Probably not! Same team as last month for the first time in a while for this book.
The plan is to stow away in a plane’s baggage compartment, which is very cold. I’m pretty sure he’s done this before and should know better, but I can’t immediately bring it to mind. Rather improbably webbing his way off the extended landing gear and onto a church steeple before the plane lands, Spidey finds himself in the ancestral home of Dr. Doom. Pretty sure Doom’s not home, tho. I believe this is the same time he was taking over the alternate reality he & everyone else was in during Heroes Reborn in an event called “Doomsday.” Pretty sure this is all a fake out. But we’ll see, I don’t remember this stuff too well. As he swinging around recapping how MJ is dead and all, and how the voice on the phone said she was being held in Doom’s castle, he approached said castle, hoping to sneak in and out without being detected.
In short order, Spider-Man finds some rebels attacking Castle Doom, and being assailed by Doombots, and tries to rescue them. He saves a young woman, but her dad, apparently the leader, is captured, and then Spidey’s hit with “some sort of psycho-neural net!” which takes him down, which… sure sounds like a thing.
Ads tell me this was a big month at Marvel, as the aforementioned Paul Jenkins run on Hulk began (existing artist Ron Garney hung on for much of that, as I recall), Joe Quesada took over Iron Man as writer, which a story that I think leads to Tony revealing his identity to the world and becoming Secretary of State?, and Dan Jurgens and John Romita, Jr. beginning an epic Thor vs. Thanos battle that would be Romita, Jr.’s swansong on the title once it ended. Busy time.
That’s somehow the girl from the castle, and she seems younger in every panel as she explains Doom has seemed to become more brutal lately and that led to this latest rebellion, and how she knows all about the American “uber-heroes” and has always known they’d come to help one day, and now they have. Well, he has. So, he sneaks back to the castle, and doesn’t trip any alarms or anything as he goes inside, now set on finding MJ and the girl’s dad.
Spider-Man was unusually silly in this. Maybe they’re trying to communicate that he’s kind of going over the edge, but it mostly read like the script for an episode of the 80s Spider-Man cartoon. Just goofy. At least part 2 of this story will look cooler…