Plot Summary
Superman is flying to rescue Metropolis as it is being attacked by his old foe Lex Luthor in a gigantic robot of his own creation. After a fight, Superman defeats Luthor, but not before Lex manages to send some sort of stolen device to one of his strongholds for safe keeping.
Spider-Man battles Doctor Octopus and his henchmen. Octopus has created a large flying robotic ship he has dubbed The Flying Octopus. Octopus has also encased it in a fake blimp facade (it flies by electromagnetic means) so as to enable him to steal fortunes under its cover, providing him with a potentially inexhaustible supply of money with which to fuel his world-conquering schemes. Octopus and his group are also defeated.
In prison, Lex and Dr. Octopus make a sinister pact to combine forces to take over the world and kill both of the men who put them behind bars. In a matter of minutes, combining their abilities, the two super-villains escape.
The next major scene takes place during a news conference in New York City which features some sort of new satellite which apparently is capable of disrupting global weather patterns, called ComSat. Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson are there, as are Clark Kent and Lois Lane. After saving Lois Lane's life, Peter Parker introduces her to Mary Jane. In seconds, Lex Luthor, in the guise of Superman, swoops in and shoots a teleportation ray out of his Superman mask which teleports Lois Lane and Mary Jane to an unknown destination. Lex flies quickly away, and both Peter and Clark soon follow him and change into their respective costumes.
Superman mistakenly blames Spider-Man for the kidnapping of Lois and Mary Jane, which angers Spider-Man. Superman and Spider-Man both throw a punch at each other in mid-air over the skies of New York City, but both easily dodge the other's attack. Superman flies away at super-speed, evading Spider-Man's next attack while he tries to simultaneously figure out what is really happening.
Lex Luthor fires a gun at Spider-Man which irradiates his costume with sunlight similar to that emitted by a red sun. When Superman has flown into arm's length of Spider-Man, the red sun radiation erases most of his powers, including his invulnerability, unbeknownst to him or Spider-Man. Thus when Spider-Man punches Superman, he hurts him. During the fight, however, the remainder of the red sun radiation dissipates off of his costume, and Superman's powers return in full. Spider-Man simply bounces off Superman's invulnerable body and ricochets into the ground, landing flat on his back. Realizing his opponent's much greater strength, Spider-Man surrenders.
After calming, Spider-Man listens to Superman's side of the story and realizes they have both been deceived by some enemy. They shake hands and agree amicably to join forces to take down whoever is responsible for the kidnappings and the fight. Spider-Man and Superman battle Doctor Octopus, Lex Luthor, and someone who was apparently enslaved by Luthor and forced to battle both Superman and Spider-Man. He was endowed by Luthor with super-human strength and endurance and a red sun irradiated sword. Spider-Man and Superman both fight the enslaved warrior (who is also one of the very first African characters in comics), holding their own against him individually but being unable to defeat him. Only when the two combine their powers do they overcome this powerful new character. Spider-Man dodges and distracts him while firing his webbing at him while Superman fires his heat vision at the newly-spun webbing, apparently instantly hardening it.
Spider-Man steals an Injustice Gang spaceship from Luthor's base in Africa and heads into outer space with Superman for the final showdown with Doctor Octopus and Luthor. The supervillains have used the Injustice Gang's Satellite Headquarters' computers in conjunction with the computer control device stolen by Luthor to severely agitate the Earth's atmosphere with a combination of sonic waves and lasers, causing huge tornadoes and hurricanes worldwide. Superman tries to stop the beam but is felled by its high-pitched sonics.
Spider-Man attempts to rescue Superman by using his spacecraft's extensor arm to haul him to safety, but is accidentally struck by the beam as well. The beam somehow knocks out Peter's oxygen systems on board, causing him to lose consciousness as well.
Peter and Clark awaken some time later aboard the Injustice Gang Satellite. Lex Luthor shows them their captive girlfriends, imprisoned in a strange-looking spherical prison. After a few moments of gloating by Luthor, Spider-Man and Superman attack, despite their weariness. Spider-Man holds his own against Lex Luthor, and Superman holds his own against Doctor Octopus, despite the gravity having been shut off by Lex Luthor. After some time, Superman finally manages to gain the upper hand against Octopus by tearing off two of his robotic arms and shattering his eyeglasses, while Spider-Man is making headway at subtly turning Lex Luthor against Doctor Octopus through psychological means. Spider-Man battles Doctor Octopus and Lex Luthor simultaneously. Luthor arrogantly tells Spider-Man of his true plan which is to destroy most of the Earth to gain revenge on people for not telling him how great he is. However, while Luthor's attention is focused on Spider-Man (due to their battle), Doctor Octopus, realizing that once Luthor wrecks the planet he is not going to have anywhere to live, uses one of his robotic arms to destroy the control console which is controlling the machine which is disrupting the Earth's weather patterns, stopping the potential disaster. Luthor attacks Octavius in retaliation for destroying his plans. Bereft of two of his arms and unable to use a third (due to Spider-Man), Doctor Octopus is defeated by Luthor.
Superman flies back to Earth to try to stop a gigantic tidal wave from destroying most of the East Coast of the United States. He does so by flying very fast in front of the tidal wave, which somehow (in comic book science) creates a gigantic sonic boom which safely disperses the wave.
Having already beaten Doctor Octopus, and having bought enough time for his healing factor to heal his battle-wounds, Spider-Man defeats Lex Luthor with ease, knocking him unconscious with a single blow to the head.
Superman returns to the Injustice Gang Satellite. Spider-Man webs up his two super-villain captives. Superman flies Mary Jane and Lois back to Earth in their protective sphere, while Spider-Man presumably flies his two captives back in his Space Shuttle. Superman and Spider-Man congratulate each other on a job well done and take Octopus and Luthor back to their respective jails. Mary Jane and Lois wave goodbye to their respective boyfriends.
In an epilogue, Clark and Lois go on a double date with Peter and Mary Jane, and they all walk away together.
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