"STEP into My Parlor...Said The SPIDER To The FLY!" This narrative begins with "'Step Into My Parlor...'" J. Jonah Jameson complains to City Editor Joseph Robertson, as usual, that he has spent years presenting Spider-Man as a threat yet that Daily Bugle sales are declining. Robertson blames the Daily Globe's revival for sales decline. He also adds the Globe beat the Bugle on the White Tiger story and has a new publisher, K. J. Clayton. Peter Parker arrives, tells Jameson he was napping, and is told he cannot rest and should be taking Spider-Man images. Parker informs Jameson that he had advised him not to snap images of Spider-Man because they made him appear too sympathetic. Parker tells Jameson that most of Spider-Man's regular foes are in jail, giving him an idea. Before leaving, Jameson tells Parker to sign up for a cigar-scented Christmas c...View More

"STEP into My Parlor...Said The SPIDER To The FLY!" This narrative begins with "'Step Into My Parlor...'" J. Jonah Jameson complains to City Editor Joseph Robertson, as usual, that he has spent years presenting Spider-Man as a threat yet that Daily Bugle sales are declining. Robertson blames the Daily Globe's revival for sales decline. He also adds the Globe beat the Bugle on the White Tiger story and has a new publisher, K. J. Clayton. Peter Parker arrives, tells Jameson he was napping, and is told he cannot rest and should be taking Spider-Man images. Parker informs Jameson that he had advised him not to snap images of Spider-Man because they made him appear too sympathetic. Parker tells Jameson that most of Spider-Man's regular foes are in jail, giving him an idea. Before leaving, Jameson tells Parker to sign up for a cigar-scented Christmas card. Robertson and Parker are naturally upset by Jameson's unexpected change of heart. Captain Bonner leads the police in a hostage crisis at the waterfront hours later. Spider-Man intervenes, but he doesn't take photos because they're "measly kidnappers. A web-line lets Spider-Man sneak into the kidnappers' building undetected. Kidnappers hold an aged man and a young woman inside. Richard "Rick" Deacon, the gang's leader, is said to have gone straight by Captain Bonner, his former parole officer. When the kidnappers hear a creak upstairs, Deacon sends Chino to check. Chino bursts into an upstairs room with his rifle, encountering Spider-Man, who makes a quip. Spider-Man webs Chino's lips, removes his gun, and knocks him unconscious. Spider-Man unexpectedly falls through the floor and meets Deacon's gang. Even Richard Deacon, who escapes with a captive, is defeated. Police and Captain Bonner, Deacon's old parole officer, confront Deacon and the hostage outside the waterfront building. After Spider-Man rapidly webs away the hostage, Deacon fires indiscriminately at him. The cops quickly shoot at Deacon, who falls off the pier into the water. Jameson asks Dr. Harlan Stillwell Ph.D. to build a new superhero at a hidden laboratory along the shore. Stillwell tells Jameson that he had made a similar request to his brother Farley, but it had turned former private investigator Macdonald Gargan into the Scorpion, which killed Dr. Farley Stillwell. Stillwell accepts Jameson's offer because he needs funds for this research. Ironically, Jameson's fortune-telling coincides with Stillwell's studies on the common housefly. However, Deacon had been outside listening to Jameson and Stillwell discuss inventing a superhero. The badly wounded Deacon forces Stillwell to experiment on him inside. After quickly setting up the experimental apparatus, Deacon becomes a human fly, ending Part I. Part II is "...Said The Spider To The Fly!" After a full-throttle battle, Spider-Man defeats the FLY.