Last issue, Spider-Man returned to his apartment to
find Gwen and Sam Bullit already there! In order to divert suspicion, Spidey
tries something drastic and suddenly grabs Gwen and swings out of the window
with her! Spidey bashes himself as Peter to ensure Gwen doesn’t connect things,
while Bullit gleefully thinks that Spider-Man’s actions will only help his
campaign. In the crowd below, Bobby Drake happens to see Spidey swing off with
Gwen and quickly ditches his date in order to chase Spidey down as Iceman!
Iceman quickly catches up with Spidey and attacks him, while Spidey realizes
that he has no way to really explain this. Spidey and Iceman tussle a little
bit before the cops show up to cordon off the area. Realizing things have
gotten out of hand, Spidey swings off, hoping his ruse helped to divert any
suspicions Gwen may have had.
Bullit decides to use the situation to his advantage,
making the press think Iceman works for him so that if he does catch Spidey,
Bullit will still get the credit! Over the coming days, Bullit continues his
tirade against Spider-Man. Bullit then gets a sudden call from J. Jonah
Jameson, telling him that the Bugle is rescinding their support of him! Bullit
heads the Bugle to try and intimidate Jameson into backing him again. When
there, Jameson and Joe Robertson make Bullit aware of some things they’ve learned
about him, namely that he’s got a lot of backing from certain hate groups and
his plans for minorities once he’s in office! Bullit then tries to intimidate
Robbie and Jameson promises to use the evidence they’ve gathered to bring him
down, and kicks Bullit out of his office! Later, Peter spots Bullit’s guys
leading Robbie out of his office and decides to tail them, having expected
something like this might happen.
Peter switches to Spidey and chases after the car
Robbie was taken in, only to get snagged mid-air by Iceman! Iceman chases
Spidey, who tries to explain the direness of the situation to no avail. Iceman
still thinks Spidey is up to no good and Spidey is forced to incapacitate him
to resume chasing the car. Spidey follows the car to an abandoned warehouse
where Bullit has his guys tie up Robbie and tells his men to kill Robbie once
he’s gone! Just after, Spidey notices Iceman has arrived and heard the whole thing.
Now on the same side, the two of them stop Bullit’s men from killing Robbie and
use their powers in conjunction to stylishly take out all of the goons. Minutes
later, they crash a fundraising banquet that Bullit is speaking at to reveal
that Bullit’s men, along with Robbie, told the police everything! Bullit is
revealed for what he is, losing any support he had, before he’s led away by the
police.