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After having spent a frustrating evening unable to concentrate on his studies, Spider-Man decides to web-swing around the city, hoping to clear the cobwebs out of his brain. Besides being unable to do his homework, he also feels a premonition that something strange is going to happen. Suddenly, his spider-sense tingles, and he sees a man trying to conceal himself on a nearby roof. He somersaults back and attacks, but his opponent, Kraven the Hunter, is ready for him. A single punch to the jaw catches Spider-Man by surprise, and then Kraven slams him into a wall. Kraven seems to have become stronger since their last encounter, and Spider-Man can barely keep him at bay. Finally, a double-footed kick knocks Kraven down, but when Spider-Man approaches, Kraven shoots dozens of tiny darts from his wrist into Spider-Man's chest. The darts contain a neural poison that has no antidote, he says. As Spider-Man loses consciousness, he hallucinates that Kraven is Death itself come to claim him. He feels trapped in a giant web, unable to move. Then everything goes black. But Spider-Man does not die, instead, he comes to chained to the floor in Kraven's lair with Kraven seated haughtily in front of him. A fire burns in the center of the room, and next to Kraven is the woman named Tigra. She was working with the Fantastic Four, muses Spider-Man as he tries to determine what she is doing there. When Spider-Man asks Kraven why he let him live, Kraven replies that he was sorely tempted to do away with him, but, he says, he is a man of honor, and Spider-Man is a foe worthy of respect. Just then Tigra growls, and Kraven explains that she is eager for the hunt and that Spider-Man will be her prey. If she slays him, then Kraven's vengeance will be complete, but if he slays her, then he will have earned his life. Then Kraven orders Tigra to kill Spider-Man. Spider-Man is greatly hampered by his chains as he strives to avoid Tigra's attack. She leaps across the floor of Kraven's hut in one jump, and it is all he can do to keep her from tearing open his jugular vein. A Judo throw temporarily knocks the wind out of her, and the pause is just long enough for Spider-Man to break one of his chains. Kraven is impressed and dismayed, for he thought the chains could have held a bull elephant. Then he orders Tigra to finish him, but Spider-Man loops the loose chain around the collar on Tigra's neck and snaps her into a wall. Spider-Man's only hope is to kill Tigra before she kills him, declares Kraven. Thus, he gloats, he will be the ultimate victor either way. Tigra leaps at Spider-Man as he tries desperately to break the second chain. Just as she grabs his throat, the chain breaks, and both combatants tumble into Kraven's fire. Spider-Man quickly pulls himself and Tigra out of danger, and as he fends Tigra off, he tries to think of a way out of his situation. Then he notices that the chain he wrapped around Tigra's collar has torn away some of the ornamental diamonds, revealing printed circuits underneath. He recalls learning in a biology class that an intense electro-magnetic field can adversely affect a person's brain, and he swiftly tears the collar off. Electricity suddenly crackles, and Kraven leaps to his feet. Briefly stunned, Tigra recovers and begins to advance—not at Spider-Man but at Kraven. Kraven declares that she was his, body and soul, a moment ago, and she will be so again. Then he tosses a bomb that fills the room with noxious green smoke. Kraven flees, but instead of chasing him, Spider-Man assists Tigra, and when she stops coughing he asks her how she got involved with Kraven. Some time ago, back in Chicago, she says, she helped put Kraven in prison on a kidnapping and murder charge. He escaped last year, she continues, and she tracked him east. She lost his trail when she became involved with the Fantastic Four, but then she heard that Spider-Man had captured him and that he was being shipped back to prison in Illinois. But Kraven escaped again, so she eventually trailed him to his new hideout, an abandoned warehouse on the Jersey City waterfront. She went in after him alone, but he was ready for her. She attacked a figure she thought was Kraven, only to discover that it was a dummy. Then Kraven attacked her from behind. She realized too late that Kraven had devised his trap especially to confuse her feline hyper-senses, and Kraven defeated her with a noxious green gas from his chest-shooters. The gas paralyzed her with one breath, and then Kraven placed a mnemonic scrambler around her neck. This, she says, made her Kraven's slave. She recalls little after that. She says that she did not want to fight Spider-Man, but her hunting instincts compelled her to after Kraven caused her to lose control. Enraged at how Kraven has used her, Tigra leaps through the door to track him down. Now that she knows his scent, she says, she can follow him anywhere in the world. But as they pursue Kraven, the ground starts to shake, and they are caught in a stampede of Jungle animals that Kraven has let loose. Kraven's hideout was once a safari park that went bankrupt. Hundreds of acres were made to resemble the African veldt and populated with large animals. Many of the animals died, but when Kraven set up his quarters, he nursed the surviving animals back to health and trained them to obey his commands. It is these animals that are now bearing down on Spider-Man and Tigra. But Tigra leaps lithely from one animal's back to the next as she heads for Kraven. It takes all of Spider-Man's agility and speed to keep up with her. Kraven is dismayed that the effects of his gas bomb have worn off so quickly, and he realizes that once the stampede has run its course, the advantage will be theirs. He tries to escape to a copse of trees, but he under-estimates Tigra's speed, and she intercepts him. Arrogantly slapping her aside, Kraven declares that he has spent months studying Tigra and the Cat People, and he fires his ultrasonic blaster. Tigra's ears fill with pain. Hands to her head, she crouches helplessly as Kraven tries to place a second mnemonic scrambler around her neck. But Spider-Man quickly throws a "web hardball" with superhuman strength at the back of Kraven's head. This knocks Kraven out, but it also causes Spider-Man to slip under the feet of the stampeding animals. Shocked, Tigra rushes to aid Spider-Man. Fortunately, even stampeding animals will avoid stepping on something that is alive, and Spider-Man is unharmed. As she helps Spider-Man to his feet, Kraven revives. He sneaks up on his preoccupied opponents, hoping to impale them with horns filled with concentrated black mamba venom. But Spider-Man slams Kraven in the stomach and renders him unconscious. It is difficult to sneak up on someone with a spider-sense, chuckles Spider-Man as Tigra pats him on the back. Kraven may be good, he continues, but as long as Spider-Man is around he is not the best.