Superman has his Kryptonite. And Spider-Man, it turns out, has his own weakness: OxyContin.

A man dressed in the red-and-black mask of the cartoon web-slinger robbed a Giant pharmacy in Burke of the powerful painkiller on Monday afternoon. Fairfax County Police spokeswoman Camille Neville said the incident is not only the county’s first OxyContin heist in months, but also apparently the first Spider-Man-themed robbery.

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