Spider-Man: Octo-Girl #1
In *Spider-Man: Octo-Girl #1*, titled "The Genius Scientist and the Schoolgirl," Dr. Octopus and high schooler Otoha navigate a tense coexistence as their minds share her body, leading to a fragile truce built around a shared device for control. When a mysterious nerve scanner at a Tokyo hospital catches his attention, he sets out to reclaim his old clone body—unaware that the city already has its own spider-powered hero. Written by Hideyuki Furuhashi, Caleb Cook, and Molly Tanzer, with art and inks by Betten Court and letters by Brandon Bovia, the cover by Betten Court captures the electric tension of this new chapter.
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Dr. Octopus's acquisition of metal tentacles and his hair-trigger temper prove to be a problem for Otoha and she threatens to force him out of her mind. As a compromise, he constructs a device that will let her switch control of her body between them. Later, he discovers a nerve scanner being used at a local hospital that he decides to steal and convert into a way to transfer his mind back to his clone body. However, he discovers Tokyo has its own spider hero.
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