Spider-Man's "most notorious story" is getting a sequel

Spider-Man notorious teaser
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Marvel Comics is teasing a sequel for the "most notorious Spider-Man story ever told." But which🌺 story is ♏that?

A gut reaction, based on that caption combined with the teaser art of Spider-Man and Mary Jane ꦡin a strange, entangled pose, narrows it down to a few potential options, notably the stories Spider-Man: Reign or Spider-Man: One More Day.

The question is, which Spider-Man story doe🌺s Marvel consider to be its "most notorious," and does their opinion line up with fan perceptions? 

It's hard to say - Spider-Man has had some fairly "notorious" stories in his past, many of which have already been revisited, revamped, and retconned. But based on the art, 🌠which resembles the cover of Spider-Man: Reign, and which Marvel has confirmed was created by Spider-Man: Reign writer/artist Kaare Andrews, the easy money seems to be on a sequel to the dystopian future sto𝐆ry

Spider-Man: Reign tells the tale of an older Peter Parker coming out of retirement for one lastꦆ big adventure as Spider-Man (not unlike th🦄e classic Batman story The Dark Knight Returns).

Why is that notorious? Because in the world of Spider-Man: Reign, Mary Jane is dead afℱter getting cancer from exposure to radiation through… well… Peter Parker's most intimate bodily fluids… if yo𒅌u know what I mean.

That in turn raises the question of whether t🉐hat would be considere𒅌d the most notorious Spider-Man story by fans - to which the answer is probably "not really."

The dubious honor, at least among fans, more likely goes to Spider-Man: One More Day, inꦚ which Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson trade their marriage - and several years of their his꧅tory - to the demon Mephisto to save the life of Aunt May.

There are also stories such as Trouble, a non-continuity romance comic 🏅limited series which implied that Peter Parker's aunt May and his mother Mary were troubled teens who were embroiled in a d🦄evastating love triangle. And 'Sins Past,' a story in which it was revealed that Norman Osborn had an affair with Peter's long dead girlfriend Gwen Stacy, and that the two had secret twin children together - a secret which has since thankfully been retconned as totally fake.

Marvel promises more information in the coming days. Stay tuned to Newsarama for the full🔴 details.

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