PREVIOUSLY: Whew! After battling the ferocious Freak, a junkie-turned-monster (thanks to America's top scientist, Curt Connors, Peter Parker was lucky to get out with his life intact – if not his costume, shredded in a fire. Down to his last spare (and caught photographing the scene in his underwear by new friend, Officer Vin Gonzales), Spidey returns to the DB for a handsome payday. But where is Freak? Doc Connors theorized the creature has returned to his chrysalis state, and with an impending snowstorm, would stay in hibernation. So things are looking up for Spidey, right? Sure, he still needs to move out of Aunt May's place, but how weird could his roommate options in New York City be? And besides, he's got some cash and a little snow never hurt anybody. Right?

Spidey stops by the DB to meet, as Peter Parker, with Dexter Bennett, the DB's publisher. When he lands on the rooftop of the building, he is forced to change into his civilian clothing as silently as possible for fear of being detected by maintenance workers who are finishing off the installation of a new sign. With the blizzard raging on and consequently impeding their work, the two workers decide to call it quits for the day. They go through the rooftop access and prepare to ride the elevator to the ground floor when a voice – that of Peter Parker – hollers at them to hold the elevator for him. The men are taken aback by his presence and ask what he was doing out on the roof to which Peter replies that he was getting some air. The men, none the wiser, engage into a conversation about working in adverse weather conditions and mention that one of their coworkers is suing Spider-Man for knocking him and his buddy off the roof of the DB building (as seen in Amazing Spider-Man 549) where they were working. One of the men points out that the whole thing is pretty stupid, seeing as nobody knows who Spider-Man really is. Peter comments that he has a point, just as the elevator stops at his floor.

As Peter steps out of the elevator, he hears someone asking loudly who bumped her Hollister story to page six. That person is Betty Brant, Peter's friend and co-worker. When Betty sees that Peter is only wearing a very thin New York Yankees jacket, she comments that he's going to freeze to death unless be bundles up. Peter replies that he's wearing layers, prompting Betty to give him a weird look and deducing he's wearing long underwear. Changing the subject, Peter asks Betty if she's heard anything about J. Jonah Jameson's second heart attack. Betty replies that Jonah is stabilized and that they are not blaming Spider-Man for what happened, even though he was in the room when it happened. Peter comments that he's kind of surprised Jonah is not claiming that Spider-Man tried to kill him. Betty responds that, as far as she knows, Jonah has not mentioned Spider-Man at all. In fact, whenever he comes to, he starts hissing Dexter Bennett's name until the nurses have to sedate him. Though he already knows the answer, Peter asks Betty if someone told Jonah about the Daily Bugle being sold to Bennett and renamed The DB. Betty replies that she doesn't know and she doesn't see why Spider-Man would have told him. Approaching Peter menacingly, she mentions that if someone from the office spilled the beans to Jonah, it probably is very easy to narrow it down. Stunned, Peter thinks she is talking about him but then she smiles at him and reveals that she was only kidding around with him. As Betty walks away from Peter, Dexter Bennett arrives in the newsroom from outside. He tells Peter that he wants him up (the next day) before the crack of dawn to take pictures of the cleanup effort. Peter replies that he lives in Queens with his aunt; therefore, he won't be in the city the following day. After pointing out that he should be embarrassed to live with his aunt, Bennett tells Peter that he wants him to go out in the blizzard and get pictures, no matter what it takes.

A short time later, Spidey sits on a web, about 20 feet above the ground, waiting for something to happen. With the blizzard raging on, Spidey is practically freezing to death. Suddenly, however, he spots a man wearing a hooded coat running through the snow past him. As the man reaches an intersection, he stops dead in his tracks. Standing menacingly in front of the man are three voodoo-looking Mayan warriors, with spears and arrows pointed at him. Begging for his life, the man says that he did nothing wrong and that they have the wrong person. Before the Mayan warriors can do anything, Spidey shows up and engages them into combat, pushing the man out of harm's way and into a nearby snow bank. The action that follows is that seen at the beginning of the issue, where Spidey is running away from a barrage of spears and pointy arrows. Dodging the various sharp objects being thrown his way, Spidey tries to grab hold of his gear and set up his camera to photograph the encounter but is unable to do so and deal with his attacker at the same time. Thankfully, in the nick of time, Wolverine shows up to save the day. Spidey wonders where he's been and Wolverine indicates that he was using him as bait to draw their attackers out, leaving Spidey flabbergasted. With that said, Wolverine pops his claws out and he and Spider-Man engage their opponents. After fiercely battling their enemy for several hard minutes, Spidey and Wolverine finally win the battle, when the last of them falls to the ground. Then comes the debate about what to do with them. Naturally, Wolverine pretty much wants to kill them, which – obviously – Spider-Man is opposed to. Spidey wins the argument and decides that they should be brought to the authorities. Wolverine doesn't argue any further but tells Spidey he's on his own; he then walks away.

Spidey webs the three Mayan warriors and heads to the Fifth Precinct station on Elizabeth Street, the man he saved in tow. They arrive at the precinct house and Spidey knocks on the door, hollering that he's delivering a bunch of bad guys. Waiting for the door to open, Spidey asks the man why the Mayan warriors were after him. The man explains that a team of engineers and abstract mathematicians he's spearheading have been studying the algorithms believed to have been intuited by the Mayan culture three hundred years ago and, as their work progressed, they began receiving threatening correspondence from Mayan extremists claiming the equations were sacred. Then, earlier that morning, they kidnapped he and his colleagues and threw them into the back of a truck, while he was sent to retrieve the algorithms. Realizing that his team are still stuck in the back of that truck, which happens to be a meatpacking truck, the man asks Spidey to find the truck and save his friends. Just then, the precinct door opens and Officer Vincent Gonzales steps out. As soon as he sees Spider-Man, he grabs hold of his weapon and instructs him to "freeze". Before Gonzales can even manage a shot, Spidey webs up his gun and replies that he probably will "freeze". Having said that, he steps back out into the blizzard, to go in search of the meatpacking truck described by the man he saved.

To be continued.