Bullet Points #3

Peter sneaks into his aunt's hospital room to tell her goodbye but falls into a trap as Thunderbolt Ross has asked Steve Rogers to don his Iron Man armor one last time and bring in Parker. Peter transforms into the Hulk and battles Iron Man and the jade giant ends up killing Steve. Reed and his crew blast off in his long neglected experimental rocket to collect cosmic radiation but the spacecraft has been sabotaged and explodes in the upper atmosphere. Reed is the sole survivor and, with his friends all dead, he is asked by the government to become the director of an agency known as SHIELD.

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