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Astonishing Spider-Man Vol 3 66

Quote1  Sssssh. Sssssh. For once... please... listen to me. Don't be mad, Jonah... don't blame anyone for this... Spider-Slayers... Spider-Man... don't even blame Smythe. Don't waste any more of your life on hate... I love...  Quote2
—Marla Jameson

Appearing in "Revenge of the Spider-Slayers Part Three: Self-Inflicted Wounds"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Spider-Man #654

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Synopsis for "Revenge of the Spider-Slayers Part Three: Self-Inflicted Wounds"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Spider-Man #654
John arrives at the Apogee One, Horizon Labs' orbital space platform. As he gets off the shuttle, Doctor Octopus's octorobot comes out too.

At Horizon Labs, Max talks with Peter about his connection with Spider-Man. Peter thinks that Max figured out his secret, but Max then says that Spider-Man hired Peter to build his weaponry and tech. He also promises not to reveal his secret. Relieved that Max didn't discover his secret, Peter begins to work on his device and Max tells him what he can do to improve the design. As they finish the device, Max says that the device can devastate the Spider-Slayers's sixth-sense. Peter thanks Max for helping him. Max warns Peter that if Spider-Man is within the device's blast radius when it detonates, it will also disintigrate his enhanced senses.

Peter changes into Spider-Man and swings to the rescue. Communicating with the Thing, Spider-Man says that he has something that can defeat the Spider-Slayers. The Thing replies that Mockingbird is down.

As Marla and May take refuge from the battle, Marla scavenges an automated mandroid to counteract the latest model and help the Thing.

Spider-Man contacts Jameson, telling him to go to a safe place, but Jameson refuses.

In the Daily Bugle, Norah and Phil escape while Robbie Robertson tries to lure away the Spider-Slayers as he realizes that they are after him.

Spider-Man realizes that the Flatiron Building not only is the place where the Spider-Slayers have been coordinating their attacks, but is also the place where the insect-sense disruptor can have the greatest impact. As he sets up the disruptor, Scorpion attacks him.

At the spa, Marla uses a device to emit a microwave frequency that paralyzes the Spider-Slayers, allowing the Thing to finish them off.

At the Daily Bugle, Joseph Robertson Robbie tells Ms. Marvel and Jewel to take him as far as possible to lure the Spider-Slayers away to prevent any further damage to the building. Jewel then grabs Robbie and they escape.

At the Flatiron Building, Spider-Man fights the Scorpion. Using his tail, Scorpion smashes Spider-Man wrist-detonator, preventing him from activating the disruptor remotely. Spider-Man is forced to activate the disruptor manually. The disruptor emits a powerful shockwave that destroys the insect-sense of all the Spider-Slayers. Afterwards, Spider-Man knocks the Scorpion out so that he can help the others.

May, Jay, Jameson, Marla, the Thing, Ms. Marvel and Jewel gather in the street. Suddenly, the aricraft Smythe used to coordinate his attack crashes down nearby. One of the pieces hits Spider-Man in the head. Surprised that his spider-sense didn't warn him about, Spider-Man realizes that the disruptor also destroyed his spider-sense. Smythe then comes out of the ship, saying that the disruptor didn't have effect on him since he doesn't have an insect-sense. Smythe then attacks Jameson, saying that he was willing to let him live with the deaths of all his loved ones, but know he will kill him. However, Marla pushes Jameson out of the way and is mortally stabbed by one of Smythe's tentacles. Spider-Man then knocks Smythe out.

Jameson cradles Marla in his arms. On her last breath, Marla tells Jameson not to blame anyone for what happened to her. She tells him not to let hatred to ruin his life. She then dies on Jameson's arms. Spider-Man tells Jameson he is sorry. Grief-stricken, Jameson replies that he won't blame him from this. This is all his fault.

Appearing in "No One Dies, Part One of Two: Awakening"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Spider-Man #655

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Synopsis for "No One Dies, Part One of Two: Awakening"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Spider-Man #655
Marla Jameson's alarm goes off in the morning. She is no longer there to turn her alarm off. Jonah lays in their bed, alone now. He slowly gets up and turns Marla's alarm off. A pair of her glasses lay on her nightstand. Jonah gets ready for the procession. Peter Parker is getting ready too. He puts his Spidey suit on under his clothes, but after looking at himself in the mirror, takes it off. He heads out the door in just a suit, for the first time in a very long time. Martha and Randy Robertson arrive at the Daily Bugle to pick up Robbie. Randy has a broken foot because of last week's attack. He is suffering, but still not as much as others. Robbie holds his wife's hand in the car on the way there. Glory Grant is acting as an usher to greet Peter and Carlie when they arrive with May and Jay. It seems as if the entire city is in attendance. Finally, Jonah arrives at his wife's funeral.

