Recaps

Felicia reunited with her father, Walter Hardy, and the team broke into Hydra’s Treadstone base to rescue Peter’s family and stop the Super Soldier Serum project. Peter found his father, Richard Parker, alive in Wyndham’s lab, but a massive tiger-like creature attacked them before they could escape.

• Felicia reunited with Walter Hardy, then confronted him for abandoning her and her family.
• Walter joined the mission and identified a ventilation shaft the team could use to enter the base.
• The team split up after breaking into Treadstone, and Peter’s group fought through Hydra soldiers to reach Wyndham’s lab.
• Peter and his companions freed four unwilling scientists, but Peter recognized Richard Parker among them and revealed his identity.
• Richard warned Peter that Wyndham had taken his research files, and Peter said they had to find Wyndham after getting him out.
• A three-meter-tall tiger-like creature lunged at Peter and Johnny.

Peter and his allies defeated Sandman with Richard Parker’s special gloves, reunited several family members, and pursued Wyndham into a laboratory full of Captain America clones. Wyndham revealed that Peggy Carter had been pregnant with Steve’s child, and the chapter ended as deformed clones and animal hybrids attacked the team.

• Peter and Johnny defeated the animal hybrids in the laboratory, then Peter used a security terminal to find the others fighting Sandman in the hangar.
• Richard gave Peter vibrational gloves that weakened Sandman, and Peter and Johnny turned Sandman into glass while rescuing Logan from the sand.
• Peter reunited with Richard, Felicia, Ben, May, and the others before they evacuated as the team continued toward Wyndham.
• Peter, Captain America, and their allies discovered incubation tanks containing deformed clones, and Wyndham revealed that Peggy Carter had provided the DNA used to clone Steve.
• The clones broke out of their tanks and attacked, while Steve charged toward Wyndham’s suspected hiding place and animal hybrids emerged from an elevator to surround the team.

Peter and the team defeated Wyndham, whose transformation formula failed because Peter had secretly replaced it with a defective version and infected Hydra’s servers to expose its outposts. At S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Fury angrily confronted Peter for manipulating the agency, while Steve defended him and Fury demanded to know what he had been thinking.

• Jessica joined Peter’s side, and Jean, Scott, and Johnny helped the team trap the clones and hybrids beneath a collapsed roof.
• Captain America, Logan, and the others reached Wyndham’s laboratory, where Scott blasted open the electrified door and Wyndham injected himself with his supposed evolution formula.
• Peter revealed that he had given Wyndham a defective formula, causing Wyndham to collapse, and used a virus on the hard drive to uncover Hydra outposts.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents secured the base, Captain America reported Wyndham’s capture to Fury, and Peter handed over the hard drive.
• At S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Fury berated Peter for misleading the agency, while Steve defended him and Johnny admitted that he and Felicia had known about Peter’s plan.

Peter reunited the Parkers and learned the full truth about Richard's imprisonment, then helped Felicia face her father's continued incarceration. After returning home to play the part of a surprised nephew, Peter slipped away and ran into Mary, who teased him about fighting supervillains.

• Fury heard Peter explain why he had concealed the truth, then reunited Ben, May, and Richard with the others.
• Richard explained that Wyndham had imprisoned him, that Mary had discovered the formula, and that Jessica had been frozen for twenty years.
• Fury released Ben and May after questioning and promised Richard he could return to his family after helping S.H.I.E.L.D.'s scientists.
• Fury reduced Walter Hardy's sentence by five years, but Felicia learned he still had two lifetimes to serve, and Peter comforted her.
• Peter promised to help Felicia plan a way to free Walter, and they agreed not to act rashly.
• Ben told Peter that Richard was alive, and Peter left home after pretending to process the news before Mary approached and teased him about supervillains.

Peter told Mary Jane about his parents’ return and began adjusting to living with Richard, who started working at the Baxter Building. After a month of training and spending time with family, Peter celebrated Felicia’s birthday with a romantic picnic and gave her custom Silk-Shooters.

