Mysterio, the Scorpion, and the Rhino.
"The Power of Doctor Octopus"/"Sub-Zero For Spidey"
Peter Parker is on assignment for J. Jonah Jameson, investigating mystery
lights outside of the New York City limits for possible Daily Bugle
pictures, when a rock avalanche forces his car off of a road and onto a tree
part-way down a cliff. Peter changes to Spiderman and uses webbing to gently
bring his car to a landing at the base of the cliff, where he notices light
emanating from an opening in the rock, revealing a gadget-filled cave
wherein the multi-mechanical-armed Doctor Octopus is scheming to trigger a
series of underground explosions in Manhattan. Octopus surprises Spidey by
dropping an entangling chain around the super-hero, then confines Spidey
behind a descending set of jail cell bars. When Peter is overdue at the
Bugle, Betty Brant drives her car to the same location and is also captured
by Octopus. With his back turned from Spidey and Brant, Octopus initiates
his diabolical plan as proof of his power to devastate New York. Spidey
sprays his webbing into the jail cell locks that imprison himself and Betty,
the webbing serves as a key, and Betty is free to run for help, while Spidey
fights Octopus, shooting webbing at Octopus' glasses and blinding the
villain so that he can be webbed to a wooden beam in the cave. The police,
summoned to the scene by Betty, arrest Octopus, and Betty is reunited with
Peter, who tells to her that he has been looking for a mechanic to repair
his car... A group of giant ice creatures situate in New York Harbor in
their damaged, diamond-like spaceship and abduct Dr. Smartyr, a noted
scientist. Spidey boards the alien space vessel, passes through a maze of
perilous, icy tunnels, and finds the aliens' control room, where Smartyr, an
expert in propulsion, is helping the creatures, friendly Plutonians who were
forced to land on Earth for repairs to their spaceship. With his new
invention, a space warp control device, Smartyr assists the Plutonians to
launch their spacecraft out of New York Harbor, leave Earth, and return to
Pluto. But neither Smartyr nor Spidey will tell anyone about their encounter
with aliens.
"Where Crawls the Lizard"/"Electro the Human Lightning Bolt"
Reports of a lizard-man terrorizing the Everglades bring Spiderman to
Florida, where he finds that a Doctor Conner, by testing a swamp fever serum
upon himself, has changed into an intelligent lizard. The lizard that Conner
has become intends to use a beaker containing the serum, which it
confiscates from Conner's laboratory, to convert alligators into reptiles
that share its level of intelligence, to follow it in conquest of humanity.
Spidey applies his knowledge of science to conceive an antidote to the serum
and confronts Conner's lizard alter-ego at an old, Spanish fort, webbing the
bipedal reptile before it can release the serum into the Florida swamps, and
forcing it to drink the antidote that changes it back to Conner, who does
not remember any of his acts as the Lizard but is immensely grateful for
Spidey's help, as are his wife and son... Electro, a villain capable of
emitting energy bolts from his hands, robs J. Jonah Jameson's wall safe as
the beginning of a crime wave which is investigated by Spiderman and ends in
a confrontation with Electro in an amusement park. By his reflections,
Spidey draws Electro's fire in a hall of mirrors, then startles Electro with
an electricity-negating, asbestos-laced webbing dropped from above onto the
villain. Spidey gives the webbed Electro to Jameson for the New York Police
Department (the NYPD) to apprehend.
"The Menace of Mysterio"
A villain named Mysterio robs the Midtown Museum in the guise of Spiderman,
with intent of ruining the web-swinger's reputation. Mysterio then forms a
mercenary agreement with J. Jonah Jameson, who has printed a front-page
story in the Daily Bugle pronouncing Spiderman guilty of the museum heist,
to rid the world of Spiderman. Jameson has always believed Spidey to be a
duplicitous menace and deemed all of the masked crime-fighter's captures of
villains to be a deception to gain the city's confidence, yet is content to
ally with the even more preposterously garbed and clearly greedy Mysterio.
