Spidey captures a gang of drug-dealers in a waterfront warehouse. Meanwhile, Robbie Baldwin and his mother attend a Broadway play. At the warehouse, Splitface Flanagan & his gang arrive to find the other gang webbed up. Peter returns home to discover that the drug-dealers were all killed and Spidey is the prime suspect. Matt Murdock decides to help Spidey. The Kingpin wants to know about the armored figures that destroyed the South American drug supply. Spidey returns to the warehouse where Daredevil meets him. They team up. Later, four thugs jump Robbie. He turns into Speedball and defeats them but a pair of armored men arrive and kill the muggers. The Kingpin captures one of the pair, torturing him to extract information. In a 22nd Street loft, the High Evolutionary’s armored Purifi ers prepare to render the city unconscious prior to killing everyone with unacceptable DNA. Speedball overhears but can’t get the police to take him seriously. The Kingpin’s brutal methods extract info from his captive. He arranges for DD & Spidey to crash the Purifier’s operation in the Empire State Building, thinking they are tackling the drug dealers’ killers. Speedball smashes the Purifi ers’ antenna on the building’s tower ending the threat but falls. DD & Spidey rescue him. To keep the heroes from realizing he was behind the deception, Kingpin coerces Splitface Flanagan, the real killer, to confess. The Kingpin worries that something big is happening.
The High Evolutionary’s Eliminators destroy South American drug supplies (Pun Ann #1, ’88).
Robbie and Madeline attend Phantom of the Opera & Les Miserables. One-page Spider-Man newspaper strip pin-up promo follows (Larry Leiber, pencils & Frank Giacoia, inks) featuring Spidey, JJJ, and Joe Robertson.