Third time's the charm? Marvel teases Doc Ock's return as Superior Spider-Man

A teaser for Superior Spider-Man Vol. 3
(Image credit: Marvel Comics)

Superior Spider-Man is returning for a third volume with its original writer, Dan Slott, Marvel revealed in on Saturday. Precisely how and when is yet to be announced, but this will be ✤the character's third series and the first time Slott has written for him since 2014.

Superior Spider-Man first spun out of 2012's Amazing Spider-Man story, Dying Wish. In that, a dying Doc Ock swapped minds with Peter Parker, taking control of his body while Parker was left to die as Otto Octavius. The hero's last wish was that a new Spider-Man rises to protect the city - a wish that Octavius decided to fulfil, with the intention of proving himself to be both a bette🍸r superhero and person than Peter Parker. 

A🍌lthough as cynically-minded as you'd expect from the villain, Octavius genuinely grew as a person and a hero in the process - though of course, Parker was never going to stay dead for long. Octavius eventually sacrificed himself and restored Peter's consciousness.

A teaser for the third series of Superior Spider-Man.

(Image credit: Marvel Comics)

The series began in 2013 and ran for 33 issues, written by Slott and drawn by Ryan Stegman, Humberto Ramos, and Giuseppe Camuncoli. It returned in 2019 for a second 12-issue volume, this time written by Christos N. Gage and drawn by Mike Hawthor꧟ne, which eventually ended with Otto making a deal with Mephisto to be restored to his younger, healthier body - at the cost of all the memories and development he had gone through as Spider-Man. This makes the character's return for a third round of adventures even more intriguing...

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