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88-421: "Infested" was a series of six back-up stories that were at the end of regular issues of The Amazing Spider-Man . They were in issues #659, 660, and 662–665. These stories featured the Jackal and his experiments that led to the "Spider-Island" story. These were compiled in a comic book reprint called Amazing Spider-Man: Infested , which was released on August 31. The prologue outlines Peter Parker's life up to

176-567: A billboard, Cloak tells Dagger they would be able to come to anyone's services. They are approached by the New Avengers who are on their way to handle a riot involving people with spider-powers. While stopping the people dressed as Spider-Man, Cloak and Dagger recall the time they worked for Norman Osborn 's Dark X-Men . Mister Negative is told of a prophecy that he is destined to be killed by Dagger. Mister Negative captures Dagger and corrupts her with his Negative Touch. This turns Dagger into

264-456: A bomb that only the original Spider-Man can disarm. But when a clone of Gwen tears off the Jackal's mask and confronts him on his crimes, Warren accepts responsibility for his actions. He attempts to correct his wrongdoings by freeing Leeds, only to be caught in the bomb's explosion. During the " Clone Saga ", it is revealed that Peter's clone had survived the explosion and gone into hiding under

352-488: A cloning casket that malfunctioned and super-aged the clone beyond death. Eventually, it emerged and became known as Carrion that wielded power and had no conscience for its actions. He was the first carrier of the Carrion virus, which Warren designed to destroy humanity. Carrion contained all Warren's memories which contained within his RNA, that included his hatred and knowledge of Spider-Man's secret identity. Carrion wielded

440-443: A dark version of herself who must consume all light and life. The corrupted Dagger uses her powers to plunge Chinatown into darkness. Tyrone begs Mister Negative to save her; Mister Negative uses his negative touch on Cloak, altering his Darkforce powers into that of Dagger's. After Cloak and Dagger heal themselves and Chinatown, both of them come to the conclusion that they must deal with their altered powers themselves. Norah Winters

528-464: A frequency that returned Spider-Man's spider-sense. However, the Jackal who dies ends up being a clone while the real Jackal had kept his distance the entire time with his former self's surviving clones, anticipating the outcome and gaining a sample of his slain female co-conspirator's DNA, recognizing his success in obtaining DNA unbeknownst to the Avengers and Spider-Man. It is later revealed that

616-409: A global scale. The Jackal still knows Spider-Man's true identity despite the worldwide mindwipe to the rest of the world. After a cure is created by Mister Fantastic with Max Modell 's Horizon Labs using Anti-Venom 's antibodies, the Jackal assures Soria that no cure is possible. Soria kills him after realizing that his co-conspirator's powers were amplified into the god-like Spider Queen due to

704-510: A green suit and gauntlets with claw-like razors. Although the Jackal initially didn't possess any superpowers , he later gained enhanced strength, speed and agility by mixing his genes with those of a jackal . The Jackal was introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #129 (February 1974), but his human identity was not revealed until The Amazing Spider-Man #148 (September 1975). Originally one of Spider-Man's less popular rogues,

792-667: A massive spiderlike creature of enormous strength, siphoning new power from every individual infected by the Spider-Virus. Mary Jane discovers her long-term relationship with Peter has given her a partial immunity to the Spider-Virus, and uses her newly acquired spider powers to reach the Horizon Labs and reunite with Peter. Meanwhile, Peter has Kaine outfitted with the Spider-Armor from "Big Time", which deflects Spider Queen's sonic scream. Kaine, Mary Jane and Spider-Man join

880-423: A new cloning process. However, the Jackal found problems with the cellular degradation. He had Ben killed 26 more times, all of which had Ben's life (and most of Peter's) flash before his eyes. The ordeal of repeated death caused Ben to become mentally unbalanced and morally ambiguous, due to the trauma and very soul being damaged from being removed and replaced over and over. Ben eventually breaks free and knocks out

968-432: A news report telling of several hundred New Yorkers who have manifested spider-powers. The Jackal is behind the disturbance, as he has collected several prominent crime figures with spider-powers and given them Spider-Man outfits. The Avengers attempt to defend the city against spider-powered hooligans. Although Shang-Chi is able to confirm Spider-Man's identity to the other heroes, he is nevertheless ordered to stay out of

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1056-709: A poison that will kill anyone with spider powers. Spider-Girl and the Hand end up fighting the soldiers of the Sisterhood of the Wasp to keep them from releasing the poison. When the soldiers take to the skies, they are shot down by the Hand archers. Spider-Girl rushes to take down the All-Mother, but runs into Madame Web. She tells Spider-Girl she still needs to team up with her "enemy". Spider-Girl realizes she has to team up with

