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With a hefty 35 cent price tag, Spider-Man was the first Marvel hero to pioneer an oversized magazine that contained original material. The format, done in black-and-white, was supposed to attract college-aged kids and people in their later 20s.
A giant “human robot” is smashing up campaign billboards for Richard Raleigh, a law-and-order candidate.
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But of course Richard Raleigh himself is behind it.
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It’s a fairly predictable paranoid-white-male-politician tale that ends with Raleigh killed by his own giant and J. Jonah Jameson being a jerk about all of it.
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There’s also a back-up story retelling Spider-Man’s origin, with art by Larry Leiber, that recreates several classic panels including this one, without the famous googley-eyes typo.
Only this time, as you can see in the bottom panel above, Stan Lee doesn’t narrate the “with great power comes great responsibility line,” Peter himself says it.
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That’s still not Uncle Ben saying it, which is what most people believe.
And in case you don’t remember the famous Steve Ditko eyeball panel…
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