Recaps

Peter and Mayday answered a distress call at Doctor Strange’s home, where a shadow monster attacked them and Strange urged them toward a treasure vault. Peter grew suspicious of the old sorcerer, and the chapter ended as the monster charged at him.

• Peter and Mayday reached Doctor Strange’s home after learning the distress call mentioned an extradimensional threat.
• A shadow monster attacked them in the dark, and Peter drove it away with a bioelectric blast.
• Mayday freed Strange, who identified the creature as Great Karrlokos from the Shadow Dimension and led them toward a treasure vault.
• Strange opened a locked iron door with a spell and led Peter and Mayday into a gloomy corridor.
• Peter questioned whether Strange remembered him, became convinced something was wrong, and watched the monster charge at Strange.

Peter and Mayday discovered that Shadow Demon had stolen Strange’s body to reach the Sanctum Sanctorum’s treasury, then helped Strange regain his body and banish the demon. Strange recognized Mayday as the child he had delivered and identified Peter as a visitor from another dimension with extraordinary magical potential.

• Peter realized the shadow monster was the real Strange trapped in its shell, while Shadow Demon possessed Strange’s body and sought a glowing thread in the treasury.
• Peter and Mayday fought Shadow Demon, using the Arm of Valtorr and an ancient flail as they stopped him from reaching the thread.
• Strange returned to his body, confirmed his identity to Peter, and banished Shadow Demon to the Dark Dimension.
• Strange told Mayday that he had delivered her when she was born.
• Peter explained that he was a different Peter Parker, and Strange used magic to identify him as a visitor from another dimension with unusual magical potential.

Peter learned how his bioelectricity could act as magic and received Strange’s offer to become his apprentice. After weighing the dangers against his need for power and a way home, Peter returned to Strange’s Sanctum and accepted.

• Strange explained that Peter’s bioelectric attack had wounded the shadow demon and revealed that the demon had sought a multiversal rule node.
• Strange told Peter that the disturbance from his journey between worlds had attracted the demon, then offered to teach him magic.
• United States Dream and the other Avengers arrived late, and Peter criticized them for being unable to enter the Sanctum.
• Mayday rushed off to school, while Peter told Strange he would consider the offer and later discussed the risks of magic with Mayday during patrol.
• That night, Peter returned to 177A Bleecker Street and formally addressed Strange as his master.

Peter began his magical training under Doctor Strange, but a dangerous accident revealed his connection to the Web of Life and Destiny. Strange explained that Peter’s death during Thanos’s attack could collapse the multiverse, and Peter accepted his identity and calling as the Web of Life Mage.

• Peter asked Strange how Doctor Doom had learned magic, and Strange explained how Doom had connected his mind to an energy dimension.
• Strange sent Peter to study magical languages, mythology, and history, and Peter later wandered into a dangerous alternate dimension.
• As Peter fell through the void, he heard a strange inner tremor and summoned a golden web that caught him and led him back to the stairs.
• Strange revealed that the golden web was the Web of Life and Destiny, and that Peter was a powerful Spider-Totem connected to its core.
• Strange warned that Thanos’s attack could kill Peter and collapse the web, threatening the multiverse.
• Peter admitted he was not the original Peter Parker, but Strange affirmed that Peter had become Spider-Man and would protect life as the Web of Life Mage.

After Strange revealed Peter’s role in saving the multiverse, Peter spent the night on the Baxter Building roof wrestling with his fear of failing and losing control of his powers. Franklin offered him a vial of his own blood, leaving Peter shaken as he considered what it might do.

• Peter fled the Sanctum Sanctorum and spent the night sitting on the Baxter Building roof.
• Franklin found Peter at dawn and listened as Peter admitted he feared failing to save the world.
• Peter told Franklin he feared becoming a power-obsessed monster like he had after using the Cosmic Control Rod.
• Franklin said Peter deserved great power and flew inside the building.
• Franklin returned with a vial of his blood and gave it to Peter to help him save everyone.
• Peter stared at the vial, his hand trembling as he considered its power.

Peter returned to the Sanctum Sanctorum and chose to learn magic rather than use Franklin’s blood to gain power. Strange accepted him as an apprentice while warning that he could restore the original Peter Parker if Peter became dangerous, and Peter left to tell May and Mary Jane where he would stay.

• Peter put away Franklin’s blood and returned to the Sanctum Sanctorum to continue learning magic from Strange.
• Strange revealed that he had followed Peter and judged him by his actions saving strangers, then explained why he had abandoned the idea of restoring the original Peter Parker.
• Peter explained that he could not reveal his real name or details of his original world because of a restriction placed on him.
• Strange said he would not use the Eye of Agamotto to investigate Peter’s world, fearing the powerful being that brought Peter there.
• Peter left to tell May and Mary Jane where he would be staying, resolved to earn power through magic but willing to use Franklin’s blood if he remained too weak when Thanos arrived.

