Spider-Woman #1

Somewhere in a green, lush, suburbia. Stanley Roberts, 55, waters his flowers. He smiles as he watches the water soak into the ground. He feels something bite the back of his neck. He reaches up and pulls a feathered dart out of his skin. Bewildered, his face freezes in the position. A man steps in front of him and identifies himself as the lone survivor of a convoy left in Vietnam. He calls himself Kraven and smiles as he shoves the hose down the submissive Mr. Roberts throat. Roberts lays on the ground behind Kraven with water gushing out of his mouth and nose. Kraven pulls out a list and crosses Lt. Roberts' name off of it. Jessica Drew is next. 

Later, Jessica Drew patrols New York City on her own. Finally having returned comfortably to her role as Spider-Woman. She perches herself on a gargoyle with a great view of the city. From her vantage she spots what looks like gunfire inside an apartment. Quickly she makes her way to the tenement to see what's going on. Inside she spies one man holding a smoking pistol. He is laughing and apparently he had fired through the roof. The family of the tenement is huddled in a corner and the man with the gun yells orders to two others that are going though the families belongings. 

Suddenly, Spider-Woman smashes through a window, knocking one of the thugs to the ground. She loves the exhilaration of leaping into melee combat, noting that her upper body strength is greater than most, as she knocks out a thug with one punch by accident. After taking out those two, only the leader - the gunman - remains. She can see it in his body language that he intends to shoot the family.

Thinking on her feet, she blasts the leader's wrist with her venom. Angrily, he tackles her, launching both of them out the window. He winds up dangling at her mercy in fear as she secretes a fear pheromone into his face, and she ties him to the balcony before securing the others and leaving the scene. Screaming for his life. 

That night, Jessica dreams of the past. She was once the Spider-Man's star pupil, but one night, she answered her door to find Cletus Kasady, he was going by Carnage at that time, standing there with a gun pointed at her. He shot her, and the bullet went through the first lumbar of her spinal cord, paralyzing her from the waist down for three years.

She wakes from her nightmare, and remembers where she is. Fortunately, she regained her ability to walk, since that night. She walks in on her father, James, enjoying a cup of coffee. He informs her that it is actually evening, and she has slept all day. She has plans to move out today; to move into her own place, and "stretch her legs."

Jessica's new place is in a building called Cherry Tree Hall, and her roommate is a bartender by night and painter by day. Despite her new roommate's quirky personality and penchant for activism, Jessica thinks they will get along well. She offers to help Jessica move in. At Sacred Hands of God Hospital, the thug that Spider-Woman injured with her Venom is receiving treatment, and remains under watch by Detective Stacy and his partner. In the same hospital, Kraven asks to see a Theodore Rankin before punching the receptionist in the face and shooting a security guard in the head. Stacy and his partner hear the shot, and prepare to face whatever awaits them.

Jessica has rigged her phone to receive her father's messages, so that she can follow up on any calls for police assistance. Discovering what's happening at the hospital, she gets her motorcycle out of her van, and rides to the scene. She rides her bike right into the building and onto the elevator.

As Kraven makes his way to their room, Stacy and his partner warn that if he doesn't get away from the door, they will shoot. In response, Kraven blasts through the door, shooting Stacy and his partner in the process. Stacy survives, but his partner is not so lucky.

Kraven approaches the injured thug, claiming that he should have fallen to his death during the altercation with Spider-Woman, and that has put him on the list. Jessica reaches the scene, and attempts to intervene, but Kraven aims his gun at her in just the same area that Kasady had when he crippled her. Lost in her memory, she freezes long enough for Kraven to shove the patient's bed out the window, into a long drop to the street below. Having watched the whole scene, Stacy accuses Spider-Woman of being a murderer as she stood there and did nothing to stop it. 

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Spider-Man #1

To say Peter Parker has gone through a lot is an understatement. His parents were murdered in front of him when he was six. This motivated him through life. His training in Japan and his vow to stop crime. When he returns home he inherits his fathers company from his Aunt and Uncle. Instantly he is the most recognizable billionaire bachelor. 

After he is unable to save his uncle from being murdered he forms the Spider-Clan a group dedicated to training young vigilantes like himself. The Spider-Clan hosts a variety of heroes including Scarlet Spider, Daredevil, Moon Knight, and Darkhawk. 

Spider-Man finds himself surrounded in Malus Asylum by a number of the villains he has since put away there. With superior fighting skills, he manages to hold his own until he winds up launched through an upper window. In the alley below, he prepares to go back inside, but Cletus Kasady sneaks up on him. They appear to have made some kind of alliance, and when they get back into the fray, they fight as a team in perfect conjunction to take down all of the escaped inmates.

Later, Spider-Man reconnects with Commissioner Drew on the roof of the New York City Police Headquarters. Spider-Man explains that this wasn't a breakout. He had been investigating a weak link at Malus - a guard named David Gallaher - who opened the cell doors on Spider-Man when he was coming for him. Drew deduces that Spider-Man had a man on the inside, and seems suspicious of security video showing Spider-Man and Cletus Kasady fighting together, but his friend reassures him briefly, before disappearing into the night.

