* HUMAN FLY (Richard Deacon) Appearance

Spider-Man web-swings high above the snarled traffic to the Daily Globe building. Two questions burn in his mind: When he was unconscious and shackled to J. Jonah Jameson, did the publisher lift his mask and discover his secret identity? And if he did, what does he plan to do with this information? Spider-Man ponders his situation and recalls yesterday's battle against the Fly as he alights on the wall outside Jameson's office. inside, Jameson tells Joe Robertson that he wants a full-page banner head-line on the next edition that reads, "How I Stopped Spider-Man." When Robertson protests that the headline is false, Jameson says that it does not matter: Spider-Man killed his son, and Jameson wants revenge. Gloria Grant buzzes Jameson's intercom to tell him that Peter Parker is there to see him. Jameson wonders why no one has told Peter that he has been fired, and Robertson explains that he gave Peter one last chance to bring in a photography assignment. Of course, Peter does not have the pictures (because he was shackled to Jameson as Spider-Man). Jameson is furious with Robertson for countermanding his direct order, and he is even more furious that Peter has nothing to illustrate the sensational story of the Fly's robbery of the Egyptian delegate. Jameson tells Peter he is fired and slams the door on him. Peter tries to apologize to Robertson, but the city editor is also angry. He tried to help Peter, and now he is in trouble with his boss. Dejected, Peter departs. As Peter changes into his Spider-Man costume, his thoughts turn to why the Fly might have stolen just one ticket to the King Tut exhibit. Surely the Fly will not try to rob the museum. it is far too well guarded. When Spider-Man arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he sees the long line of people waiting to view the exhibit. His spider-sense tingles, indicating the Fly's presence, but Spider-Man does not recognize him standing in line in disguise. As Spider-Man waits in the cold, the Fly enters the building and leaves a small package behind a large golden statue. It is too bad, he thinks, that he is not there to steal the Egyptian treasures. He will Just have to leave that to someone else. The man who rented Aunt May's Forest Hills house has been busy during the past several weeks methodically tearing apart its interior, looking for something. After ransacking the whole building, he concludes that he must locate May Parker and force her to tell him where it is. Spider-Man enters the museum through a skylight to look around. Guards are everywhere. Suddenly a bystander sees him clinging to the ceiling, and a guard opens fire. As Spider-Man dodges the bullet, the package behind the statue explodes, filling the gallery with smoke. All the security guards but one, O'Neil, rush to the King Tut exhibit. The Fly then strips off his disguise and knocks out O'Neil. The smoke bomb is a diversion; the Fly is out to loot the Art of Dresden exhibit, not the King Tut exhibit. He quickly shoves everything worth stealing into a large sack. The guards think Spider-Man is responsible for the smoke and that he is trying to rob the museum. They chase him, but he breaks out of the building through a window. As the guards cover him with guns, Spider-Man points at the sky, where the Fly, laden with valuables, is escaping. The guards finally comprehend what is happening as Spider-Man makes a tremendous leap from a lamppost and attacks the winged criminal in midair, the Fly fends off Spider-Man with the sonic backlash from his wings, but he has to drop his load. Both combatants fall in a heap, with Spider-Man on the bottom, stunned. The Fly throws Spider-Man at the guards, grabs the sack, and takes off. Then Spider-Man manages to stick a web-strand to the Fly and blinds the Fly with web fluid. Burdened by Spider-Man's extra weight, the Fly has difficulty maintaining his altitude, but he soon gets rid of the web fluid and carries Spider-Man

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