Ultimate Spider-Man: Warriors Part 1
Issue: #79
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Pencils: Mark Bagley
Inker: Scott Hanna
Colors: J.D. Smith

Two shadowy figures are watching a recording of a news clip announcing the indictment of six men on racketeering charges. One of the accused is attorney Walter Dini, whose lawyer is protesting Dini’s innocence. As the television sound is turned off, one of the viewers asks what the broadcast has to do with him. The other man, Allan Silvermane, proposes an alliance between them to finally take out the Kingpin while he’s dealing with the indictments of his men. Silvermane’s companion listens to the proposal, then comments there’s only one part of it that he doesn’t like. He seizes Silvermane and breaks the older man’s neck, declaring that he’s smart enough to take out the Kingpin without Silvermane’s help.

The action moves to Peter Parker sitting in class, listening to a teacher complain about the fact that none of the students did the homework assignment, which was to watch a DVD. Peter is much more focused on his own thoughts: he’s stuck sitting next to Mary Jane Watson, which is agony because he’s just broken up with her. He reviews his reasoning for the break-up – his secret life as Spider-Man makes it too dangerous for them to be dating. One of his enemies might hurt MJ to get to him. Then he convinces himself that MJ will be dating someone new by the end of the week, and he’ll have to watch them and feel even more miserable about the situation. Peter gets up and walks out of the classroom, telling the teacher he’s going to the bathroom. The teacher tells him to sit, and Peter responds that there’s nothing the teacher can do to him – he could teach this class himself. As he goes swinging away in costume, Peter wonders if he might not be better off staying Spider-man and give up being Peter Parker.

Walter Dini wakes Kingpin Wilson Fisk up to tell him that Silvermane is dead. However, it’s unknown who killed him. Dini points out that Silvermane would have been the first to try taking over Fisk’s crime empire, but is now out of the picture. He suggests that Fisk needs to lay low until the indictments are dropped. But Fisk insists on contacting Elektra Nachios – he wants to remind his competitors that he’s still a powerful man.

In a warehouse on the NYC docks, a group of men are arguing about Tivo boxes when the same man who killed Silvermane interrupts them. One of the men identifies him as Hammerhead, who was thought dead. Hammerhead replies that he’s come back; he has with him the Enforcers, the team of three who used to work for the Kingpin. When Hammerhead offers the group in the warehouse a chance to join his operation, the leader shoots him in the forehead. To the surprise of almost everyone, Hammerhead gets up and orders the Enforcers to shoot back. Fancy Dan, the Enforcer’s expert shot, kills the group’s boss and Hammerhead makes the rest an offer – join him, or leave town and don’t come back. Several men flee the warehouse. Hammerhead takes one of Fancy Dan’s guns and fires into a set of gasoline drums, which explode and start a fire. Spider-man is swinging by and goes in to help. He sees a figure on the roof of a nearby building. When he investigates, he is struck, kicked, and slammed against the roof. His attacker, who wears an all-white outfit with a pair of quarter moons on his head and chest, calls himself the Moon Knight.

Submitted By: Seldes Katne