Jameson employs a brilliant scientist named Henry Smythe in an effort to catch and unmask Spiderman by means of a relentless robot that speaks in Jameson's voice and has an image of Jameson's face in its head. After a lengthy chase that leaves Spidey fatigued, short of breath, and easily captured by the robot, Spidey uses the suction power of his fingers to open the lid to the robot's control centre and removes the spider-detecting circuitry that initially put the robot onto his trail, and when Jameson and Smythe arrive at the place of Spidey's apparent capture, Jameson removes the mask of what he thinks is Spiderman and finds a straw dummy in a Spiderman costume, in the arms of a non- functional robot. The frustrated Jameson never wants to see Smythe or Smythe's robot ever again.