• Peter told Mary Jane that Richard was alive and explained how the Avengers had helped rescue Uncle Ben and Aunt May.
• Richard reunited with Peter, shared memories of Peter’s mother, and moved into the Parker home, where he and Peter discussed Peter’s secret identity and the dangerous research formula.
• Peter brought Richard to the Baxter Building, where Sue offered him a genetics position, while Johnny encouraged Peter to spend time with his father.
• Over the following month, Richard settled into his new lab, Peter continued his S.H.I.E.L.D. training and spent time with him, and Peter and Felicia visited Jean.
• Peter joined Black Cat on a diamond-smuggling break-in, escaped armed guards with her, and took her to a private picnic for her birthday.
• Peter gave Felicia silver bracelets equipped with Silk-Shooters, and she kissed him.

Peter began his first day of school, trained with Natasha Romanoff, and patrolled Hell’s Kitchen before encountering Mayday Parker, a Spider-Girl from another dimension. He learned she was his counterpart’s daughter and promised to help her find a way home and catch Spiral.

• Richard insisted that Peter attend school to learn to get along with ordinary people, and Peter drove to school with MJ.
• Peter and MJ met Harry Osborn, Flash Thompson, Liz, and Felicia at school, where Felicia arrived in her Black Cat suit using Peter’s Silk-Shooters.
• Peter trained with Natasha Romanoff at S.H.I.E.L.D., asked about Jessica Drew and Captain America, and then went out to patrol.
• Peter easily subdued the Shocker in Hell’s Kitchen, then followed a strange storm and watched a portal open as a green-armored man and a costumed girl emerged.
• Peter recognized the girl as Mayday Parker, his counterpart’s daughter, and learned she had been pursuing Spiral across dimensions.
• Peter contacted Fury to ask S.H.I.E.L.D. to track Spiral and told Mayday he would help her get home.

Peter welcomed Mayday, his alternate-dimension daughter, into his family and helped her capture Spiral. After Mayday returned through a portal with Spiral, Peter told Richard that she was his granddaughter but kept her mother’s identity secret.

• Peter took Mayday to the Baxter Building, introduced her to Susan, Johnny, and Richard, and brought her to dinner with Aunt May and Uncle Ben.
• Fury sent Peter Spiral’s location, so Peter and Mayday flew to a warehouse in the Hamptons to confront him.
• Mayday attacked Spiral, but Peter intervened when Spiral’s weapons sent her crashing into a wall.
• Peter subdued Spiral with Richard’s scopolamine, hacked the portal device, and sent Mayday and Spiral back to her dimension after warning Mayday to stay safe.
• Peter returned home and told Richard that Mayday was his daughter from another timeline and Richard’s granddaughter, but refused to say who her mother was.

Peter experimented with absorbing Magneto’s X-Gene, gaining a dangerous new ability at the cost of cellular damage, then encountered a group of vampires near his cabin. After battling them in the woods, he was struck from behind and left facing an unknown attacker.

• Peter used radiation to make his blood absorb Magneto’s X-Gene, but discovered that the process damaged his cells and would take months to recover from.
• After driving to a cabin near Montauk, Peter noticed unusual physical symptoms and saw a group of young people surrounding his car.
• Peter identified the group as vampires after discovering that the Torch Team had died in a bus crash twenty years earlier.
• The vampires and their four thralls attacked Peter at the cabin, forcing him to flee into the woods and fight them.
• Peter used insults and bioelectricity against the vampires and thralls, but a powerful blow from behind knocked him out of a tree.

Peter discovered his new ability to manipulate metal after surviving a vampire attack and meeting Blade. Back in New York, he teamed up with Matt Murdock to rescue a kidnapped boy in Hell’s Kitchen.

• Blade killed the male vampire and helped Peter defeat the three female vampires, while Peter awakened a power to shape metal.
• Peter tested his ability, learned it worked on ferromagnetic metals, and noticed his eyes turned blue whenever he used it.
• Peter returned to New York, heard that a boy named Stephen had gone missing, and learned the disappearance was connected to Hell’s Kitchen.
• Peter found Matt fighting a thug on Claire Temple’s rooftop and helped him get the boy’s location from the man.
• Peter and Matt raided a building, fought through its thugs, and rescued the frightened boy.

Peter helped Matt recover after rescuing a kidnapped child and learned that Wilson Fisk was directing the gangs’ growing operations. Later, Fury revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D. had been infiltrated and accused Peter of being the source of the leak.

