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Appearing in "Beware the Spider-Woman -- Bounty Hunter!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Spider-Woman #21

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  • Lou and Sidney DeFalco
  • Shark Mob

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  • FBI (Mentioned)

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  • Cars
  • Regency III

Synopsis for "Beware the Spider-Woman -- Bounty Hunter!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Spider-Woman #21
Jessica Drew has begun a new chapter in her career as Spider-Woman, finding job hunting difficult, she has turned her costumed identity into a source of money by becoming a bounty hunter. Following her, the leads provided by her new partner, the crippled Scotty McDowell, Spider-Woman manages to capture Lou and Sidney DeFalco, who have just held up a jewelry store. She would hand deliver the DeFalcos and the stolen loot to LAPD Captain Alexander Walsh, who is not entirely impressed with a costumed bounty hunter but allows her to operate anyway. After her visit to the police station, Jessica returns to the theatrical supply house where she got her costume. She thinks about how her recent encounter with Spider-Man inspired her to make changes in her life. However, she wishes that the costume shop she has come to rely on now didn't come at a tragic price.[Continuity 1]

Stopping by Scotty's home, Jessica begins to discuss their next targets with him: The Shark-Mob, who have holed up in an abandoned lighthouse, intending to wreck a ship and steal its cargo. Jessica wishes to capture them right away, however, Scotty is worried about her safety. Ignoring his concerns, Spider-Woman soars into action. She arrives at the lighthouse and gets the drop on the Shark-Mob. During the fight, Jessica frees the lighthouse attendant, who is forced to kill one of the mobsters who is trying to shoot his rescuer.

Returning home after her completed mission, Jessica gets a call from her friend Lindsay McCabe and is visited by Scotty for dinner. As Jessica goes over their operation, all Scotty can do is fantasize about Spider-Woman.

Appearing in "Bring on... the Clown!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Spider-Woman #22

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Other Characters:

  • Mrs. Whimpley
  • Bill Starkley (Mentioned)
  • Flash Villain (Poster)

Locations:

  • Los Angeles
    • Scotty McDowell's Apartment
    • Colden House
    • The Whimpley Household
    • John S. Lynn Hospital
  • Mount Zion Hospital

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  • Ambulance

Synopsis for "Bring on... the Clown!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Spider-Woman #22
The Los Angeles area has been terrorized by a killer named the Killer Clown, who has been targeting young women. The story gets the attention of Scotty McDowell, who sends Spider-Woman on the job to track down the Killer Clown and bring him to justice. While out on patrol, Spider-Woman stops the Killer Clown before he can kill a young girl the Clown had picked up hitch-hiking. With the young woman seriously hurt, Spider-Woman is forced to bring her to a hospital for immediate medical help, allowing the Killer Clown to get away.

Leaving the hospital, Spider-Woman is unaware that she is being followed by the Clown, who tracks her back to Lindsay McCabe's home, whereas Jessica Drew, Spider-Woman is running late for a dinner date with her friend.[Continuity 2] When Jessica goes down to the store to get items for their dinner, Lindsay is alone in the house when the Clown (mistaking Lindsay for Spider-Woman) attacks the girl. When his joy buzzer device does not kill Lindsay, he is about to strangle her instead when Jessica returns to the house. Panicked, the Clown flees, leaving Jessica to call for medical help.

The Clown, resuming his civilian identity of Casper Whimpley, returns home to his overbearing wife Roberta. After being interviewed by the police, Jessica decides to watch over Lindsay in the hospital, believing news reports about her survival could prompt the Killer Clown to come back and try to finish the job. Sure enough, the Clown does just that, and after a brief battle, Spider-Woman is able to fight off his gimmicks, knock him out and turn him over to the authorities.

Appearing in "Inside Story"

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Synopsis for "Inside Story"

Illustrated text story.

Appearing in "Doctor of Madness!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Team-Up #97

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  • W. Lee Benway (First appearance)

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  • Stun Gun

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  • Bus
  • Car (Mentioned)

Synopsis for "Doctor of Madness!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Team-Up #97
The Hulk has arrived in Jude, New Mexico, and the sheriff, Bradley Martin, is not pleased. He covers the Hulk with a pistol and tells him to come along quietly. The Hulk replies that he was not looking for trouble, only for food, but now men in "funny hats" are waving guns at him and making him mad. The sheriff fires, but the bullet only irritates the green-skinned giant, and he reduces the street to rubble with his fist. Then the Hulk leaps away, and the sheriff sends his deputies after him. When the Hulk stops, orders the sheriff, they are to capture him. As the deputies race away in their squad car, they decide to trail the Hulk from a distance until the sheriff cools down and calls them back in. Jessica Drew, who is secretly Spider-Woman, happens to arrive in town, and as she steps off the bus she overhears the deputies. She is looking for a secret network that is smuggling criminals out of the country, and she is keeping a low profile. She finds a telephone booth in a nearby restaurant and calls her partner, Scotty McDowell, in Los Angeles. He commiserates about her bus trip and tells her that he knows of no bounty on the Hulk. The Los Angeles Police Department is expecting her to bring Johnny Yen back for trial, he continues. He wishes he were there to help rather than confined to a wheelchair, but she reminds him that he helps by collecting information without which she would be unable to capture anyone. Then she hangs up, saying that she will check back later.

