A SAVAGE STING HAS - THE SCORPION!

Mac Gargan, once known as the Scorpion, is ensconced at the Brainbin Psychiatric Center because he seems to have undergone a complete mental collapse. Over and over he vows vengeance against J. Jonah Jameson for turning him into a monster. Doctors Noseblum and Kloon wonder how they might cure him, for he has been this way for several months and was sent to their clinic by the authorities as a last resort. They review how the Scorpion was given his abilities in a process funded by the Daily Bugle's publisher. Subsequently he battled Spider-Man several times, and after his last defeat, his costume was taken from him. Gargan believed his costume was an unremovable "second skin" and went into psychic shock when it was peeled off, says Dr. Kloon. This gives Noseblum the idea that Gargan might be cured if his costume were returned to him. Soon an attendant fetches the costume.