Mysterio challenges Spidey to a duel atop the Brooklyn Bridge, observed from
below by Jameson and by the NYPD, who want to apprehend Spiderman for the
Midtown Museum thievery. Though Spidey seems to be foiled by Mysterio's
ability to dissolve into clouds of smoke, he maintains that Mysterio's power
of illusion is artificial while his spider-power is natural. Spidey executes
a clever illusion of his own. He appears to fall to his death from bridge-
top into the East River but, unseen by anyone, webs himself to the bridge's
underside, then dives from there into the water and swims ashore. The next
confrontation with Mysterio will be on Spidey's terms. As Peter, he places a
spider-shaped tracing device on Mysterio's cape when Mysterio is visiting
Jameson at the Bugle to demand payment for destroying Spiderman. Jameson
only gives to Mysterio half of the money, promising the remainder when
Spidey's body is found. Spidey locates and surprises Mysterio at a
television studio, where Mysterio works as a stunt-man, and tricks the
bragger into admitting on cassette tape to robbing the Midtown Museum.
Mysterio and Spidey battle on a Wild West set, until Spidey slides down the
handhold of a flight of stairs and kicks Mysterio, then webs him for police
capture, with the tape recording of his confession sure to convict him. A
humiliated Jameson is webbed in his office by Spidey until he finally
consents to print a formal apology to the web-swinger.
"The Sky is Falling"/"Captured By J. Jonah Jameson"
The Vulture, a man-bird villain, possesses an electronic device inducing
huge flocks of birds to join him in attacking New York City. Unless the
mayor bestows to the Vulture 2 million dollars, the Vulture promises to
continue his reign of terror from the sky. Scientifically astute and
resourceful Spidey drops a device that disrupts the bird-controlling
transmissions, onto the Vulture's head, and provokes the bird-man into
giving to the birds the attack signal, which causes the confused birds to
attack the Vulture and force the flying criminal to flee, without the 2
million dollars that he tried to extort... Jameson employs a brilliant
scientist named Henry Smythe in an effort to catch and unmask Spiderman by
means of a relentless robot that speaks in Jameson's voice and has an image
of Jameson's face in its head. After a lengthy chase that leaves Spidey
fatigued, short of breath, and easily captured by the robot, Spidey uses the
suction power of his fingers to open the lid to the robot's control centre
and removes the spider-detecting circuitry that initially put the robot onto
his trail, and when Jameson and Smythe arrive at the place of Spidey's
apparent capture, Jameson removes the mask of what he thinks is Spiderman
and finds a straw dummy in a Spiderman costume, in the arms of a non-
functional robot. The frustrated Jameson never wants to see Smythe or
Smythe's robot ever again.
"Never Step On a Scorpion"/"Sands of Crime"
Jameson's latest Spiderman-catching scheme involves a genetically mutated
humanoid scorpion created by a scientist named Dr. Stillwell, but the
Scorpion's allegiances are fickle, the monster soon declares Jameson as his
number one enemy, and Spiderman must rescue his newspaper-publishing nemesis
from the beast's murderous clutches. Fortunately, the Scorpion is vulnerable
to Spidey's webbing, and Spidey captures the Scorpion for police capture,
not once but twice, after the Scorpion escapes prison and attempts again to
kill Jameson... The Sandman, a villain capable of dissolving into a moving
heap of sand, slips under the defense mechanisms at a police-guarded exhibit
and robs the Goliath Diamond. When the Sandman demands a two million dollar
ransom for returning the diamond and specifies a rock quarry as a money-for-
diamond transfer point, Spidey arrives there with the money in a suitcase
and stickily webs the bottom of the suitcase to a rock, from which the
Sandman is thus unable to lift the suitcase. In the ensuing battle, Spidey's
makeshift web-shield deflects the boulders falling upon him from a bulldozer
controlled by the Sandman. Spidey then spins his webbing into a huge
slingshot that deflects the bulldozer's wrecking ball back at the bulldozer,
throwing the Sandman from the vehicle and into a vat of water, where the
Sandman becomes soggy and weak and drops the diamond. Spidey gives diamond
and soggy Sandman to the police.
