Issue(s): Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #120
Cover Date: Nov 86
Title: "A house is not a home"
Credits:
Bill Mantlo - Writer
Keith Giffen - Penciler
Vincent Colletta - Inker
Danny Fingeroth & Christopher Priest - Editor

Review/plot:
This is a fill-in published during Peter David's Spectacular Spider-Man run. It was most likely a story left unfinished from Bill Mantlo's Spectacular run circa the era i'm placing it in (see the Considerations section below), but it does feature some nice Keith Giffen art that looks more 1986 than his late 70s Marvel work.

Storywise, it is about Spider-Man and a reporter named Blaine Browne (her only appearance)...

...investigating a building that a landlord has allowed to become overrun with gang members so that he can force out his tenants and take advantage of the gentrification of the neighborhood.

The most stalwart hold-out, an old man, is pushed off of the building in an apparent suicide...

...but Spider-Man forces the gang member to confess.

Glory Grant had been trying to get Peter to join a rally against gentrification but until the events of this issue he had been begging off.

Gentrification is a complex topic, but i guess pushing old men out of buildings is wrong no matter how you look at it. Keith Giffen's art goes a long way to making this "issue" issue enjoyable, and Mantlo actually adds some humor to the story as well.

Quality Rating: B-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: The MCP places this circa its publication date, but i think that's an oversight. Peter is in his red and blue costume, which wouldn't have been true at publication time, and Glory Grant is still living in his apartment building, which hasn't been the case since Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #32. I'm therefore pushing this way back to the 1979 era. In that case, this has to take place prior to Amazing Spider-Man #193 when Peter is fired from the Daily Bugle.

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A