Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt - Deluxe Edition

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So much of “Kraven’s Last Hunt” is spent in that dark night and deep grief, but the hope we glimpse at its end is just enough to carry on. Framing Fearful Symmetry

During Kraven's reign of terror as Spider-Man, the real Spider-Man works himself out of the grave he was imprisoned in and goes in search of Kraven. But when he finds him, Spider-Man also finds Vermin who Kraven sets free. Knowing the horror that Vermin poses, Spider-Man goes after the cannibal and Kraven retires to his home, having proven his worth as a hunter, having proven in his mind that he is a better Spider-Man than Spider-Man ever was. He then proceeds to kill himself. Spider-Man goes home to try and recover from Kraven's last hunt.

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Prematurely Marked Grave: On the covers, we see a grave marked for Spider-Man with either an empty tomb or Spidey himself rising from the ground, showing that he is far from dead.

There are some quintessential Spider-Man tales everyone Spider-Fan should read. This is one of them. Four out of five stars. Kraven dons the costume of Spider-man and becomes a violent sociopathic version of our web crawler, trying to deal with his own psychosis. And finally, as one man rises from a grave he was unwillingly interred within and reaches the light of new life, the other man willingly commits himself to another grave. From its start, we see that Kraven views “The Spyder” as a mystical force greater than a mere human and something he can claim for himself by slaying his enemy and symbolically wearing his skin. To become “The Spyder,” Kraven destroys the last remnants of his sanity through some venomous brew of drugs. But in the first of these six issues, DeMatteis also puts us in the mind of Spider-Man, where we see that our hero is first and foremost the human and compassionate Peter Parker and that the dark figure criminals fear is only a mask.Sergei Kravinoff, a.k.a. Kraven the Hunter, has been a major member of Spider-Man's rogues gallery for years. Originally invited to New York by his half-brother the Chameleon (the first supervillain Peter Parker fought), Kraven was soon introduced to the unique challenge of hunting Spider-Man. Since the '70s however, he'd diminished somewhat. This time, The Hunter is setting out to truly prove himself to be superior to Spider-Man — by going for the kill and seeking to become his replacement.