
Whitman does not explain what the trouble was, but he asks Spider-Man for help.

The crew are refusing to report for duty because of some trouble they had. Whitman tells Spider-Man that he has a contract with the government to deliver a scientist and an experimental power generator to a certain ocean site. Unfortunately, a barrel breaks over him and drenches his costume in brine, giving the sailors an opportunity to escape. Then Spider-Man smashes in through the window and breaks up the fight. This enrages the sailors, and they begin to beat up the old man. He will bring in the police if necessary, he continues.

Whitman is explaining to them that every precaution has been taken and that his ship must leave on schedule with them as its crew. Whitman is awake, and Spider-Man finds him in his office confronting three burly sailors. He decides it is time to keep the promise he made to himself earlier and heads for the waterfront to look for Debra Whitman's uncle. He rummages around and finds a fresh Spider-Man costume, and then he web-swings out of the apartment to take his mind off his problems for a while. Fortunately, the neighbor stops, but Peter still cannot got to sleep. The quality of his voice is appalling, and Peter bangs on the wall and tells him it is three o'clock in the morning. The neighbor in the apartment next to his is practicing country singing. That night, Peter Parker, who has an eight o'clock exam the next morning, finds it impossible to sleep.

The divers watch Namor depart, knowing at last who is responsible for wrecking their underwater experimental power generators, and they will report this incident to the authorities. He will not be so merciful a second time, he thinks.

But he does not want the two divers in the sphere to drown, so he hauls them out of the water, files on winged feet to the shore, and deposits them, wet but unharmed, on a dock. Navy diving sphere beneath the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New York City, annoyed that his realm has been invaded. Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, angrily tears open a U. Synopsis for "The Spider and the Sea-Scourge!"
