Chapter Summaries

Peter studied the recovered Arc Reactors and drone parts, then spent Sunday talking with Mary Jane about the attack, prom, and her school-play audition. After returning to his basement work, Peter heard someone comment on his physique from behind him as he changed.

• Peter retrieved drone wreckage and two Arc Reactors, then stayed up until four studying how an Arc Reactor worked.
• Peter turned down an extra dojo training session to spend time with Mary Jane, who asked him about his kiss with Felicia.
• Peter encouraged Mary Jane to audition for the school play and offered to go to prom with her if neither could resolve their plans with Harry and Felicia.
• Peter and Mary Jane rehearsed for her audition, and she stayed for dinner with Peter's family.
• Peter continued studying the Arc Reactor and dismantled an unidentified propulsion leg before going to bed.
• A low voice behind Peter commented on his physique as he took off his shirt.

Nick Fury confronted Peter about his identity as Spider-Man and offered him a place in the Avengers Initiative, warning that going solo would make him a target. Peter asked for a week to consider the offer, then found and destroyed twenty-five listening devices in his house before turning to Fury’s folder.

• Peter overpowered Nick Fury when Fury broke into his bedroom, then learned that Fury had come to discuss the Avengers Initiative.
• Fury revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D. knew Peter was Spider-Man and used surveillance evidence to pressure him into joining.
• Peter refused Fury’s offer of training and missions, saying he had a job, family, and city to protect.
• Fury warned that Peter’s rapid growth had drawn attention and gave him a week to decide whether to join.
• Peter scanned his house, destroyed twenty-five listening devices, and left Fury a threatening note with the collected bugs.
• Peter skimmed Fury’s folder, then lay down thinking about the drone wreckage, the Arc Reactor, Tony’s armor, and the adventure ahead.

Peter considered joining S.H.I.E.L.D. while negotiating to keep protecting New York and secure funding for his inventions. After accepting a date with Felicia, he rejected Bakuto’s scholarship offer and left the dojo.

• Peter reviewed S.H.I.E.L.D.’s contract and decided its benefits outweighed the risks, though he wanted to retain the right to patrol New York.
• Peter agreed to take Felicia to the homecoming dance and dinner, then recognized substitute teacher Natasha Romanoff as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent sent to monitor him.
• Peter tested Natasha’s reflexes and told her he could accept S.H.I.E.L.D.’s offer if he could return to protect New York and learn who would own his inventions.
• Peter gave Felicia the nickname “kitten” at lunch, and she blushed but accepted it.
• Peter told Colleen Wing he had to leave the dojo to earn money, then refused Bakuto’s scholarship offer and walked out.

Peter discussed S.H.I.E.L.D.’s recruitment offer with the Fantastic Four, secured a share of the SA patent, and prepared for the homecoming dance. When Electro attacked the city during his date with Felicia, Peter suited up to confront him and found Felicia helping victims.

• Peter told the Fantastic Four about S.H.I.E.L.D.’s offer, and they advised him that the contract and training made joining worthwhile.
• Sue told Peter that Amazon had agreed to manufacture the SA patent, giving him half its ownership and five percent of sales.
• Peter watched news of Alexei’s five-year prison sentence, then spent the week balancing school, research, and patrols while preparing for the homecoming dance with Felicia.
• Mary Jane arrived at Peter’s home before the dance, and Aunt May took pictures of them together.
• When Electro’s attack interrupted Peter and Felicia’s date, Peter changed into his Spider-Man suit and faced the villain while Felicia helped an old man escape a wrecked car.

Peter defeated Electro and reunited with Felicia after the fight, then shared a quiet dance with her outside the school dance. Felicia asked Peter on a real date, and he happily accepted.

• Peter lured Electro toward the East River, used water to short-circuit him, and bound him in insulating webbing.
• Peter collected a blood sample from Electro before returning to the scene and finding Felicia safe.
• Peter changed back into his Peter clothes, reunited with Felicia, and kissed her as rescue workers and police arrived.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents took custody of Electro, and Peter helped Felicia get a car to the school dance.
• Felicia refused to enter the dance because her dress was ruined, so Peter played a slow song and danced with her outside.
• Felicia asked Peter to go on a real date, and Peter agreed.