Peter struggled to awaken his inner power during Strange’s magic training, so Strange sent him to school for a break. Peter joined May and Felicity at their basketball game, where he was reunited with the injured Felicia Hardy in the stands.

• Peter failed to use magic despite repeating the routine Strange had taught him, and Strange suggested he relax by attending school.
• May and Felicity invited Peter to cheer at their basketball game, and he agreed to go and treat them to dinner if they won.
• Felicity flirted with Peter, and he awkwardly called her a little girl before she hurried off to the gym.
• Peter watched May and Felicity play together while comparing their teamwork to his past battles with Felicia.
• Felicia Hardy, wearing an eyepatch and a cast, surprised Peter at the game, and he made room for her to sit beside him.

Peter talked with Felicia about her marriage to Flash and her hopes for Peter’s missing Felicia, then used his energy to heal the bruising around her eye patch. Midtown High School won the basketball game, and Peter celebrated with Felicity and her team at a restaurant.

• Felicia told Peter that she had fallen in love with Flash after initially dating him to make Peter jealous, but they divorced because they wanted different lives.
• Felicia said she did not regret her choices and advised Peter to hold his Felicia and kiss her if he found her.
• Peter used his power to heal the bruising around Felicia’s eye patch, surprising her.
• Midtown High School won the game, and Felicia encouraged Peter not to give up on finding his Felicia.
• Peter treated Felicity and the girls’ basketball team to a celebratory dinner.

Peter unlocked his own magic core while practicing martial forms, drawing strength from memories of Felicia, and Strange praised his breakthrough. The following day, Strange formally welcomed Peter as his student and gave him an apprentice’s robe and a magical storage bag before beginning their first formal lesson.

• Peter’s memories of Felicia helped him stop worrying about failure and awaken a red-gold magic core during his martial forms.
• Strange praised Peter’s performance and instructed him to repeat the process until he could cast without relying on the core.
• The next day, Strange gave Peter an apprentice’s robe, officially qualifying him as his student.
• Strange gave Peter a storage bag that could shrink and hold many weightless items, then told him to change for his first formal lesson.

Peter learned telekinesis from Strange, then used his new abilities and Sassy’s help to defeat a gang trafficking people at the New York docks. He discovered that Richard Fisk was waiting in Hunts Point and decided to confront him before alerting the police to the hideout.

• Strange taught Peter that telekinesis let sorcerers influence the physical world, and Peter spent a week learning to move a pencil case.
• At the New York docks, Peter and Sassy used a crane hook to shield trafficking victims from gunfire while Peter fought the gangsters.
• Peter used his claws and webbing to subdue the armed gangsters and captured the last fleeing man.
• Peter interrogated the captive, who revealed that he worked for Richard Fisk and that Fisk was waiting with hundreds of men at a warehouse in Hunts Point.
• Peter had Sassy notify the police about the victims but chose to visit Fisk himself before reporting his hideout.

Peter dealt with Richard Fisk, then continued learning magic from Strange at the Sanctum Sanctorum. Two months later, Strange found Peter covered in soot and stuck in a crater after an experiment wrecked his room.

• Peter broke several of Richard Fisk's fingers after confronting him at a warehouse in Hunts Point.
• Peter returned to the Sanctum Sanctorum, where Strange gave him new robes and taught him about the Wand of Watoomb.
• Strange assigned Peter a thick magic book and told him to master the Wand of Watoomb by the following night.
• Peter spent two months studying magic with Strange and began experimenting with inventions of his own.
• Strange entered Peter's wrecked room and found him embedded in a crater in the wall, covered in soot and dust.

Strange helped Peter perfect an enchanted storage bag, tested his magical shield, and taught him Astral Projection. Peter successfully separated his soul from his body, but their lesson was interrupted by someone urgently calling for Strange.

• Strange repaired Peter’s room and corrected the Kuru Rune in his storage bag, allowing Peter to enchant it successfully.
• Peter demonstrated the Shield of the Seraphim, and Strange tested it with plasma bolts before discussing Peter’s Spider-Sense.
• Strange began teaching Peter Astral Projection, and Peter entered his astral form and saw Strange’s spirit.
• Someone called out, “Strange! Help me!”

Strange and Peter were pulled through a fiery portal while trying to locate Mordo, landing in a hellish realm where demons attacked them. Peter unleashed his claws and tore through the demons, then found them staring fearfully at something behind him.

• Strange sensed Mordo's desperate call for help and decided to find and rescue him.
• Strange used Mordo's magical trace to locate him, but the cauldron exploded and a flaming portal dragged Strange and Peter inside.
• Peter landed in a burning realm near a Gothic castle, separated from Strange and surrounded by red-skinned imps.
• Peter used the Shield of the Seraphim to repel the imps, but their numbers overwhelmed him and they pinned him down.
• Peter stopped suppressing his wildness, grew blue-gray claws, and slaughtered his way through the demons.
• The remaining imps halted and stared fearfully at something behind Peter.

