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Still grasping Spider-Man in his giant fist, the Living Monolith, towering more than four stories, smashes through the embassy building toward the street. Bystanders flee as a mounted policeman tries unsuccessfully to keep order. Invoking the gods Horus and Osiris of ancient Egypt, the Monolith proclaims that he will crush the people beneath his heel. Spider-Man realizes that the giant can indeed make good his threat, for he has managed to combine the power of the mutant, Havok, with his own. Nevertheless, Spider-Man tries to blind the Monolith with webbing, but the Monolith tears the substance off and hurls Spider-Man away. Spider-Man tries to snag a building with a web strand, but he is moving too fast and misses. But then, seemingly from nowhere, Thor soars up and catches Spider-Man in mid-air. After Thor deposits Spider-Man on a nearby roof, Spider-Man tells him how he tracked a group of burglars to a Middle East embassy, where he found Havok, whom the Living Pharaoh kidnapped to amplify his own mutant powers. Spider-Man then explains that he failed to stop him, and as a result the Pharaoh was transformed into the Living Monolith. Thor tells Spider-Man that he is no match for the Monolith, and then he heaves his hammer and flies off to do battle. The Monolith, meanwhile, is still growing as he strides down Fifth Avenue, which is filling with rush-hour traffic. Just as his giant foot is about to crush Harley and Cissy's Mercury, he decides that walking is for mere mortals and levitates into the air. Thor suddenly flashes up and punches the Monolith's face, but the giant shrugs off the blow and slaps Thor, sending him crashing through a plate-glass window into a group of mannequins. Unbowed, Thor resumes the battle, whirling his hammer in a circle to deflect the Monolith's energy blasts. But Thor realizes that he is approaching the limits of his power, while the power of the Monolith continues to grow with every passing second. Feeling quite useless, Spider-Man heads back to the embassy, where Havok is imprisoned in the special casing that absorbs his cosmic energy and broadcasts it to the Monolith. Perhaps, thinks Spider-Man, the Monolith can be defeated by simply destroying the casing. So he signals Thor to hurl his hammer at the casing, which is now visible from above through the destroyed embassy. But the Monolith tells Thor that the casing is booby-trapped. If it is broken, Havok will die, and all his power will be the Monolith's forever. When Spider-Man hears this, he instantly snags the thrown hammer with webbing, but when he pulls the web-line tight, the hammer yanks him off the roof and pulls him through the embassy. Then the hammer reverses, pulls Spider-Man back the way he came, and returns to Thor's hand. Thor catches Spider-Man and sets him down on the roof next to him. Deeming his two opponents quite unworthy, the Monolith, still suspended in the air and growing, heads for the waterfront. But Thor hits the giant square in the back with his hammer, knocking him into New York Harbor. The splash nearly swamps the tugboat Molly D. As Thor's hammer returns, he sees the boat that he unwittingly endangered and flies to the rescue. But the Monolith grabs the tugboat fore and aft and, as the crewmen hastily abandon ship, hurls it at Thor. Thor shatters the vessel with his hammer, and, using his power to create storms, makes a breeze that pushes the crewmen toward shore. Then when he sees the crew are safe, he creates a tempest to help him beat the Monolith. Meanwhile, Spider-Man web-swings to the top of the Chrysler Building, where he finds George and Martha, two tourists using the pay binoculars on the observation floor. They reluctantly allow Spider-Man to look through them at the half-hurricane that Thor has created, and then Spider-Man gets an idea. Waving his thanks to the tourists, Spider-Man webswings beck to the embassy, where he finds a group of the Monolith's costumed henchmen about to transport Havok and his casing to a safer location. After a brief skirmish in which Spidery dodges energy blasts, the henchmen are left unconscious. Spider-Man notes that the truck has diplomatic plates, so that the police could not legally stop it even if they wanted to. Using his spider-sense as a danger signal, Spider-Man locates the booby trap on the casing. At the same time, at the center of the hurricane, Thor finds to his surprise that his lightning bolts are not sufficient to defeat the Living Monolith. Again he is forced to push his powers to the limit just to keep the Monolith at bay. Fatigue begins to set in, but the Monolith remains as strong as ever. Thor claims to command the elements, says the Monolith arrogantly, but he commands the cosmic powers, and he will be triumphant. After examining the booby trap, Spider-Man finds three main circuits. Breaking the attract wire should free Havoc, but breaking the wrong one could blow up the casing. As he touches the first and second wires, his spider-sense tingles, but there is no tingle when he touches the third one, so he breaks it. Sure enough, and much to his relief, the casket opens without exploding. Then Spider-Man removes the ankh that keeps Havok immobilized. Instantly, Havok's power returns, and the Monolith starts to collapse. Thor hurls his hammer, but the Monolith vanishes before the bow can be struck. Thor then orders the hurricane to cease, and within seconds it is gone. Thor searches the harbor, but he finds no trace of the Monolith. All he sees is the Coast Guard rescuing the crewmen of the destroyed tugboat. Soon he abandons his search and returns to the embassy, where he finds that Spider-Man has freed Havok. Apparently, says Spider-Man, the Monolith shrank back to normal size when Havok regained his power, and Thor's storm simply blew him away. Havok remarks that the Monolith, or the Living Pharaoh, will survive, and then he remembers Lorna Dane, who fell into the sea off Muir isle when he was kidnapped. Thor says that the Avengers cannot help, because the government has forbidden them to use their quinjets, but Tony Stark should be able to get Havok home by nightfall. So saying, Thor bids Spider-Man farewell and, carrying Havok in his arm, flys away.