This one’s called “Arm In Arm In Arm In Arm In Arm In Arm With Doctor Octopus.” Really. We find Spidey & Doc Ock striking a surprising truce to deal with Hammerhead. Hammerhead says the nuclear explosion “blew him out of phase,” and Doc Ock’s machine has fixed him. I still don’t really think of Hammerhead as someone who could even construct that sentence, let alone that plan, but what do I know? HH gets the better of Doc Ock (Again, this is very hard to believe) and then Spidey punches him right in his metal head like a dumby, hurting his hand and letting Hammy slam into his gut, so Doc Ock tags back in. This team-up isn’t working out too well…
Wah wah. This is very silly. While everyone’s knocked out, Aunt May is understandably freaking out, and as luck with have it, the SWAT team decides to rush the place at the same moment Hammerhead’s goons drop in via helicopter, so Spidey wakes up to a war zone.
“Anesthetic bullets.” Hammy’s goons are dressed more like Doc Ock’s old goons from their last dust-up. It quickly becomes a complete mess, Spidey and Doc Ock fighting to see who can save Aunt May while the cops and the goons shoot at them and each other. And it just keeps getting worse.
Crumbs! What a crazy storyline. As they rush off, we look in on a totally different scene, as a mysterious smoking figure watches two other mysterious figures as they do the job he’s paid them to, which is reconstructing The Spider-Mobile. the mystery men are sure this will lead to the death of Spider-Man. But not right now. Instead…
How long will this runner last? Back in the story, Ock and Spidey arrive at Hammerhead’s hideout, same one as last time, and sneak in. They have to fight some goons in the kitchen, and soon they’re rushing into HH’s office, where he has Aunt May.
So weird to see them on the same side. Ock begins taking apart his batch of goons while Spidey webs up Hammy’s gun and makes it blow up in his face before rolling up some of the metal floor to cover Aunt May. HH seems to finally realize he’s in trouble, and shorts out the controls to his weird spinning office, turning it into a centrifuge.
Ock showing his true colors is almost a relief after this goofy storyline. Having saved everyone in the room, Spidey puts down the remaining goons, but finds the window HH & Ock escaped out of has come to a stop facing a brick wall. Elsewhere, Doc Ock catches up to Hammerhead just as he begins to escape in his weird helicopter. But Ock is so mad he starts throwing trash cans at it…
Thus ends a pretty wild one. Every time Hammerhead and Doc Ock have appeared in the same issue, it’s been pretty insane. Who knows when next their paths will cross? I mean, uh, it’s too bad Hammerhead is dead forever. But before we can get to “My Killer, My Car,” we’ve got some other stops to make first.