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Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #4

Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #4

Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #4 offers three more tales of Spider-Man in his black costume, although none of the trio of stories collected in the fourth and final issue include the symbiote. My favorite of the stories, “Past Lives,” takes place long after Peter’s time with the symbiote and his return to the classic red and blue costume. However, when he needs to break into the Latverian embassy and doesn’t feel right doing it in his classic colors, he reprises the black look once more while also hitting up Black Cat for help harkening back to a specific time in Peter Parker’s life.

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Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #3

Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #3

Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #3 offers three more tales. We get two tales of the ultra-aggressive Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man during his time wearing the symbiote and one Spidey-adjacent story. Taking place during the events of Secret Wars, “Whatever Happened to Master Blood” inserts the super-villain Master Blood into events of the series only for Kang to take out the competition, wiping him from existence, rather than allow Blood to get his hands on the symbiote before Spider-Man.

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Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #2

Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #2

Another anthology issue offers three more stories of Spider-Man wearing the black suit which looks terrific in each of the stories presented here. Still new to the suit, in “The Edge of Rage” Spider-Man loses control with Morbius, beating him unconscious, and also later threatening Flash Thompson. We witness his recognition and shame for events but we also see the symbiote’s interest in Peter giving into his darker impulses.

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Ultimate Spider-Man #8

Ultimate Spider-Man #8

Ultimate Spider-Man #8 offers a birthday party for the Parker family, allowing some normalcy to bleed through in Peter‘s increasingly complicated life, and serious conversations between heroes and villains building out this world of Spider-Man a bit more. As the cover suggests, we do get Iron Lad filling in Spider-Man and the Green Goblin on the state of the world and Spidey’s importance to it. While Stark and Osborne clash, Peter welcomes any help he can get.

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