Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Gwen
- Professor Koval
Antagonists:
- El Hombre Dorado
- unnamed thug
Other Characters:
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-TRN911
- United States of America
- New York City (as N. York)
- Universidad
- cafeteria
- cine
- Koval's home/laboratory
- cemetery
- abandoned house/Hombre Dorado's lair
- unnamed place with atomic batteries
- New York City (as N. York)
- United States of America
Items:
- el elixir dorado
- Nobel Prize (Mentioned)
- atomic batteries
Vehicles:
Synopsis for 1st story
Koval, Peter's teacher of physics, wants to recruit Peter for a personal scientific project as an assistant, as Peter is his best student and very intelligent. Peter must stand Gwen up at his date because of his new daily 2-hour work after class. Koval's ten-year-long assistant Robert is unhappy at Peter's arrival, and opposed to Koval sharing years of their common work with the stranger. When Koval vouches for Peter, Robert must relent - but is still jealous of Koval's new favorite.
Koval's work generates a solution that, when covering a person's body, make him incredibly strong and durable. Robert finally decides to steal the elixir and use it for criminal purposes. Peter suddenly mistrusts Robert and decides to stealthily watch him as el Hombre Araña. He finds Robert talking with a thug, arranging the Professor's murder - but in the following days, Peter is so focused in the science that he forgets about it. The thug kills Koval and, professionally, leaves. Robert steals the elixir and goes to his own secret lair, an abandoned large house, where he covers his own body with the fluid. His body turns golden.
When the police finds Koval's body and no apparent theft, they theorize a revenge motive, and they suspect of Robert.
Robert, as el Hombre Dorado ("the Golden Man"), starts a crime wave and kills a man. As he is immune to bullets, the police can't stop him. El Hombre Araña confronts him, but el Hombre Dorado is stronge rand stuns el Hombre Araña.
Having obtained a lot of money, el Hombre Dorado decides to steal atomic batteries as a climax for his criminal activity, then sell the batteries to the highest bidder. He easily defeats the guards and enters the building with the battiers, although el Hombre Araña asks him to stop. The police tries to help, but el Hombre Araña ask them to not approach the batteries. When el Hombre Dorado touches them, he melts dead. El Hombre Araña explains that the substance giving Robert power, was also destroyed when there's uranium near.
Notes
- Koval's substance is supposed to be used in case of a nuclear war; but the substance is destroyed when in proximity to uranium, which would be used in a nuclear war.