Spider-Man

This volume closes the Clone Saga and Ben Reilly's full run as the one true Spider-Man, ending with Revelations, the storyline that killed Ben, brought back Norman Osborn and reset Peter Parker as the hero. It gathers the four 1996-97 Spider-Man ongoings plus Redemption and The Osborn Journal in one oversized hardcover, the definitive way to read the end of the 1990s Spider-Man era in order.

Who is the real Peter Parker? What happens to Ben Reilly? How does it all end? DeFalco, Mackie, and Bagley close a saga that ran for two years across every Spider-Man title and kept fandom actively engaged and debating throughout. Whether you love it or hate it, the Clone Saga is one of the most ambitious storytelling experiments in superhero comics history.

J.M. DeMatteis and Sal Buscema deliver Spider-Man's most psychologically complex era. Harry Osborn's tragedy as the second Green Goblin is handled with genuine emotional intelligence: DeMatteis writes mental illness and grief without exploitation. Villains like Vermin, the Chameleon and Shriek are portrayed with genuine human pain beneath their threats.