1144-590: A score of 7.6 out of 10 based on 4 reviews. According to Comic Book Roundup, Issue 671 received a score of 6.9 out of 10 based on 6 reviews. According to Comic Book Roundup, Issue 672 received a score of 8 out of 10 based on 7 reviews. According to Comic Book Roundup, Issue 673 received a score of 8.9 out of 10 based on 10 reviews. Jackal (Marvel Comics) The Jackal is an alias used by several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics , usually depicted as enemies of

1232-409: A serum from Anti-Venom's symbiotic antibodies, able to kill the Spider-Virus and instantly reverse the mutations. The Spider Queen sends Tarantula to break into Peter's personal lab. Peter discovers the break in and stops Tarantula from poisoning the serum. As Tarantula, now more physically powerful and still enabled with a functioning Spider-Sense, starts gaining the upper hand, Reed Richards mentions to

1320-597: A side effect of the counterfrequency used on Peter restores Madame Web's and Spider Queen's connection to the Web of Life. Spider-Queen uses an evolved version of her sonic scream to kill Jackal (later revealed as yet another clone), and realizes she has been given the whole powers of the Web, becoming a Spider-Goddess. By the time Captain America and Venom reach the Spider Queen, she uses her enhanced powers to evolve into

1408-505: A small army of Spider-Slayers, each one carrying a dose of the cure. While Mary Jane bravely defends him, Peter uses the antenna on the Empire State Building to reverse the mutation of a large part of New York's population at once. Emboldened by Spider-Man's example and seeing Spider-Queen losing her powers, Kaine has himself thrown in her mouth using the Spider-Armor to deflect the sonic scream and spider-stingers (similar to

1496-794: A spider monster. Shang-Chi is told by Madame Web that people with spider powers are running amok in Manhattan. When he sees Iron Fist fighting the Spider-Man imposters and Peter Parker nearby, Shang-Chi springs into action. Bride of Nine Spiders inexplicably starts attacking and abducting her teammates in the Immortal Weapons . When trying to figure out what his recurring dream means, Shang-Chi learns from Silver Sable that she has found possible locations in Manhattan for Bride of Nine Spider's lair. Although Shang-Chi manages to defeat Bride of Nine Spiders and frees Iron Fist, he discovers that

1584-436: A tall building while trying to save Gwen's clone and dies. Because of Norman Osborn , the Jackal and various others (including Kaine) had been tricked into thinking that Reilly was the original and that Peter was the clone. All of the Jackal's machinations were influenced by his incorrect assertion that he knew who the real Peter was. The Jackal returns in the " Spider-Island " storyline, being further genetically altered to

1672-492: A woman who bears him two children who are all killed in what is originally believed to be a car crash; however, it is later revealed to be an assault by his highly evolved Man-Jackal envious of his creator. The day after Gwen's death, Warren's lab assistant Anthony Serba reveals that he successfully cloned a frog using their research technology. Warren gives Serba tissue samples of Gwen and Peter, telling Serba that they come from rat cells. Serba later confronts Warren, stating that

1760-426: Is the true Warren and vows to have revenge on Ben as the true Jackal. Ben returns to a safe-house and finds Miles in his Jackal outfit waiting in the living room. The Jackal proceeds to burn Ben's safe-house down and engages in one final battle. Ben defeats the Jackal and leaves him in the burning house to die. The Jackal however, survived the fire and targeted the neural net that was built by Dr. Yesenia Rosario when

1848-407: Is a high school science teacher rather than a college professor, and is physically very distinct from Miles Warren. Despite this, Conway has said it was always his interpretation that "Mister Warren", "Professor Warren", and Professor Miles Warren/Jackal were the same character. The character was featured in the controversial 1990s " Clone Saga " story arc , the 2011 storyline " Spider-Island ", and

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1936-640: Is a perfect copy of the original. He also creates two clones of himself, one a direct copy and the other a modified clone harboring the Carrion virus. The Jackal helps the Tarantula (Anton Miguel Rodriguez) escape prison, and the two become partners. The Jackal captures Spider-Man, but lets him go after proving that Spider-Man is no match for the Jackal in a fair fight. He then lures his nemesis to Shea Stadium and manipulates into battling his perfect clone of Peter by binding Daily Bugle reporter Ned Leeds to

