As Spider-Man rushes past the Daily Bugle, Jonah Jameson rants at him, accidentally dropping his Cuban cigar. Peter meets Aunt May at Penn Station but is so flushed by his webswinging that May thinks he is ill. Elsewhere on the platform, two immigration agents prepare to handcuff the Kangaroo, but he breaks away and escapes. Safe, he recalls how he lived with kangaroos in Australia until he could jump like them. As a fi ghter, his leap so injured an opponent that charges were preferred against him. Panicked, he fl ed the country, stowing away to the USA, but was caught and ordered deported. Now free, he decides to become a criminal. In Forest Hills, May insists Peter stay, using the still-vacationing Anna’s bed. Looking for money, the Kangaroo steals a satchel not knowing it contains deadly live bacteria, putting the vial in his pocket. Watching TV, Peter learns of the theft. He feigns weakness so that May will put him back to bed, then puts a web-dummy in his place, in case May peeks in. Hours later, Spider-Man finds the Kangaroo robbing a Manhattan terrace party. Seeing the vial, Spidey tries reasoning but the Kangaroo attacks. Afraid of breaking the vial, Spidey barely fi ghts back. In Forest Hills, May comes in to give Peter his medicine, sees the web-dummy, and collapses on the bed. Meanwhile, Spidey grabs the Kangaroo and shakes him over the street, dislodging and catching the vial. The Kangaroo escapes but Spidey remains to give the vial to the authorities, who wonder if he was stealing it himself until they showed up. Hurrying home, he fi nds May unconscious, changes to Peter, dumps the web-dummy and rouses her. To ease her mind, he tells her she imagined things, which only makes May doubt her sanity.
Kangaroo’s origin, May and young Peter, May ill.
Kangaroo’s name revealed in ASM #126, ’73.