• Peter brought the rescued boy to a police station, then helped Matt back to his apartment and offered to make him a suit.
• Matt told Peter that the Russian Mob had abducted the child to lure him out and that criminals were hiding rather than disappearing.
• Peter identified Wilson Fisk as the power behind the gangs, and Matt vowed to investigate him both as a vigilante and as an attorney.
• After patrolling Hell’s Kitchen, Peter received Fury’s late-night summons and met him near Greenpoint Avenue Bridge.
• Fury showed Peter that the bases from Wyndham’s files had been emptied or burned before S.H.I.E.L.D. raided them, then accused Peter of being the leak.

Fury warned Peter that Hydra might still be active and gave him a photograph from Jessica Drew. At school, Peter met Mark Raxton, then Felicia told him she had found her father with help from Brock Rumlow, whom Peter recognized as a future Hydra villain.

• Fury questioned Peter to verify he was not a spy, warned him to watch for Hydra, and promised to delete Peter's secret identity from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files.
• Fury gave Peter a photograph and thanked him for inspiring Jessica Drew to begin training as an agent.
• Peter met Mark Raxton at lunch and answered his questions about the Fantastic Four while noticing Mark flirt with MJ and Liz.
• Felicia told Peter she had located her imprisoned father at a hidden facility in Texas with help from agent Brock Rumlow.
• Peter recognized Rumlow as the future Crossbones and a Hydra operative, and suspected Rumlow had an ulterior motive.

Peter and Felicia argued over her plan to rescue her father, then Peter rushed to the Baxter Building after an explosion and found Doom attacking the Fantastic Four. The chapter ended with Doom poised to kill Peter after Peter weakened his armor with a mysterious power.

• Peter warned Felicia that Rumlow was likely a Hydra agent setting a trap, but she left after accusing Peter of refusing to help her rescue her father.
• Peter told Fury about Rumlow, then headed to the Baxter Building when an explosion engulfed its upper floors.
• Peter rescued Richard, Sue, and Johnny from the wreckage and found Ben and Reed injured in Reed's lab.
• Doom returned and attacked Peter, throwing him through the Baxter Building and into a nearby office.
• Doom discovered that Peter was a child and became enraged, while Peter used an unexplained blue-lit power to crush Doom's throat armor.
• Doom raised his hand to kill the badly injured Peter.

Felicia stayed beside Peter while he lay unconscious after barely surviving surgery, realizing how deeply she loved him. After learning Hydra had arranged Doom’s attack, she accepted Fury’s mission to help destroy Hydra and protect Peter.

• Felicia kept vigil outside Peter’s surgery as doctors worked to save him, and Tony promised he would survive.
• As the Avengers visited, Felicia confronted Bruce and insisted that Peter would return to being Spider-Man once he recovered.
• On Peter’s second day in bed, Fury showed Felicia evidence that someone had reactivated Doom’s robot and said he suspected Hydra had arranged the attack.
• Fury offered Felicia a mission to bring down Hydra, with help from her father, and warned it could keep her away from Peter until Hydra fell.
• Felicia accepted the mission, saying she would do whatever was necessary to ensure Hydra could never hurt Peter again.

After Doom left Peter gravely injured, Peter used his notes to ask Sue to combine the Mutant Spider Project with Logan’s blood, and the treatment healed him. Peter woke in Avengers Tower, reunited with Richard, Jean, and Logan, and learned that Doom had escaped after Captain America pursued him.

• Peter woke in the hospital with severe injuries from Doom and used his ability to retrieve a pen so he could ask Sue to use the Mutant Spider Project and Logan’s blood.
• Sue and Richard followed Peter’s instructions, and Logan’s healing factor restored Peter while he was unconscious.
• Peter woke healed in Avengers Tower, hugged Richard, and learned that the treatment had worked without exposing his blood or medical information.
• Jean and Logan visited Peter, and he thanked Logan for donating blood and promised to talk with Jean about his anger toward Doom.
• Richard told Peter that Tony had rescued him after fighting Doom, Bruce had stabilized him, and Captain America had pursued Doom before Doom vanished.

After learning that Felicia had broken her father Walter out of prison, Peter escaped Avengers Tower to find her before she got into further trouble. He left as Fury and the others debated whether Peter should continue as Spider-Man, and the chapter ended when Valerie answered Felicia’s door.