2024-414: Is about to get the vaccine, Reed tells him he has been infected. Anti-Venom continues to cure the victims of Manhattan, while Madame Web passes out from too many spiders accessing the web of life. Carlie is told that Spider-Man is waiting for her at the top of her precinct. Carlie and Spider-Man head to take down another spider-powered villain as Carlie becomes suspicious of where Peter is. When they arrive at

2112-481: Is conflict between Warren and the High Evolutionary because Warren succeeds in creating "New Men" who looked practically human, whereas the High Evolutionary is not able to. Eventually, Warren evolves a jackal that exhibits a Jekyll and Hyde personality . When the test subject escapes, the High Evolutionary banishes Warren from Wundagore. Warren continues his research and eventually settles down with Monica,

2200-589: Is disappointed when she sees Betty Brant has beaten her to the Spider-Island story. Unbeknownst to Norah, she is being spied upon by Phil Urich who is jealous of her relationship with Randy Robertson . This causes Phil to become Hobgoblin and go after her. At Potter's Field, it is shown that Jackal has found Kaine emerging from his grave following the events of the Grim Hunt . Jackal manages to knock out Kaine and drag him back to his lair and turns him into

2288-545: Is preoccupied, A. Nancy breaks into her home and steals her mythical tapestry. He reveals himself as the African spider god Anansi , a collector of stories. When the people of Manhattan start developing spider-powers, Venom is sent in to capture a spider-like beast that is fighting Firestar and Gravity . Venom manages to capture the Spider-King and discovers that he is Steve Rogers enslaved. Venom disguises himself as

2376-470: Is the first successful clone of Peter despite suffering from a slow cloning degeneration and having regenerative abilities to repeatedly elude death. The Jackal's hatred for Spider-Man manifests in his belief that Spider-Man is solely responsible for allowing Gwen, whom he loved, to die at the Goblin's hands. He starts harassing Spider-Man, setting him up against other adversaries. Warren allies himself with

2464-579: The Secret Wars storyline, Spider-Gwen encounters the Jackal of Arachnia and covers him with webbing as he is robbing a grave after which he exclaims he is the best geneticist of his generation. In " What If The Punisher Had Killed Spider-Man?", Warren successfully dupes the Punisher into killing Spider-Man and abandons him to take the fall in his place. Being a hunted fugitive, the Punisher eventually hunts Warren down and intends to surrender him to

2552-567: The Punisher against Spider-Man. The Jackal next attempts to incite a gang war between Hammerhead and Doctor Octopus . Later, he equips wrestler Maxwell Markham with the Grizzly costume and a powerful exoskeleton to assassinate newspaper publisher J. Jonah Jameson . The Jackal then holds Parker hostage in a scheme to trap Spider-Man. He eventually learns Spider-Man's identity. Out of his numerous attempts to create clones of Peter, only one

2640-473: The Superior Spider-Man and the new Scarlet Spider with mutant-powered spider-clones. Superior Spider-Man kills the clones by destroying the Jackal's hideout, but the Jackal escapes. It is revealed that he kept samples of Scarlet Spider's DNA. The Jackal tells Carrion that he is prepared to develop Spidercide 2.0. Ben's dissolved remains are collected by the Jackal who was resurrected thanks to

2728-679: The superhero Spider-Man . The original and best known incarnation, Miles Warren , was originally introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #31 (December 1965) as a professor at the fictional Empire State University. Later storylines established him as also being a scientist researching genetics and biochemistry, and revealed an unhealthy romantic obsession he had for Gwen Stacy . Warren was driven mad with grief and jealousy so he created his Jackal alter-ego to seek revenge on Spider-Man, whom he blamed for Gwen's tragic death . To this end, he trained himself in martial arts , and created

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2816-540: The " Clone Saga " (1994–1996), " Spider-Island " (2011), and " Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy " (2016–2017), the latter storyline of which established Ben Reilly as the second Jackal; in Spider-Gwen , during the titular character 's foray into Earth-616 , the Jackal attempts to capture her to explicitly sexually assault her, after previously only subtextually expressing this desire towards her main continuity counterpart and her clones. In 2014, IGN ranked

2904-474: The "Spider-Island" story was Dan Slott's "most ambitious and sprawling" story yet. According to Comic Book Roundup, Amazing Spider-Man Issue 667 received an average score of 7.7 out of 10 based on 9 reviews. According to Comic Book Roundup, Issue 668 received an average score of 8 out of 10 based on 8 reviews. According to Comic Book Roundup, Issue 669 received a score of 7.4 out of 10 based on 5 reviews. According to Comic Book Roundup, Issue 670 received

