As J. Jonah Jameson and the crowd call for the unconscious Spider-Man’s unmasking, Captain Stacy prevents it. Spidey is taken away in an ambulance while Gwen looks for Peter without success. The police commissioner, wary of violating Spidey’s civil rights, upholds Stacy’s no-masking edict. Spidey is taken, still unconscious, to a prison infi rmary but soon awakens, remaining still so no one will know. As Captain Stacy telephones Gwen, he is taken hostage by six convicts escaping through the infi rmary. Spider-Man hears the commotion but, afraid that his injuries will hamper Stacy’s rescue, pretends to join the cons instead. When the cons threaten Stacy, Spidey feigns indifference, convincing the men that he is sincere. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn has gone missing and Harry unsuccessfully searches the city for him. In the infirmary, Spidey convinces the cons to use Stacy as leverage at the front gate while he pretends to find an escape from the prison yard by exiting through a high, barred window. Instead, he enters the warden’s offi ce, uses the phone to call Aunt May, then destroys the fuse box, throwing the prison into darkness. Pretending to assist the convicts, he takes them out one by one. With one left, the lights come on, revealing his work but Spidey webs the con’s face, capturing him before he can harm Captain Stacy, then escapes despite Stacy’s protests.