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Issue: 8

Title: Jumping the Tracks: Part 1

Writer: Peter David

Art: Mike Weiringo

 

Summary:

 

On an alternate Earth where May Parker dies instead of Uncle Ben, Peter pursues a career in the entertainment industry with Ben as his agent. When Ben tries to convince Peter that he's meant for something more than just entertaining people, Peter leaves. Over the year the two become distant. One day as Ben is walking home he is unknowingly transported to another reality where he finds that his house has been burnt down. When the police see him calling for help, he becomes even more confused when they tell him that Ben Parker was murdered years ago. Rushing to the nearby cemetery where he buried May, he instead finds his own grave. A silhouetted figure comes up behind Ben offering answers and a chance to see Peter and May again. Ben accepts the offer. Shortly, Peter gets a call from Jarvis about May running into Ben on the streets. Peter swings to his location to confront him when suddenly he is attacked by the Hobgoblin of 2211.

 

Notes:

  • Collected in Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Volume 1: Derailed

   

Issue: 9

Title: Jumping the Tracks: Part 2

Writer: Peter David

Art: Mike Weiringo

 

Summary:

In the future, Robin Borne explains to her boyfriend Lar that she has made a study of the multiverse. Her study shows that the events of another universe which intersects with their own will have cataclysmic effects on their own, possibly erasing them. Robin's father, the Spider-Man of 2211, arrives and arrests her for crimes that she will commit in the future. Robin is placed in stasis where she lives a fictional life, until Lar manages to break her out. Unfortunately the break-out affects her already troubled mind and sends her further over the edge into madness. Afterwards, as Spider-Man 2211 interrogates Lar, Robin breaks-in in her Hobgoblin armor. She throws one of her Ret-Con bombs at her father, but strikes Lar instead, erasing him from existence. Robin, now the Hobgoblin of 2211, escapes. Her mission, to erase Spider-Man from existence across all realities. Spider-Man 2211 monitors the multi-verse and sees that she has derailed a universe by moving it's Ben Parker to another reality. he travels to 616 to return Ben to his proper universe and capture Robin. Meanwhile in 616, the Hobgoblin disables Peter's armor and hauls him away, leaving the alternate Ben face to face with May Parker.

 

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Issue: 10

Title: Jumping the Tracks: Part 3

Writer: Peter David

Art: Mike Weiringo

 

Summary:

The alternate Ben tries to reintroduce himself to May, but she rejects him as an imposter. Meanwhile, Hobgoblin torments Spider-Man with images of Gwen Stacey falling to her death. She offers him a place at her side so that he can remake the his timeline the way he wants it, but of course Peter refuses her. Spider-Man 2211 arrives and the two battle. Elsewhere, Ben tries to decide whether or not to go back and try to speak with May again, but ultimately concludes that there is no point. A hobo overhears his problem and gives him a gun, advising to not "get mad. Get even." Elsewhere, Spider-Man 2211 is taken by Hobgoblin. Just as she throws one of her Ret-Con bombs at him, Peter zips a webline at the bomb and sends it back to her. The Ret-Con bomb erases Robin from existence. Spider-Man 2211 leaves Peter behind, mourning his daughter while he can still remember her. Later, Spider-Man 2211 finds the alternate Ben Parker standing over his own grave. He tells Ben that he does have an important destiny to fulfill in his reality. However Ben chooses to stay where he is and shoots Spider-Man 2211, fatally. Later, Ben Parker is seen to be face down, apparently in a pool of his own blood.

 

 

Notes:

  • Collected in Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Volume 1: Derailed

 

Issue: 19

Title: Sandblasted - Part 2

Writer: Peter David

Art: Todd Nauck

 

Ben Parker from another timeline shoots and kills Spider-Man 2211, leaving him dead on the ground at the foot of the grave of this universe's Ben Parker. Observing events was a teen named Dennis. After Parker leaves, Dennis takes possession of the 2211 hero's helmet just before his body turns to ash. Months later, Spider-Man is helping Sandman clear his father's name. The crime he is to be executed for is the murder of Ben Parker, a crime Peter Parker knows is impossible. Peter and Sandman visit Uncle Ben's grave and find a trace that something was recently burned there. With his enhanced Spider-Sense, Peter finds Dennis and learns that he has the helmet of 2211. He then uses the helmet's on board technology to lead him to the alternate Uncle Ben.

Issue: 19

Title: Sandblasted - Conclusion

Writer: Peter David

Art: Todd Nauck

 

Summary:

Now bonded to the 2211 Spider-Man's helmet, Spider-Man, along with Sandman and Dennis, race to find the alternate Uncle Ben. The helmet leads them back to Midtown High. Spider-Man and Sandman search the school and only find Roger, the principal. Roger quickly reveals himself to be a shape-shifting imposter. The shape-shifter battles both Spider-Man and Sandman, alternating between the forms of Roger, Uncle Ben, Sandman, and Spider-man 2211. Spider-Man deduces that because he recognized the future Spider-Man of 2211, the shape-shifter must also be from the same future. Spider-Man concludes that they must be fighting Chameleon 2211. With the help of Dennis, who arrives just in time to toss Spider-Man the helmet of his 2211 counterpart, Chameleon 2211 and Sandman's father switch places at the crucial moment so that it is Chameleon 2211 who dies in the electric chair instead of Floyd Baker.

 

Notes:

 

  • Bad Wolf graffiti in the alley where Uncle Ben is murdered is a reference to the 2005 season of Doctor Who. 

  • Collected in Spider-Man: Back in Black

 

 

 

 

 

 

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