Appearing in "Back to Basics: Part Three"
Featured Characters:
- Peter Parker (Main story and flashback)
- Spider-Man (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Tri-Sentinel (Returns)
- Vulture (Adrian Toomes) (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Bob (poacher) (First full appearance) (Unnamed) (Only in flashback)
- Bob's guide (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)
- Kraven the Hunter (Sergei Kravinoff) (Behind the scenes) (Only in flashback)
- Mayor Wilson Fisk (Mentioned)
- Bill Murray (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers (Main story and recap)
- Daily Bugle (Mentioned)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Robot B-9 (Voice only) (Topical Reference)
- Will Robinson (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- NYPD (Main story and flashback)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- New York Army National Guard (Mentioned)
- Shaw Industries (Mentioned)
- Taskmaster (Tony Masters) (Only in recap)
- Black Ant (Eric O'Grady) (Only in recap)
- Mr. Simmons (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (Mentioned) (Topical Reference) (Only in flashback)
- Aunt May (Only in flashback)
- Radioactive Spider (Only in recap)
- Spider-Man (Ben Reilly) (Referenced)
- Horatio I (First appearance)
- Horatio II (First appearance)
Races and Species:
- Elephants (Corpse, skeleton or other remains) (Only in flashback)
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Sentinels
- LMDs (Only in recap)
- Human-Reptile Hybrids
- Spiders (Referenced)
- Mice
Locations:
- Prime Marvel Universe (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Africa (Only in flashback)
- Southern Africa (Only in flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- Unidentified bowling alley (First appearance)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- East Village (Main story and recap)
- Bowery (Main story and recap)
- Empire State University (Main story and recap)
- Bowery (Main story and recap)
- Upper West Side (Only in flashback)
- Central Park West (Only in flashback)
- May Parker-Jameson's apartment (Only in flashback)
- Central Park West (Only in flashback)
- East Village (Main story and recap)
- Queens (Only in recap)
- Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (Only in recap)
- New York Hall of Science (Only in recap)
- Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (Only in recap)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Africa (Only in flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Kraven's Lion's Head Vest (Behind the scenes)
- The Big Lebowski (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Kingpin (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Facebook (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Jeopardy! (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters (Main story and flashback)
- Arrested Development (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Isotope Genome Accelerator (Main story and recap)
- Black Ant's Suit and Helmet (Only in recap)
- Vulture's Wings (Only in flashback)
- Goblin Armor (Referenced)
- Adamantium-encased Inhibitor Chip (Behind the scenes)
Synopsis for "Back to Basics: Part Three"
After stopping Taskmaster and Black Ant, Spider-Man swung himself and Peter to a rooftop, where both confirmed their split by the Isotope Genome Accelerator. While Peter saw the severity of their situation, Spider-Man was ecstatic, enjoying their new standing as useful for a change. Peter acclimated as a baseline human with some difficulty, but felt happy planning a normal life around his loved ones. As Peter and Mary Jane were bowling with Norah and Randy, a news alert about the Tri-Sentinel attack reached them, but Peter's continued bowling surprised Mary Jane. With his Spider-Man duplicate intercepting the threat, Peter was allowed the freedom to enjoy the little things.
With a subpar bowling game, Connors texted Peter for a meeting to discuss his job offer, which Peter hadn't decided on. So given one final week to choose, Connors lead him to the Accelerator to show him test mouse Horatio, split into two mice I and II. The test was to see how the mouse is before and after, if traits could be divided from the original self. As Peter realized that skills were divided between original and duplicate, he quietly found his scientific acumen lost, leading to asking Connors for a "hypothesis." Connors' deduced that even emotional and behavioral traits can be divided, to which Peter reaches a quietly panicked conclusion: Spider-Man has Peter's power and genius, but lacks all sense of his responsibility. Concurrently, Spider-Man reprograms the Tri-Sentinel into his own personal joyride.
Elsewhere, a poacher named Bob kills an elephant and his guide is killed by a thrown knife by an unseen assailant.
Solicit Synopsis
PETER PARKER VS. SPIDER-MAN?!
PETER PARKER & SPIDER-MAN IN THE SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME?!
• Things are crazy for Spider-Man. His personal life in turmoil, the giant TRI-SENTINEL returning to attack NYC…
• …and someone is out there impersonating Peter Parker!
• Is it the Chameleon? An LMD? Ultimate Peter Parker making his Marvel U debut? Think again, True Believer!Trivia
- This issue's cover is an homage to that of Web of Spider-Man #117.