Vulture on the wing! This is the third time that Spider-Man has faced the Vulture chronologically. The first two being of course in Amazing Spider-Man #2 and #7 where the Vulture was defeated two times after initially beating Spider-Man. There's always plenty of action when Spider-Man and the Vulture goes head to head and this issue is no exception!

With but a flip of the cover to the first page we can see these two already at it high above the cities building in the rain. Spider-Man thinks to himself that this is an old man I am fighting and how can he be strong and fast. Spider-Man manages to get on top of the Vulture but the old man gives him a whack with his left wing and Spider-Man goes crashing into a ledge. Extremely angry at this point, Spider-Man attaches himself to the Vulture with a web and the Vulture takes him for a ride before the web-line is sliced. The Vulture gets away but not before he challenges Spider-Man to try and stop him from stealing an atomic accelerator that the Army is bringing through the city the next day by train.

The next morning, Aunt May gets all over Peter for not getting to the optometrist and getting new eyeglasses since Flash Thompson broke his old pair. At school, Peter realizes that the truth is that he has no need for the glasses since his spider powers have strengthened his eye muscles. Also, the girls begin to see that Peter is really not such a bad-looking guy without the glasses! During lunch period, Peter changes into Spider-Man and visits General Thunderbolt Ross (well known in the pages of the Incredible Hulk) at an army base to warn him of the Vulture's intent to steal the accelerator. Ross does not trust Spider-Man and orders his men to arrest him, but Spider-Man gets away to return back to school. A few hours later at the offices of the Daily Bugle, Peter asks Betty Brant out to the movies for the next weekend and gets a train schedule for the rail yards.

We next cut to the impending action as Spider-Man makes his way to the rail yards and boards atop a train. Alarms go off and Spider-Man is trapped with an alloy net and taken by guards to General Ross. Just as Ross begins to chew-out Spider-Man, the Vulture asks him to turn around only to see the bald headed geezer pointing a gun at him. The Vulture next takes the accelerator and flies away with it claiming that he will sell it to the highest bidder. Just after the Vulture flies away, Spider-Man frees himself from the net and goes after the Vulture. He catches up to the Vulture only to have the Vulture brag about how he used Spider-Man as a diversion so that he could steal the accelerator then Spider-Man catches another ride on him. The guards also catch up and begin firing at them and Spider-Man takes the accelerator from the Vulture, but once the Vulture puts the guards in danger, Spider-Man relinquishes the accelerator back to the Vulture. It's like a hot potato at this point, but the Vulture seems very confident in his heist of the accelerator and brags about it while Spider-Man is atop a quickly moving train. Spider-Man next shoots a web line to the accelerator at a time when the train is quickly approaching a tunnel. It's quick decision time for the Vulture now: Either hold on to the accelerator and smack into the solid rock in front of the train and the accelerator blows up, or let go of it and fly away safely.

We next cut to a very angry Thunderbolt Ross who thinks that the Vulture and Spider-Man are working together, but out of nowhere, the accelerator is lowered into his train car by Spider-Man's webbing safe and sound. Spider-Man has caught a ride home resting atop a truck and the Vulture is free until his next appearance in Untold Tales of Spider-Man #12 where he battles once again for a couple of pages. Another great untold story and I can't stress enough how good this series is. Every issue is a fun & exciting read, plus it's not too expensive to obtain!