2992-486: The 2016-2017 storyline " Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy ". Miles Warren is a professor of biology at ESU/Empire State University , where he meets Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy . During his tenure there, Warren becomes secretly infatuated with the much younger Gwen to the point of obsession and jealousy of Parker. After Gwen is murdered by the Green Goblin, Warren swears vengeance on Spider-Man, since it

3080-483: The 60s, Miles eventually leaves Empire State and forms his own bio-engineering company. Peter Parker's wife, Gwen Stacy, became his chief biologist. During this time, he was also hired by Norman Osborn to create clones of Norman and Peter, but he also secretly created a clone of Gwen. In 1977, Norman gets word of Warren's additional clone and sends Harry Osborn as the Black Goblin to attack Warren's company, revealing

3168-464: The All-Mother to halt the mob of mutated New York natives. They are successful. Hobgoblin does not acknowledge the end of battle and attacks the All-Mother. This angers the Kingpin, but Spider-Girl convinces him to let Hobgoblin live. The story ends with Spider-Girl getting administered the cure, though it is seen that she still has retained some spider powers when she swings away from the Kingpin. When

3256-572: The Empire State Building, onto which is projected a red and blue color scheme. This is the citizens of New York's way of saying "thank you" to Spider-Man for his heroic deeds during the crisis. As Anya Corazon tries to figure out her past, she and her friend Rocky are attacked by the Sisterhood of the Wasp (a misguided monster sect who are "fabled enemies of the spiders") who are targeting Anya. Anya gets Rocky to safety and changes into Spider-Girl. She ends up getting an unlikely ally in

3344-543: The Hobgoblin who flies her to Kingpin . When Spider-Girl asks why Kingpin wants her help, Kingpin reveals that he and his men have developed spider powers, and are being targeted by the Sisterhood of the Wasp. He tells Spider-Girl where he has found the location of the Central Wasp Nest. Madame Web tells Spider-Girl she will need to team up with her "enemy" when the Sisterhood's leader All-Mother plans to release

3432-520: The Horizon Labs scientists how Spider-Man lost his special sense. The Horizon Lab scientists manage to jury-rig a counter-frequency, restoring Peter's Spider-Sense to an enhanced level (due to Shang-Chi's kung fu training being merged to his reflexes). Now fully empowered, Peter bests Tarantula, drowning him in a pool of serum. Tarantula emerges from the pool with his mutation gone and his clone degeneration reversed. The now healthy Kaine shakes off Spider Queen's mind control and offers to help Peter. Meanwhile,

3520-504: The Jackal as Spider-Man's 17th greatest enemy. The character has been featured in several media adaptations of Spider-Man, including animated series and video games. The character first appears in The Amazing Spider-Man #129 (February 1974), and was created by writer Gerry Conway and artist Ross Andru . In The Amazing Spider-Man #148 (September 1975), the Jackal's identity was revealed to be Professor Miles Warren who first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #31 (December 1965), and

3608-497: The Jackal has been monitoring Peter's accidental creation of Alpha , and has set his sights on Spider-Man's new protégé. The Jackal resurfaces accompanied by his cloned mutated human-spider hybrids of Spider-Queen and is bent on harvesting Alpha's powers for himself to clone a race of Alpha males. But his plans fail as the Alpha energy cannot be cloned, resulting in powerless, near-mindless copies of Alpha, all of which are destroyed when

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3696-533: The Jackal in "Sibling Rivalry" after targeting the Superior Spider-Man and Scarlet Spider. Ben Reilly later made clones of Miles Warren to help run New U Technologies. The following clones were created by the Jackal: J. M. DeMatteis , the creator of the " Clone Saga ", claimed in an interview that he thought Jackal is "a terrific villain...one of his favorites", and that it "was a blast bringing

3784-554: The Jackal once attacked Alpha Flight and claimed to be Miles Warren's son. It was later indicated that this Jackal was the Ani-Man Warren created that ultimately murdered the Professor's family. A version of the Jackal dubbed as "The Professor" fought Daredevil and Punisher. He used multiple stand-ins, such as the clones of his human form and the Jackal in "Spider-Island". There was also an additional clone accompanying

3872-495: The Jackal's technology to make sure that no one has to suffer again and that those who have can become whole, and even does this by establishing New U Technologies. When Spider-Man activates the Webware to stabilize the human and clone cells all across the world that were in danger of succumbing to clone degradation, the various clone of Miles melt as Ben fights Doctor Octopus. The so-called clone that does not melt realizes that he

