Spider-Man Unlimited #21

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Synopsis

A REAL BOY J. Jonah Jameson sends Peter Parker and Betty Brant on an assignment to Switzerland, to cover a scientific conference.  To Peter's unease, the subject is cloning.  Dr. Walston Kraft, the organizer of the council, hosts a cocktail party at his ancestral castle to begin the weekend, and while there, Peter and Betty overhear some comments about Kraft and his  questionable ethics.  The pair try to snoop around but their way is blocked by a hulking being who, unknown to Peter, is the Frankenstein Monster and a hunchback named Ivan. Later, Peter does some snooping on his own.  Using his Spider-powers, he climbs the outside wall till he comes to a window where he spies the Monster standing over a tank in which a body lies.  The Monster speaks to the body which is being grown to house his mind, allowing him to abandon his patchwork form and regain his lost humanity.  The next morning, Peter and Betty compare notes, and she tells him she had heard mention of a "Baroness Frankenstein" who resides about fifteen miles away.  Peter decides to drive to Castle Frankenstein to visit her.  Once there, he finds the Baroness Victoria has been locked in a cell.  Peter releases her, and soon they are in her sitting room where she tells him the tale of Frankenstein's Monster.  She states the classic novel is mostly true, and that the creature awoke from suspended animation in the Twentieth Century.  Eventually, he made his way to Castle Frankenstein where Victoria welcomed him. Years later saw the arrival of Ivan, who had been a foe of the Monster over a century before, but now came as a friend.  The creature accompanied Ivan to Kraft's castle, but the hunchback later returned and imprisoned the Baroness.   Peter returns to Kraft's castle to continue his search for answers.  He spies on Dr. Kraft, then enters a private lab to find several tanks containing what appear to be clones of Frankenstein's Monster.  Peter suspects Kraft is breeding an army.  Peter then seeks...