Shortly after Peter returned to Earth, Shathra started hunting him in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) #46- 48 by Straczynski, Romita Jr., and Hanna. However, Spider-Man’s visit with the Great Weaver caught the attention of Shathra, a supernatural spider-wasp creature in the Astral Plane. Against Doctor Strange’s advice, Spider-Man wandered off of a safe path and encountered the Great Weaver, a totemic spider god who chose Peter as its earthly avatar. Shortly after that, a battle with the interdimensional kidnapper called the Shade sent Spider-Man to the Astral Plane, a mystical alternate dimension, in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) #42. Ezekiel Sims, a successful entrepreneur with Spider-Man-like powers, told Peter he was a Spider-Totem who had a mystical link to arachnids that made him part of the larger supernatural food chain. Michael Straczynski, John Romita Jr., and Scott Hanna. Long before Peter Parker learned about the variant heroes of the Spider-Verse, he discovered the supernatural component of his powers in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) #30 by J. The spider-wasp Shathra is about to show Spider-Man and the other heroes of the Spider-Verse just how dangerous she can be in “The End of the Spider-Verse.” Before Dan Slott and Mark Bagley’s SPIDER-MAN #1 kicks off this epic storyline later this year, let’s take a look back at Shathra and how her early encounters with our favorite Spider-heroes cemented her as one of Spider-Man’s most dangerous predators.

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