Electro has been catapulted from lowly super-villain to spokesman for a legion of taxpaying citizens who are angered when they see big businesses bailed out using taxpayer dollars. What his followers aren't aware of, however, is that he's shaken down the target of New York's ire - Dexter Bennet - and used the money to pay the Mad Thinker to stop the degradation of his powers. But in the process, he's actually become super-charged. Spidey's webs used to insulate against Electro's mastery of electricity but now he's juiced up so strongly that his power is shooting up Spidey's webs.

And with the disenfranchised of the city turning on ever appliance and light within their reach, he's got all of the city's power at his disposal - and he's turning it on Dexter Bennet.