- Peter Parker: You mean... you're Mary Jane Watson?
- Mary Jane Watson: Face it, Tiger. You just hit the jackpot.
- Hammerhead: I'm impressed. Rhino's still underground, and OsCorp's already got the contract to build his prison cell.
- Norman Osborn: After our success containing Sandman, whom else would the city call?
- Hammerhead: Meaning you get paid comin' and goin'. Sweet.
- Norman Osborn: Very. But these midtown brawls... people are beginning to ask questions. Best to let things cool off for a bit.
- Hammerhead: We cool off, when the Big Man says so, see? Or do you want people to know who created Freak 1 and Freak 2?
- Norman Osborn: Please, there's nothing to trace them back to OsCorp or myself.
- Hammerhead: Really? Tell that to Dr. Octavius.
- Spider-Man: I'm here to see Mr. Lincoln.
- Tombstone: Then you should make an appointment. But perhaps we'll make an exception for the hero of the day. I am L. Thompson Lincoln.
- Spider-Man: Please, you're the Big Man!
- Tombstone: In my life, I've been called many names. My favorite is Tombstone.
- Spider-Man: Back off! I just took down the Rhino. A pale guy in a suit doesn't stand a...
- [Tombstone smacks Spider-Man away and pins him to the ground]
- Tombstone: Don't move. Just listen. And I'll teach you the facts of life. The Big Man, whomever he might be, has nothing against heroes. No hero can thwart enough crime to dent his income. But you... you frighten criminals off the streets entirely. Except when you're off battling the like of the Rhino. Then the Big Man's profitable army of petty thugs think themselves beneath the Spider-Man's notice.
- Spider-Man: So as long as I keep fighting crime, you'll keep making bigger and badder...
- Tombstone: Now, you're learning. But there is a way out. Come work for me. You can still save the world like a good hero. I'll even pay you. All you have to remember is to look the other way on occasion. On any occasion I choose.
- Spider-Man: I can't ever look the other way again. Let's finish this.
- Tombstone: [sigh] If you insist.
- [Buzzes two cops into the room]
- Tombstone: Officers, Spider-Man has trespassed on my property, assaulted my employees and threatened my person.
- Rhino: [trashing the Bugle] Bring me Peter Parker!
- May Parker: What does that awful man want with my nephew?
- Betty Brant: Shh! Ask Peter later.
- [pushes her down behind the desk]
- Spider-Man: [battling Rhino] First Marko becomes Sandman, now this? What's the Big Man's next move? Turning Flash Thompson into the "Obliterate Bug-Zapper"?