Peter and his clone are manipulated into fighting each other, each believing the other to be the imposter. That issue features Empire State University Professor Miles Warren (secretly the Jackal) creating clones of Spider-Man as a means of revenge for our hero's role in the death of Gwen Stacy. Technically, the character's first appearance came in 1975's The Amazing Spider-Man #149. 1-4 The Origin of the Spider Cloneīen Reilly may not have risen to prominence until the '90s, but his roots in the Marvel Universe go back decades earlier.

Recommended Reading: Spider-Man: The Complete Clone Saga Epic Books 1-5, Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy, Spider-Geddon, Amazing Spider-Man Beyond Vols. Ben Reilly Cheat Sheetįirst Appearance: The Amazing Spider-Man #149 (1975)Īliases: The Scarlet Spider, Spider-Man, The Jackal, Chasm Ben is so skilled in areas like biology and chemistry that he was able to replace his creator as the cloning-obsessed villain the Jackal. While both men are gifted scientists, Ben's life as a wandering nomad has allowed him to push his scientific genius to greater heights. He even has his own pair of trusty web-shooters.īen's mind is the one thing that sets him apart from Peter. His Spider-Sense allows him to sense danger on a psychic level. He has the proportonate strength, speed and agility of a spider. As he convincingly demonstarates, while we may hold other European cultures in higher esteem, it was German thinking-from Bach to Nietzsche to Freud-that actually shaped modern America and Britain in ways that resonate today.As a clone of Peter Parker, Ben Reilly shares all of Spider-Man's superhuman abilities. Yet how did the Germans achieve their pre-eminence beginning in the mid-18th century? In this fascinating cultural history, Peter Watson goes back through time to explore the origins of the German genius, how it flourished and shaped our lives, and, most importantly, to reveal how it continues to shape our world. But this genius was cut down in its prime with the rise and subsequent fall of Adolf Hitler and his fascist Third Reich-a legacy of evil that has overshadowed the nation's contributions ever since. In the early decades of the 20th century, German artists, writers, philosophers, scientists, and engineers were leading their freshly-unified country to new and undreamed of heights, and by 1933, they had won more Nobel prizes than anyone else and more than the British and Americans combined.

From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States.

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