Peter Parker had to go, says Spider-Man writer Brian Michael Bendis

Brian Michael Bendis has said that Peter Parker had to be killed off to make way for a new Spider-Man.

The writer told Newsarama that there is no room in the Ultimate Universe for two Spider-Men as nobody could have competed with Parker.

Bendis said: "Primarily Joe [Quesada] and I - this was back when Joe was editor-in-chief - would have this discussion. First you get the idea, if you really wanted to make this work, Peter's got to go.

"If anybody else was being Spider-Man, they're competing with Peter Parker as Spider-Man, and you just can't compete with that. Peter would have to go."

Parker met his demise in Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #160 during a battle with the Green Goblin. Marvel has since announced that a mixed-raced teenager named Miles Morales will succeed him in the role.

"A kid on a discovery, trying to figure out why to be Spider-Man. It's a big journey for him. It's a character going almost against his entire personality to do this, so a lot has to be discovered," Millar added.

Morales debuts as Spider-Man in this week's Ultimate Fallout #4.

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