Marvel Masterworks #357

Plot

Collects Spider-Woman (1978-1983 1st Series) #39-50, The Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) #240-241, and The Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) Annual #10. Cover by Steve Leialoha.

Jessica Drew (A.K.A. Spider-Woman) has migrated up the left coast to San Francisco, and her adventures are about to escalate to a whole new level! The Yakuza have infiltrated the SFPD and marked Spider-Woman for death, while the mystic Morgan Le Fay seeks out Jessica with revelations about her connection to the demonic Darkhold! And things get personal in a saga featuring the Silver Samurai and Viper that has shocking implications for our hero's parentage! Chris Claremont and Steve Leialoha then make way for the new creative team of Ann Nocenti and Brian Postman. Their run closes out Spider-Woman's original series with her untimely demise - but death is not the end when you have the Avengers as friends!