Peter accepted Fury’s terms to work with S.H.I.E.L.D. while retaining control of his inventions, then became Felicia’s boyfriend and met Natasha at a Queens safe house to begin his training. Natasha showed him the underground facility where they would work together.

• Peter agreed to Fury’s conditions after recovering from his fight with Electro, and Fury assigned Natasha Romanoff as his liaison and instructor.
• Peter dismantled S.H.I.E.L.D.’s listening devices, studied the Arc Reactor, and rebuilt its propulsion system with improvements.
• Peter and Felicia went on a date, and Felicia agreed to be his girlfriend.
• Peter warned Mary Jane to be careful around Norman Osborn, then met Natasha, who took him to the Queens safe house.
• Natasha showed Peter the safe house’s gym, data center, laboratory, and other facilities.

Peter trained with Natasha, developed Parker’s Blood and a new Spider-Man suit, and accepted Norman Osborn’s invitation to a Christmas party despite the Fantastic Four’s refusal to attend. He planned to bring Felicia and suspected the event would lead to trouble.

• Peter trained with Natasha, learned that his Spider-Sense could warn him of danger, and began an intense daily regimen of combat and agent studies.
• Peter spent a month training, helping Reed study Electro’s blood, and reverse-engineered its properties into a superconducting fluid called Parker’s Blood.
• Peter patented Parker’s Blood, received a salary and royalties from the Fantastic Four, and gave his earnings to Aunt May and Uncle Ben to help with their bills.
• Peter built a new Spider-Man suit using a miniature Arc Reactor, Parker’s Blood wiring, upgraded Silk-Shooters, and a helmet designed with Johnny.
• Norman Osborn invited Peter and the Baxter Foundation to Osborn Enterprises’ Christmas party, but Susan refused on the Fantastic Four’s behalf.
• Peter accepted Norman’s invitation personally and planned to ask Felicia to accompany him.

Peter watched Mary Jane star in her school play, reassured Felicia after she grew jealous, and gave her a holographic keepsake before heading alone to Norman Osborn’s party. There, he discovered Otto Octavius was preparing to demonstrate an experimental clean-energy device powerful enough to supply a city.

• Peter and Felicia watched Mary Jane perform, then learned Harry had missed the play because he was helping organize Norman’s party.
• Peter comforted Felicia, gave her a hologram of their first date, and took her home before attending the Osborn party alone.
• Peter arrived at Osborn Tower in his suit with Spider-Man gear concealed underneath and found a guarded, covered machine at the center of the banquet hall.
• Harry and Flash met Peter at the party, and Harry realized he had forgotten Mary Jane’s play; Norman then summoned Peter to meet him.
• Norman introduced Peter to Otto Octavius and Rosie, and Otto explained that his experiment could provide energy for an entire city.

Peter prevented Otto Octavius’s miniature-sun demonstration from becoming a disaster and received a one-percent stake in Osborn Enterprises. Later, Felicia revealed that she was Black Cat, and Peter revealed that he was Spider-Man, bringing their secret identities into the open.

• Peter identified Otto’s miniature-sun project and warned him that the magnetic shields might fail as the sun expanded, prompting Otto to adjust the machine’s parameters.
• Otto successfully demonstrated the miniature sun, and Osborn rewarded Peter with a one-percent stake in Osborn Enterprises.
• Peter left the party and went to Felicia’s apartment after she called and said she needed to tell him something.
• Felicia revealed that she was Black Cat, and Peter responded by showing her his Spider-Man suit and revealing his identity.
• Peter explained that he had suspected Felicia’s identity but had waited for her to trust him enough to tell him herself, and they reconciled.

On New Year's Eve, Peter joined the Fantastic Four in Reed's lab as Reed activated a device to observe the dimension where the team had gained their powers. The scanner detected something rushing toward them, leaving the group on alert.

• Peter complained that he had to spend New Year's Eve in Reed's lab instead of with Felicia, and he showed the team a picture of their first date.
• Peter said he had told Felicia he was Spider-Man, and the team reacted with surprise and congratulations.
• Reed revealed that he had built a modified dimensional transporter to observe the dimension that had given the Fantastic Four their powers.
• Reed activated the machine, and the team saw the barren, dying world where they had once landed.
• The scanner detected something rushing toward the group, and Sue hurried to check the monitor.