Peter was captured by Mephisto and taken to his palace, where the demon lord questioned him. Mephisto discovered that Peter was a dimensional traveler inhabiting someone else’s body.

• Mephisto appeared behind Peter and knocked him unconscious.
• Peter woke bound upside down above a lava-filled cauldron, with Mordo chained beside Mephisto’s throne.
• Peter gave Mephisto the false name Bruce Wayne and pretended to be under the demon lord’s truth spell.
• Peter claimed he had entered Mephisto’s domain to summon a lust demon, unsettling Mephisto and Mordo.
• Mephisto recognized Peter as Strange’s apprentice and realized he came from another dimension and was not the original soul in his body.

Mephisto invaded Peter’s mind to tear apart his soul and uncover his secrets, but Peter’s Dark Tower restored his memories and blasted the demon from his mental world. Mephisto then injured Peter, who bound him with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak.

• Mephisto used dark magic to attack Peter and entered his mental world, where he began crushing Peter’s memories.
• Peter tried to protect his memories of Felicia, but Mephisto drained his magic and continued destroying places from his past.
• The Dark Tower released its stored knowledge of the Marvel Universe, restoring Peter’s memories and expelling Mephisto from his mind.
• Mephisto struck Peter into a stone wall, breaking his bones, while a spider-shaped mark burned into Mephisto’s right arm.
• Peter taunted Mephisto and summoned the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak to bind him.

Strange and Mordo tried to free a little girl’s pure soul from Mephisto’s brazier while Mephisto fought to escape his restraints. After Peter severed Mephisto’s branded arm and Mordo banished him, Peter plunged his hands into the Fire of Truth to save the girl.

• Strange freed Peter from his chains and warned that Mephisto would soon break free, while Mordo insisted they had to rescue the girl trapped in the brazier.
• Strange worked to undo the brazier’s wards as Peter bound Mephisto with the Wand of Watoomb, but Mephisto broke loose and grabbed Peter by the neck.
• Peter drove his claws into the spider mark on Mephisto’s arm and tore it off, causing Mephisto to howl in pain.
• Mordo completed an incantation that banished Mephisto to another dimension, and Peter stored the severed arm in his infinite storage bag.
• Strange explained that only a pure-hearted person could pass through the Fire of Truth, and Peter thrust both hands into the flames.

Peter escaped Mephisto's realm with the preserved soul and returned to his original world when the hell energy activated his dormant dimensional energy. He left Strange and Mordo with urgent messages for his friends and family before arriving in a familiar laboratory, where someone rushed to embrace him.

• Peter escaped through Strange's portal with the girl's soul after cutting down an imp that followed him.
• Strange sent the soul to a safe resting place, and Mordo warned Peter that Mephisto would seek revenge.
• Peter's dimensional energy activated, and he asked Strange to pass messages to Aunt May, Felicia, Felicity, Franklin, and others.
• Peter was pulled through a green wormhole and crashed into a laboratory in his original world.
• Someone recognized Peter and lunged at him, hugging him to the floor.

Peter returned from a realm where he had spent three months, though only two hours passed at home, and reunited with Susan, Reed, Johnny, and Liz. After seeing news that six dangerous criminals had escaped and were coming for Norman, Peter told Susan he might need to leave.

• Peter asked Reed to destroy the machine that had sent him away, then went with Susan, Johnny, and Liz to get food.
• Peter ate pizza and said he felt like himself again after his journey.
• The news reported that Max Dillon, Alexei Sytsevich, Flint Marko, Adrian Toomes, Herman Schultz, and Otto Octavius had escaped from a containment facility in Westchester.
• The news showed the fugitives' message: "Norman, we're coming for you."
• Peter told Susan he might need to head out.

Otto Gunther Octavius formed an alliance with five dangerous inmates and led a breakout from Ravencroft, setting the group on a path of revenge against Norman Osborn. Peter learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. could not spare agents to pursue them and prepared to intervene himself.

• After his cellmates nearly beat him to death, Otto’s neural system awakened, and guards transferred him to Ravencroft’s special confinement wing.
• Otto recruited Adrian Toomes, Alexei Sytsevich, Flint Marko, Herman Schultz, and Max Dillon by exploiting their grudges and offering them a chance to escape.
• Otto learned from Dr. Kafka that the prisoners’ equipment was stored in a vault beneath the asylum and put his escape plan into action.
• Marko broke into the vault, and the group retrieved their equipment before Alexei smashed through Ravencroft’s outer wall and the six inmates escaped.
• Peter called Nick Fury, learned S.H.I.E.L.D. was occupied by a crisis involving Doctor Doom and could not pursue the fugitives, then suited up and told Sassy to call Harry.

