Spider-Man is web-slinging across the city when an unemployed man named Buddy Corbett sees the masked hero and panics. He begins to run down the street against the traffic and puts himself in the path of an oncoming truck. Seeing this danger, Spider-Man braces himself on a lamp post and uses a web-line to try and stop the truck. Although Buddy is still struck, he is not as seriously injured as he would have been had Spider-Man not intervened. Swinging down to check on the man, a crowd gathers around the wall-crawler, accusing him of causing the accident. Spider-Man is angered that they would accuse him when there is an injured man on the street and orders them to call an ambulance. One finally arrives and as Corbett is being loaded into the EMT vehicle, Spider-Man swings off. The entire scene is photographed by a young man named Friel who hopes to make a career in photojournalism. Later at the Daily Bugle, Friel shows his photos to publisher J. Jonah Jameson. Jameson is impressed by the photos but only wants to use the ones that make Spider-Man look bad. Overhearing this while passing by, Joe Robertson complains that Jonah is overstepping himself and Kate Cushing to publish these photos. Jonah assures Joe that one he gets Now Magazine off the ground, he will get out of Joe's hair. The next headline on the Daily Bugle screams "Spidey Goes Berserk!", and the accompanying story paints a jaundiced account of what happened.

Soon, reporters show up at Buddy Corbett's hospital with questions regarding the attack by Spider-Man

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