• Peter learned that Felicia had gone to Texas and suspected she was trying to rescue her father, Walter.
• Peter found his damaged suit and discovered that Bruce knew he was Spider-Man, then learned from Fury that Felicia had broken Walter out of prison.
• Peter told Fury and the others about Doom’s energy-manipulation power as they discussed how to respond to Doom and whether Peter should keep fighting.
• Peter overheard Tony, Steve, Fury, and Bruce argue about his future as Spider-Man, then decided to find Felicia.
• Peter disguised himself, evaded Avengers Tower’s security, and traveled to Felicia’s home, where Valerie answered the door.

Peter tried to leave with Felicia and her family, but she stunned him and departed without him. At the airport, Felicia revealed to Walter and Fury that her apparent escape was part of a mission against Hydra, and she flew with her parents to Europe.

• Peter found Felicia with Walter and Valeria, learned S.H.I.E.L.D. was closing in, and confronted the family as they prepared to flee.
• Felicia said she would not let Walter be arrested again, and Peter offered to abandon his life and go with them.
• Felicia stunned Peter, telling him that New York needed Spider-Man, then left him behind; Peter recovered too late to stop her taxi.
• At the airport, Felicia told Fury she had left Peter to protect him and asked whether he was all right; Fury said Peter was searching airport footage for her.
• Fury gave Walter conditional immunity in exchange for evidence against Hydra, and Felicia boarded the plane with Walter and Valeria to begin their mission in Europe.

Two months after Doctor Doom’s attack, Peter Parker remained withdrawn from his family and had abandoned both Spider-Man and his training, unable to cope with Felicia’s unexplained departure. He lay in bed grieving their lost future, with no sign that he would return to hero work.

• Tony Stark told reporters that Spider-Man had suffered serious injuries and might not return soon.
• Aunt May and Richard discussed Peter’s recovery, but Peter left the dinner table and shut himself in his bedroom.
• Peter recalled waking without Felicia, being knocked unconscious when he sought her, and facing his family and school life without her.
• Peter decided he would never be Spider-Man again, while the Fantastic Four rebuilt their home and Daredevil protected much of Manhattan.
• Fury canceled Peter’s training with Natasha after Peter had spent a month in retirement.
• Peter wondered why Felicia had left and mourned the future they had imagined together.

Peter visited the recovering Baxter Building, struggled with his fear of Doom and loneliness, and kissed Sue before they both stopped. After returning home, he received Liz’s urgent call that Johnny was fighting a Vulture-suited attacker who had abducted Harry.

• Peter reunited with Reed, Sue, and Johnny at the Baxter Building and helped with its repairs.
• Peter learned that Ben was dating his psychiatrist, Johnny was dating Liz, and Reed was seeing Jessie Lamberg.
• Peter showed Sue that Logan’s blood had given him rapid healing and admitted he feared Doom and felt unsure about continuing as Spider-Man.
• Sue comforted Peter, and they kissed passionately before separating in regret and shame.
• Peter went home and went to sleep, then Liz called to report that a Vulture-suited attacker had grabbed Harry and Johnny was fighting him in the sky.

Peter rescued Harry from Vulture with Johnny’s help, then insisted that Spider-Man had not returned and left Vulture to S.H.I.E.L.D. As he flew home, Peter reflected on his newly discovered bone claws and his slow recovery.

• Peter followed Liz Allan’s location to the mansion and found Vulture carrying Harry while Johnny fought him in the sky.
• Peter attacked Vulture, freed Harry, and used his black bone claws to wound Vulture before Johnny pulled the injured villain upward.
• Doc caught Peter in the flying car, and Johnny melted Vulture’s wing joints before Peter webbed him to the car.
• Peter asked Johnny to take Vulture to S.H.I.E.L.D. and keep Spider-Man’s involvement secret, then Johnny left to cheers from the party.
• On the way home, Peter’s claws retracted as he remembered discovering them and considered how his soul was slowly healing.

Peter reluctantly attended Norman Osborn’s formal launch for Otto’s energy project after learning that Norman was pursuing dangerous experiments with Chitauri technology. At the laboratory, Peter reconnected with Otto and Rosie, then met an unfamiliar blonde woman at the bar.