"Diet of Destruction"/"The Witching Hour"
A gigantic, walking blast furnace that feasts on metal from lampposts, cars,
and power transformers, is loose in New York City. Spidey webs its two legs,
ties a rope around its middle, and pilots a tugboat to pull it into the
water of New York Harbor. Water douses its fire... A ghoulish villain, the
Green Goblin, plans to conjure demons of the spirit world to do his bidding
and to this end uses J. Jonah Jameson as a hypnotized medium to the evil
realm. Spidey trails the Goblin and Jameson to a cemetery to battle the
green-skinned ghoul. He webs and tips the Goblin's cauldron from which the
evil spirits are emerging. The spirits disappear as the cauldron's liquid
contents seep into the ground, and Spidey webs the Goblin. The recuperating
Jameson has no memory of any of these events.
"Kilowatt Kaper"/"The Peril of Parafino"
Electro exploits an electrical storm to recharge his energy powers and
escape jail. He hijacks the New York City power station and intends to
blackmail the city into accepting his demand of total rule. Spiderman
confronts Electro first at the power station and then in Times Square. In
Times Square, Spidey spins his special, electricity-resistant webbing
formula to form a large net, then webs a personal shield to deflect one of
Electro's bolts so that the bolt blasts a hole through a wooden ledge.
Electro, walking confidently toward Spidey, falls through the hole and into
the net, where Spidey's electricity-resistant webbing traps Electro for
police to recapture him... A convict named Red Dog Melvin escapes jail and
is granted asylum at Parafino's Wax Museum, where Red Dog is put in
suspended animation and coated with wax by fanatical wax artist Parafino,
whose advertised exhibit of Red Dog lures Spidey to the museum for a
nighttime visit. Planning to turn the web-swinger into a wax-covered
exhibit, Parafino throws an ultra-sticky wax at Spidey's hands and feet,
pinning Spidey on a pedestal. Betty Brant arrives at the museum in search
for Peter, who told to her that he was going to investigate the museum, and
Parafino captures her too. However, Spidey uses heat to his advantage, first
from a lamp above his pedestal to melt the wax on his hands (thus enabling
him to pull his feet free from the wax bonding them to the pedestal), then
by hitting with his webbing a wax temperature control that increases heat to
cause Parafino to melt! The real Parafino emerges to continue the work of
his melted wax self-image, but Red Dog reanimates and grabs Parafino, and
Spidey webs them both.
"Horn of the Rhino"
Sick with a cold, Spiderman must battle the Rhino, a powerful, horned
villain capable of ramming through trains, trucks, and submarines. Though
Peter's Aunt May forbids her ailing nephew to procure pictures for Jameson
of the Rhino's wrath, Peter leaves his bed to become Spiderman each time
that a component to a top-secret military weapon is due to arrive in New
York City, because the Rhino wants the weapon and will stop at nothing to
steal the components, three in total, coming to New York by train, airplane,
and submarine. But the sneezing Spidey is unable to stop the Rhino from
snatching the components. Finally, as the Rhino is assembling the weapon
from the three heisted components, Spidey obtains a can of pepper from Aunt
May's cupboard, finds the Rhino's hideout, a cave at the New York City Zoo,
and webs the can of pepper onto the Rhino's horn, which punctures the can,
and pepper drops in the Rhino's face so that the Rhino now too has a
sneezing handicap. An avalanche of mud falls upon the Rhino, and Spidey
bakes the mud with a heat ray to trap the horned criminal, then gains
possession of the weapon to return it to the military. The Rhino is
apprehended by the NYPD, and Peter confines himself to bed to allow Aunt May
to fully treat his cold.
