A convict named Red Dog Melvin escapes jail and is granted asylum at Parafino's Wax Museum, where Red Dog is put in suspended animation and coated with wax by fanatical wax artist Parafino, whose advertised exhibit of Red Dog lures Spidey to the museum for a nighttime visit. Planning to turn the web-swinger into a wax-covered exhibit, Parafino throws an ultra-sticky wax at Spidey's hands and feet, pinning Spidey on a pedestal. Betty Brant arrives at the museum in search for Peter, who told to her that he was going to investigate the museum, and Parafino captures her too. However, Spidey uses heat to his advantage, first from a lamp above his pedestal to melt the wax on his hands (thus enabling him to pull his feet free from the wax bonding them to the pedestal), then by hitting with his webbing a wax temperature control that increases heat to cause Parafino to melt! The real Parafino emerges to continue the work of his melted wax self-image, but Red Dog reanimates and grabs Parafino, and Spidey webs them both.