With his beloved Uncle Ben gone and his Aunt May sick despite a new medication, Peter decides that he must find a way to earn extra money to pay for Aunt May's medication. He applies for and gets a job at the Daily Bugle where he meets Betty Brant and J. Jonah Jameson for the first time. Peter later overhears a conversation between Jameson and a news source named Dr. Omar about a fake medicine ring run by The Kingpin. Peter discovers that this was the same ring that made the medicine Aunt May was taking. Peter also finds out that one of the Bugles star reporters, Frederick Foswell, is actually a Kingpin stooge sent as a spy. After finding out that Jameson plans to write an expose' on the ring, the Kingpin kidnaps Jameson. Spider-Man follows the Kingpin to his lair and despite being knocked out and nearly unmasked, he rescues Jameson but the Kingpin escapes. He learns that a time bomb had been set at the Bugle's printing presses. After a race against time, Spider-Man saves the Bugle, the exposé is written and the Kingpin's fake medicine ring is out of business.
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