"The One-Eyed Idol"/"Fifth Avenue Phantom"
Australian hunter Harley Clivendon pretends to be secret admirer of J. Jonah
Jameson and gives as a "token of (his) esteem" to the cantankerous newspaper
publisher a weird, hypnotic idol, which entrances Jameson into robbing his
own wall safe and placing the money inside of the idol for Clivendon's
aborigine helper to collect. When Spidey discovers Clivendon's scheme,
Clivendon throws a boomerang to strike Spidey unconscious and binds Spidey
beneath an elevator carriage to be crushed when the carriage reaches ground
level, but Spidey breaks his bindings to escape from the descending carriage
and confronts Clivendon. After dodging the spears hurled and bullets fired
at him by Clivendon, Spidey throws the advancing aborigine at Clivendon and
webs them both for police capture- and Jameson has his money back... The
Phantom, a faceless, hooded villain, orchestrates a trio of female robots,
all with reducing rays, to steal merchandise from Bennet's Department Store.
Intending to catch the Phantom, Spiderman trails the beautiful robots and a
stolen doll house containing the shrunken items. He is captured by one of
the robots toting a laser gun and brought to the Phantom's headquarters,
where the robots restore the merchandise to full size. Spidey springs into
action, deactivates the robots, and webs the Phantom. The police return the
stolen items to Bennet's.
"The Revenge of Dr. Magneto"/"The Sinister Prime Minister"
Dr. Magneto, a scientist with a gun capable of magnetizing and demagnetizing
various objects, plans revenge upon the world for ridiculing his theories.
He causes a rail bridge to collapse, then lifts and drops a statue from high
altitude, but Spidey arrives on the scene and prevents Magneto's schemes
from causing loss of life. Then, Spidey confronts Magneto in a museum and,
with a dense, anti-magnetic webbing, smashes Magneto's magnetizing gun. He
then webs Magneto in the usual manner and places the disgraced scientist on
a pedestal in the museum for police to apprehend... Spiderman discovers that
the visiting Prime Minister of Rutania is an imposter and must by himself
battle the identity-usurper, whose cane is a veritable arsenal! The phoney
Prime Minister, under the pretense of obtaining a multi-million dollar loan
to aid the impoverished people of his country, has duped the American
government and J. Jonah Jameson into bestowing upon him a fortune in gold
bullion. While battling the imposter Prime Minister aboard an airplane,
Spidey uses his webbing to knock the cane out of the imposter's hand and pin
it to the fuselage's wall. He webs the imposter and, with armed guards as
witnesses, removes the imposter's make-up to reveal actor Charles Cameo.
Spidey also releases the real Prime Minister alive from a trunk aboard the
airplane.
"The Night of the Villains"/"Here Comes Trubble"
Historic villains Blackbeard the Pirate, Jesse James, and the Executioner of
Paris are committing robberies in New York City, and Spidey tracks them to
their lair- Parafino's Wax Museum, where Spidey's wax-master enemy is
scheming to besiege and plunder the city with robotized wax villains. By
destroying Parafino's control box for his robots, Spidey easily foils the
wax artist's latest scheme... Miss Trubble, a book dealer obsessed with
mythology, is owner of a magical chest from which she summons a succession
of mythological figures, from centaurs to the Cyclops to Diana the Hunter-
Goddess, to commit robberies of ancient artifacts on her behalf. A curious
Spiderman, investigating Miss Trubble's bookshop, is captured in chains by
the lady's mythic minion, Great Vulcan, God of Fire, who hurls hot coals at
Spidey. Spidey dodges the thrown coals, and they hit Miss Trubble's books,
rapidly converting the nasty lady's bookshop into an inferno. By attaching
his web to the chest, Spidey breaks its power, Vulcan disappears, and Spidey
carries the unconscious Miss Trubble out of the bookstore before an
explosion.
