Teh Iron Cross Army's professor Monster (Mitsuo Ando) needs regular
blood transfusions from live humans to stay alive forever, so he sends out
his two Machine Bems (~ robot monsters) Skeleton Beast and White-robed
Beast to get him humans to suck dry - and before long, the whole country
is terrified by a series of vampire killings. Then though a blind girl,
Jun is apparently spared from being sucked dry by the White-robed Beast,
and Spider-Man (Shinji Todou) soon figures she must be the key to the
mystery. Spidey's right of course, Jun's father has sold himself to the
Iron Cross Army in order to pay for his daughters eye surgery and has
consequently been turned into White-robed Beast. Spidey now figures that
he still might have enough humanity left inside him to help him in his
fight against the Iron Cross Army, and he's right, when Jun's father is
reunited with her, he forgets his allegiance to the baddies and helps
Spidey and Jun - but is killed by Skeleton Beast as a thank you for his
efforts. Spider-Man is then able to kill Skeleton Beast with the help of
his super robot Marveller/Leopardon, but it's a bittersweet victory ... The
story of this episode is pretty cheesy (though there are worse in the
series), but at least the monsters are fun ...
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