The Amazing Spider-Man by J. Michel Straczynski #5

Plot

NEW BEGINNINGS

Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man, and the estranged love of his life, Mary Jane Watson, continue to come to terms with their recent reconciliation. As Peter deals with matters of the heart, his web-swinging alter ego faces a new, superhuman threat: Digger, the gamma-powered composite of the infamous Vegas Thirteen, killed forty years ago by mob boss Morris Forelli. With danger lurking around every corner, Spider-Man must call upon all his astonishing abilities to protect Forelli and the mobster's unsuspecting daughter...not to mention stay alive.

Plus: Peter faces the unintended consequences of his heroic actions as one of his students searches desperately for her missing brother - who Spider-Man hand delivered to the police.

Collecting Amazing Spider-Man #51-56 written by J. Michael Straczynski with Fiona Avery and with art by John Romita Jr.