Amazing Spider-Man #700 and the Many Deaths of Peter Parker

Despite selling out all over the country and generating about $2 million in revenue for Marvel Comics, Amazing Spider-Man #700 is not the first time poor Peter Parker has died.In fact, thanks to our amazing, spectacular friends over at Spider-Fan, we bring you a list of the times that (in the core, non-Ultimate comic books) Peter Parker has been killed–only to get better, usually in time for the next issue or so.We’re not picking on Spider-Man in particular, of course–since a lot of these are the kind ofdeath where the hero flatlines to create a compelling cliffhanger for the next issue, these are the sorts of stories you could find being told with almost any superhero with a long publishing history. Still, it’s good to bear in mind when getting all a-tizzy about the death of Peter Parker that we’re not exactly in unprecedented territory here.There are, of course, some deaths that are meant to seem more permanent than others and only a couple that ever seemed as though they could be “permanent” but who really cares about that when there are joked to be made?