Spider-Man’s Original Sin Story: Somebody Else Got Powers That Day

Marvel Comics announced at the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) this weekend that the big secret of Spider-Man’s Original Sin tie-in is a tweak to his origin story: Back in Amazing Fantasy #15, apparently that spider bit somebody else before dying, granting the same powers that Peter Parker has had all these years to a second, as-yet-unnamed female.This July, Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos pluck that webbing once more to reveal the spider’s last hurrah, and the secret of a woman called Silk. It all stands revealed in Amazing Spider-Man #4 and #5, a tie-in to Original Sin.”One thing we’re exploring with Original Sin is the revelation that many heroes of the Marvel Universe are either keeping a terrible secret or that a terrible secret is being kept from them,” Slott said. “That is the case with Peter Parker. There is a secret that’s been kept from him, and the secret is that the spider that bit him lived just long enough to bite one other person. There’s a second spider-person! Who is she? You’re going to have to read Amazing Spider-Man #4 to find out.”