These issues have the helpful “Back in Black” bar on the cover to indicate that, chronologically, they take place during Amazing Spider-Man #539–543. I’ve noted in that post that it’s unrealistic to think that Spider-Man had time to do anything else during the course of those issues, where he was hunting down Aunt May’s attacker with a focus and intensity we haven’t seen before. But there are multiple monthly series to sell so…Here we are.
Sandman’s father is wrongly imprisoned for murder, and Sandman asks Spider-Man for help setting him free, given that as a result of events in Amazing Spider-Man, he’s now a wanted fugitive. And the man that Sandman’s father supposedly killed? It’s that alternate reality Uncle Ben dude who has been running through these pages. Thankfully, these issues resolve the whole alternate Ben storyline. As far as these things go, it was done pretty good here (it’s hard to go wrong with a Peter David script), but I just don’t dig it personally.
There’s also a delightful Franklin Richards, Son of a Genius, back-up by Chris Eliopoulos and Marc Sumerak.
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