At a villa several miles distant, Dr. Benway is telephoned by Sheriff Martin with the news that the Hulk is heading his way. Benway thanks Martin for the information and tells his assistant, Li, that they have immediate business to attend to. However, they also have a patient on the operating table, and Li declares that if they stop, he will die. But the doctor says that they may never get a chance like this again. Soon they and Benway's henchmen are in a pair of jeeps speeding across the desert. For years, says Benway, he has tried to create a creature that could survive a nuclear blast, and now the moment is at hand. All he has to do is find the Hulk. He scans the horizon with binoculars and soon spots him, and then he orders his henchmen to shoot him with an energy rifle mounted on the second jeep. The blast knocks the Hulk off his trajectory, and soon the giant angrily approaches Benway and his men. Benway tells the Hulk that he does not bring pain but pleasure, and he signals his men to shoot the Hulk again with the rifle. This time the Hulk is bathed in light that feels pleasant, and he changes into Bruce Banner as the ray stimulates his pleasure centers and relaxes him. But the Hulk is invulnerable, whereas Banner is defenseless. Benway fires the ray again and knocks Banner unconscious. Then the men carry Banner to the villa. After changing into her Spider-Woman costume, Jessica arrives at Sheriff Martin's office. Captain Walsh of the Los Angeles Police should have told him about her, she says by way of introduction. She flashes a picture of Johnny Yen, who is wanted in California on three counts of murder. They have tracked him as far as Jude, she says. Martin replies that the men look familiar.

He hung around town for a few days, he says, and then he went to a local clinic. Martin directs Spider-Woman to the place, but as soon as she leaves, he telephones Benway to make sure his guards are ready for her. As evening falls, Spider-Woman glides above the villa ten miles north of Jude. It is surrounded by armed guards and resembles a prison camp. Clearly, this is no ordinary clinic, she muses, and it could very well be the Mexican connection she has been looking for. She descends silently into the courtyard and hides when she hears a guard approach. She is surprised to see that the guard is not human but is a hulking monster. She enters the house to look for Johnny Yen and finds it empty. But as she steals through the shadows, she hears a voice in a nearby room. When she enters, she sees a figure on an operating table moaning for help, and when she removes the net, she is startled to see that the figure is another monster. She hears a voice behind her end turns to see Dr. Benway with two more monsters in tow. The creatures attack, and she knocks one of them out with a venom blast, but with her venom charge depleted she cannot stop the other. The creature drives her through a wall with its beak. She avoids being crushed by holding onto its neck, and then she knocks the creature out with a super-strong chop. But Benway shoots her with his nerve-paralyzer and renders her unconscious. When she awakens, She finds herself chained in a pit.

Standing at the edge looking down is Benway, whom she recognizes as a physician whose license was revoked for illegally trafficking in human organs for transplants. He is wanted in New York, California, Minnesota, and half-dozen other states. She asks him what scam he has going now, and he replies that he wants to develop a creature that can survive on the hostile alien worlds that mankind will someday conquer. Under the pretext of getting them to freedom, he lures criminals to his laboratory and transfers their brains into his creations. Their spare organs are sold on the black market. Standing next to Benway are one of his creations and Sheriff Martin himself, then Benny knocks her out once more with his nerve•paralyzer. She will get a much closer look at his experiments later, he promises. As he departs, he orders his creatures to guard her and, if she gives them any trouble, to rip her to shreds. But Spider-Woman is not unconscious at all. Her body's natural adaptability accustomed it to Benway's ray once he used it on her, so his second blast had little effect. She tears her manacles from the wall and leaps out of the pit. The guard-creatures attack, but she dodges all but one. That one leaps on her, and they crash through a door into Benway's lab, where Benway, Li, and Martin have Bruce Banner on the operating table awaiting a lobotomy. The operation would prevent Banner from ever again turning into the Hulk, but it would also destroy his mind. Spider-Woman tears away the straps holding Banner down and carries him away, leaving the criminal physician to deal with the monster.

Unfortunately, she runs into a closet by mistake. She starts to slap Banner to wake him out of sedation. Not only does this wake him, it makes him angry and changes him into the Hulk. The Hulk shatters the closet, and Benway orders the creatures to recapture him at any cost. The Hulk starts pummeling them, and Benway orders his guards to obtain the pleasure ray to turn the Hulk back into Banner. He also sends a guard after Spider-Woman, but she quickly takes care of him. As the Hulk battles the creatures, it becomes clear that Benway lied. They are robots, not living people at all. Using a wooden beam, the Hulk smashes them one by one. Seeing that the situation is completely out of control, Spider-Woman finds a telephone and puts a call through to Captain Walsh of the Los Angeles Police. She asks him to call the Arizona State Patrol and send them to Benway's villa. Meanwhile, Benway and his cohorts flee, and he curses Spider-Woman for ruining his project. Meanwhile, having disposed of the robots, the Hulk begins smashing the laboratory itself. He knocks over a shelf of chemicals, and there is a powerful explosion. Most fortunately the debris knocks Martin out just before he can shoot Spider-Woman. Her consciousness restored, she makes short work of Benway's henchmen. Nothing remains of Benway's villa but rubble. As the Arizona police arrive, the Hulk digs himself out from under the collapsed building and leaps away.

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