Human Torch ogles Mary Jane.
Then Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four fight Sandman and Trapster, who were hired by someone (unidentified) to kill a Senator.
I have a little whiplash trying to figure out where Sandman is aligned. He’s been a mercenary, a villain, and even a member of the Avengers.
The story leads directly into the 1999 annual, an interdimensional epic. When it’s over, the evil Senator is left unresolved but Wizard is tossed into the Negative Zone.
John Byrne had a hard-on for unreforming villains. Sandman has stayed a villain since this but has regained the character depth that this tried to snuff out. Also John Byrne thinks Sandman and Norman Osborn are cousins because they have the same hair.