"Spiderman Meets Dr. Noah Boddy"/"The Fantastic Fakir"
A scientist, Dr. Noah Boddy, renders himself invisible by means of a
machine, then acts to avenge himself upon Jameson, who publically maligned
his theory of invisibility. Twice, Noah Boddy tries to "frame" Jameson for
theft, of a prized painting from an art gallery and a diamond from a jewelry
store, by arranging to meet Jameson at these places, putting the lifted item
on Jameson's person, and "tipping" the police to arrive at the locales and
catch Jameson with the painting and jewel. Noah Boddy then attempts to kill
the free-on-bail Jameson in the Daily Bugle press room. Spidey interrupts
Noah Boddy's attack on Jameson and pours black ink on the press room floor
so that Noah Boddy walks through the ink to escape, leaving a shoe print
trail for Spidey to follow. A confrontation at Noah Boddy's laboratory ends
with Spidey webbing Noah Boddy, who reveals his position by training a
flame-thrower against Spidey. Police collect the invisible man inside of
Spidey's web, and Jameson is cleared of attempted theft charges... Spiderman
battles an Arabian jewel thief, whose magical flute induces animals into
attacking Spidey. Spidey boards a yacht occupied by the slinky Arab, web-
swings past the criminal, and kicks the flute out of his hand, then webs him
to end his scheme involving a dummy maharaja and a wealthy lady's sapphire.
"Return of the Flying Dutchman"/"Farewell Performance"
Reports of a legendary, flying ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman, being
sighted near Smuggler's Cove summon Spidey to the area, where his
investigation into the phantom ship's appearance leads him to a cave in
which he finds his sworn adversary, Mysterio, plotting with a pair of thugs.
The Flying Dutchman is a hoax by which Mysterio and henchmen plan to panic
the locals, so that they can easily snatch a huge treasure. With a web-
sword, Spidey out-duels Mysterio's two stooges, then plugs with his webbing
a cannon that Mysterio is about to fire at him. The cannon backfires,
throwing Mysterio backwards, and Spidey traps Mysterio with one web and the
two thugs with another web... When a Jekyll-and-Hyde poster comes to life at
the soon-to-be-demolished Castle Theatre, Spidey visits the theatre and
encounters a mischievous Blackwell the Magician, who is trying to attract
public attention to the theatre in hope of preventing its demolition. Spidey
agrees to help Blackwell by contacting the Daily Bugle's rival newspaper to
print a statement from Spidey advocating demolition and thereby prompting
influential Jameson to champion the cause of preserving the theatre.
"The Golden Rhino"/"Blueprint For Crime"
Spiderman's old enemy, the rampaging Rhino, is stealing gold bullion to mold
an auric likeness of himself. Spidey's spider-sense helps him to locate the
Rhino's hideout, where the Rhino has completed his golden statue. Spidey
falls through the weak roof of the old, wooden building, the Rhino attacks
him, and wooden beams are shattered by the reckless Rhino's horn, causing
the building's total collapse. Spidey battles the Rhino in Manhattan's
business district, with the Rhino's horn wrecking a fish and produce store
and exploding a gasoline truck. Spidey webs the Rhino and places Rhino and
Rhino statue at the entrance to the Daily Bugle for police to obtain... A
bald-headed mastermind named the Plotter employs two ridiculous criminals,
Cowboy and Ox, to steal a blueprint to a missile. When Spidey interferes, he
is lassoed by Cowboy and delivered to the "skin head" Plotter. After
defeating Cowboy and Ox by tricking Ox to collide with Cowboy so that he can
web the pair, Spidey uses an electricity-neutralizing webbing to deactivate
an electronic force field positioned around him by the Plotter, whom he webs
also.
"The Spider and the Fly"/"The Slippery Doctor Von Schlick"
Spidey chases the culprit in an attempted theft of jewels from a countess
and is surprised to find that his opponent, dressed in a black "Human Fly"
costume, also has the ability to scale walls and can cross thin wires
between buildings. The black-garbed thief escapes, then successfully robs a
visiting maharaja and an eccentric millionaire. When Spidey thinks that he
has trapped the Fly in the act of the latter theft, he is struck from behind
by the Fly's identical twin! Spidey's pursuit of the Fly Twins brings him to
an abandoned amusement park for a confrontation with his two foes, ending
with Spidey webbing the criminal pair and attaching them to a moving Ferris
wheel... Oil is being stolen in huge quantities by Dr. Von Schlick, a
chemist villain garbed in a rubber, non-stick suit and armed with petroleum-
based bubbles that he fires from his fingers to envelope Spidey. Von Schlick
is scheming to control the world with concentrated oil pellets of immense
destructive power. However, Spidey wears an oxygen mask to follow Von
Schlick through the oil slick that the slinky criminal is diverting into the
underground reservoir adjacent to his refinery-laborarory. Dressed in an
oil-proof costume, Spidey resists Von Schlick's petroleum-based bubbles,
webs Von Schlick with all-stick webbing, jumps to a water valve, and deluges
Von Schlick's refinery-laboratory with water that causes the oil-
concentration machinery to explode. Spidey and Von Schlick are geysered into
Manhattan's streets through a manhole. Spidey gives Von Schlick to the NYPD,
and Von Schlick's concentrated oil pellets are found and destroyed.
