Born to a rarified breed of Russian aristocracy, Kraven the Hunter had stalked and killed every animal known to man, and considered himself the world's best big-game hunter. It was this confidence that brought him to New York years ago, in an obsessive quest to hunt what he considered the city's greatest prey: Spider-Man. But his target eluded him time and again, mocking him at every turn. Now, after years of crushing defeats against the web-slinger, Kraven has hatched one last plan to best Spider-Man. In a stunning instant of shocking violence, Kraven stands finally triumphant over Peter Parker's seemingly dead body. And to prove that he is the hero's master...Kraven will pull on his costume and become him! Experience the classic, genre-defining Spider-Man shocker like never before in this new adaptation!

Xeric-Award winning graphic novelist Neil Kleid authored NINETY CANDLES, a graphic novella about life, death, legacy and comics, as well as BROWNSVILLE and THE BIG KAHN for NBM Publishing. He has written for nearly every publisher in the comic book industry, adapted Jack London’s CALL OF THE WILD into sequentials for Penguin Books/Puffin Graphics, did the opposite for Marvel Comics’ seminal Spider-Man storyline “Kraven’s Last Hunt”, and is co-authoring (with creator-writer Brian Michael Bendis) THE SECRET HISTORY OF DEENA PILGRIM, the first original prose novel set in the universe of Powers, the hit comic/TV show by Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. Along with artists Jake Allen and Frank Reynoso, he authors KINGS AND CANVAS, a digital comic book series appearing on Comixology from Monkeybrain Publishing. By day, Neil is the Art Director for the Topps Company’s digital suite of trading card apps. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and children, where he roots for the Tigers, grills like a king, writes like a champ.

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