I trust Slott. But not a fan of such events. Usually takes place in some alt realities and almost never have any lasting impact. Good thing is - Pete might team up with both Ult. Spider-men. Also yay for Morlun.
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Isn't there like a coin flip's chance Ben is the original Peter Parker? I remember really digging into this at one point, but the results are a bit hazy in my mind.
In any case, in early ASM, Pete had an exact copy and one of them died. The survivor realized he had no way of knowing if he was the original, and they left it at that. Between that and the clone nonsense, I'd say there's only about a 25% chance Peter Parker is actually the same physical human his mother gave birth to.
Ah, cool. In that case, it's still a coin flip with the early issue (it's ASM issue # is <100 for sure...the dead one gets crushed by a circus tent pole or something similar).