In 1994, Marvel Comics revived a twenty-year-old Spider-Man story, creating one of the company’s most controversially convoluted events of all time. Spread across six co-actively running series, the two-year-long “Clone Saga” has gone down as one of the franchise’s biggest marketing failures; however, even in chaos, the Clone Saga introduced multiple series-staple characters, and left a lasting impact on Peter Parker and Spidey lore.

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