Marvel Wizard Comics Slingers Vol. 1 #0 With Spider-Man Preview 1998

This issue acts as the origin launch for the Slingers, a group of four young heroes who each inherit one of the temporary identities Spider‑Man once used during the “Identity Crisis” storyline.

The story centers on Black Marvel, an aging Golden Age hero who recruits and trains the teens in secret. He gives each of them one of the abandoned costumes — Prodigy, Ricochet, Dusk, and Hornet — pushing them to become the kind of heroes he believes the world needs