WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!
As has become expected when a major comic book character dies (Captain America and Johnny Storm being two of the most recent examples) details and images have been released to several major news outlets, and what follows is an excerpt from the report over at USA Today. While the panels revealing the fatal blow being dealt to the teenage version of Peter Parker aren't shown, here are his final moments. For more details about the future of the title, click on the link below to head on over to the site.
In Ultimate Spider-Man issue 160, illustrated by Mark Bagley and debuting in stores Wednesday, Peter Parker dies at the end of a vicious battle between himself and the Green Goblin, who targeted Spidey for death after escaping from S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.
With the help of Iceman and the Human Torch, he makes his last stand in Queens, saving Aunt May and Gwen Stacy before dying in Mary Jane Watson's arms.
"Listen, I sat there typing this thing with tears in my eyes like a big baby!" Bendis says. "I went upstairs to my wife, and I go, 'I am so embarrassed. I think I've literally been crying for 45 minutes.' I've had real things happen in my life I didn't cry about, and yet I'm crying about this. I became very proud of it, and that's not an adjective I often put on myself."
As for the Green Goblin, his fate is seemingly held in the final panel of the issue — or is it? "I am completely leaving that up to interpretation," Bendis says. "There's a lot of finality to the issue, so I'm going to leave that one open."
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