" At the time of the film""s release, the fictional book had surpassed 1.5 million copies sold.(Now, more than 30 million copies of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel have been sold.) More records were set when the film was first aired on television in two parts in late 1976, and controversy arose when it was restored and released theatrically in 1998.]The opportunistic ""stranger""instinctively asked to confirm the location of the back door for a quick exit, returned to his horse to retrieve something from his pack, then re-entered with a dark red cloth.Meanwhile, the Stark cargo plane took off from the Stark Tower in the heart of the city, as Toomes flew closely behind in his advanced Vulture Exo-Suit, with Spidey also in pursuit latched onto him (and then hanging onto the plane""s undercarriage).He learned that Professor Berent had died some time ago in the East, and that family members were there to spread his cremated ashes the next morning high up in the New Mexico mountains ("a favorite spot of his").Ferdinand pressured he "extremely gullible" Babe into performing a secret mission for him, as the Narrator described:"When embarking on an audacious crime, a duck needs a willing accomplice.