of Apocalypse" story arc, with Web of Scarlet Spider continuing for an additional two months after the other titles returned. Special one-shot issues and miniseries: Spider-Man: Maximum Clonage Alpha #1 Spider-Man: Maximum Clonage Omega #1 Spider-Man: The Lost Years #1-3, 0 Spider-Man: The Final Adventure #1-4 Spider-Man: The Osborn Journal #1 Spider-Man: The Parker Years #1 Spider-Man: Redemption #1-4 Spider-Man: The Jackal Files #1 Spider-Man: The Clone Journal #1 Spider-Man: Funeral for an Octopus #1-3 Venom: Along Came a Spider #1-4 Spider-Man/Punisher: Family Plot #1-2 Spider-Man: Dead Man's Hand #1 Spider-Man: 101 Ways to End the Clone Saga #1 X-Men/Spider-Man #3 What If? #30, 86 The third Clone Saga A third Clone Saga was published in mid-2021, starring Miles Morales instead of Peter Parker. The story arc ran from Miles Morales: Spider-Man issue #25 to #28, after being previously foreshadowed in issue #24, where Miles was kidnapped by a mysterious villainous known as Assessor to be used as a test subject for his cloning experiments. Assessor ends up creating three clones of Miles: Selim (a ruthless leader who wields pair of daggers and who perfectly resembles Miles, but changes his hairstyle to differentiate from the original Miles), Mindspinner (a deformed clone with six spider-like arms and six eyes with which he can disrupt people's mind, and who speaks in limited sentences), and Shift (a shape-shifting clone who not only also has Miles' default looks, but also inherit part of Miles' goodness). Miles eventually convinces Shift to reform and turn on his brothers, later inspiring Mindspinner to do the same. Left to fight Miles alone, Selim creates a massive Venom Blast that kills him, as well as Mindspinner, leaving Shift as the only surviving clone. During the "Miles Morales: Beyond" storyline, it is eventually revealed that the cloning of Miles was actually a set-up by the Beyond Corporation, the same company who made Ben Reilly's new Spider-Man suit, contracting the Slingers to work for them, imprisoning one of Spider-Man's former and current rogues, hiring supervillains, and attempt to kill Peter Parker, Miles, and Ben Reilly should the latter defect from the company. Production and development controversy Conception The second Clone Saga sprang from Marvel Comics's determination to produce a strong Spider-Man "event" story that would rival DC Comics' "The Death of Superman" and "Batman: Knightfall," both of which sold extremely well. Spider-Man editor Mark Bernardo said "Marching orders we were given