Doctor Doom attacked the Baxter Building to seize the dimensional portal, and Peter joined the Fantastic Four in trying to stop him. Reed turned the portal into a trap and sent Doom through it, leaving the team battered but alive.

• Peter, Johnny, and Ben fought Doom Robots while Reed and Sue tried to shut down the portal, but the robots trapped the Baxter Building behind an energy shield.
• Peter used a piece of concrete to slip through the shield and found Ben unconscious before joining Reed and Sue in the lab.
• Doctor Doom overwhelmed Sue and Reed with lightning, but Peter absorbed the electricity and blasted Doom with the power stored in his suit.
• Doctor Doom disabled Reed and opened the portal, but Reed activated its suction mechanism and Peter kicked Doom through it before Reed shut it down.
• Peter helped Reed dismantle the shield and retrieve Johnny, and the team woke to learn that Doom had been stopped.

After Doom's defeat, Peter spent New Year's Eve helping homeless people and became a viral sensation, then asked S.H.I.E.L.D. for a safe way to speak online. The chapter ended with Fury sending him an untraceable package and strict rules for posting.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents cleared away the Doom Robots, while Peter secretly kept one and disabled its power core before leaving for Felicia's apartment.
• Peter brought homeless people to a shelter, paid for their food and lodging, and threatened the manager to ensure the money was used properly.
• Online photos and video of Peter's shelter visit went viral, and he realized he could use social media to explain himself.
• Peter trained with Natasha and asked her to help him get an official social media account; she agreed to speak with Fury.
• Fury sent Peter an untraceable package with instructions requiring S.H.I.E.L.D. public relations approval for everything he posted.

Peter discovered that his blood could absorb foreign substances and adapt, making him a metahuman who might never get sick. After leaving Sue more samples, he set aside plans to investigate a corrupt councilman and swung toward Felicia's apartment.

• Peter inspected the S.H.I.E.L.D. phone, created social media accounts as "Amazing Spider-Man," and gained more than a million followers.
• Peter asked Reed and Sue to examine his blood, and Sue found that his DNA had absorbed spider traits and made him neither an ordinary human nor a mutant.
• Peter hacked councilman Nick Daves's laptop but found no evidence of corruption, so he planned to follow Daves and catch him in the act.
• Sue discovered Peter's blood rapidly absorbed a virus and broke it down, suggesting it could protect him from disease and potentially help cure illnesses.
• Peter gave Sue more blood samples, packed up for the day, and swung toward Felicia's apartment.

Peter and Felicia investigated corrupt Councilman Davis, uncovered his connection to the Hand, and clashed with Nick Fury over Peter’s unsanctioned operation. After Peter revealed his S.H.I.E.L.D. trainee status to Felicia, they were interrupted by her mother.

• Peter introduced Felicia to Aunt May and Uncle Ben, then suggested they investigate Councilman Nick Daves.
• Peter and Felicia followed Davis to a hotel, where they identified mob boss Dominic Marcel and captured evidence of Davis’s dealings with the Hand.
• Peter warned Felicia to stay away from the Hand after Davis said one of its members had threatened his family.
• Nick Fury berated Peter for interfering with an FBI operation, and Peter refused to let Fury control who he worked with.
• Peter told Felicia that S.H.I.E.L.D. had recruited him and promised to protect her, then Felicia’s mother walked in on them.

Peter tried to win Mrs. Hardy’s approval, but she initially dismissed him as a street thug and ordered him to leave during her business dinner. Norman Osborn’s praise of Peter’s intelligence and inventions changed her opinion, and Peter left with Felicia’s promise of a late-night rendezvous.

• Peter waited with Felicia for Mrs. Hardy, who arrived late after forgetting their meeting and then asked Peter to leave because she had invited guests.
• Mrs. Hardy insulted Peter and told him to leave before dinner, but he argued that she had judged him without knowing him and mentioned tutoring Felicia in physics.
• Norman Osborn arrived with Harry, recognized Peter, and praised him for saving his company by identifying a flaw in Otto’s machine.
• Peter told Norman that he had invented Parker’s Blood and explained that he wanted to experience life rather than pursue business success while still in high school.
• Mrs. Hardy’s attitude toward Peter softened after Norman praised him, and Felicia invited Peter to meet her at her window later that night.

