J. Jonah Jameson rants to Joe Robertson about the Daily Globe recently scooping the Bugle. When Peter walks in, JJJ demands new Spider-Man pictures. Peter counters that all of Spidey’s villain’s are in jail, giving Jonah an idea. Later, the police corner Rick Deacon and his gang (holding two hostages) in a waterfront tenement. Spidey enters from the roof and makes short work of the gang. However, Deacon uses the female hostage as a shield to hold off the police. Spidey webs the woman and snatches her away, starting a gun battle. Deacon, repeatedly shot, falls into the river. Meanwhile, Jameson asks Dr. Harlan Stillwell, brother of Scorpion creator Farley Stillwell, to create a super hero for him. Harlan is leery but, desperate for funds for his research, agrees. After JJJ departs, Deacon, badly wounded, enters and demands Stillwell give the powers to him. Stillwell imprints a fly’s genetic coding on Deacon, creating the Human Fly. Later, Jameson receives a frantic call from Stillwell. When he arrives at Stillwell’s lab, he fi nds the doctor dead, killed by Deacon. Before Jameson can escape, the Fly snatches him, then bursts in at the Bugle to tell Pete and Joe he is holding JJJ hostage until Spidey battles him. He demands press and TV crews attend the fight. With a crowd and police gathering, Spidey tackles the Fly at a construction site. When the Fly throws JJJ from a girder, Spidey catches him in a giant web. He then pins the Fly’s wings with webbing and knocks him out. When Peter arrives with embarrassing photos of Jonah caught in the web beside the vanquished Fly, the publisher tells Pete the public is tired of super-villains and wants shots of muggings. Peter tells Jonah he can buy the thirty purse-snatcher photos he saved up and expects a bonus for selling them.