In the way-out wind-up to Romita/Conway’s Gang War trilogy, both contestants appear to take their eyes off the ostensible prize. Doc Ock channels all of his considerable nerd charisma into extending Aunt May’s contract as his housekeeper, and Hammerhead catches a chartered flight for parts unknown. Then: just in time for Election Year 1972, Mixed-up Marvel musters a modified mayoral melodrama out of mothballs for those who missed it the first time around (in the black-and-white pages of the 1968 Spectacular Spider-Man #1)

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Debbie Harry - "Comic Books"