Jonah is solemn as his wife is lowered into the ground. He continues to stare at her plot until he thinks everyone else eventually leaves. But Peter is still there, watching Jonah from a distance. That night, at 2 in the morning, Peter finally is able to fall asleep...

The burglar who killed Uncle Ben is running past him. Or rather, the burglar who will ultimately kill Uncle Ben, that is. Spider-Man is dreaming. Spidey tries to catch the burglar, before he can kill Uncle Ben, but he's just out of Spidey's reach. But then, Uncle Ben shows up and stops him. He tells Peter that it's okay, that he's at peace, that he's with Peter's parents now. Peter sees his parents sitting in the kitchen of Aunt May's house. He runs towards them, but when they turn around, they don't have faces, because Peter doesn't remember them anymore. The burglar is there though, and Peter remembers his face clearly, but he doesn't know why the burglar is in his house. "Dead is dead," says Uncle Ben. The burglar heads up a flight of stairs with Spidey's parents and uncle. Aunt May starts to go up the stairs too, but Peter stops her. Aunt May changes into Marla Jameson, and asks if Peter would've found a way to save her had she been May.

Marla reassures Peter that she'll come back to life, since she used to build Spider-Slayers, "and super villains always come back." Peter says she's a good person, to which she replies that she must be dead for real, then. Peter chases after her and ends up in a version of New York filled with people who have died. Sally Avril, Nick Katzenberg. Nathan Lubensky asks how May is doing. Edith Harper. Even the Spider-Mobile is there. George Stacy reminds Peter that he promised to keep Gwen safe, and Peter failed. Martha Connors, Billy Connors, Jackpot, Lisa Parfrey, publicist Sean Rockwell. Gwen Stacy. Peter runs after Gwen. He moves past Ben Reilly, Kaine, Ned Leeds, Timothy Harrison, Mattie Franklin, Frederick Foswell, Lance Bannon, the Bookie, Jean DeWolff, and Bennett Brant. As he pushes through Oksana Sytsevich and Ezekiel to get to Gwen, he encounters a woman he doesn't initially remember. But then he does. It's Charlie, the only person he's killed.

He killed her by accident, but he never wanted to kill anyone. To which the Green Goblin arrives to call his bluff. Peter is now on a cliff, and the Goblin has Gwen, so Peter attacks him. Gwen asks Peter why he couldn't even kill for her sake? A dead Goblin then throws a dead Gwen off a bridge, taunting Peter for not being dark enough. Peter reaches out, but Kraven's hand grabs him instead. Peter is now in a graveyard as he and the Goblin watch Kraven, Mysterio, and the Jackal crawl out of a grave. They tell him that they'll beat him one day because they always come back, because Peter can't kill them. The 4 undead villains are then promptly shot, and Peter arrives in a 60's diner with the criminal Scourge, who is killing more bad guys. Scourge says this will free up Spidey's time. Punisher is off to the side killing Stilt-Man, who wasn't even bothering anyone. And in the corner, Wolverine kills Hornet, who was a good guy.

Spidey says that's not the way, but Captain America appears on a TV and says that even he killed Nazis back in WW2. Cap then gives a report on the Sentry killing Carnage, back when the New Avengers were formed. Spidey tells Sentry that Carnage came back to life anyway, but Sentry says that for the years Carnage was dead, he didn't kill anyone. Sentry says Spidey had the power to stop him, but Spidey says Sentry had so much power that he became corrupted and turned into the Void. Sentry transforms into the Carnage symbiote who then says "I wouldn't change a thing! Tell me... can you say the same?"

The burglar who killed Uncle Ben is running past him again. This time, Spider-Man catches him and beats him bloody, but suddenly the burglar turns into a disfigured Uncle Ben. Uncle Ben says that by killing someone, Peter would also be killing everything that Ben gave to him. Ben's teachings. Ben's love and pride for him. He'd be killing all that if he ever resorted to murder. Marla Jameson, surrounded by everyone from the dream-New York, asks Peter what he'll do now. Peter wakes up, screaming silently.

The next day, Peter makes a promise to Marla. "No One Dies." No matter what!

Just then, across town, a new villain kills someone. His name is Massacre.