"The Vulture's Prey"/"The Dark Terrors"
The nefarious Vulture traps Jameson inside of a tower-clock and uses the
well-informed Daily Bugle publisher as a source of information on the
whereabouts of a visiting diamond merchant and the testing of military
equipment- two prospective heists for the greedy bird-man. Peter and Betty
are perplexed by Jameson's prolonged absence from work. The Vulture succeeds
in stealing a suitcase full of gems from the diamond merchant but is stopped
by Spidey from filching a military laser gun. Back at the tower-clock,
Jameson signals for help by operating a gear to disrupt the clock's
mechanisms and cause its hands and chimes to go haywire, and the Vulture,
returning from his failed attempt to heist the laser gun, angrily ties
Jameson to the clock's main wheel. Spidey arrives at the clock, surprises,
and webs the Vulture to the clock's bell, then frees Jameson and returns the
stolen gems to their rightful owner... Life-like and substantial shadows of
beasts are projected in various locations in New York City by the Phantom's
new Shadow-Scope glasses to cause panic and enable the Phantom to effect
unconstrained bank and jewelry store robberies. Spidey follows one of the
Phantom's shadows and locates the Phantom's hideout, where the Phantom tries
to turn Spidey into a shadow by training the beams of his glasses directly
onto the intrepid super-hero. Spidey shoots his webbing to remove the
glasses from the Phantom and capture the faceless, hooded criminal, whose
shadows all disappear.
"The Terrible Triumph of Doctor Octopus"/"Magic Malice"
Doctor Octopus imposes upon Dr. Smartyr's Nullifier rocket test and steals
the ultra-powerful destructor missile, with possession thereof Octopus plans
to force all nations to bow to his will. Spiderman is unable to prevent
Octopus from perpretating the heinous theft but does acquire a fragment of
Octopus' cape, thereby facilitating Spidey's effort, Automated Bloodhound
Detector in hand, to locate Octopus' hideout in an abandoned New York City
tunnel. Spidey webs Octopus' metal arms to an electrically charged wall in
the evil one's laboratory. The shock of the electricity paralyzes Octopus,
and the police, summoned by Spidey to Octopus' lair, recover the Nullifier
and imprison Octopus... While Blackwell the Magician is entertaining at the
Castle Theatre, his house is invaded by the Green Goblin, who swipes some of
Blackwell's props and peruses Blackwell's book of magic spells and
incantations. When Spidey interrupts the Goblin's illicit visit to home of
Blackwell, the Goblin magically chains and places Spidey in a glass tank
with a rising water level, then manipulates Blackwell's enchanted props to
rob a jewelry store, parking meters, and a bank. Spidey spins a web upwards
to a chandelier, pulls himself out of the glass water tank, and removes the
chains. When the Goblin returns to the magician's domicile to again consult
Blackwell's book, Spidey and Blackwell both surprise him so that Spidey can
web him.
