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Joel Phillips
Mar 5, 2004, 02:14 am
<a href="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/xovers/powerresp_logo.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/xovers/powerresp_logot.jpg" align=left alt="Power and Responsibility Logo"></a>Crossover: Power and Responsibility
Published in: Various Spider-Man titles, October 1994
Writers: Terry Kavanagh (Part 1), J.M. DeMatteis (Part 2), Howard Mackie (Part 3), Tom DeFalco (Part 4)
Pencilers: Steven Butler (Part 1), Mark Bagley (Part 2), Tom Lyle (Part 3), Sal Buscema (Part 4)
Major Characters Involved: Spider-Man, Ben Reilly, Judas Traveller, Scrier
Plot: Spider-Man and his clone have their first run in with the mysterious Judas Traveller.

Reading Order:

Part 1 - Web of Spider-Man #117 - Spider-Man comes face to face with his clone, then is called off to fight Judas Traveller.
Part 2 - Amazing Spider-Man (1st series) #394 - Traveller bests Spider-Man easily; then one of his followers, Chakra, gives the clone a choice: save Spider-Man, or let him die and take his life.
Part 3 - Spider-Man (1st series) #51 - Ben Reilly (the clone) puts on a Spider-Man costume and goes to save Spider-Man.
Part 4 - Spectacular Spider-Man (1st series) #217 - Traveller and his followers escape, and everyone (except the readers) believes Ben to have been killed in an explosion.

Related Issues:
Amazing Spider-Man (1st series) #149-150 - First appearance of the Spider-Man clone.Notes:
Judas Traveller first appeared in Web of Spider-Man #117.
Scrier first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man (1st series) #394.
A mysterious figure had been lurking around Peter and his loved ones for several months prior to this story. In this story this is revealed to have been Ben Reilly.