Peter undertook his first solo S.H.I.E.L.D. mission to investigate missing children in the Bronx and uncovered a deadly human-enhancement experiment. He rescued the sole surviving child and defeated the armored veteran, but collapsed after inhaling poison gas.

• Peter accepted a solo mission to find missing children in the West Bronx and followed a kidnapped boy’s van to a concealed laboratory in Hunts Point.
• Peter questioned Betty Cooper, who revealed that the children had died during genetic experiments and agreed to retrieve the experiment files while Peter went to the basement.
• Peter fought through the guards, reached the basement, and disrupted the experiment as armed men opened fire and shattered the child’s chamber.
• Peter sealed a leaking poison-gas pipe, destroyed the veteran’s mechanical arm with a repulsor blast, and webbed him to a wall before carrying the surviving boy out.
• Nick Fury’s agents arrested the scientists and guards, and Peter told Fury to contact Susan Storm before collapsing from the gas.

After waking in the Baxter Building, Peter discovered that the gas from the Harlem mission had changed his senses and mutated his genes. Susan’s analysis uncovered links to radiation and Test Subject-D’s blood, but Peter’s blood resisted further examination.

• Peter woke in the Baxter Building’s medical room and went to Susan for help understanding the effects of the gas.
• Susan drew Peter’s blood and found that its genetic structure had mutated compared with a sample from the previous week.
• Susan explained that the gas had been made from blood taken from Test Subject-D, a woman whose abilities the researchers had not identified, and that their experiments had killed thirty-one children.
• As Susan grew angry about the experiments and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s role, Peter realized he could smell emotions, including her anger and lust.
• Peter suggested comparing his current blood with an earlier sample to trace the changes, but Susan discovered that his blood was locked down.

Susan could not analyze Peter’s altered DNA because a protective enzyme blocked access to its gene structure. After Peter grew ill during tutoring, he experienced a sudden surge of energy that made his arms glow blue before it erupted.

• Susan told Peter that his DNA was unreadable and that she needed a specific enzyme to penetrate its protective layer.
• Peter thanked Susan, then went to school the next day and reassured Natasha that he was fine.
• Peter, Felicia, and Mary Jane met for tutoring, but Peter felt drained and went to the restroom after kissing Felicia.
• Felicia told Mary Jane that she and Peter had slept together, then began describing their first night in detail.
• Peter dry heaved in the restroom, recovered suddenly, and guided a growing energy surge through his arms until they glowed blue and exploded.

Peter discovered that the gas had given him Jessica Drew-like bioelectric and pheromone abilities, then suspected Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. After shopping with Felicia and Mary Jane, he was confronted by an armed mugger in an alley and sensed something was wrong.

• Peter tested a blue bioelectric blast and suspected he had inherited abilities from Jessica Drew, whom he connected to the gas labeled Test Subject-D.
• Peter called Natasha and learned the veteran suspect had died by cyanide; he warned her that someone inside S.H.I.E.L.D. might be involved, and she agreed to investigate the genetics lab.
• Peter sensed lust pheromones from Mary Jane, then joined her and Felicia for a shopping trip after Felicia insisted on picking out new clothes for him.
• Peter, Felicia, and Mary Jane walked through an alley toward dinner, where an armed mugger demanded their money and Peter stopped Felicia from intervening.

Peter used his new ability to sense emotions to defuse a robbery, then showed Felicia his bioelectric powers. After comparing Peter's blood with Hulk's and discovering their similar behavior, Peter and Susan uncovered evidence that his father had researched the Super Soldier Serum and radioactive origins.

• Peter gave a frightened robber money and a shelter's number, then argued with Mary Jane when she criticized how he handled the danger.
• Peter returned home, patrolled as Spider-Man, and visited Felicia to reveal his new bioelectric powers and emotion-sensing ability.
• Peter realized his blood might behave like Hulk's, brought a bloodied rock to the Baxter Building, and helped Susan compare the samples.
• Susan found that Peter's and Hulk's blood behaved similarly, though their genes differed, and explained that Hulk's cells absorbed radiation and adapted.
• Peter showed Susan his father's records, and they discovered that his doctoral dissertation concerned the Super Soldier Serum and its possible radioactive origins.