SPIDER-MAN II

Real Name:

Benjamin Reilly

Universe/Timeline:

Marvel Universe

Status:

Active

Additional Status Info:

Beyond Corporation

Category:

Genetic Clone

Alias:

Scarlet Spider, Jackal III, Peter Parker.

Nationality:

Cloned American

First Appearance:

Amazing Spider-Man (1st series) #148

Powers & Abilities:

proportionate strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes of a spider, wall-crawling, spider-sense, uses web-shooters and spider-tracers

Affiliation:

New Warriors, Space Friends

Avengers Membership:

Infiltrator, of sorts. While operating as Spider-Man, Ben Reilly used Peter Parker's Avenger ID credentials to present himself as a reservist in Sensational Spider-Man (1st series) #3.

Notes:

The Spider-Man Clone was believed dead after Amazing Spider-Man #148. He resurfaced, unidentified, in Web of Spider-Man (1st series) #113. He identified as Ben Reilly in Spider-Man (1st series) #51, adopting the Scarlet Spider costume in Web #118. Scarlet replaced Peter Parker as Spider-Man in Sensational Spider-Man (1st series) #0.

He was killed by Norman Osborn in Peter Parker, Spider-Man #75. It was later revealed that the Jackal repeatedly resurrected Ben until he overcame and replaced Warren as the Jackal in the Dead No More event. Ben returned to being the Scarlet Spider in Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #1.

After the Beyond Corporation claimed the intellectual property of "Spider-Man", Ben became the official Spider-Man in Amazing Spider-Man (5th series) #75.

Last Updated:

27th January 2022 by Monolith