Peter retrieved his repaired high-tech suit from Bruce at Avengers Tower and prepared to confront Otto and the five other escaped criminals. Meanwhile, Otto’s group armed themselves and set an ambush for Norman Osborn’s police escort near Times Square.

• Peter called Harry, learned he and Norman were at a downtown penthouse, and decided he needed stronger gear to face the escaped criminals.
• Peter landed at Avengers Tower, where Bruce recognized him and brought him to the laboratory.
• Bruce showed Peter the repaired red-and-black suit Tony had kept for him, and Peter decided to stop standing by and fight Otto’s group.
• Peter’s suit AI, Sassy, reported that Otto and his accomplices were headed toward 46th Street, and Bruce offered to help.
• Peter proposed using one of the displayed armors for tactical support, while Otto’s group retrieved equipment from Toomes’s hideout and prepared to attack Norman’s convoy near Times Square.

Spider-Man and Bruce confronted the Sinister Six as they rampaged through Manhattan, rescuing civilians and fighting back. Peter left Sandman weakened by water as the battle continued.

• Otto and the Sinister Six burst from a truck at 45th Street and attacked the crowded streets, causing widespread destruction.
• Peter and Bruce used Iron Man armor and webbing to shield a mother and daughter from Electro’s attack and evacuate them.
• Bruce’s armor drove Electro back, while Peter confronted Otto, Shocker, and Sandman.
• Peter blasted holes through Sandman, then drenched him with water from a broken fire hydrant, turning his body to mud and slowing him down.

Peter overcame his fear and turned Electro’s lightning into a massive energy charge, destroying the Rhino armor with one blast. The remaining villains still faced him as he marked his first victory.

• Peter evaded Otto, Alexei, and Schultz’s attacks, then lured Electro into striking him with a powerful arc that detonated the pursuing missiles.
• The blast triggered Peter’s memories of Doctor Doom, and Bruce caught him with an Iron Man Armor before Otto destroyed it and threw Peter to the ground.
• Peter stood between the assembled villains and Norman Osborn’s trapped convoy, refusing to surrender.
• Electro’s lightning charged Peter’s suit to 400%, allowing Peter to unleash a destructive chest beam that wrecked the Rhino armor.
• Peter called the defeated Rhino armor his first victory.

Peter defeated Otto and the other supervillains, rescued Harry, and returned to fighting as Spider-Man. As police and firefighters arrived, the crowd celebrated him, and Peter accepted that he had found his reason to fight again.

• Peter knocked out Shocker, used sewage and liquid nitrogen to freeze Sandman, and blasted Vulture out of the sky with a magical shock wave.
• Otto attacked Norman Osborn and seized him, while Harry tried to stop Otto with a handgun; Otto hurled Harry onto the road, leaving him unconscious and bleeding.
• Peter returned on the falling Vulture, cut through Otto’s mechanical arms with bone claws, and knocked Otto unconscious with an armored punch.
• Peter sent Bruce to take Harry to a hospital, then disarmed and restrained the defeated villains as emergency crews approached.
• The crowd cheered Spider-Man, and Peter realized he had found his reason to fight again.

After defeating the Sinister Six, Peter argued with Richard about returning to crime-fighting and reunited with his friends at the Baxter Building. He confirmed the dangerous device had been destroyed and prepared to show Susan and Reed photos of what he had experienced beyond the portal.

• Peter told Richard he would keep being Spider-Man despite his father's angry objections.
• Peter learned Mary Jane Watson said he owed her fifty bucks and headed to the Baxter Building.
• Liz hugged Peter, then scolded him for fighting the Sinister Six alone, while Johnny pulled her away.
• Susan scolded Peter for risking his life, and he agreed to handle the foundation's laundry for a month.
• Reed confirmed he had dismantled the device and erased its data and backups.
• Peter took out his phone and asked Sassy to display photos of his adventures beyond the portal.

Peter told the Fantastic Four about the future world he had visited, then returned home and reconnected with his worried family. Two days later, as Christmas break began, he met MJ and Liz at a café while an online conspiracy theory claimed Captain America had impersonated Spider-Man.

• Peter showed Reed and Susan a photo of their future family and described his adventures with Franklin and the Fantastic Five.
• Peter returned home, reassured Richard that he was safe, and thanked Richard, Uncle Ben, and Aunt May for supporting him.
• Peter shared a warm dinner with his family and felt secure with the people he wanted to protect.
• Two days later, Peter met MJ and Liz at their favorite café as Christmas break began.
• An online conspiracy theory claimed Spider-Man was dead and Captain America had worn a Spider-Man suit to save New York.