Issues 46-53

Cats and Kings

Kingpin has returned to New York and is supporting an anti-Spider-Man DA canidate Sam Bullit. The Daily Bugle's editor J. Jonah Jameson supports Bullit, firing Peter when he speaks out about it. Reporter Ben Urich is sent to interview Bullit, where he questions him about his connections to the Kingpin. Bullit threatens Urich, but the reporter secretly recorder their conversation, which he plays for Jameson. After recieving a very angry phone call from Aunt May, Jameson turns on Bullit and exposes his ties, resulting in a visit from Kingpin's henchmen: The Enforcers. Jameson is saved by Spider-man, with the former paying a visit to Peter later and gives him his job back.

Spider-Man encounters a thief known as The Black Cat stealing an ancient tablet, but is unable to apprehend her. When MJ is at Peter's house, her father bursts in, having discoving MJ's diary mentioning her incident with the Goblin, and grounds her. Later, Spider-Man is able to find Black Cat on a rooftop, where their conversation is interrupted by Elektra, who was sent by Kingpin to retrieve the tablet. Both women disappear during the fight. MJ's mother wakes the Parkers in the middle of the night, telling them MJ has run away. Peter finds MJ and consults her about her abusive father. Spider-Man learns that Black Cat's father was a thief that was betrayed and killed by Kingpin, with Felicia seeking revenge against him. Black Cat disposes of the tablet, but is seemingly killed by Elektra, with Spider-Man unable to find her body. Fisk visits his comatose wife, vowing to continue his efforts to finding a cure.

Did You Know?

• J. Jonah Jameson’s son, John Jameson was an astronaut like his mainline counterpart, however he apparently died during an Apollo Space Shuttle mission. His mainline counterpart was also an astronaunt with his trips to space giving him powers on two seperate occasions. The first resulted from an alien virus that give him super-strenght, where he took the alias Captian Jupiter before the virus burned out. The second time he retrieved a gemstone on the moon that allowed him to transform into a Werewolf, known as Man-Wolf.
• It’s heavily implied that this version of Black Cat possesses bad luck powers briefly displayed by her mainline counterpart. Her Earth 616 counterpart aquired them briefly from the Kingpin for a short time, but it's unclear how or why this version posseses these abilities.
• Ultimate Elektra, previously established in the Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra series, has a notable time gap where it’s not clear how or why she became a villain in Ultimate Spider-Man. Her origins are similar to her Earth-616 counterpart, meeting Matt Murdock in college and her father being murdered, but there's a large time gap between that life and her current one as Kingpin's enforcer.