Appearing in 3rd story

Reprint of the 1st story from
Carnage #3

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Reprint of the 1st story from
Carnage #3
Tanis Nieves recalls the time she was six and found a three-legged, one-eyed dog, which her parents took to the pound. Upon learning that the dog was going to be put down, Tanis had fought back - even biting the veterinarian - and her parents had decided to let her keep it; the Carnage symbiote interjecting and showing her Cletus Kasady's memories of the time he killed his mother's dog. Realizing that the symbiote is trying to take over her mind, Tanis tries to maintain her sense of identity by recalling when she graduating from university and became a psychotherapist, hoping to help the insane. The symbiote responds by showing her Cletus's memories burning down the Estes School for Boys. Tanis, still hoping to fight off the symbiote, remembers becoming the head doctor at Ravencroft and finding another "maimed animal" in the form of Frances Barrison - the symbiote interjecting that she's called Shriek. Ignoring it, Dr. Nieves recalls she refused to give Frances the anti-psychotic drug Thorazine in response to her claiming to have seen a six-armed Spider-Man in her window because she doesn't put "patients to sleep." The Carnage symbiote remembers Cletus using Shriek to kill others and planning to kill her like he had his mother's dog when he grew bored of her. Tanis tries desperately to stop it from taking over her mind as it has already taken control of her body, which it is currently using to fight the Iron Rangers.

Elsewhere in the facility, a pair of scientists prepare to conduct an autopsy on the corpse of Doppelgänger, hoping to be able to exploit legal loopholes to conduct unethical research on the eldritch creature's body. An alarm goes off, alerting them that the Carnage symbiote has escaped, and they flee the lab without returning the monster's body to the freezer.

Outside Hall Industries, Spider-Man and Iron Man follow the Iron Rangers' trail when Spider-Man realizes that his spider-sense isn't working despite the blaring alarm, meaning a symbiote is blocking it. Royal Blue bursts through the parking lot and crash-lands next to them, Spider-Man scolding him for messing with symbiotes, having been bonded to one himself. Royal Blue shakily asks if Spider-Man can talk to it as Carnage climbs out of the fissure. His worst fears confirmed, a horrified Spider-Man grabs Royal Blue and yells at him for bringing Cletus Kasady back to Earth. Royal Blue tells him that Cletus is dead and that the symbiote's current host is Dr. Tanis Nieves.

Inside the lab, two PMCs try to escort Frances back to her quarters, but she refuses to go anywhere without her psychiatrist despite being told that the symbiote has taken over her. Growing frustrated, one of the guards slams her to the ground, while inside the autopsy room Doppelgänger's defrosting body starts to move. Outside, Spider-Man notes that the symbiote's feral behaviour means it hasn't truly bonded to Dr. Nieves yet. He volunteers to go first due to his experience fighting it, but as Carnage turns and roars at him he reconsiders and sends Iron Man in first. Carnage easily bowls Iron Man over, but as she approaches Spider-Man he calls out to Dr. Nieves. Screeching, Carnage transforms her arms into bat-like wings and flies away. Spider-Man remarks he didn't see that coming, and Iron Man asks if he means her flying or not trying to kill him.

As the two guards drag Frances to her quarters, she struggles against them and threatens to scream. Doppelgänger - missing the lower half of its body - crawls towards them along the wall, recognizing Frances and calling out to her. The guards panic and shoot at it, throwing it to the ground when it pounces on them and trying to beat it to death. Frances shouts at them to leave it alone, but when they ignore her she kills them with a scream, relapsing into her Shriek persona as she recalls how much fun murder is.

As Carnage perches on a cab in the middle of a crowded street, Dr. Nieves rejects the symbiote's attempts to convince her to bond with it, psychoanalyzing the alien and dismissing it as a spoiled child throwing a tantrum. In response the symbiote tries to make her jealous, sneering that it doesn't need her and that she can't stop it from taking its revenge. As Carnage escapes into the sewers, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and the Iron Rangers arrive; Royal Blue deducing that the symbiote is headed to corporate HQ to take revenge on their boss. Royal Blue alerts Hall, who enters a safe room before telling him that the Carnage symbiote isn't after him. Before he can finish, Iron Man bursts through the wall of the safe room, telling Spider-Man and the Iron Rangers that Hall is secure. Spider-Man berates Hall for bringing the Carnage symbiote back to Earth and says that it's looking for revenge, but Hall reiterates that it's not after him. When Spider-Man asks what he means, Hall reveals that Cletus Kasady was still alive when they recovered Carnage from orbit and that he had been unable to bring himself to let the sociopathic serial killer die.

In a secret facility under the corporate HQ, Carnage slaughters every guard and scientist she comes across, the symbiote showing Dr. Nieves what it does to those who defy it and threatening to do the same to her when it no longer needs her. Smashing through the glass door to a cell, the symbiote separates from Dr. Nieves as a voice calls out to it and jokingly accuses it of adultery. His entire lower body replaced with biomechanical prosthetics, Cletus Kasady asks his symbiote if it has anything to say to him. It screeches at him and reaches out with tendrils, Cletus addressing it as his "baby" as it bonds with him.

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  • This is a UK title that features reprints of American Spider-Man titles.

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