Spidey encounters the Vulture attempting to kidnap
a scientist from his apartment, but is unable to stop him. The Vulture has kidnapped a number of
scientists recently, and Peter is sent to contact Harry Osborn by Jameson to get a good quote on his
take of the situation. After losing his clothes as Spidey, Peter borrows some of Harry's clothes from
his apartment. While dressed in Harry's more expensive clothes, he is soon mistaken for Osborn by
the Vulture, who kidnaps him. The Vulture takes Peter to his airship base, where he finds the
other kidnapped scientists being forced to work for the Vulture. He forces Peter to develop enough
radar-jamming paint to cover his ship, and Peter develops it using Harry's notes. After coating the
Vulture's ship with the invisible paint, the Vulture leaves and Peter becomes Spider-Man. The other
scientists are freed, but Spidey is thrown off the airship when the Vulture returns. Spidey lands safely
and later discovers that the Jupiter space probe containing rare space rocks is scheduled to
splash- down in one hour. He figures out that the Vulture's plans are to capture the probe and steal the rare
gems. Spidey makes it on the recovery ship, and prepares to battle the Vulture to prevent the theft of the
space probe.
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Harry Osborn is mentioned (but not seen) and
described as Peter's "millionaire inventor friend" by Jameson. There is no mention of Harry being related to Norman Osborn (the
Green Goblin),
implying that this episode was written as if to take place after Norman's
death (which had occurred in the comics a few years prior), when Harry was
indeed wealthy as a result of his father dying.
