Eventually we learn that the Jackal is really Peter's college professor Miles Warren, and that he perfected human cloning and cloned the real Gwen Stacy before her death. Spider-Man is confronted by another villian, the Tarantula, who wears boots with poisoned spikes:
The bus they're fighting on stops, and (the clone of) Gwen Stacy gets on, but she's in some kind of trance:
Spider-Man wakes up a bit later:
That stings, but Peter manages to free himself from the chains and drags his battered body home, where he sees Mary Jane:
Peter and his friend Ned Leeds discuss the mystery of Gwen Stacy, and they discover a connection to Professor Warren (who they haven't yet identified as the Jackal):
It looks like Peter has won, but:
Continue on to Part 4…