Keever (Final appearance)

Spidey's in the sewers battling off all the under-dwellers. He cracks that at times like this he wishes he wore a utility belt carrying spidey nasal plugs since the under-dweller's smell is so strong. The green- cloaked sewer dweller from the last issue is bemoaning the fact that Morbius has promised his fellow people food and clothing in return for bringing him victims, and now they're acting how the society on the topside acts. Spidey gets frustrated and webs all the under-dwellers together, tying them in web- pouches to his arms and legs. He demands they take him to their boss.

After dumping off the web sacks of sewer people, Spidey goes swinging looking for the leader. Morbius flies by, catching Spidey off-guard. Morbius calls him 'black devil', and doesn't recognize him in the black suit. Spidey thinks last he knew, Morbius was hanging around Dr. Strange's mansion, looking for a way to be cured. Spidey demands to know where all the kidnapped homeless are. Morbius replies he had no choice, that his urge for blood is stronger than anyone could imagine. Spidey tells him that Morbius has always searched for an alternative to his blood-thirst before and that he can't give up on himself now, that Morbius was a doctor for God's sake. Morbius says everything he held dear has been stripped away, including his dignity, and that Spider-man should leave.

This banter between them goes on and on for a number of pages, as they half-heartedly battle it out. Spidey convinces Morbius to ask his sewer army himself who they've been bringing him to feed on. They say all the "bad people" from up above, which pretty much means everybody. Morbius freaks out on the fact that he's turned the innocents of the sewers against the innocents aboveground, and flies off shouting "noooooo!". Green-cloaked sewer guy (this guy doesn't even get a name) says he'll take care of his people from here on out. Spidey tells them to go, that he won't stop them. Later, Spidey is swinging above the city thinking he'll enlist Reed Richard's help in curing Morbius. He also thinks that donning the black costume and upsetting Mary Jane was pointless since the underworlder's eyesight was so strong they could still spot him in it down below. He thinks he's lucky that MJ puts up with him at all.

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