3960-419: The Jackal. After improving Warren's formula, Ben makes clones of Miles and persuades the Jackal that he is a clone, thereby making it nearly impossible to tell who is the real one. Now free with a number of clone of Miles as servants, Ben acts as the new Jackal during the " Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy " storyline and is determined to repay the people who have heavily influenced Ben's and Peter's lives with

4048-679: The Queen, but she transforms into a bigger, stronger spider form and is taken down by Venom, Rogers, Spider-Man, Kaine, and the assistance of the Avengers. As part of the 2015 Secret Wars storyline, a Spider-Island miniseries took place on the Battleworld domain of the same name. The Spider-Island domain was set in an alternate universe where the Spider-Queen triumphed at the end of the 2011 "Spider-Island" storyline. USA Today said

4136-516: The Scarlet Spider and allies with Spider-Man, the Jackal also returns to unleash his clone army and convinced both Parker and Reilly that the latter was the original Spider-Man, and the former was the clone. The Jackal creates clones of Peter who come into conflict with Spider-Man, the Scarlet Spider, and Kaine. Ultimately, the Jackal, in the process of attempting to kill and replace millions of people with clones that he can control, falls off

4224-750: The Spider-Island problem. Meanwhile, Carlie and Peter attempt to investigate the Jackal's lab, reasoning that he is the most likely candidate to have caused this event, unaware that they are being watched. Jackal is seen working on the Spider-King by filling with tiny spider embryos. Horizon Labs works with Reed Richards to find a cure for the spider-powered people while the Avengers and other heroes try to keep Manhattan quarantined. While at an abandoned lab at Empire University, Peter and Carlie are attacked by Chance , Scorcher , and White Rabbit , who all have spider powers. When White Rabbit attacks Carlie, Peter uses some moves he learned from Shang-Chi to knock out

4312-487: The Spider-King to track the infestation to its source. The Queen and Jackal send him to kill Anti-Venom because he is curing people who have gained spider-powers, but his superiors order him to take him to Mister Fantastic to help develop a cure. Flash and the Venom symbiote fight each other because Flash wants to bring Anti-Venom to Mister Fantastic and the symbiote wants to kill Anti-Venom for previously rejecting it. Flash wins

4400-459: The aid of human clones of himself, and funding from Adriana Soria . Although the bedbugs later die, the virus gives New York's citizens spider-powers and becomes airborne to infect the world and create a new race of Homo-Arachnus as part of his co-conspirator's plan to overtake the Great Web of Life. The Jackal has also enlisted the aid of his mutated henchman Tarantula. It is revealed that

4488-511: The alias of Ben Reilly . The Jackal who died at Shea Stadium was also a clone. Nearly five years later, another clone of Jackal would marry Gwen's original clone, and the two would live under the assumed names Warren Miles and Gwen Miles. This clone of Warren eventually dies of the degeneration that afflicts most of the Jackal's clones. The real Jackal resurfaces, where his experiments mutate his own DNA and give him an actual jackal's attributes. When Reilly returns years later to New York City as

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4576-440: The alternate Gwen Stacy in exchange for the possibility of great power if she does her job well and while Benji is able to tell Miles that Gwen is a costumed hero from another world, she somehow had failed Warren and was punished for it. Benjamin "Ben" Reilly is the second major character to use the Jackal alias. Prior to his regeneration , Miles Warren is a genius in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and cloning. The Jackal

4664-624: The character back, if only for this one story." Dan Slott claimed in an interview with Newsarama about the " Spider-Island " saga that the Jackal is "one of the wonderful mad scientists of Spider-Man's world." In the Marvel Zombies universe, when the Zombie Galacti left the Earth (after eating Galactus ), Wilson Fisk ( Kingpin ) makes an empire. The zombiefied Jackal plays an important part in it, creating human clones to feed

4752-542: The character rose to prominence after being one of the first in the Marvel Universe to master cloning technology, and creating various clones of Spider-Man, like the Scarlet Spiders Ben Reilly and Kaine Parker , as well as of other characters, including himself and the chimera Spider-Girl . His experiments went on to play a major role in several popular Spider-Man storylines, such as

4840-548: The citizens who have been transformed into spider-like creatures. When Spider-Man tries to get a mutated Carlie to Mister Fantastic, more spider-like creatures begin to appear, making it hard to find out which one is Carlie. As Jameson ends up becoming a spider-like creature and defeats a Spider-Slayer , the Spider-Queen uses her Web of Life to control the spider-like creatures. Mary Jane also develops spider powers, while Madame Web loses her precognition. Despite Jackal's contrary advice, Reed Richards and Horizon Labs manage to develop

