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| Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #2 |
 WRITER: Mark Millar
PENCILLER: Terry Dodson COVER BY: Terry and Rachel Dodson INKER: Rachel Dodson STORY TITLE: Down Among the Dead Men - Part Two of Four REVIEW: When a vandal defiles his Uncle Ben's headstone in the middle of the night, Peter Parker is called to the cemetery to investigate. While there, he receives a phone call on his cell phone from a mysterious stranger who claims to know Parker's secret identity as Spider-Man. Peter, of course, claims that the caller is mistaken, until the man insinuates that he's kidnapped Peter's Aunt May. In a panic, Peter frantically swings through the city – sans costume – to May's apartment, only to find the place smashed and ransacked with Aunt May nowhere in sight. Now, with his Aunt missing and his wife, Mary Jane, in imminent danger, has his worst fear come true? And will it cost his Aunt her life? ACT 1: The issues starts with Peter trying to convince Mary Jane to get out of town. Though resilient at first, Mary Jane finally agrees to flee the city. Peter then heads over to May's apartment and begins calling some of her friends to cover up her disappearance. He then calls Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat to enlist her help in finding his aunt. The Black Cat, however, it out of town but promises Peter that she will try to catch a flight to be there the next day. She then suggests to Peter to make a list of everyone who knows his secret. That's when he realizes that Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, must be behind the kidnapping since, as Spider-Man, he defeated him in last issue and Norman must now be looking for revenge. ACT 2: Peter switches into Spider-Man and heads over to Riker's Island, where Norman is locked up. He confronts Norman about May's kidnapping but the latter offers very little help and is more concerned about playing mind games with the wall-crawler. In desperate need of help, Spider-Man decides to head over to the Avengers Mansion, hoping he can find someone there willing to assist him in finding his aunt. Jarvis, the Avengers butler refuses Spider-Man access to the house, thinking that he is an impostor, so Spider-Man has to break into the mansion. He easily makes his way through the many security guards and defense systems, taking out Hawkeye and the Scarlet Witch in the process, until he is caught by none other than Quicksilver. The other Avengers, Captain America, Ant-Man, the Wasp, Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man), Hawkeye and the Scarlet Witch soon arrive and demand that Spider-Man explains his actions. The wall-crawler asks them to contact Nick Fury, the Head of S.H.I.E.L.D., since he already knows his secret identity and everything just makes it all a little less complicated than the Avengers helping him out. Unfortunately for Spider-Man, Nick Fury is in a parallel reality for the next week and the Avengers haven't had much luck contacting him. The Avengers offer to help but they need to know who they are looking for first. However, Spider-Man refuses to tell them, as he wants to safeguard his secret identity. After heated words are exchanged between Spider-Man and the Avengers, notably Tony Stark and Captain America, Spider-Man leaves the mansion. ACT 3: His next stop brings him face to face with one of his oldest foe, the Owl. After some compromising, the Owl points him in the direction of none other than Electro and the Vulture. The story shifts to the two miscreants mentioned above who are enjoying themselves in an underground bar. As Electro heads into a bedroom with a shape-shifting prostitute, they come face to face with SPIDER-MAN.
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