Spider-Man came to on the floor of the mint. When he looked around, he saw no sign of Mysterio, but could see the looted vaults. Clearly he had been unprepared for Mysterio's power.

That guy could throw fireballs! Spider-Man thought, I've never seen a power like that. He looked over at the spot where the fireball hit the wall. The scorch marks were prominent, but he also smelled something. He went over closer to the wall and the smell got stronger. When he finally arrived at the burn spot, he finally recognized the smell; it smelled like a coal fire.

"He didn't magically generate that fireball," said Spider-Man, "he lit up a huge lump of coal."

After that, Peter did some more looking at Harry's encrypted files, doing some research this time, so he could decode it some. After at least an hour he had managed to decode one word: Tinkerer. Peter couldn't place it but the word seemed familiar.

The next day, news reports flooded in about recent kidnappings. Among the missing people were astronaut John Jameson and doctors William Allen and Miles Warren. The only common element between them is that eyewitnesses saw a cloud of smoke when the person disappeared. Not even the sensational Spider-Man could find any leads. However it was obvious that it was the handiwork of the city's new tormentor, Mysterio. But the question remains; what did Mysterio, an all-powerful ectoplasmic being from the nether realm, want with these people?