LEWISTON – Jeff Smith is a webhead from way back. The signs are everywhere.

A progression of license plates: SPIDYFN, SPIDRMN, SPIDEYS.

A cat named Flash, after the top jock at Peter Parker’s high school; another, Brock, named after villain Venom’s alter-ego.

A dog that has its own iconic red-and-black mask with giant ear holes.

While it’s Spider-Man fever at the box office right now, he’s always been a hit around these parts.

In 25 years, Smith hasn’t missed an “Amazing Spider-Man” comic. He got hooked when he was 15, when his brother’s subscription to a “Star Trek” comic was abruptly canceled and he picked the wall-crawler’s comic instead.

Over the last 10 years, Smith has filled his basement with everything from a framed copy of “The Electric Company” magazine with Spider-Man on the front to boxes of Spidey cereal. During an upcoming vacation in Mexico with his wife, Smith’s hoping to swing by a local bookstore for a copy of his favorite comic in Spanish.

(They’ve been married almost 20 years. By sheer chance, his wife, Karen, goes to a hairdresser who has the license plate SPIDEY.)

“When my daughter bought a car I tried to get her to get SPDYGRL but she wouldn’t – she doesn’t want anything to do with it,” he said.

Smith saw “Spider-Man 3” twice on its opening weekend.

“The first time I didn’t like it, my expectations were so high,” he said. “It was good the second time – just those stupid Hitler bangs I couldn’t stand.”

(Slight spoiler: Whenever actor Tobey Maguire is under the influence of his black costume, his bangs flop forward. When he’s good-guy Spider-Man, the bangs are back.)

Smith said he knew it would break box office records; but he’s not sure it’ll hold back new installments of “Pirates of the Caribbean” or “Shrek” in the next couple weeks.