Last week, I bought the issue of Secret Wars where Spider-Man first encounters the symbiote and gets his black costume. Of course, even though it's touted on the cover, like all good cliffhanger-media, the actual plot of the story has nothing to do with that, and the cover image is only fulfilled on the very last page. But it was still a very good issue and made me go back and try to find out what the Secret Wars were all about.