''The Amazing Scarlet Spider'' is a short-lived

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series starring

Ben Reilly Benjamin "Ben" Reilly (), also known as the Scarlet Spider, is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Grown in a lab by the Miles Warren / Jackal, he is a clone of Peter Parker / Spider-Man tasked ...

as the

Scarlet Spider The Scarlet Spider is an alias used by several fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most notably Ben Reilly and Kaine Parker, both of whom are genetic replicates of the superhero Spider-Man. Both the ...

. The series was published by

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for four issues in November and December

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in between ''

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'' #406 and #407. During this time, all four primary Spider-Man series and his quarterly series were paused and briefly replaced by Scarlet Spider counterparts; the others being ''

Web of Scarlet Spider ''Web of Scarlet Spider'' is a short-lived comic book series starring Ben Reilly as the Scarlet Spider. The series was published by Marvel Comics for four issues between November 1995 and February 1996, following ''Web of Spider-Man'' issue 129. ...

'', ''

The Spectacular Scarlet Spider ''The Spectacular Scarlet Spider'' is a short-lived comic book series starring Ben Reilly as the Scarlet Spider. The series was published by Marvel Comics for four issues in November and December 1995 in between ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' issue ...

'' and '' Scarlet Spider Unlimited''. The five series were instituted as part of the

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after when Peter Parker gave up being

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to retire with his pregnant wife Mary Jane, and the Scarlet Spider took on his duties. ''Amazing'' (along with ''Spider-Man'', ''Spectacular'' and ''Unlimited'') returned to its old name and numbering when Ben Reilly left the Scarlet Spider identity behind and took on the Spider-Man name for himself. The Scarlet Spider books were direct continuations, in terms of creative teams and story lines, of the their Spider-Man counterparts. They were effectively temporary renamings of their counterparts, other than not being incorporated into their issue numbering. The writer of the two issues was

Tom DeFalco Tom DeFalco (born June 26, 1950) is an American comic book writer and editor well known for his association with Marvel Comics, with long runs on ''Amazing Spider-Man'', ''Thor'', and ''Fantastic Four''. Career While in college, DeFalco "wrote fo ...

and the

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was

Mark Bagley Mark Bagley (; born August 7, 1957) is an American comics artist. He has worked for Marvel Comics on such titles as ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', '' Thunderbolts'', ''New Warriors'', ''Venom'' and ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' and for DC Comics on ''Justic ...

. Both issues are collected in ''Spider-Man: The Complete Ben Reilly Epic Book 1''.

External links

The Marvel Chronology ProjectThe Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
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