Warning: contains spoilers for Amazing Spider-Man #78!

For most of his history, Spider-Man often had to face supervillains alone, attacking enemies and facing evil without a support system or even friends (because the few friends Peter Parker had never knew he was Spider-Man). But with the release fo the new series Spider-Man Beyond (already part of the Amazing Spider-Man title), a new man wears the mask: Ben Reilly, the long-forgotten clone of Peter Parker. This new Spider-Man works with an entire support staff in the form of a company - which is willing to risk his life as they actively want Ben to be bitten by Morbius, the Living Vampire.

In Spider-Man: Beyond, Ben Reilly works for the Beyond Corporation, a company that has bought up all of Parker Industries (Peter's old company which he ran into the ground; he was not exactly the best businessman). Thus, the Beyond Corporation owns all the rights to Spider-Man - and is even willing to sue other costumes heroes like Miles Morales who "illegally" use Spider-Man's likeness and name). Ben finds himself fighting Peter's old villains, including Morbius who savagely bites Ben in the neck at the end of the previous issue.

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A struggling Ben is rushed to the Beyond headquarters where doctors remove his suit (a highly-advanced piece of equipment which is armored and radiation-shielded, but couldn't stop Morbius' teeth in battle) and observe the damage. The support staff is ordered to prepare an antitoxin when one of them wonders out loud "...what effects might we see if we don't administer the antitoxin at this time?" Doctor Bailey is stunned that he would even be asked this question - but the readers are not, as they've witnessed the Beyond Corporation slowly take control of Ben's life over the course of the last few issues.

Unlike Peter Parker who had the freedom to choose when and where he could fight, the Beyond Corporation has Ben at their beck and call. He must answer their summons every time, because to the corporation, Ben isn't a superhero so much as an employee. Perhaps the Beyond scientists wonder if Ben could acquire vampiric abilities through Morbius' bite, thus making him more powerful...and an even more valuable company asset. For all of his troubles, Peter Parker never had to deal with inane superiors at the workplace (J. Jonah Jameson notwithstanding).

At the conclusion of the brief argument, the antitoxin is administered and Ben Reilly eventually recovers from the vampire bite. Perhaps acquiring Morbius' powers would actually have a beneficial effect in the end. But the fact that his bosses were willing to compromise Ben's heath for the sake of experimentation doesn't bode well for Spider-Man. 

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