In Peter Parker’s mansion, Cletus Kasady appears behind Peter. However, this doesn’t affect Peter at all. Kasady asks what he is doing and Peter responds that he is actually testing a new computerized contact lens, which can provide him with remote access to his supercomputers. Cletus Kasady reveals himself to be Ben Reilly in disguise. Ben had been the inside informant at Malus, disguised as Cletus Kasady.

They walk the mansion grounds where they encounter Peter's other pupils sparring at the dojo - Marc Spector and Chris Powell. Peter is hosting a gala, where he plans to reveal some big ideas for New York City's future. At the gala, Peter announces plans to invest in New York's infrastructure, including an improved public transit system and restoring some of the city's derelict architecture. After his well-received speech, Peter encounters Betty Brant of the Daily Bugle, who introduces him to mayoral candidate Lincoln Waters. 

Peter tries to convince Waters to invest in - or at least support - his plans for the future of New York, and Waters seems genuinely interested. They attempt to set up a date to further discuss their agreements, but Peter happens to notice that Commissioner Drew has received a work call. He uses his new contact lenses to lip-read Drew's side of the conversation, and overhears information about a fatal stabbing downtown. Casually, Peter makes his excuses, and heads out as Spider-Man.

He comes upon a crime scene being overseen by Detective Stacy. Inside the rundown apartment, they find the body of a middle-aged John Doe pinned to the wall in his underwear amid a number of paintings and a mess of painting supplies. The body has been fixed to the wall by several antique throwing knives of professional grade. Each knife has the symbol of an C emblazoned on the handle. Additionally, they discover some tissue under the victim's fingernails. Peter takes a sample to examine on his own. 

Spider-Man happens to catch a whiff of Linseed Oil - a common paint thinner. The smell is stronger than it would be through normal use in an artist's studio, though. Taking Stacy's lit cigar, Spider-Man ignites the oil on the wall, revealing a hidden message in the flames. The message reads: "Peter Parker will DIE tomorrow."

Together, Spider-Man and Stacy come to the conclusion that the victim anticipated his own murder, and further that whoever would find him would find him on this particular day, along with the message. Stacy predicts that whoever is targeting Parker must be close to him in order to bypass his high level of security.

Later, Spider-Man checks the DNA on the sample he collected. He finds that the DNA matches his own!

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Avengers #1

Spider-Man is pursuing a demon across the rooftops of Brooklyn, while the NYPD pursue and fire upon both of them from helicopters. He thinks that it might be one of Mephisto's. Or at least someone want's him to think it's one of Mephisto's.

Spidey tries to catch the Demon with his webs but misses when Helicopters shine their lights in Spider-Man's face. Frustrated, Spidey blinds the police in the helicopters with smoke bombs, and successfully webs the Demon to the roof of a nearby building. Spidey then attempts to interrogate but it lets out a burst of flame, burning the webbing and forcing Spider-Man to release it. As Spidey and the Demon face off again, Nova shows up and interrupts the fight by shooting the Demon with Nova beams. Knocking it off balance. Spidey and Nova jump on it.

Demon

The NYPD continue firing on Spider-Man, Nova, and the Demon, but Nova blocks the bullets with the Nova Force. As Spider-Man and Nova talk, the Demon recovers and destroys two police helicopters. Crashing them into each other. Nova saves as many as he can with the Nova force freezing them and then setting them down with the wreckage. Spider-Man catches the rest in a web as they fall. 

Nova blocking the fire from the police!

As they follow the Demon into the streets of Brooklyn, Spider-Man suggests that Nova return to Boston, since "Brooklyn is mine. Boston is yours." Nova responds by saying that the entire space sector is his and he was alerted to an "unauthorized extraterrestrial presence" in Brooklyn.

Nova and Spider-Man move underground in pursuit of the Demon. Nova asks Spider-Man whether he has any powers. Spidey replies "No. But I have some cool toys!" Spider-Man then points out the Demon attaching an explosive to a sewer wall. With a shout of "For Thanos!", the Demon blows itself up, attempting to kill Spider-Man and Nova in the blast, but Nova uses the Nova Force to protect Spider-Man and himself from the blast. They inspect the wreckage of what was left of the explosive. Spider-Man says the box looks like “Alien-tech not Demon-tech", and the two agree to go to Manhattan to ask Hyperion about it.

Tony Stark is an twenty-four year-old early graduate from New York Academy. He is giving an Osborn Talk to a large group that has come to watch him. He has gained a reputation recently after his unconventional behavior. His presentation is on new forms of energy to power America. The group gives Stark a standing ovation. After the presentation he looks for his father who didn't show up. He calls his father Howard Stark, who doesn't pay attention he is despondent and distracted. He says that he and Obadiah are in the middle of something huge. A breakthrough for weapon tech. Then he hangs up. Tony hesitates and puts his phone away after a sigh. Someone runs inside and tells everyone that Nova and Spider-Man are flying over. Tony, along with most of the group, runs outside to excited shouts as Spider-Man and Nova fly overhead thanks to the Nova Force. One of the people in attendance asks Tony if his dads weapons are ready for the super-humans, and he says that he hopes so.

After landing in Manhattan, Spider-Man criticizes flying to the city. He says he gets a better feel from webbing around. A moment later, Hyperion, using super-speed, knocks both into a pair of parked cars, apparently knocking Nova unconscious. As Spider-Man begins to rise up from the ground, Hyperion looks at him and says "I don't handle easy. So...what can you do?"

The Alien Warrior King - Hyperion

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