattan and sensed a call from earth-751263, where Spider-Man was known as Super Spider-Man and wore a Nano Suit made with nanoparticles from Mister Fantastic.
• Strange received Corvus Glaive's three Uru Metal flying darts, while Stark claimed Cull Obsidian's Uru Metal scythe-axe for a planned suit of armor.
• Wanda gave Proxima Midnight's Dark Night Spear to T'Challa in gratitude for Wakanda's help with Vision.
• The victors rejected Colonel Rhodey's claim that the military should take the Infinity Gauntlet, and decided to give it and the Power Stone to the Avengers while placing the Reality Stone in Wakanda.

Peter studied the Infinity Gauntlet and made a wearable Nano-Iron Spider Suit that concealed the Power Stone, while its energy appeared to strengthen his glowing web ability. He crossed into Earth-751263 and discovered that the world awaiting him was Planet Kont, a strange realm of Animal-People and human resistance.

• The Avengers kept the Infinity Gauntlet and Power Stone under their guard, while T'Challa took the Reality Stone to Wakanda.
• Peter modified his Nano-Iron Spider Suit to conceal the Power Stone in a bracelet bead that became a miniature Infinity Gauntlet when he suited up.
• Peter found that the Power Stone's energy had improved his glowing web ability and let him stay aware of his body while crossing worlds.
• Peter's consciousness reached Earth-751263 and accessed Super Spider-Man's memories, learning that he was married to MJ and had traveled to Planet Kont.
• Peter learned that Super Spider-Man had gone to Planet Kont to find John Jameson, where humans resisted the dictator High Evolutionary among Animal-People and the Knights of Wundagore.

Peter woke in captivity at the High Evolutionary’s base alongside Super Spider-Man’s allies and the two symbiotes. The High Evolutionary ordered the prisoners taken to Room Two, while Lady Vermin left after remarking on Peter.

• Peter learned that the High Evolutionary had trapped the resistance with sonic weapons and captured them.
• Peter woke in a metal cage beside John Jameson, Brumley, Gitt Hopkins, Eddie Brock, and Cletus Kasady.
• Eddie Brock began warning Peter that he was no longer himself, but the High Evolutionary entered before he could finish.
• The High Evolutionary said he had reached the limit of his patience and ordered the other prisoners taken to Room Two.
• Tiger King acknowledged the order, and Lady Vermin lingered to tell Peter, “What a pity,” before leaving.

High Evolutionary activated the Modulated Brainwave Harmony, intending to destroy the thinking abilities of humanity worldwide. Peter disrupted the attack with his Nano Suit, but still needed to defeat High Evolutionary.

• High Evolutionary connected Brain-Computer Interface Cables to Peter and the others and revealed his plan to destroy humanity.
• Tiger King realized High Evolutionary intended to exterminate humans, while Sir Ram approved of the plan.
• Peter devised a plan to disrupt the Harmony with his Nano Suit and then defeat High Evolutionary.
• High Evolutionary activated the worldwide sonic attack, and Peter escaped his cable and used the Nano Suit to scramble its frequency.

Peter escaped the High Evolutionary’s cage and used the High Evolutionary’s attacks to wreck his own base while freeing the prisoners. After Venom and Carnage emerged, Peter finally webbed the High Evolutionary and punched him into a wall, leaving the meaning of their “cheat code” warning unresolved.

• Peter dodged the High Evolutionary’s energy blasts, deliberately leading them into control consoles and other parts of the base.
• The High Evolutionary ordered Tiger King, Sir Ram, and Ursula the Bear Woman to attack Peter, but Peter used the blasts and his strength to defeat them and free Bandage Man.
• Bandage Man freed Lady Vermin, John Jameson, Brumley, Eddie Brock, and Cletus Kasady from their cages.
• Eddie Brock and Cletus Kasady transformed into Venom and Carnage, and they warned Peter to watch out for a cheat code.
• Peter feinted with a web shot, ensnared the High Evolutionary with another, and punched him into a metal wall.

Peter defeated and killed the High Evolutionary, then stopped Tiger King from taking his own life and urged him to help build a world where humans and Animal-People could coexist. When Karen O'Malley revealed a view of New York, Peter recognized enormous symbiote tendrils emerging from the ground and realized the Symbiote Hive had awakened.

• Peter kept the High Evolutionary from attacking and killed him with a punch that snapped his neck.
• Brumley shot Sir Ram, while Tiger King mourned the High Evolutionary and prepared to kill himself.
• Peter webbed away Tiger King's laser gun and urged him to help create a new order for humans and Animal-People.
• Karen O'Malley called everyone to the viewing port, where they saw enormous tentacles rising from beneath New York.
• Peter recognized the tendrils as symbiotes and recalled that Venom and Carnage had awakened the Symbiote Hive beneath Counter-Earth.