• Peter refused Natasha’s request to return to hero work, but she told him that Vulture’s weapons used Chitauri technology and that Norman wanted to combine it with Otto’s solar-energy concept.
• Norman invited Peter to the project launch, and Peter decided to attend because he feared Otto’s experiment might go wrong and endanger Rosie.
• Peter arrived at Norman’s Long Island laboratory and saw the huge experimental apparatus at the center of the hangar.
• Otto and Rosie welcomed Peter and explained that Parker’s Blood controlled the project’s energy transfer, while Otto assured him the apparatus had been thoroughly checked.
• Peter went to the bar for a Coke, where a blonde woman ordered vodka and told him he was too young.

Peter tried to stop Otto Octavius from activating a reactor powered by a dangerous purple stone, but the machine erupted in destructive energy. Rosie was injured and left unconscious, while Otto was badly hurt, leaving Peter hoping he could save them both.

• Norman Osborn announced that Otto Octavius would activate a reactor to supply New York City with clean energy.
• Peter recognized the purple stone in the reactor as dangerous and warned Rosie, but the machine had already begun to flare out of control.
• Peter shoved Rosie clear of an energy blast and pulled the emergency shutdown switch, but the reactor continued erupting.
• Otto shielded Rosie from an energy wave, and the heat melted his mechanical arms into his body before a blast hurled him into a wall.
• Peter rescued Otto from the collapsing hangar, but a final shock wave threw Rosie into a tree and left her unconscious.
• Peter called Tony and asked him to alert S.H.I.E.L.D., then stayed with Rosie and hoped he could prevent Otto from going mad.

Peter stayed near Rosie while she remained in a coma, then built a weapon for Otto in case he became dangerous. When Otto escaped the hospital and went on a rampage searching for his wife, Peter rushed to Rosie's room and found a metal arm attacking him.

• Peter told Bobbi that Rosie remained in a coma and urged her to ask Fury about information he was withholding.
• Peter returned to the Baxter Building, where Sue invited him to spend Christmas with the team.
• Peter finished building the Spider Gun, an EMP and stun weapon intended for Otto.
• The news reported that Otto had escaped, killed ten people, and was searching for his wife.
• Peter raced to the hospital, where a metal arm lunged at his face as he opened Rosie's room.

Peter stopped Otto from killing Bobbi, but Otto was arrested after Bobbi incapacitated him. Haunted by the ten deaths he might have prevented, Peter decided to seek help from Professor X and planned to visit him that weekend.

• Peter talked Otto out of attacking Bobbi, but Otto insisted on taking revenge on Norman Osborn.
• Peter used an EMP gun to disable Otto’s mechanical arms, and Bobbi stunned him when his anger returned.
• Otto was sent to prison despite Peter asking Fury to get him help, while the removed arms were kept in secure storage.
• Peter struggled with guilt over the ten people Doctor Octopus had killed and realized he needed a therapist and a change of scene.
• Peter called Professor X, asked for help, and planned to visit him that weekend.

Peter arrived at Xavier Mansion for a few days and reunited with Jean, then met the students Kurt and Kitty. After examining Kitty’s phasing ability, he suspected it involved quantum probability and warned that it could be dangerous.

• Peter arrived at Xavier Mansion and met Kurt and Kitty, explaining that his mutation was artificial and speculating that Kurt teleported through another dimension.
• Kurt and Kitty led Peter to breakfast, where Jean warmly welcomed him and Xavier explained that Peter was their guest.
• Scott greeted Peter guardedly, but Xavier told him to treat Peter as a friend and guest.
• Kitty demonstrated how she could pass through the dining table and asked Peter to help her understand her power.
• Peter theorized that Kitty changed her body's quantum state to phase through objects and warned that her ability was extremely dangerous.

Peter joined the X-Men for a meal, then asked Professor Xavier for help with his fear of returning to the Spider-Man role. He explained that Logan’s blood had given him healing powers and told Xavier he had been ready to abandon his life for Felicia, before Xavier recognized that Peter saw himself as three separate people.

• Peter introduced himself to Evan and surprised the X-Men by revealing his connection to the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man.
• Peter told Kitty that Spider-Man was gone and that he did not know whether he would return.
• Peter showed Xavier the bone claws and explained that Logan’s blood had given him powerful healing abilities, leaving him afraid despite being difficult to kill.
• Peter recounted how Felicia rescued her father during the chaos after Doom’s attack and how she left after he offered to run away with her.
• Peter admitted telepathically that Felicia was the only thing he had ever wanted and that he would give up everything for her.
• Xavier told Peter that he viewed himself as Peter Parker, Spider-Man, and a third, truer self.