Spider-Man’s webbing is accidentally severed by Medusa, who is in New York to see if mankind still fears the Inhumans. She saves Spidey with her living hair but quickly departs. Montgomery G. Bliss watches as she lands on a nearby street and sends his assistant Wilberforce down to offer her the job as Heavenly Hair Spray girl. Deciding that working for humans would allow her to study them, Medusa accepts. Meanwhile, Peter visits Gwen but she can’t forgive him for betraying her father. At their club, Norman Osborn shoves J. Jonah Jameson away as he struggles with vague memories of the Green Goblin and an unmasked but obscured Spider-Man. After hours of tedious modeling, Medusa wrecks camera equipment, vowing to not return. Wanting her back, Bliss calls to a passing Spider-Man, claiming Medusa threatened the city. As Spidey tackles Medusa, Bliss’ cameramen take photos. However, realizing the deception, the combatants reconcile. Medusa, seeing humans as madmen, departs. Spidey tells reporters that Medusa was uncontrollable, fabricating the wrong image for Heavenly Hair Spray, whose board of directors fi re Bliss, putting Wilberforce in his place. On the street, MJ tells Peter she’s heard the “good news” of his break-up with Gwen but Peter is too heartsick to banter.
Green Goblin and an unmasked Spider-Man from ASM #40, ’66.
Although Spider-Man claims here that he has never fought a woman before, earlier battles with Josephine “Joey” Pulaski and Commanda are later revealed in AF #17 ’96 & UToS #10,’96 respectively.