4928-425: The civilians who gained spider powers start to turn into half-spider creatures, Spider-Woman is fighting some of them while Mister Fantastic states in the communication that HYDRA once used a corrupted version of her DNA on Alicia Masters as part of their super-soldier experiment. Mister Fantastic then has Spider-Woman look for Alicia Masters. The Greek owners/operators of the bar where Hercules works have fled

5016-448: The clone of Gwen introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #144 was actually Abby-L (Gwen's second clone and the first cloning attempt), a flawed clone with degenerative debilities. Before this seemingly perfect copy of Gwen died at Abby-L's hands, it is revealed that the copy actually had some degeneration on her hand, suggesting not being perfect after all. Abby-L was also infected with the Carrion virus and had Carrion's same abilities. Abby-L

5104-533: The clones are human and must be destroyed immediately. Panicking, Warren attempts to cover Serba's mouth to shut him up, accidentally suffocating Serba. Unable to accept responsibility for his actions, Warren develops a second personality to carry the weight of his misdeeds dubbed "The Jackal". He further develops his alter ego by fashioning a green suit and gauntlets with sharp, claw-like razors on each finger, and by training himself athletically. During this time, he also continues to experiment with cloning humans. Kaine

5192-525: The clones to Harry, Peter, and Gwen in the process. Harry blows up the containment tubes containing the clones, which kills all of them except for Peter's clone. However, Warren reveals that the "Gwen" that Peter was with was actually her clone, while the real Gwen died in the explosion, as he wanted to keep her for himself. In the Spider-Verse storyline, the Miles Warren of Earth-802 is one of

5280-455: The dangers of New York City and returned to Greece, leaving Hercules in charge. He befriends an elderly African man named A. Nancy who loves stories. Herc is bitten by a bed bug that gives him spider powers, which he uses to fight crime. The Queen of Spider Island reveals herself to Herc and makes him her slave. She sends Spider-Herc against the X-Men, who are in town after fighting lizard people in

5368-453: The deceased Queen's marrow for use in future cloning experiments. Atop the Empire State Building, Mary Jane admits her love for Peter, but he does not hear her. They stay there to rest, musing about the aftereffects of having the whole of New York walk a mile in Spider-Man's shoes. The following day, Peter discovers from Doctor Strange that the psychic blindspot that was put in place to protect his secret identity has now been compromised. This

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5456-529: The enraged Alpha breaks free. It is then revealed that the two versions of Jackal that Spider-Man and Alpha fought were also clones. When Otto Octavius's mind possesses Spider-Man's body, the X-Men battle a 30 ft. human-spider hybrid attacking New York which turns out to be a human mutant created by the Jackal using Mister Sinister 's works, a "daughter" of Scott Summers , Gwen Stacy, and Ana Soria named as "Gwen Warren / Spider-Girl". The Jackal later attacks

5544-483: The fight and delivers Anti-Venom to Mister Fantastic. At Project Rebirth, the scientists there are able to replicate the Anti-Venom cure using samples from Venom which is tested on the Spider-King. As Flash finally reaches the hospital, Betty gives him a letter that was written by his late father before Flash is called back into action. He attacks the Queen and is backed up by Rogers later in the battle. They take down

5632-435: The fight due to the inability to distinguish him from the other Spider-Men. However, inspired by a conversation with Mary Jane, Peter is able to rally various other New Yorkers to help him stop the villainous Spider-Men by posing as just another random spider-powered citizen like them. As Anti-Venom works on curing various Spider-People of their powers, Madame Web reflects on the need for both Agent Venom and Anti-Venom to fix

5720-459: The fight, as the whole heroic community of New York tries to prevent Spider Queen and Madame Web's apocalyptic prophecy. When Spider-Man seems about to lose, Mary Jane reminds him that as powerful as Spider-Man could be, she had always trusted the brain power of Peter the scientist. Leaving Kaine behind to fight with the other heroes, Spider-Man and Mary Jane flee to the police precinct and steal Doctor Octopus ' Octobots, which Spider-Man converts into

5808-560: The infestation of Manhattan began, Ms. Marvel , Jessica Jones , and Hawkeye survey the people with spider powers. When Jessica calls up Squirrel Girl on the status of her daughter Danielle, Squirrel Girl discovers that Danielle has developed spider powers. Frog-Man witnesses terrorists with spider powers attacking the United Nations and gains the assistance, and eventual grudging respect, of Ms. Marvel, Jessica, and Hawkeye. When Cloak and Dagger see an advertisement of them on

