Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt
Spider-Man: Kraven's Last hunt is a Spider-Man comic special invented by JM DeMatteis and Mike Zecks. The story appeared individually in the Web of Spider-Man 31-32, Amazing Spider-Man 293-294, and Spectacular Spider-Man 131-132.
action
Kraven, the hunter senses that he is no longer the youngest and that his end is imminent. But he is not ready to go yet, because one thing does not leave him alone. When Spider-Man swings over the rooftops of New York one day, Kraven throws a net over him and then shoots him with a rifle. He then held a small funeral for his enemy in the garden of his country house and buried him personally. Then he puts on a costume like Spider-Man and goes on a hunt for criminals. But he is much more brutal than the real superhero because he even kills some of the gangsters. Mary-Jane, who is attacked by two men while searching for her husband and rescued by Kraven, realizes that this is not Peter. Now Kraven wants to accept the last challenge and fight against the mutant rat Vermin , whom Spider-Man was once only able to defeat with the help of Captain America . In costume, he tracks down Vermin in the sewers and defeats him in a tough fight. Then he takes him to his country house. At the same time, Spider-Man comes out of his grave and recognizes from the date on the tombstone that he was there for two weeks. When he tracks down Kraven and confronts him, Kraven explains that he only stunned him so he knew he would be defeated by him. He also temporarily assumed his identity to show that he was better than the real Spider-Man. He leads Spider-Man into the trophy room where Vermin is locked up. He lets both fight each other until Vermin takes flight. Before Spider-Man chases him, Kraven explains that he would keep his promise: "Tonight, Kraven the hunter hunted for the last time."
While Spider-Man chases and fights Vermin, Kraven commits suicide by shooting himself in the head with a rifle. Before that, he notifies the police, who he leaves a complete confession with photos that are supposed to relieve Spider-Man. After a fight in the sewers, Vermin escapes upstairs. But the day has already dawned there and all the city noise scares him. Spider-Man ties him up with his net and takes him to Reed Richards , who is supposed to help him. Shortly afterwards Peter arrives at home, where he is happily awaited by Mary-Jane. Meanwhile, Kraven is buried in the garden of his country house with the words: "HE DIES IN HONOR".
Emergence
JM DeMatteis originally wanted to write a Wonderman story in which he was defeated and buried alive by the Grim Reaper. Although this story was rejected by Tom De Falco , DeMatteis kept the rough story in mind. A few years later he wanted to turn the story into a Batman story, but the plot would have overlapped too much with Alan Moore's Batman: The Killing Joke . So he wanted to write the story with Hugo Strange as the villain who was supposed to assume Batman's identity, but the version was also rejected. Eventually DeMatteis decided to use Spider-Man for the story, which was also finally accepted by Jim Owsley . At first, DeMatteis wanted to invent a villain of his own specifically for this special. But when he read in a Marvel dictionary that Kraven was Russian, it inspired him as a Dostoevsky fan.
publication
This comic was published in German by Panini as a one-shot volume in 2007 . In 2013 it was re-released for sale as the seventh volume in the official Marvel comic book collection.
In 1998, the story of Marvel Germany was published as # 2 in the Marvel Exclusive series, including a foreword by Stan Lee.