Spider Freak Girl Crashes In

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At Cassie Webb's new home, aside from the three Spider-Girls, there was another male visitor today: Henry Brown.

Henry had come to adjust Cassie Webb's wheelchair. At the same time, he had studied the usage patterns in its computer records in order to design a customized combat vehicle for Madame Web.

Normally, only Anya Corazon lived with her. But it was summer vacation now, so the other two Spider-Girls came over whenever they had free time.

However, Henry was not busy with the wheelchair right now. Instead, he held a photo from one section of the Daily Bugle and laughed at the girl, Mattie Franklin.

"Mattie, you got your wish. You're really famous now. Can I interview you? How do you feel?"

"I'm going to kill the bastard who took that picture!" The Black girl glared at everyone through gritted teeth and said viciously, "That's not a figure of speech. I really am going to do it!"

The Daily Bugle's front page featured photos of Doctor Octopus battling Spider-Man. The article described Doctor Otto Octavius using four mechanical tentacles to rob a bank as though no one could stop him.

This bank was rather unusual, with a large amount of Gold Coin in its vault. Not long ago, it had accepted a private commission to safeguard valuables salvaged from a seventeenth-century pirate shipwreck.

Although gold had been excluded from the credit currency system, the market still recognized it as hard currency, especially the black market. Doctor Octopus could hardly carry this money around and buy research materials through legitimate channels, so gold was probably easier for him to sell.

Yet Spider-Man, who had arrived first, had done everything he could