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"The Gauntlet" and "Grim Hunt" are 2009–2010 comic book storylines published by Marvel Comics. Despite being more issues, "The Gauntlet" was solicited as leading up to the "Grim Hunt" story, and the two storylines are interconnected. Written by The Amazing Spider-Man architects (Mark Waid, Marc Guggenheim, Fred Van Lente and Joe Kelly), "The Gauntlet" is not a strict event or storyline; it is the branding that indicates the direction of Spider-Man's life. In effect it is an event similar to Dark Reign only focusing on Spider-Man and his circle. "Grim Hunt" directly follows "The Gauntlet" and acts as a sequel of sorts to "Kraven's Last Hunt". The storyline received generally positive reviews. Premise The story features many old Spider-Man villains: Sandman, Electro, Chameleon, Mysterio, Hammerhead, Lizard, Morbius, the Living Vampire and Rhino as well as appearances by Deadpool, Scorpion II, Vulture (Jimmy Natale), and Juggernaut. The Gauntlet is basically the over-arching theme of the Spidey stories starting in November. It's built of individual stories bring back Spidey's classic enemies. So it's not some 18-part story, where you're going to see "The Gauntlet Part 7" and "Part 8" and so on. What it is is sort of a branding for the level of conflict building in Spider-Man's life. The classic villains returning one after the other, but they're not necessarily working together. There's not some secret mastermind behind it all, bringing them all together. The fact that it's so relentless and that these battles and fights build throughout several months is going to have a cost for Peter Parker, and perhaps someone is going to take advantage of that. Plot summary The Gauntlet preludes A revamped Doctor Octopus temporarily takes over New York City as Ana Kravinoff captures Madame Web. The Chameleon returns and is then recruited by Sasha Kravinoff after his defeat by Spider-Man. Ana Kravinoff tortures and drugs Madame Web to find out information about Spider-Man, then she recruits Diablo after Spider-Man defeats him. Deadpool is hired by Ana Kravinoff to distract Spider-Man while she captures Mattie Franklin. This occurs when Spider-Man is fighting a female version of the Stilt-Man. The Gauntlet Power to the People Electro's powers are deteriorating and he has been left in ruin by the stock market. Seeing that Dexter Bennett has secured a bailout from the federal government to save the Daily Bugle, he starts a public and social media movement to turn the people of New York against Dexter Bennett and the New York Stock Exchange for their greed. Because of this, Electro is believed to be a hero to the people of New York and, when Spider-Man tries to fight him, they turn against him. Electro has been offered a very expensive cure for his declining health by the Mad Thinker, but is unable to pay for it. To get the money for the cure, he makes a deal with Dexter Bennett in exchange for calling off the campaign against him. The Mad Thinker attempts to cure Electro, turning him into an artificial electrical thunderbolt, but Spider-Man intervenes. Electro uses this power to betray Bennett. Spider-Man eventually defeats him, but not before Bennett is crippled by falling debris and the Daily Bugle is destroyed. Electro is then shown in the epilogue running into Sasha Kravinoff and the Chameleon in his new jail cell. Keemia's Castle Spider-Man helps Carlie Cooper with an investigation involving three murders and a missing girl named Keemia Alvarado. Someone manages to steal three top secret files about the three murders. Spider-Man traces the murderer to Governor's Island, where he finds Keemia. Sandman is revealed to be on the island and he proclaims himself as Keemia's father. In the very next issue, a few of the copies of Sandman, after confronting Spider-Man, confess that they are the actual killer of the mother and two others. Sandman, shocked that his own duplicates could free themselves from his control, begins battling his other duplicates. Spider-Man then obliterates Sandman with a fan, and gets back to Manhattan with Keemia. Keemia is then taken into foster care against her and Peter's will. Rage of The Rhino A new villain in a Rhino suit is told by Sasha Kravinoff that he can gain honor by killing Aleksei Sytsevich, the original Rhino. However, Aleksei no longer has his Rhino suit and is living with his new wife Oksana. Meanwhile, Peter begins working full-time at the Front Line and on his first story the new Rhino attacks Aleksei. Spider-Man fights the new Rhino to protect Aleksei and is defeated. He later meets up with Aleksei, who managed to get away and convinces him not to put his Rhino suit back on. Mysterioso The Maggia is on the brink of destruction due to the loss of Silvermane during his gang's shoot-out against Owl's gang, Bruno Karnelli's bad leadership, and fighting with Mister Negative, as well as Hammerhead siding with him. The Maggia hires Mysterio to help them get out of their problems, but he accepts only to serve his purposes. In a fight between the Maggia, Mister Negative, and Spider-Man, most of the Maggia die and Mysterio loses all of the money he gained through this endeavor. Afterwards, Mysterio is approached by Chameleon (disguised as Jean DeWolff) who tells Mysterio that he has some friends that are "dying to meet him." Out for Blood Black Cat helps Spider-Man to steal the vial of Peter's blood that Mister Negative has and replaces it with a vial of pig blood, so Mister Negative is unaware of losing the ability to kill Spider-Man through his Devil's Breath formula. It is the Life Spider-Man discovers that Morbius was behind the theft of his blood and was using to it to try to find a cure for the zombie virus that has infected Jack Russell. Spider-Man volunteers to give him more blood. In the issue, there is also a side-story "The Five Stages of Grief" written by The Spectacular Spider-Man TV series co-creator Greg Weisman. It shows Flash Thompson dealing with the five stages of grief for losing his legs during the Iraq War. Scavengers Electro breaks the new Vulture out of prison. He wants revenge on the person who turned him into a monster, and he is told that J. Jonah Jameson did this to him. The mob starts pulling up fake claims that Jameson had created the new Vulture and the media gets a hold of it. Spider-Man finds out and arrives at City Hall just in time to save Jameson. The Vulture manages to escape when Spider-Man runs out of web fluid. The Vulture learns the truth about Jameson and the mob and attacks the gangsters. Meanwhile, Peter decides to edit a photo to prove Jameson's innocence. However, Jameson reveals that the photo is a fake and fires Peter in public, who ends up running out of City Hall. Peter wonders how things could get worse for him as the Vulture flies overhead. Endangered Species In a continuation of the story "Rage of The Rhino" from The Amazing Spider-Man #617. Aleksei and his wife try to go into hiding in pro.... Discover the Fred Van Lente Joe Cooper popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Fred Van Lente Joe Cooper books.