Peter explained that symbiotes were overrunning Planet Kont and organized a plan to protect civilians, repair amplification equipment, and destroy the Symbiote Hive using sound. As Peter reached Doctor Naoko’s clinic, he found Green Goblin defending it from Symbiote Hosts.

• Peter told Tiger King and the others about the symbiotes’ origins and weaknesses, then outlined a plan to repel them and destroy the Hive.
• Tiger King assigned steel robots to protect civilians, John Jameson to gather resistance fighters, and Brumley, X51, and Lady Vermin to repair the amplification equipment.
• Yellow symbiotes spread through the city, attaching to people and turning them into Symbiote Hosts who seized civilians.
• Peter rode a steel robot toward Doctor Naoko’s clinic, then descended toward it using a web parachute.
• Peter spotted Green Goblin defending the clinic by throwing bombs at approaching Symbiote Hosts.

Green Goblin and Doctor Naoko faced capture by Symbiote Hosts until Peter arrived and disabled their attackers. Peter discovered that his Second Generation Venom Symbiote could consume the yellow symbiotes, leaving him eyeing the other Symbiote Hosts and tendrils as food.

• Symbiote Scorpion poisoned Green Goblin with his stinger, leaving him injured outside Naoko Clinic as Doctor Naoko tried to protect him.
• Green Goblin urged Doctor Naoko to take Zain and escape, but Peter arrived and used a sonic wave to disable the Symbiote Hosts.
• Peter told Green Goblin that Tiger King, Knight Vandagar, robot guards, and the human resistance had joined forces, and that zombies had killed High Evolutionary.
• Peter tested his Second Generation Venom Symbiote on Symbiote Scorpion and watched it drain the yellow symbiote's biomass, growing stronger.
• Peter looked at the fallen Symbiote Hosts and the tendrils reaching from earth to sky as potential food.

Peter strengthened Second Generation Venom, helped restore order in the city, and entered the sewers to reach the Symbiote Hive. There, Venom and Carnage confronted him, and Peter pretended to be a symbiote named Toxin.

• Peter had Second Generation Venom consume the yellow symbiotes and switched the suit to lightweight mode for greater endurance.
• Green Goblin reunited with Doctor Naoko and Zain, while Peter restrained Scorpion and Rhino.
• Tiger King and Bear Woman led Mechanical Guards through the city, using sonic weapons to capture Symbiote Hosts and restore order.
• Peter followed Super Spider-Man's familiar route through the sewers toward the Symbiote Hive's core.
• Venom and Carnage attacked Peter, and he introduced himself as Toxin before claiming he had come for the secret manual.

Peter watched Venom and Carnage fight over the secret manual, then followed them toward the Symbiote Hive after bluffing Venom into believing they were related. Venom explained that the manual could transform symbiotes, while Hive intended to control and consume Planet Kont to become a Symbiote Planet.

• Venom and Carnage argued over who owned the secret manual and began fighting, while Peter watched from a web hammock.
• After their fight, Venom and Carnage each asked Peter to help defeat the other, and Peter pretended he did not know what the manual was.
• Peter revealed his Second Generation Venom Symbiote, convincing Venom that they were of the same lineage, and Carnage fled deeper into the cave.
• Venom explained that Hive had grown powerful through the secret manual and produced Worker Bee Symbiotes that supplied it with biomass.
• Venom told Peter that Hive planned to control life on Planet Kont, consume the planet, and merge with it to create a Symbiote Planet.

Peter and Venom encountered Lash while approaching the Hive’s main body and fought to escape the loyal guard’s attacks. After Lash enveloped Peter and tried to grind down his symbiote, Peter used thin strands of the Second Generation Venom Symbiote and his Spider-Sense to search for its weakness, ending with him locating it.

• Peter stopped in the tunnels, where Lash ambushed Venom and demanded that Peter obey the Hive.
• Peter attacked Lash and used webbing to pull Venom free, then the two fought the sprawling symbiote through the sewer tunnels.
• Peter realized that the Second Generation Venom Symbiote could not devour Lash as it did the Hive’s offspring, so he searched for another way to defeat it.
• Lash enveloped Peter and tried to wear down his symbiote, while Peter sent thin strands through Lash’s body and tracked its energy with his Spider-Sense.
• Peter opened his eyes and announced that he had found Lash’s weakness.

Peter used sonic attacks to kill Whiplash and then pursued Venom toward Hive. He reached Hive’s stronghold, where Carnage and Venom were fighting its hosts, and disguised himself as a Symbiote Host to approach.

• Peter pulled Octo out of Whiplash, exposing the symbiote’s dependence on its host.
• Peter repeatedly struck Whiplash’s core with sonic-powered punches and shattered its tiny true body.
• Venom fled deeper into the pipes after Whiplash died, and Peter followed him.
• Peter reached Hive’s stronghold and saw Carnage and Venom fighting a crowd of Symbiote Hosts.
• Peter removed his Nano Suit and used Second Generation Venom to disguise himself as a Symbiote Host.