5896-425: The mansion hide-out on Ai Apeac, leaving him immobilized for the Avengers to put back into custody. Heroes for Hire is called in to help with the quarantine of Manhattan. They end up fighting spider-powered versions of Flashmob ( Chemistro III, Cheshire Cat, Commanche, Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton, Mr. Fish II, Nightshade , and Spear) and Cottonmouth I when they try to cross a bridge to leave Manhattan. When

5984-419: The ones held by Peter Parker during The Other ) to slay the Spider Queen. While Madame Web claims that her prophecy entailing "The Hand of Spider-Man" felling the Queen must had been wrong, Kaine (now fully reconciled with Peter) claims that he was merely an executor and Spider-Man's bravery and quick thinking enabled him to deal the final blow. The Jackal, in disguise as part of Damage Control , harvests some of

6072-514: The person behind this is the demon Ai Apaec who seeks to feed off the Immortal Weapons. As Shang-Chi fights Ai Apeac, Iron Fist scrambles to free the other Immortal Weapons. Shang-Chi mutates into a spider during the battle as a result of the infection, but Iron Fist uses his Chi force to cure Shang-Chi, leaving Iron Fist in a weakened state. After making sure Iron Fist and the rest of the Immortal Weapons are evacuated, Shang-Chi collapses

6160-502: The point where he frequently displays animalistic tendencies. His body is always cold, requiring him to wear a thick fur coat even in the hottest weather. He is now a crime lord calling himself " The Professor ", and allies himself with Hammerhead, but the two eventually go to jail. He returns in the "Infestation" back-up feature of The Amazing Spider-Man , unleashing genetically engineered bedbugs to pass on Spider-like abilities to thousands of citizens in Manhattan. He achieves this through

6248-680: The police. But when the NYPD is about to arrest him instead, threatening to kill him should he shoot Warren, Warren is executed (off-panel) by the Punisher after the latter gleefully concludes the story with the words: "See you on the other side, Jackal." When Warren reveals his plans for New U, Kaine and the Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 step in to stop him from winning Peter to his side. Kaine later told Spider-Man that they have visited various unidentified alternate universes where Peter agreeing to Jackal's plans for New U Technologies have led to catastrophe in

6336-445: The power to create a Red Dust that would spread as pestilence as well as his touch that would incapacitate or even cause organic matter to degenerate to the point of disintegration. The original Carrion intended to kill Spider-Man with a spider-amoeba, but failed as Carrion was absorbed by the amoeba, engulfed in flames that ensued from his battle. Much later, fellow ESU rival Malcolm McBride stumbled across Warren's old lair, where he

6424-526: The remaining Marvel Zombies. This process utilizes Inhuman technology. Jackal appears in the re-imagining of the Clone Saga by Tom DeFalco , who was exploring the storyline as it was originally conceived. He infects both May Parker and Mary Jane Watson with a genetic virus. When Kaine betrays Jackal and leads Spider-Man and Scarlet Spider to his lair, all three are captured. The Jackal then reveals his plan to create an army of Spider-Clones to take over

6512-455: The scene, they find a six-armed Shocker . Shocker reveals that he wants money so that Mad Thinker can cure him. Shocker then pulls off his mask to reveal he is slowly mutating into a spider-like creature. Just as Spider-Man tries to piece everything together, Carlie begins to mutate. The Spider-Queen tells the Jackal that all the infected people of Manhattan are beginning to mutate, and New York will soon belong to her. Mary Jane Watson evades

6600-523: The sewers. They try to reason with him, but he attacks them with the Sword of Peleus. Due to the mutagenic properties of Spider-Man's powers, Spider-Herc mutates into Herc-Spider. Suddenly the X-Men are trapped in a magic web and the Greek goddess Arachne appears. Instead of fighting, it is revealed that Arachne is very attracted to Herc's new form and they embrace while the X-Men are forced to watch. While Arachne

6688-550: The start of Spider-Island. He is seen effortlessly neutralizing a robbery by Hydro-Man , as well as stopping a normal robbery. He puts in some time at Horizon Labs; finally, he visits Shang-Chi , his martial arts mentor who is teaching him "The Way of the Spider", as seen in the Free Comic Book Day edition of The Amazing Spider-Man . Madame Web warns Spider-Man of the events that are to come, but Spider-Man dismisses

6776-623: The top scientists working for Jennix of the Inheritors . Jennix once quoted to Miles "I keep you around because you were once the most brilliant mind on the planet." Spider-Man of Earth-94, Scarlet Spider, and Black Widow of Earth-1610 later encounter Miles Warren when they infiltrate the Baxter Building to disable Jennix' cloning device (which is used to create new bodies for the Inheritors if they get killed in action). During