"Fountain of Terror"/"Fiddler On the Loose"
Dr. Curtis Conner goes missing in the Florida swamps after finding the
Fountain of Youth. When Spidey investigates the scientist's disappearance,
he discovers a fifteenth century Spanish conquistador, Ponce de Leon, who is
intent upon keeping the magical fountain a secret. Harley Clivendon is in
the area too, determined to find Conner and the perpetual-youth-endowing
waters. Spidey and Conner's son, Billy, escape quicksand, alligators, and
Clivendon's arrows, to arrive at a Spanish fort, where Conner is being held
captive by de Leon. At the fort, Billy frees his father while Spidey duels
with Clivendon and de Leon prepares to fire a cannon at his unwelcome
guests. Spidey webs Clivendon, and Billy, seeing de Leon igniting the
cannon, saves Spidey's life by directing the firing cannon upward. The
cannonball drops on the nearby fountain and destroys it, and de Leon flees
into a forest... Because he hates rock-and-roll for its having replaced
classical music in the tastes of the masses, a fiddler with a deadly, sonic
violin seeks revenge upon pop-music sponsor Cyrus Flintridge. By a stroke of
the violin's strings, the Fiddler destroys Flintridge's vinyl record
collection, and he threatens to reduce Flintridge's musical conservatory to
rubble unless Flintridge provides him with a large sum of money. Spidey
foils the fiddler's blackmail attempt and webs the frustrated criminal
musician.
"To Catch a Spider"/"Double Identity"
Under the guidance of Dr. Noah Boddy, the Green Goblin, Electro, and the
Vulture join forces for revenge on Spiderman. In a confrontation with Noah
Boddy's three stooges, Spidey practices ventriloquism to cause each of the
three miscreants to think that he is being insulted by the others, and the
excitable trio of villains begin fighting each other. Electro zaps and
incapacitates the Vulture, the Green Goblin bombs Electro with a pumpkin-
shaped explosive, and Spidey swings a web-produced baseball bat to return
one of the Green Goblin's bombs to its sender, and it explodes in the
Goblin's confounded face. Spidey then throws his voice in order for Noah
Boddy to believe that he is hiding inside of a wooden tool trunk on a
building top. When Noah Boddy fires bullets into the tool trunk, Spidey,
really standing behind Noah Boddy, webs the visible-gun-toting invisible
man, and police apprehend all four villains... Art robberies are committed
by an old enemy of Spiderman, actor Charles Cameo, who can utilize masks
and make-up to usurp any identity, including those of J. Jonah Jameson and
Spiderman! However, Cameo is unable to duplicate all of Spidey's powers, and
Spidey kicks and webs Cameo at the scene of Cameo's robbery attempt in
Spiderman guise.
"Sting of the Scorpion"/"Trick or Treachery"
When the Scorpion, intent on vengeance upon Spiderman and Jameson, escapes
prison, he visits the laboratory of his creator, Dr. Stillwell, and drinks a
potion that vastly increases his size. After throwing a bulldozer containing
Spidey into the Hudson River, the gigantic Scorpion goes to the Daily Bugle
building and abducts Jameson. Spidey, having escaped from the wrecked
bulldozer at the bottom of the Hudson, battles the huge Scorpion in Central
Park. He spins a web-line between two trees and baits the Scorpion to chase
him. The Scorpion trips on the web-line and falls, and Jameson flies out of
his hand. Spidey webs a net between more trees on which for Jameson to land
safely and pours an antidote, provided by Stillwell, to the enlarging potion
down the Scorpion's mouth. The Scorpion returns to his normal size, and
Spidey easily webs him for the police and military to capture... Paroled
from prison, the Human Fly Twins rob diamonds from an importing company, and
one of them does this deed in a Spiderman costume so that the guard, before
being hit on the head from behind by the second twin, believes that Spidey
is the culprit. Jameson is delighted by this. But Spidey suspects that the
paroled Fly Twins are responsible for this attempt to incriminate him and
confronts them at a furrier's warehouse, another of their targets for
thievery, where he captures them in a web. The stolen jewels are recovered
at the Fly Twins' known hideout in a closed-to-business amusement park, and
Spidey is vindicated, to the hapless chagrin of Jameson.
Images from "Knight Must Fall", "The Spider and the Fly", "To Catch a Spider", and "Blotto", plus the title shots and all generic images © Krantz Films
Textual content © Kevin McCorry, with all rights reserved
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