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Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can, spins a web any size, catch a steeze,

just like flies, look out, here comes the Spider-Man, is he strong?

Listen, Doug, he's got radio active blood, can you swing from a thread?

Take a look, overhead, hey there, there goes a Spider-Man.

In the chill of night, at the scene of a crime, like a street of lights, he arrives just in time.

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, welcome fame, he's ignored,

action is his reward to him, life is a great big pain, wherever there's a pain, you'll find a Spider-Man.

Oh, isn't it exciting, Peter, like unwrapping Christmas presents?

Yeah, Jackie, thanks for letting me help you unwrap this stuff.

This is the first time in years that anyone's been up here.

When my family decided to buy this old house, I could hardly wait to explore it.

Hmm, I wonder if I could fix this radio.

This house used to belong to Professor Smithers, didn't it?

Whatever happened to the old bird, anyway?

I don't know, no one does.

He disappeared 30 years ago and the house has been empty since.

He was an inventor, and from what I heard, his head was really in a strange place.

He never talked about his experiments or allowed anyone up here.

I wonder if...

Peter, look at this.

What is it?

I don't know, I found it by this book over here.

Looks like some sort of seed.

Say, that's funny, it seems to be getting warmer.

Must be the sunlight.

Hey, Jackie, is it okay if I take this thing home with me later and...

Peter, wow, you won't believe this.

It looks like some sort of magnet.

It's not.

This book, Professor Smithers diary.

It's a time machine.

Oh, come on, you're putting me on.

Let me see that book.

Hey, you're right.

Listen to this.

This is my last entry.

I have set the machine to 3 million BC.

The door will remain open for any who wish to follow.

I have already brought back a specimen from the past.

It is extremely dangerous, a seed with an incredible rate of growth.

It feeds on any sort of energy, and under no circumstances should it be exposed to sunlight.

Sunlight will trigger its growth and sunlight, seed.

It's absorbing energy.

Getting everything in its path.

Too big for Spider-Man to handle.

It's heading for the city.

Nothing can stop it.

What do we do?

Only one thing.

Got to go back in time and find Smithers.

Ask him what to do.

But...

No time to argue.

The machine is set for the past.

That thing must have some sort of natural enemy back in time.

I'll go back.

You get out of here.

Hurry.

That's Stone City.

Professor Smithers might be there.

Ooh, no time to sightsee.

Let's hope the inhabitants are friendly.

Something's happening, my spider sense.

Got to stop that thing.

Got to get through, or New York's had it.

It's going to happen.

Wow, what a way to wind up.

Frog food.

Let's get this over with.

Now.

That'll hold it for a while.

Let's go.

My head.

Well, at least I'm being taken to the city.

Oh, I'd prefer to walk.

Who are you?

I warn you, if you come from the Forbidden City, you...

I'm from the 20th century.

You must be Professor Smithers.

I need help.

That seed of yours...

Release him.

He's a friend.

The seed, eh?

I was afraid of that.

We've got to stop it.

Great spiders, the last I saw, it was heading toward New York.

It could reach it any time, even now.

How can we stop it?

The only way to stop the vine thing is to feed it pure radium.

And the only radium I know of is in the eyes of the great idol

in the Forbidden City.

Forbidden City?

When I first came here 30 years ago,

I gathered together all the men I could find.

We built the city, and using the radium gems,

which were very abundant in those days,

we held off the vines.

Radium gives off great amounts of energy.

Any time we found a fine thing, we fed it the radium gems.

The energy was too powerful for the vines to take.

They burnt up, all but true.

Soon, there were only two gems left.

We put them in the eyes of the great idol we built.

Then I've got to get to the idol, and--

Oh!

It is not that easy.

The vine things mutated from the radiation.

One night, they attacked our city.

Before we could feed them the radium gems,

they drove us from the city.

They took over.

Now, they feed from the radium gems,

but slowly, so that the energy does not harm them.

I've got no choice.

If you can get the gems, we will be forever in your debt.

We want to go back to our city.

And if you take their radium,

the mutated vine things will wither away.

For now, they are totally dependent on the radium for energy.

What happens if I feed the vine in the future, the radium gems?

It will wither.

The vine cannot digest all the energy at once.

Then I'm off.

Good luck.

Hurry, hurry!

How close is that thing to New York?

It must be nearing the city already.

No place to swing from.

I love the city.

There is a man feeding on us.

He must be captured.

That giant temple, that's where the idol must be.

Oh, master, there are reports that a bad creature has invaded the forbidden city.

What?

The animals are getting brave.

And what is being done to stop this vermin?

We have prepared a church in the temple of the idol.

Excellent.

For that is the only place it would be going to.

I shall look forward to its capture.

We have not used the arena for a long while.

Shall I prepare the faint one?

Yes, I wish to be amused.

Let the man thing get to the temple.

Now to get in.

The nearest temple is too far away for me to swing to.

Only one thing to do.

That's it.

I've got to get those gems.

Now to--

It's like dunking for apples.

I could almost get to enjoy it.

I fell.

They brought me here.

How long have I been out?

New York, what's happening?

You men have entered the forbidden city.

You shall pay for your animal insolence.

Animals such as you are fit only for the sport of beings of the vine.

How dare you challenge our vegetable superiority.

Just looking at your filthy protein body disgusts me.

Let the animals fight.

Enough games.

I order--

Yes, enough games.

They're all in the arena.

Now's my chance.

I've got the gems.

The city is yours.

Smithers has his city back now to get to mine.

But am I too late?

Wow.

Close.

But I just hope there aren't any more surprises in that attic.

Then I leapt out of the time machine and there was Spider-Man.

I gave the gems to him and he saved the city.

Oh, Peter, you saved the city, not Spider-Man.

He only helped you.

You're a hero.

Well, I won't argue with you.

One thing gets me, though, the time machine.

We could use it any time we--

No, we can't.

I think these radium gems did something to it.

It's dead.

Well, what about Professor Smithers' diary?

It disappeared.

The vine thing must have gotten it.

Oh, too bad.

Now we can never go back and find out how Professor Smithers made out.

Maybe we can.

Huh?

What do you mean?

Why don't you come over tonight and help me explore the basement?

The basement?

I--

Oh.

Spider-Man, Spider-Man does whatever a spider can.

Spins a web any size.

Catch your seeds just like flies. Look out.

Here comes the Spider-Man.

Is he strong?

Listen, Doug.

He's got radioactive blood.

Can you swing from a thread?

Take a look overhead.

Hey, there.

There goes the Spider-Man.

In the chill of night, at the scene of a crime,

like a street of lights, he arrives just in time.

Spider-Man, Spider-Man.

Friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

Well contained, he's ignored.

Action is his reward to him.

Life is a great big hang up.

Wherever there's a hang up, you'll find a Spider-Man.