Chapter Summaries

After the Avengers defeated Loki, Peter celebrated with the team and realized it was his birthday. He left with Felicia, reassured her that her actions made her a hero, and ended the day with her on a train heading toward Queens.

• Tony invited Peter and the others to get shawarma after Loki was captured and handed over to S.H.I.E.L.D.
• The group discussed becoming a public team, and Peter posted a photo declaring that the Avengers were not breaking up.
• Felicia arrived, and Peter introduced her as his girlfriend; Natasha gave him a S.H.I.E.L.D. contact as a birthday gift, prompting Peter to realize he had forgotten his birthday.
• Thor promised to bring Peter a weapon from Asgard, and Peter left with Felicia after agreeing to keep in touch with the others.
• On a train bound for Queens, Peter learned Liz was safe and told Felicia that saving her friend had made her a hero.

Peter celebrated his birthday with Aunt May, Uncle Ben, and his friends, then received his late father’s old DeLorean. The next day, after meeting the Avengers and collecting alien technology from the ruins, Peter narrowly dodged a barrage of bullets.

• Peter celebrated his birthday with Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Felicia, Mary Jane, and Liz, who thanked him for saving her.
• Uncle Ben gave Peter his father Richard’s battered DeLorean, and Peter gratefully accepted it.
• Felicia joined Peter in bed that night after explaining that Liz and Mary Jane had mistaken a photo of Spider-Man kissing Black Cat for Peter cheating on her.
• Peter met Natasha and the Avengers in Central Park; Natasha recognized Felicia and arranged to resume Peter’s intensive training.
• Peter gathered Chitauri weapons and armor from the ruined parts of New York, then jumped clear when his Spider-Sense warned him of gunfire from scavengers.

After the Battle of New York, Peter settled into life as a widely admired hero while investigating alien technology and continuing Natasha’s training. As order returned to the city, he began planning a DeLorean overhaul and called Johnny for help.

• Peter captured a group of armed men, but an unseen ally killed the captives before they could reveal who they worked for; Peter found a skull tattoo on the surviving shooter and contacted Fury.
• Weeks after the Battle of New York, Peter enjoyed growing public support, helped the Baxter Building team, and secretly paid off Uncle Ben and Aunt May’s overdue bills.
• Peter used alien technology to make his mechanical spider arms safer, analyzed the aliens’ armor alloy, and helped Reed reverse-engineer their energy batteries.
• Natasha continued Peter’s combat training and began teaching him surveillance and interrogation skills.
• As New York recovered and Peter spent less time fighting crime, he called Johnny to ask for help modifying his DeLorean.

Peter and Johnny transformed Peter’s DeLorean into a flying car, then Peter took it home and drove Mary, Liz, and Felicia to Xavier Mansion to visit Jean. The group reunited with Jean at the mansion, where they had just arrived.

• Peter, Johnny, and Ben replaced the DeLorean’s engine and upgraded its interior, suspension, and safety systems, while Peter and Johnny secretly installed repulsor cannons.
• Peter and Johnny activated the car’s flight mode and raced above the East River, then Sue reprimanded them and took the motor blueprints to reassure investors.
• Peter brought the modified car home, showed it to Uncle Ben, and later took Felicia and Liz’s father for rides before agreeing to visit Jean with the girls.
• Peter, Mary, Liz, and Felicia drove to Xavier Mansion, where Logan let them through the gates and Jean ran out to greet them.

Peter visited Jean at Xavier’s mansion with Felicia, Liz, and Mary Jane, met Scott, and confronted Xavier about his use of psychic powers. He invited Xavier and his team to join the Avengers, and Xavier agreed to help when the next threat came.

• Peter reunited with Jean and gave her and the other girls upgraded earrings and headbands that blocked psychic detection.
• Jean introduced Peter and his friends to Scott Summers, who led them on a tour of the mansion and grounds.
• Peter warned Xavier not to read their minds and challenged him over his past use of psychic powers, while Xavier apologized but stood by his actions.
• Xavier offered Peter a chance to teach at the school, and Peter invited Xavier and Ororo to join the Avengers.
• Xavier agreed that his team would help the Avengers, while Ororo warned Xavier that Peter’s anger could become his downfall.

