All Clones Are Not Created Equal

Not all clone stories work out well– I’d say that most are pretty lame, to be honest. While we end up sometimes with a Kaine Parker Scarlet Spider who is like Spidey but is a bad man trying to be good, we also can end up with a Ben Reilly Scarlet Spider, who is sort…

Clones, Clones, Everywhere Clones

Marvel has been cloning its characters since before Star Wars ever appeared on screen. I haven’t been able to pinpoint the earliest clone to appear in print, but Spider-Man’s first of many, many clones was Ben Reilly who appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #149 in October of 1975. That was a year and a half before…