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MJ declares her support for this Raleigh guy, and wants to give Pete a button. The implication that this Raleigh dude is a heartthrob is strange to me. Peter wants to sell JJJ photos of the giant battle from last issue, but now JJJ\u2019s only interest is a tip about a giant smashing Raleigh billboards. Between that, threats and bomb scares, it seems like the underworld is trying hard to keep Raleigh out of office. Peter leaves The Bugle just as Raleigh is giving a speech on TV\u2026 This guy\u2019s campaign speech has a lot in common with the Sam Bullit<\/a> character from awhile back<\/a>. Which is kinda funny since this story was originally published 2 years earlier. Raleigh angrily calls for a crackdown on crime, and once he gets off the air, runs into some pushback. Raleigh really lays into the idea that he wants to see all crime destroyed \u201clike the vermin you are!\u201d and then we check back in with Spider-Man. He\u2019s on his way to see Gwen and hash out her feelings for Flash Thompson (Which he completely made up, like, 6 issues ago now, I think? It\u2019s been awhile), while contemplating where The Smasher could be hiding. Gwen, for her part, is beating herself up for running off Aunt May still, and thinks Peter hates her for it. The reunited couple sit down just in time to hear the end of a speech by JJJ. But Peter can\u2019t settle in, because his Spider Sense warns him of danger. That ulcer of his is coming in handy! People spot a figure who can only be Spider-Man up on the ceiling, but can\u2019t figure out what he\u2019s up to. And while he\u2019s trying his best, it seems like his web isn\u2019t gonna be strong enough to keep the roof up, and\u2026 to be continued… The letter column explains that the campaign-based story was first put out around the \u201868 elections, so when they thought about reprinting it in color, running it in time for the \u201872 elections seemed like an obvious choice. But running it as regular issues of ASM required Conway to rewrite \u201cover half the continuity\u201d and Jazzy Johnny to touch up quite a lot of the art.The changes from the original are frequent and interesting. Sometimes totally necessary to fit into the current continuity, sometimes just tightening up the original\u2019s frankly meandering narrative, and sometimes adding whole new little threads to the plot. The big character didn\u2019t really get a name in the original. He was called \u201cthe man-monster\u201d on account of his size, but it\u2019s not like that was his supervillain name. Now he\u2019s The Smasher, and looks more like he\u2019s wearing a super suit. Spidey obviously didn\u2019t have to get his mask back from JJJ before, and Peter and Gwen had no problems between them in the original. But he did spend a few minutes looking for \u201cThe Man-Monster\u201d on his way to pick her up, like it wouldn\u2019t have ruined his night if he found him. This version, where he\u2019s just wondering about The Smasher on the way over in the same panels, makes more sense. And this cliffhanger is just sort of tacked onto the bottom of the page in the original where Peter was trying to fix the roof to give us a clean break until next time. And from the look of things, this story\u2019s going to be far more different from the original in part two! Things are about to get a bit weird. This issue begins reprinting & expanding the story from Spectacular Spider-Man Magazine #1 by Stan Lee & John Romita. 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