Peter visited Xavier's school, beat Scott at basketball, and helped Logan recognize himself in a World War II photograph, giving him a lead on his lost past. On the drive home, Peter resolved to investigate the storage room that had belonged to Richard Parker, sensing the search could lead to danger.

• Peter challenged Scott to basketball and won, earning the chance to ask about Scott's power.
• Peter examined Scott's eyes and suggested his energy might come from another dimension.
• Jean secretly invited Peter to spend time alone with her and Felicia next time they visited.
• Peter showed Logan a photograph of him with Captain America, helping Logan realize his identity and prompting him to ask to speak with Rogers.
• Peter and the girls headed home, and Peter decided to explore his father's storage room downtown.

Peter confronted teenagers who were imitating him as the Web Warriors, then spoke with Tony about his PTSD and Peter’s father. The chapter left Peter asking Tony to investigate his father through S.H.I.E.L.D.’s database, and Tony agreed.

• Peter warned Chad and the other Web Warriors to stop fighting crime in his name and wearing his symbol.
• Peter met Tony Stark on a rooftop and asked whether he was coping with his PTSD; Tony said he was getting better by focusing on inventions.
• Peter told Tony that his father had experimented on him as a baby and might have caused his powers.
• Tony urged Peter to find out what his father had done, and Peter asked him to investigate using S.H.I.E.L.D.’s resources.
• Tony agreed to hack into S.H.I.E.L.D.’s database without alerting Fury or anyone else.

Peter searched his parents’ belongings and unlocked Richard’s encrypted files, discovering that Richard and Mary had worked on a super-soldier formula at a secret institution and fled after realizing their colleagues were disappearing. The evidence left Peter with one lead: Herbert Wyndham.

• Peter and Uncle Ben retrieved Richard and Mary’s belongings from storage unit 342, and Peter took the old hard drives, books, and papers home.
• Peter unlocked Richard’s encrypted file using the nickname “STR-SPIDER” and watched recordings of his father’s research.
• Richard’s videos revealed that he and Mary had joined a secret project to recreate Dr. Abraham Erskine’s Super Soldier Serum, using a mysterious book they suspected Erskine had written.
• Richard and Mary said their colleagues were disappearing and that they planned to flee after contacting the government for help.
• In the last recording, Richard and Mary said they had perfected the formula, feared it would fall into the wrong hands, and had saved evidence identifying the person behind the project.
• Peter examined the remaining files and found that the evidence pointed to Herbert Wyndham.

Peter traveled secretly to Italy with Tony Stark to investigate Herbert Wyndham, the researcher he believed was connected to his parents’ deaths. After breaking into Wyndham’s home to copy his files, Peter was discovered by the old man.

• Peter found that Herbert Wyndham was a geneticist living in Italy and arranged with Tony to fly there without leaving an immigration record.
• Peter told Tony that his parents had tried to replicate the Super Soldier Serum and that Wyndham might have been tracking them.
• Peter said goodbye to Uncle Ben and Felicia, then traveled with Tony to Italy and went to Wyndham’s university lecture.
• Peter followed Wyndham from the university, placed a tracker on his car, and traced him to his home that night.
• Peter disabled Wyndham’s security system and began copying files from his computer, but Wyndham spoke up and asked whether Peter planned to leave without saying hello.

Peter stole Wyndham’s files, discovered that Wyndham was keeping Jessica Drew hidden, and fought her before pheromones triggered a powerful mutual attraction. He escaped, but concluded that Wyndham was connected to Hydra and that Peter’s parents had worked for the organization, leaving him to face a dangerous new phase of his life.

• Peter finished copying Wyndham’s files and overheard Wyndham arguing with a young woman he called his responsibility.
• The woman sensed Peter, attacked him, and chased him into the woods after he escaped through a window.
• Peter recognized the woman as Jessica and realized their shared powers seemed to trigger overwhelming pheromone-driven attraction.
• Peter broke away after remembering Felicia, shocked Jessica with bioelectricity, and escaped without being pursued.
• While waiting for Tony to send help, Peter suspected Wyndham was with Hydra and that his parents had once worked for Hydra.

Peter and Tony searched Wyndham’s files for evidence connecting him to experiments on children and found an encrypted Super Soldier Serum file that needed missing data to open. After Peter told Felicia the truth about his powers and what happened with Jessica Drew, they discovered that a file from his father’s school papers completed the encrypted data and revealed a Hydra emblem, leaving Peter determined to give the hard drive to Fury.

