Spider-Man

• Title: Ultimate Spider-Man #5
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• Writer: Jonathan Hickman
• Artist: David Messina

We get no Spider-Man in Ultimate Spider-Man #5 and only a brief cameo by Peter Parker. Instead, the latest issue of the series takes its time to backfill the story of Harry Osborn explaining how the spoiled rich kid, and disappointment to his father Norman, ended up galavanting around the city playing hero. We see his father’s death, his first meeting with the Kingpin which allowed to to obtain Stark’s company, and the discovery in the Stark vault which would change his path.

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• Title: Amazing Spider-Man #50
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• Writer: Zeb Wells
• Artist: Ed McGuinness

The oversized Amazing Spider-Man #50 gives us the return of the Green Goblin… again. Starting with the tease from the character who after this issue will be known as the Walking Brain, we get warnings for and about Peter Parker which leads to the discovery that Norman Osborn has lost himself to the Green Goblin once again. Is Spidey surprised? Are we? Hardly. In fact there are several panels where Spider-Man yells at the Goblin reiterating he never trusted Norman and all of this was inevitable. Nice art, though.

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