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Appearing in "The Sinister Secret of Spider-Man's New Costume!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Spider-Man #258

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Synopsis for "The Sinister Secret of Spider-Man's New Costume!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Spider-Man #258
As our story begins, Mary Jane Watson confronts Peter shortly after his return home from battling the Puma. She reveals to him that she has known that he was Spider-Man for years - which comes as a complete shock to him.

Peter tries to convince Mary Jane to stay, but she fears that all he is going to do is lie to her again. She confides that while she cares for him, she just can't deal with the fact that he is a superhero, and that is the main reason why she left New York to begin with.

As Peter scrambles to try and get Mary Jane to stay, the Black Cat comes leaping into his apartment through the window. This blows away any chance Peter had of keeping his secret identity. Seeing the Black Cat in his apartment and realizing she knows his secret as well, Mary Jane leaves in tears. Peter calls after her to come back, but the Black Cat tells him not to worry about this other woman, as he doesn't need a "bimbo" like her.

Peter snaps at the Black Cat for entering his apartment in such a reckless fashion, jeopardizing his secret identity. The Black Cat isn't interested in dealing with her lover's emotional outburst and begins to leave. Peter doesn't want her to go and is surprised when his costume, currently in street-clothing form, shoots webbing at her.

While he tries to make sense of this, the Black Cat embraces him, realizing that he does care about her. As she hugs him, Peter is more concerned about his costume, and how little he knows about it.

Meanwhile in Heartsdale, New Mexico, Thomas Fireheart returns to his office at Fireheart Enterprises, where he asks his secretary, Jenna Taylor to assemble a dossier on Spider-Man, so that he can prepare for his final conflict with him.

Back in New York, Peter boards up the window that was broken previously during his battle with the Puma. He decides to try and call Mary Jane, but she doesn't answer. She is busy packing up her things, but when she comes across a photo of her sister and her kids. Mary Jane realizes that she is running from Peter, the same way she ran away from her sister. She wonders why she runs away from all the people she cares for.

Giving up on reaching Mary Jane, Peter wills the costume off his body and sits down. He thinks about everything that has been going on in his life and wonders how things began spiraling out of control. Peter relaxes in a chair, and no sooner is he asleep, than his costume crosses the room, bonds to him and takes the still unconscious wall-crawler out web-slinging.

As he, Peter has a nightmare where he is a teenaged version of himself being stalked by his black costume. In the dreamscape, he is rescued by his original red and blue costume. As the two costumes fight over each other, Peter tries to flee but the two garments go after him. As they fight over Peter, he wakes up screaming. Peter finds himself back in bed, unaware that his costume took him out while he was asleep. Disturbed by his dream, Peter decides to finally take his new costume to be examined by Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four.

Later that day, Spider-Man pays a visit to the Baxter Building where he is granted access by the security systems. There he finds the Human Torch and Mister Fantastic in the lab. He tells them that he has come to take Reed up to his offer to examine his new costume. Spider-Man then undergoes a battery of tests to determine how the costume can shoot webs, meld itself over his body, and camoflage itself as normal clothing.

While this is going on, the villainous Rose is entertaining the Hobgoblin at his penthouse. However, before he listens to the Hobgoblin's proposal, he is determined to prove if this is really the Hobgoblin, as he had heard that he had been killed. Guards, summoned by The Rose, attack the Hobgoblin, who takes them all down within a few seconds. Convinced that he is dealing with the genuine article, the Rose listens to the Hobgoblin's proposal, that they their pool their resources together to in order to rival the Kingpin. To start their campaign, they will destroy Spider-Man once and for all.

Back at the Baxter Building, Spider-Man and the Human Torch reminisce over their experiences on Battleworld, while they wait for Reed to finish his examination of the costume. Mister Fantastic soon enters and tells Spider-Man the shocking truth about his costume: It's a living symbiotic creature that is attempting to bond to him permenantly.

Panicked, Spider-man tries to remove the costume, but it fights back. Having determined that the costume is sensitive to loud noise, Mister Fantastic uses a sonic blaster to force the costume off Spider-Man. The Human Torch then contains the creature in a circle of flame to hold it in place, and Mister Fantastic traps it in a containment device.

With his costume removed, Peter covers his face, reminding the two members of the Fantastic Four that he has a secret identity to maintain. The Torch has a solution to the problem and gets Spider-Man one of his old Fantastic Four costumes and a paperbag to wear over his face as a crude mask. Despite being embarassed by this new ensemble, Spider-Man grudgingly accepts it for the time being, since he has to wear something.

Reed asks Spider-Man if he can keep the alien costume to examine it further. The wall-crawler tells Reed that he can keep it, as he never wants to see it again. After the Human Torch drops Spider-Man outside of the Baxter Building, the wall-crawler makes his trek back home. However, along the way, he happens upon a liquor store robbery that has been interrupted by the police. Spider-Man swings in and easily trounces the crooks. With the battle is over, Spider-Man is swarmed by reporters who want to know who he is. Embarassed and overwhealmed, the wall-crawler quickly escapes.

In the aftermath of this experience, Peter laments over how humbled he has been made recently and wonders what to do about Mary Jane and the Black Cat. Suddenly, it begins to snow, which is the final straw in what in what has turned out to be a horrible day for Spider-Man.

