Right after his battle with Doctor Octopus last issue,
Spider-Man is surprised by the arrival of Hammerhead! Hammerhead’s guys shoot
at Spidey and he dives off the roof to evade them before circling around the
building to tackle them from a new angle. Spidey takes out the two mooks,
before finding out why he’s called Hammerhead, the hard way, after he nearly
shatters his hand on the gangster’s head! Just then, Doctor Octopus reawakens
and attacks Hammerhead, spoiling his aim so that his shot at Spider-Man only
grazes his head! Doc Ock escapes, barreling through some of Hammerhead’s
arriving men in the process. Meanwhile, Hammerhead decides that Spider-Man
could be of use in his war against Doc Ock, and elects to take the unconscious
Spidey back to this lair.
As usual, Spidey has fitful dreams about failing Aunt
May, and awakens to find himself in Hammerhead’s lair, face to face with the
man himself. Hammerhead offers for Spider-Man to join up with him and then
demonstrates why he’s not someone to mess with when he has one of his guys
shatter a gun against his head! Hammerhead reminisces about how he came to be,
when a disgraced former doctor found him injured and nameless in an alley. The
doctor, Jonas Harrow, performed unconventional procedures on him, replacing
sections of his skull with an unbreakable steel alloy until he was reborn as
Hammerhead! Spidey tries to stall for time, when Hammerhead receives a call
from two of his men who had been tailing Doc Ock. They tell Hammerhead that Ock is
holed up in a house with an old woman. Spider-Man hears this and thinks that it
could possibly be Aunt May. He pretends to consider Hammerhead’s offer, while
subtly placing a spider-tracer on him. Hammerhead leaves, heading out to Doc
Ock’s lair while leaving two of his men to watch over the still weakened
Spidey.
Meanwhile, at ESU, Professor Warren catches up with
Gwen, expressing his concern that Peter has missed so many classes lately. Gwen
explains about Aunt May’s disappearance and expresses her guilt about it. Not
long after, she runs into Flash and chews him out after Flash makes a joke
about Peter’s ulcer, after he promised he wouldn’t make fun of him anymore.
Back at Hammerhead’s lair, Spidey regains enough of his strength and blinds his
two captors with his webs before taking them out. He escapes the hideout and
quickly tracks down Hammerhead’s car thanks to his tracer. He hitches a ride to
Doc Ock’s hideout and jumps off before being noticed. Spidey takes out a couple
of Hammerhead’s guys he sent in to surveil the place and sneaks his way inside.
Spider-Man makes his way through the lair, when he's suddenly hit over the head
with a vase! As Spidey passes out, wondering why his spider-sense didn’t alert
him to the danger, we see that he was attacked by none other than Aunt May, who
shouts to Doc Ock that she just killed Spider-Man! To be continued!
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