Marvel Comics Legacy & Ben Reilly The Scarlet Spider #10 Spoilers: Convoluted History Of Amazing Spider-Man Peter Parker Clone Saga Gets Some Simple Clarity?

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Marvel Comics Legacy and Ben Reilly Scarlet Spider #10 spoilers follow.

The Clone Saga was an infamous and massive storyline from the 1990s with roots in the 1960s and 1970s. It has been collected by Marvel Comics in many formats including 2 massive omnibus hardcovers.

Amazing Spider-Man: The Clone Saga Volume 1 Hardcover – $125 U.S. for 1240 pages collecting Web Of Spider-Man (1985) #117-125, Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #394-401, Spider-Man (1990) #51-58, Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #217-224, Spider-Man Unlimited (1993) #7-9, Spider-Man: Funeral For An Octopus #1-3, Spider-Man: The Clone Journal and material from Spider-Man Collectors’ Preview.

Amazing Spider-Man: The Clone Saga Volume 2 Hardcover – $121 U.S. for 1288 pages collecting Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #402-406 and Super Special, Spider-Man (1990) #59-63 and Super Special, Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #225-229 and Super Special, Web Of Spider-Man (1985) #126-129 and Super Special, Venom Super Special, New Warriors (1990) #61-66, Spider-Man: The Jackal Files, Spider-Man: Maximum Clonage Alpha and Omega, Spider-Man Unlimited (1993) #10, Spider-Man Team-Up #1, Spider-Man: The Lost Years #1-3, and Spider-Man: The Parker Years

So that is over 2500 pages, for almost $250 U.S. before tax. However, Marvel has summarized Ben Reilly’s Clone Saga origins into 3 primer pages for Marvel Legacy back-up in Ben Reilly: The Scarlet Spider #10.

Here are those pages.

So do those 3 pages summarize the 2500 pages of the Clone Saga enough for you heading into Marvel Legacy and the ongoing adventures of Ben Reilly: The Scarlet Spider?

Ben Reilly: The Scarlet Spider #10 hits stands on November 15, 2017.

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