The Amazing Spider-Man #260 [Newsstand Edition]

The Challenge of Hobgoblin! (Table of Contents)

Spider-Man / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tom DeFalco

Pencils:

Ron Frenz

Inks:

Joe Rubinstein; Brett Breeding

Colors:

Bob Sharen

Letters:

Joe Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Spider-Man; Aunt May Parker; Arthur Chekov; Harry Osborn; Liz Osborn; Mary Jane Watson; Franklin Richards; Invisible Girl; Betty Leeds; Ann MacIntosh; J. Jonah Jameson; Robbie Robertson; VILLAINS: Hobgoblin [Roderick Kingsley]; Rose; CAMEO FLASHBACK: Black Cat; Green Goblin [Norman Osborn]

Synopsis:

Back in his old red and blue duds, Spidey cuts through the New York underworld looking for Hobgoblin; Spidey's black alien costume tries to get young Franklin Richards to free it from containment but fails; The Hobgoblin attacks Harry looking for more of his dad's Goblin journals but Spidey intervenes; They take their fight to the women's bathroom where Hobby has to extinguish a pumpkin bomb webbed to his hand in the toilet; Hobgoblin tries to get away but Spidey snags his goblin glider; Hobby retaliates by slamming the web head into the side of a train; Liz and MJ are captured by the Rose's men and Harry is powerless to stop it.

Reprints:

• in Spider-Man and Zoids (Marvel UK, 1986 series) #12 (24th May 1986) [reprint contains first 12 of 22 pages]
• in Edderkoppen (Semic, 1984 series) #9/1987 ([september] 1987)
• in L' Uomo Ragno (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #52 (15 Luglio 1990)
• in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #274 (June 1993)