Amazing Spider-Man #16

Written by Dan Slott, Christos Gage
Penciled by Giuseppe Camuncoli
Cover by Alex Ross
Release Date: Aug 10, 2016


   While Jay Jameson sits in a hospital bed recuperating, doctors and guests surround the room telling him his prognosis. Jonah blames Peter Parker's jet setting ways as the reason for his father's illness, as Dr. Clarkson from New U Technologies walks in and explains that there's an experimental way to save Jay although it's expensive. Pete offers to pay any price but Jonah refuses, saying his father doesn't deserve to be someone's guinea pig.
   Pete is flying to a meeting on the west coast and reviewing the remarkable New U internal organ replicating technological advancements as Anna Maria breaks in and tells him the Parker Industries Plant in Oklahoma has mysteriously exploded, trapping some of his employees inside. Pete orders the plane be turned around immediately and heads to the plant to save them. Meanwhile it's revealed that the culprit behind New U is the Jackal, working with The Lizard and his scientist daughter and using Electro as a willing test subject. Spider-Man safely rescues the trapped employees including critically-injured Jerry Salteres, who he whisks away to a hospital where he finds out he needs multiple organ transplants to survive. Pete calls Dr. Clarkson and tells her to get to work on whatever it will take to save the man, and the Jackal silently orders her to do it, giving him a taste of the "magic" that New U can perform.
   Jerry makes an astonishing recovery and while visiting him, Peter's Spider-Sense is triggered, indicating some massive danger that he can't seem to pinpoint the reason for. Meanwhile, Jonah agrees to Dr. Clarkson's life saving procedure, willing to pay any price. Dr. Clarkson reveals that she's prepared a demonstration to show Jonah, to prove that New U has virtually no limitations by bringing in Jonah's long dead wife Marla, to which he is clearly shocked and amazed.

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