As Spider-Man swings around the nighttime city to clear his head
after a long, busy day at school, he spots someone skulking on a rooftop.
Jumping down, he runs into Kraven the Hunter who has been stalking him. Spidey
is surprised that Kraven seems faster and stronger than ever before; the
villain then fakes Spidey out and fires darts into his body, darts tipped with
a neural poison, which quickly subdues Spidey as he hallucinates the Grim
Reaper coming for him….
Spider-Man awakens to find himself chained up in an African hut,
facing Kraven who has Tigra the Were-Woman crouched beside him. Kraven explains
that Tigra has Spidey as her prey; if she kills him, his vengeance is complete.
But if Spidey kills Tigra, he will go free. Tigra then attacks and Spidey tries
to restrain her, hampered as he is by chains on his arms. He manages to tear
one out of the ground to use as a weapon, trying to subdue Tigra without
hurting her while she is unrestrained in her attempts to kill him. And Kraven
reminds him he will only go free if he kills Tigra. The second chain snaps as
Tigra leaps at Spidey, pushing them both into a flaming brazier in the center
of the room. He then spots that the collar on her neck is damaged, exposing electronics;
he plays a hunch and tears the collar off her and she regains her senses. She
turns on Kraven who hurls a gas bomb and flees….
As Spidey and Tigra pursue him, she fills him in on her recent
efforts: She put Kraven in jail last year but he escaped and she tracked him to
Jersey City where he ambushed her and put the Mnemonic Scrambler on her and
forced her to attack Spidey. They exit the compound and discover they are in
New Jersey, site of a closed safari park—then they are caught in a stampede of
jungle animals, cared for by Kraven. The two heroes jumps from animal to
animal, heading for Kraven. Tigra catches up to him but he stuns her with his
ultra-sonic blaster and prepares t put another control collar on her; Spidey,
too far away to intervene, creates a hard ball of webbing and hurls it, konking
Kraven on the head but knocking himself to the ground. Tigra rushes over to
find Spidey badly battered mostly unharmed as the animals avoided stepping on
him as much as they could. As the two heroes assess the damage, Kraven sneaks
up on them with horns filled with deadly black Mamba venom—but Spidey senses
him and wheels around, punching the baddie in the gut and knocking him flat and
impressing Tigra…