6864-472: The villains. Carlie takes the villains to the precinct and tells Peter that she wants to have a talk with him and Spider-Man, to Peter's dismay. Jackal has been watching them and tells Tarantula to study the tape of the fight as he will soon be tested. The Avengers close off Manhattan keeping everyone in the city. Reed Richards develops a vaccine that can keep people from gaining spider powers, but does not cure people who already have them. Just as J. Jonah Jameson

6952-414: The warnings as nonsense. Meanwhile, the Jackal is seen recruiting spider-powered criminals for his project, along with a severely mutated Kaine , now called Tarantula. He has a large secret lab, in which clones of Miles Warren are seen to be working. The Jackal has a mysterious female benefactor called the Spider Queen. Peter's girlfriend, Carlie Cooper , shows him she has spider-powers. He and Carlie hear

7040-677: The woman was doing a presentation of it at Empire State University. The Jackal was defeated by Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel as Dr. Rosario destroys her own invention by setting it to self-destruct. He later surfaced in the Empire State University once more, under the guise of " Professor Guarinus " and is shocked to bump into Ghost-Spider who had recently enrolled in this universe's ESU. He injected himself with actual jackal DNA allowing himself to transform into looking exactly like his iconic green costume, but for real. The Jackal recruited another new student named Benji to befriend

7128-567: The world and clone Gwen Stacy. The clones prove unstable, however, and the Jackal comes to the conclusion that Ben is the original. Before he can do anything, Kaine breaks free and burns his mark onto the Jackal's face before breaking his neck. The Ultimate Marvel version of Miles Warren is a hypnotherapist for Harry Osborn to help repress memories about the Green Goblin . Later in the Deadpool story arc of Ultimate Spider-Man , he

7216-512: Was a talented martial artist and gymnast. He later spliced his genes with the DNA of a jackal, having the strength, durability, speed, and agility amplified to inhuman levels. Warren has access to state-of-the-art laboratories, as well as advanced gadgets or devices if needed. Prior to the death of the Warren clone at Shea Stadium, he had created a clone of himself. The clone remained in stasis within

7304-430: Was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko . Prior to his Jackal reintroduction, his appearances were essentially limited to the occasional cameo in which he acts as simple background to Spider-Man's civilian life as a college student. When named at all in these early appearances, he is called only "Professor Warren". A "Mister Warren" had previously appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #8 (January 1964) but he

7392-502: Was due to Peter revealing his spider-powers in a viral video to encourage other New Yorkers to use their new spider-powers for good. As a result of this, Carlie is able to deduce who Peter actually is. Tired of being lied to, Carlie accuses Peter of being a mask for his "true self" and breaks up with him. Peter locates Mary Jane and administers the antidote to her, albeit with some reluctance on her part. The two bond with each other over their recent experiences. Mary Jane tells Peter to look at

7480-510: Was infected with a strain of the Carrion virus and became the second incarnation of Carrion. The virus allowed McBride to become endowed with the knowledge of Spider-Man's secret identity; however, he was unsure whether he was Dr. Warren's first clone or Malcolm McBride. Eventually, McBride teamed with the likes of Demogoblin and Carnage , but was later cured of his condition and incarcerated in Ravencroft Asylum. A man dressed as

7568-575: Was manipulated into killing Gwen's other clone, who was living in London under the alias of Joyce Delaney, and coming into conflict with the Jackal and Kaine. With his own ulterior motives, the Jackal manipulated gang leaders into adorning duplicate costumes of Spider-Man to cause chaos in New York City. He experimented on the Spider King 's host form to spread New York City's infestation on

7656-560: Was reported that it was Spider-Man who killed Gwen. Gwen's death drives Warren into depression, despair, and insanity as a mad geneticist who eventually turns into the Jackal. Miles is also the brother of science teacher Raymond Warren of Midtown High School. Miles is an assistant of the High Evolutionary at Wundagore Mountain after earning his Ph.D. in biochemistry. Warren assists the High Evolutionary in experiments that involve turning animals into humans and vice versa. There

7744-415: Was revealed to be dating May Parker . Additionally, his Clone Saga involvement has been taken over by Doctor Octopus . He last appeared when May tried to introduce him to Peter, but they had to leave town because of Norman Osborn and he had a patient to handle. Spider-Man: Life Story features an alternate continuity where the characters naturally age after Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man in 1962. After

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