Spirited away to an alien world to fight for his life against the worst villains Earth has to offer, SPIDER-MAN found himself tested to the limit. His costume shredded after a cataclysmic battle, he lucked out in acquiring some new threads from a strange costume-creating device. With his powers enhanced and his supply of webbing seemingly unlimited, he came through unscathed and returned to Earth to find a familiar old crew of enemies waiting. DOCTOR OCTOPUS was also on that alien world, and had learned much, all of which he intended to apply to destroying the web-slinger.