Chapter Summaries

Peter and the Fantastic Four fought Annihilus as he invaded the base in search of proto-adamantium. After Franklin was knocked unconscious, Peter reached the underground laboratory and used its sonic equipment to bring Annihilus to his knees.

• Ben assigned Johnny to fight the Baluurian swarms, Franklin to battle Annihilus, and Peter and Lyja to hold off ground forces.
• Annihilus overwhelmed Franklin and charged toward the base, so Lyja carried the unconscious boy inside while Johnny attacked the Baluurians in a rage.
• Peter followed Annihilus into the underground laboratory, where he found Reed pinned beneath the insect overlord and learned Annihilus was after the proto-adamantium.
• Peter ordered Sassy to hack the laboratory system and fire its vibranium sonic cutter at maximum power.
• The sonic blast struck Annihilus, who screamed in pain and collapsed to his knees.

Peter fought Annihilus while Reed escaped to a new mechanical body, then used Magneto’s power to trap Annihilus under molten adamantium and seized the Cosmic Control Rod. The rod flooded Peter with cosmic energy as Annihilus remained pinned in place.

• Peter dragged Reed behind a console, and Reed sent his brain in a rocket-powered jar to find a new body while Peter asked Sassy to keep gathering information.
• Peter attacked Annihilus with punches, a kick, and bioelectricity, but Annihilus overpowered him and crushed his helmet.
• Peter’s rage brought out claws, but they could not pierce Annihilus’s armor, so he reached for the vat of boiling adamantium overhead.
• Peter used Magneto’s power to break the vat’s supports, escaped Annihilus’s grip, and poured molten adamantium over Annihilus, welding him to the floor.
• Peter kicked the Cosmic Control Rod from Annihilus’s neck and caught it, absorbing its cosmic energy while Annihilus failed to break free.

Peter used the Cosmic Control Rod to cover his bone claws in proto-adamantium, then lost control and declared that he would rule the world before Franklin knocked him unconscious. After waking among the Fantastic Four, Peter learned Annihilus had escaped with the rod and discovered his claws had become dark blue metal blades.

• The Cosmic Control Rod amplified Peter’s magnetic powers, and he fused proto-adamantium to his bone claws.
• Peter raved about becoming a god and ruling the world until Johnny confronted him and Franklin knocked him out.
• Peter woke strapped to a chair with the Fantastic Four gathered around him, and Franklin explained what had happened.
• Ben and Johnny told Peter that Annihilus had escaped with the Cosmic Control Rod while trapped in heavy Adamantium armor.
• After the doctor checked him for side effects, Peter extended his claws and discovered they had become dark blue metallic blades.

Peter recovered from his transformation with proto-adamantium claws and returned to the Baxter Building, where Franklin helped him repair his helmet. Before they parted, Franklin asked Peter to protect Susan, and Peter promised he would.

• Peter learned that proto-adamantium had fused with his bone claws, while his Silk-Shooter was beyond repair.
• Reed explained that the research team had synthesized several rare metals, and Peter learned that gold was plentiful but too difficult to transport.
• Franklin offered Peter access to the lab at the Baxter Building so he could repair his broken helmet.
• Peter and Franklin spent the night restoring the helmet, and its tactical interface booted up again.
• Franklin asked Peter to take good care of Susan, and Peter promised not to let misfortune befall her while he was around.

Peter returned from the Negative Zone, was grounded by Old Peter, and spent the week adjusting to life at home. As Mayday complained about her exams, an emergency distress signal arrived from 177A Bleecker Street.

• Peter asked Franklin for help designing an armored suit and learned about unstable molecule fabric.
• Peter returned home at dawn, where Old Peter grounded him for a week and let him use the attic lab to replace his broken web-shooters.
• Peter described his fight in the Negative Zone to Mayday and Mary Jane, then gave in when Old Peter threatened to extend his punishment.
• A week later, Mayday complained about having three exams and wished for a fight to distract her.
• Sassy alerted Peter to an emergency distress signal from 177A Bleecker Street on the Avengers' dedicated channel.

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.