Apparently six inches tall on the tabletop amusement park, Spider-Man evades a giant Mysterio’s blows. Mysterio toys with him, leading him into a hall of mirrors whose mirrors close in, coated with poison. Dr. Bromwell arrives, through the smashed front door, at May and Anna’s home, orders May to rest, and tells Anna to protect her from shocks. At the Daily Bugle, Jameson, Robbie, Ned, and Betty try to get a follow-up on Mysterio’s challenge. At the park, Spidey wraps his forearms with webbing to avoid the poison as he smashes the mirrors but falls into deep water on the other side. He surfaces in a tunnel of fear, evading a swinging ax and battling mechanical water serpents. At the Bugle, Randy Robertson, newly enrolled at ESU, comes to his father Robbie about a school problem. At the park, Spidey decides everything must be illusion. Mysterio “throws” a knife at him that he uses to spring up and attack the giant fi gure, which disappears, cementing Spidey’s belief that nothing is real. Finding the only lit-up tower, Spidey breaks in and fi nds Mysterio within. The special effects expert used hypnotism and psychedelics to suggest Spidey was on the tabletop while he transported him to an actual, booby-trapped amusement park. Spidey easily defeats Mysterio. While heading home via ESU, he sees a student protest but decides it doesn’t concern him.
Randy’s full first name revealed in ASM #68, ’69