Once back home, Peter Parker watches the news coverage of his embarassing outing as the "Unknown Superhero". Trying to figure out what to do without his new costume, Peter pulls out his web-shooters out of storage and contemplates wearing his old red and blue costume again, when suddenly there is a knock at the door.

It's Mary Jane who has come to talk to Peter, having grown tired of running away from her problems. She has decided that since she knows Peter's biggest secret it is only fair to tell him her own. Meanwhile, back at the Baxter Building, Spider-Man's alien costume seething with hatred and a desire for revenge. Although it is being held in Reed's lab, it is trying to escape from the containment unit that it is being held.

Appearing in "Fathers and Others"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Fantastic Four #273

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Synopsis for "Fathers and Others"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Fantastic Four #273
While searching for Nathaniel Richards on Other-Earth, the Fantastic Four are brought to the massive citadel controlled by the Warlord by the gunslinger known as Bret Colby. As they prepare to press forward, suddenly a massive tripod weapon rises out of the ground to face them. This time the Fantastic Four are ready for them. The Human Torch flames on and confuses the pilots of the weapon by creating flame duplicates of himself, until he can melt the side of the hull with his real self.

Watching this from her control room is Cassandra Richards, wife to Nathaniel, who is furious that her primitive warriors cannot stop these four outworlders intruding upon her domain. She warns her minions not to fail her again or they will suffer a painful death. Outside, the Fantastic Four search the inside of the ship and discover that it is empty. Reed deduces that the tripods can be controlled remotely this close to the base. The Fantastic Four and their allies suddenly spot some warrior women flying in on mechanical steeds and decide to act cautiously. With Sue erecting a force-field around them, they wait until the warrior women land. Their leader begins to ask them why they are clashing with the Warlord. When Reed introduces himself, the react violently to the name Richards, accusing him of being relative to the Warlord. Reed quickly subdues the warrior woman attacking her, and the rest of the warriors are ordered to stand down by their elder. She asks Reed to release her daughter as they have much to discuss.

After they have compared notes, and it is revealed that the Fantastic Four are from a parallel universe, the leader of the Eyriennes explains that by their calendar it is the year 1127. She explains that on their world their calendar begins on the date that their people first landed on the moon. She explains that the first to travel to the moon developed a colony called Luna. Soon a war between Luna and Earth erupted leading to a nuclear war that nearly wiped out the human race, but ended in the destruction of Luna. The planet was plunged into a nuclear winter and after ten years it also became bombarded with debris from the shattered moon. Poverty and war reigned supreme until one day the being who became known as the Warlord appeared, Nathaniel Richards. Richards tried to help this world by utilizing his knowledge of science. He eventually ventured to the land of the Eyriennes. With this class of warrior women, Nathaniel helped rebuild society, arming the Eyriennes as a military and building his massive citadel. In thanks for rebuilding their society, the Eyriennes gave one of their own -- Cassandra -- to be his wife. However in the passing years someone calling themselves the Warlord had become a tyrant, controlling the outside society from within the citadel. Someone they believe to be Nathaniel Richards.

Impressed by the story, Reed theorizes that this reality did not experience the "great interruption", the period of time in during the dark ages when the advancement of science completely stopped. Suspecting that the Warlord is his father, Reed decides to approach the citadel alone to try and talk sense into Nathaniel and stop hostilities. As Reed approaches the citadel, he recalls how he came to this realm to find his father and hopefully close the gaps in his memory. He thinks back to how his father raised him to have a love for science and eventually funded his spaceship project until he disappeared three years prior to the birth of the Fantastic Four. His thoughts are cut off when suddenly a sentry device pops out of the ground and demands to know who he is. When Richards identifies himself and asks for an audience with the Warlord, the Warlord obliges with a holographic image. Unable to discern the identity of the Warlord due to the helmet and masked voice, Reed asks if the Warlord cannot recognize his own son. When Reed asks the Warlord how he could use his science to turn this alternate world into a perverted warzone, the Warlord simply answered by unleashing a massive army of attack planes and tripods upon them.

The Fantastic Four, Eyriennes and Colby's cowboys all join in the bloody battle ahead. As the fight rages on, Wyatt Wingfoot manages to slip away to get closer to the citadel. On the other side of a ridge, he spots the Warlord and one of his men prepping an anti-matter cannon that will kill all the intruders. With the lives of his friends hanging in the balance, Wyatt makes the uneasy decision to take a life to save his friends by tossing a rock into the anti-matter cannon. With the weapon jammed, it instead explodes on the spot while Wyatt tries to leap to safety. Wyatt later awakens in a medical lab within the citadel. Soon they all learn that the Warlord was actually Nathaniel Richard's wife Cassandra, who was posing as him to the outside world. Nathaniel is heart broken by this truth, but is glad that it has been revealed and he has been reunited with his first son. Nathaniel tells the Fantastic Four that he intends to stay on Other-Earth until he can fix all the wrongs carried out by his wayward wife....

... Centuries later in the year 3000 of Other-Earth, a man watches old 3-D Stereovision tapes of the past and finds them more exciting compared to the dull future world he lives in. Deciding to do something about it, this bored man decides to travel to the long abandoned citadel of the Warlord. Inside he finds plans for a time machine, deciding to travel back in time to ancient Egypt, he disguises the time machine as a massive Sphinx and uses it to go back in time where his destiny awaits him....

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