From his high-school beginnings to his entry into college life, Spider-Man remained the superhero most relevant

to the world of young people. Fittingly,

then, his comic book also contained some of the earliest references to the politics of young people. In 1968, in the wake of actual militant student
demonstrations at Columbia University, Peter Parker finds himself in the midst of similar unrest at his Empire State University.... Peter has to reconcile his
natural sympathy for the students with his assumed obligation to combat lawlessness as Spider-Man. As a law-upholding liberal, he finds himself caught

between militant leftism and angry conservatives.[9]:234–235