• Peter and Tony searched Wyndham’s files but found no evidence linking him to the New York experiments, while Tony discovered a damaged Super Soldier Serum file that needed another half to open.
• Peter returned home, told Uncle Ben and Aunt May a cover story, and compared Wyndham’s data with his father’s files in the basement lab.
• Felicia visited Peter, and he confessed the truth about his powers, his search in Italy, and Jessica Drew’s kiss; Felicia forgave him and accepted his explanation.
• Peter showed Felicia the files, and she noticed a corrupted folder of his father’s school papers that completed Tony’s encrypted ghost drive file.
• Peter saw a Hydra emblem appear on the screen, destroyed the computer and disconnected the router, then decided to take the hard drive to Fury to protect his family and friends.

Peter and Felicia brought Peter’s parents’ Hydra-linked research drive to Fury, then returned to Queens, where Peter sensed Jessica Drew and tried to escape with Felicia. Jessica attacked Peter in the parking lot, and they faced off while he struggled against an overpowering urge toward her.

• Peter and Felicia landed on the Helicarrier, where Peter gave Fury the hard drive and warned him that a virus would destroy it if anyone tampered with the data.
• Peter told Fury that his parents had researched a project connected to Hydra, and he worried that Fury’s agents might discover it involved the Super Soldier Serum.
• Peter and Felicia went shopping and watched a romance movie at the mall.
• Peter sensed Jessica Drew nearby and, overwhelmed by lust, tried to leave with Felicia before she reached them.
• Jessica lunged at Peter in the parking lot, and after he shoved Felicia out of the way, the two fought face-to-face.

Peter fought Jessica and revealed Wyndham’s crimes, but Jessica escaped after attacking him and Felicia. Peter discovered Wyndham had abducted Aunt May and Uncle Ben to demand his father’s research, so he and Felicia set out to rescue them.

• Peter hurled Jessica across a parking lot, and Felicia blasted her with a blue energy beam.
• Peter told Jessica that Wyndham had killed thirty-one children while trying to replicate their powers, and Jessica attacked him before fleeing from Felicia.
• Peter realized Wyndham might have tracked them through the hard drive and rushed home, where he found Aunt May and Uncle Ben missing.
• Wyndham called Peter, revealed he knew Peter was Spider-Man, and demanded his father’s research in exchange for Aunt May and Uncle Ben’s lives.
• Felicia insisted on joining Peter to rescue them, and Peter agreed after asking her to stay safe.

Peter stole his father's Super Soldier Serum research from S.H.I.E.L.D. after revealing that Hydra had kidnapped his uncle and aunt, then exchanged the drive for what he believed were his relatives at a construction site. He discovered the captives were decoys, and after binding Jessica, he faced Wyndham's threat against his family.

• Peter and Felicia stole the hard drive from the Helicarrier, then escaped Captain America, Black Widow, and Hawkeye with Johnny Storm's help.
• Peter told the Avengers that Hydra had kidnapped his uncle and aunt and demanded his father's Super Soldier Serum research.
• Peter met Wyndham at a construction site and handed over the hard drive in exchange for his uncle and aunt.
• Peter discovered the bound figures in the truck were mechanical decoys and charged at Wyndham.
• Jessica attacked Peter, but he suppressed his desire for her and trapped her with webbing as Wyndham threatened his family.

Peter and his allies fought Wyndham and Sandman, then followed the scientist’s tracker toward the Treadstone black site to find Peter’s aunt and uncle and recover a hard drive. As the assembled teams prepared for an assault, Felicia recognized the mysterious thief Fury brought aboard as her father.

• Peter, Johnny, and Felicia fought Sandman, Wyndham, and Jessica Drew at the construction site, and Wyndham escaped with the sand while Peter secretly tracked him.
• Fury learned Wyndham was heading to Treadstone and called in the only thief who had infiltrated its underground base; Peter brought in the X-Men as backup.
• Jean reunited with Peter and Felicia, while Captain America recognized Logan as James Howlett, though Logan had lost his memories.
• Jean calmed Jessica, and Fury showed her evidence that Wyndham had killed thirty-one children using her blood; Peter freed her and asked her to help stop Wyndham.
• Natasha brought Fury’s special asset to the plane, and Felicia and Peter were stunned when she recognized the white-haired man as her father.

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.