The Gathering of Five and The Final Chapter
| "The Gathering of Five" | |
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Cover to The Amazing Spider-Man #441, cover to the first issue of "The Final Chapter" and showing the fictional Gathering of Five. Art by Rafael Kayanan.
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
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| Main character(s) | Spider-Man |
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The Sensational Spider-Man Todd DeZago The Amazing Spider-Man The Spectacular Spider-Man John Byrne #262 Howard Mackie #263 Peter Parker: Spider-Man Howard Mackie |
| Penciller(s) |
The Sensational Spider-Man Joe Bennett The Amazing Spider-Man Rafael Kayanan Peter Parker: Spider-Man Norman Felchle #96 John Romita, Jr. #97 The Spectacular Spider-Man Luke Ross |
| Editor(s) | Ralph Macchio |
| The Gathering of Five | ISBN |
"The Gathering of Five" and "The Final Chapter" are 1998 storylines published by Marvel Comics. The stories are interconnected with no issues being published between the last issue of "The Gathering of Five" and the first issue of "The Final Chapter," and the fictional Gathering of Five that was being prepared for during the first storyline actually taking place in the first issue of "The Final Chapter." Both storylines are crossovers between all of the Spider-Man titles being published at the time (The Amazing Spider-Man, Peter Parker: Spider-Man, The Spectacular Spider-Man, and The Sensational Spider-Man). It also marked the cancellation of both The Spectacular Spider-Man and The Sensational Spider-Man while "rebranding" The Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker: Spider-Man by renumbering the issues to start again with a new "Issue One," as mandated by Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras.
The storyline proved controversial with fans, as it resurrected the character of Peter Parker's elderly Aunt May, who had been killed off at the height of the "Clone Saga" three years earlier in The Amazing Spider-Man #400. Tom DeFalco, who had left months earlier with his Spider-Man: Identity Crisis storyline, had originally intended Peter and Mary Jane's daughter, May Parker, to be returned to them by Kaine (this story thread was later used as the branching point for the MC2), but Mackie and Byrne insisted they have the older May revived so she could fit into their new relaunch.
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