Spider-Boy #5

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I thought when the second clone saga happened, they revealed that Evolutionary was jealous of Warren for cracking the secrets of cloning and so he made up all that stuff and pretended cloning didn't exist.

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More or less.

There have been a bunch of retcons.

The late 80s retcon was that there were no clones and that Miles Warren had genetically modified Joyce Delaney and Anthony Serba (Miles’ lab assistant) to appear to be copies of Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker.

I’m a little fuzzy on how that would have reconciled with the original Carrion likely being either a Miles Warren clone (I think that’s what they stuck with) or Anthony Serba (how can there be two of him if cloning isn’t real?) but it doesn’t matter because …

The late 90s retcon is that Miles killed Anthony, Joyce never existed (except for as an alias for one of the Gwen clones), Miles have been the High Evolutionary’s lab assistant before they had a falling out, and the late 80s retcon was a lie by the HE to cover up the existence of cloning and just generally discredit Miles.

(Also, Miles’ wife was killed by a New Men Jackal and THAT’s why he snapped; not because Norman Osborn killed the student he was crushing on. Yeah, doesn’t make sense to me either.)

Obviously, there were a LOT of twists and turns in the second Clone Saga and I glossed over some details that don’t really matter but I THINK the retcon from Scarlet Spider Unlimited #1 is still the current version of events.