Spindelmannen special #3/1996

In "Smärtsam sanning," Spider-Man battles Venture before tracking down Tyler Stone, only for Miguel’s mother Conchata to intervene first—securing a promise from Stone to leave their family in peace. The revelation that Tyler Stone is Miguel’s biological father shakes the young hero to his core, unraveling a truth he never expected.

In "Hostile Takeover," Miguel grapples with the shocking truth that Tyler Stone—the man he's spent years fighting—is also his real father. Haunted by fear for those he loves and overwhelmed by the weight of his secret life as Spindelmannen, he lashes out at Dana, then escapes into a sudden road trip with Xina, hoping to clear his head. The story unfolds with emotional intensity, probing the fragile line between identity, family, and the cost of being a hero.

In "Döden i Nightshade," Xina brings Miguel to the Nightshade facility, where their former mentor Angela conducts dangerous genetic experiments. When Alchemax launches a surprise attack with Headhunter and his team, Miguel transforms into Spindelmannen to defend the facility and its secrets.

In "Travesti!", Spindelmannen faces a terrifying new foe in the form of Travesti, a genetically altered guard with a horn fused to his side, threatening to unravel Angela’s defense strategy. As the plan collapses, Angela is forced to trigger the Nightshade facility’s self-destruct sequence, sealing her fate alongside Spindelmannen in the coming explosion.

In "Konkursutförsäljning," a gang of scavengers led by Packrat stumbles upon the aftermath of Nightshade’s fall, finding Angela dead and Spindelmannen barely alive. Taken to their base, Spindelmannen accidentally triggers a cloning machine with terrifying consequences. Meanwhile, Gabriel and Kasey enjoy a vacation in Mexico, where Kasey’s belief that Gabriel is Spindelmannen leads to a mix of tension and misunderstanding—while Tyler Stone quietly moves closer to Miguel’s former lover, Dana.

In "Demoniskt," Spindelmannen faces off against Flipside, a twisted clone of himself, in a clash that tests his limits. After the battle, he returns to the ruins of Nightshade, where Xina delivers the painful news that Angela is dead—leaving Miguel uncertain about his next steps as he chooses to wander for now.

In "Döda pojkar flyter...", Xina pulls Miguel from the water after a near-drowning, but his silence about who tried to kill him—Kron—creates a quiet tension. As he struggles to speak, the weight of fear and uncertainty hangs between him, Xina, and Angela, leaving the truth just out of reach.

In "Besöksdag," Miguel’s parents come to visit his school, but the reunion takes a sudden turn when his father George clashes with Xina, and Gabriel is confronted by Kron. Conchata steps in to mediate, only to be drawn into the escalating tension—just as George intervenes, he’s attacked too. The moment George raises his hand to defend himself, the fight is halted by Kron’s father, Tyler Stone.

In "Familjebråk," Tyler Stone pushes George to apologize to Conchata, only for her to dismiss the request with a sharp remark about pigs flying—leaving George furious and fearing his career is ruined. When Tyler’s wife Nancy later approaches Conchata with a quiet revelation about Miguel’s true parentage, the tension between the characters deepens, setting the stage for a personal reckoning.