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Peter Parker is walking his new girlfriend, Cissy, home from the Delacdrte Theatre in Central Park one summer evening, when suddenly his spider-sense tingles a sharp warning. Peter pushes Cissy out of the way, and then he is attacked by a snarling werewolf. Although he uses his full strength against the creature, it shrugs off his blows and hurls him into a tree, knocking him unconscious. Cissy runs away, but the creature catches the frightened girl and throws her to the ground beside a group of bystanders and a mounted policeman. The bystanders try to subdue him, but he shoves them aside like rag dolls. Then the officer shoots him, but the bullets fail to stop him, and a bolt of energy knocks the gun from the policeman's hand. As the werewolf approaches the unconscious Cissy, Peter attacks him again, and the two combatants roll into Central Park Lake. The werewolf hates the water, but he holds Peter under with a stranglehold as Peter struggles to free himself. Finally, Peter opens a web cartridge into the werewolf's face, and with an anguished howl the creature leaps out of the water and runs off. When Peter walks out of the lake, he sees Dr. Strange's mystic amulet—the Eye of Agamotto—lying in the mud on the shore. Puzzled, he picks it up, but he defers trying to figure out why it is there until after he calls an ambulance for Cissy and the others. By midnight, Cissy is ensconced at Roosevelt Hospital, and as Peter awaits word about her through the night, he contemplates the amulet. Clearly, the amulet fell off the werewolf, but equally clearly, Dr. Strange would never lose it or lend it to anyone, thinks Peter. Therefore, the werewolf could quite possibly be Dr. Strange himself, somehow mystically transformed. Just as Peter comes to this conclusion, Dr. Fled enters the waiting room aid tells Peter that Cissy has had a slight concussion. With a few Weeks' rest she should be all right. Peter resolves to drop by to see her in the afternoon, but first he wants to check on Dr. Strange. Thus, a short time later, Spider-Man knocks on the door of Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum, but when Clea answers, she tells him that the mystic master is not available. Spider-Man can see that Clea is afraid of something, but when he presses her, she closes the door in his face. As Spider-Man clambers away, he recalls the encounter not long ago with Dr. Strange, Marie LaVeau, Clea, and Silver Dagger. Although Silver Dagger was defeated, Marie remarked that the prophecy of the tarot was still unfinished. Lacking any kind of understanding of magic, Spider-Man decides to visit a fortune teller to try to learn something about the situation. Soon Peter Parker arrives at Madame Xenobia's parlor, and when he enters he finds an old lady seated at a table. She starts to read his palm—and gets uncomfortably close to divining Peter's secret—but Peter tells her he wants a reading of a tarot layout that was recently done for a friend. When the cards are laid out, Xenobia consults with her granddaughter, Ruth, who confirms the cards' baleful prediction. Convinced that the women are not charlatans, Peter departs, changes into his Spider-Man costume, and begins a vigil by Dr. Strange's house. It is not long before Strange passes by. Although the magician looks normal in daylight, Spider-Man's spider-sense tingles as Strange enters his house, and then Spider-Man hears the sound of quarreling from within. Clea shouts that Strange is not well, and he slaps her face and starts wrecking the furniture like a man berserk. Then he pursues her into the library, and she flings a chair at him. It misses and shatters a window, which allows Spider-Man to leap inside and grapple with Strange. Obviously unbalanced, Strange accuses Spider-Man of mocking the Master of the Mystic Arts and says that this interference will cost Spider-Man his life. By throwing punches and webbing up Strange's head, Spider-Man tries to keep Strange from casting spells, but a Bolt of Bishru momentarily stuns Spider-Man. As Strange grabs Spider-Man's throat, Clea weaves a spell that distracts Strange long enough for Spider-Man to recover and administer a knockout punch. Just then Wong enters, and Clea quickly explains what happened. Spider-Man notes that Dr. Strange's hands have hairy palms—a sure sign of lycanthropy. Then he produces the Eye of Agamotto amulet and tells what happened in Central Park the previous night. Clea is still not convinced that Strange is a werewolf, but Spider-Man asks her to use the Eye to probe Dr. Strange and discover the truth. She has never done so before, she says, but she has no choice but to try. Tracing the patterns of the Kuram Mandala with her mind, she activates the Eye and illuminates Dr. Strange with its beam. Sure enough, the mystic master starts to change into the wolfman, but the shock of seeing the transformation causes Clea to break the spell, and Strange reverts to his human form. Spider-Man asks what they should do now, and Wong recommends getting in contact with a certain Tibetan lamasery whose learned monks might be able to effect a cure. In tears, Clea tells Wong to make the necessary arrangements, because her spells are not powerful enough to cure Dr. Strange unaided. Spider-Man and Wong leave her alone with her unconscious master. By early evening, Wong and Spider-Man drive the still unconscious Dr. Strange in a Rolls Royce limousine to Kennedy international Airport, where a chartered Boeing 707 airliner awaits. There is an hour remaining before the full moon rises, and the night is cloudy. Spider-Man hopes the clouds will delay Strange's transformation long enough for the plane to take off. Once airborne, the plane will be able to keep ahead of the moon all the way. Unfortunately, it is over an hour before the plane is cleared for takeoff. As it taxis down the runway, the clouds break, and the full moon appears. The plane suddenly veers, and a powerful explosion knocks the tail section off. Spider-Man and Wong get the crew out of the plane safely, but Strange, now changed into the werewolf, escapes. At the same time, a taxi pulls up to Strange's home in Greenwich Village and a woman gets out. When she rings the doorbell, Clea answers. The woman introduces herself as Satana, the Devil's Daughter, and she has come to save Dr. Strange from eternal damnation—or, if he has tasted human blood, to kill him.