Der sensationelle Spider-Man #2
Der sensationelle Spider-Man #2 brings German readers the pivotal 'Web of Carnage' crossover from 1996, whose first two chapters — Sensational Spider-Man #3 and Amazing Spider-Man #410 — deliver one of the Clone Saga's most visceral turning points: the birth of Spider-Carnage. When the Carnage symbiote escapes Ravencroft without its host, it jumps from Ravencroft security chief John Jameson to Ben Reilly, fusing with Peter Parker's clone to create a creature that weaponizes Reilly's deepest identity doubts against him. The storyline is also the clearest test of Reilly's character during his tenure as the primary Spider-Man, forcing him to fight for his own humanity against the symbiote's murderous will — a tension that made 'Web of Carnage' a memorable capsule of mid-1990s Spider-Man storytelling and cemented Spider-Carnage as a design that has endured in games, animation, and comics decades later.
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The source material — Sensational Spider-Man #3 (written by Dan Jurgens, pencilled by Dan Jurgens, inked by Klaus Janson) and Amazing Spider-Man #410 (written by Tom DeFalco, pencilled by Mark Bagley) — was originally published by Marvel in April 1996 as Parts 1 and 2 of the four-part 'Web of Carnage' arc, one of several tight crossover events threaded through the Clone Saga era. Panini Deutschland launched its 'Der sensationelle Spider-Man' reprint series in 1998, pairing these two issues in a single German-language pamphlet subtitled 'Tod und Carnage, Teil 1 von 2' (Death and Carnage, Part 1 of 2), releasing the concluding half — drawn from Spider-Man #67 and Spectacular Spider-Man #233 — in the following issue.
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- This issue reprints 'Web of Carnage' Parts 1 and 2: Sensational Spider-Man #3 and Amazing Spider-Man #410 (both April 1996, Marvel Comics).
- Amazing Spider-Man #410 marks the first appearance of Spider-Carnage — Ben Reilly as Spider-Man, bonded against his will with the Carnage symbiote after it abandons John Jameson as a host.
- The 'Web of Carnage' storyline ran across four titles (Sensational Spider-Man #3 → Amazing Spider-Man #410 → Spider-Man #67 → Spectacular Spider-Man #233), a format typical of the tightly coordinated Spider-Man crossover events of the mid-1990s Clone Saga period.
- Amazing Spider-Man #410 was written by Tom DeFalco and pencilled by Mark Bagley, the same artist who co-created Carnage itself with writer David Michelinie in Amazing Spider-Man #361 (1992).
- Sensational Spider-Man #3 was written and pencilled by Dan Jurgens with inks by Klaus Janson; it features cameo appearances by several Avengers — Giant-Man (Hank Pym), Hawkeye, Hercules, and Black Widow — who examine the mysterious Spider-skeleton at Avengers Mansion.
- The core narrative conflict hinges on the Carnage symbiote's ability to exploit Ben Reilly's identity crisis: aware that Reilly is a clone and not the 'real' Peter Parker, it amplifies his self-doubt and rage to try to override his will.
- The full 'Web of Carnage' storyline (all four issues) was later collected in Amazing Spider-Man: The Complete Ben Reilly Epic Vol. 3 (2011) and in Carnage Epic Collection Vol. 2: Web of Carnage (2022).
- Panini Deutschland published this issue as part of a reprint series (running approximately 1998–2001) that brought the late-Clone-Saga and post-Clone-Saga Spider-Man continuity to German-language readers for the first time in a continuous monthly format.
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Jessica Carradines Geheimnis wird gelüftet, ebenso wie das Geheimnis des Skeletts.
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