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This is the regular first-print edition (Cover A). Collect the 2 variant covers on their own pages.
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. 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 Spidey into the side of a train. Liz and Mary Jane are captured by the Rose's men and Harry is powerless to stop it.
Cover date
January 1, 1985
On sale date
September 11, 1984
Pages
36
Cover price
$0.60 / £0.30 / CA$0.75
Editor
Jim Shooter
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Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; 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; Hobgoblin [Roderick Kingsley] (villain); Rose (villain); Black Cat (cameo flashback); Green Goblin [Norman Osborn] (cameo flashback)
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Collected in
- Spider-Man and Zoids #12
- Spider-Man and Zoids #13
- The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1991
- Marvel Tales #274
- Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection #15
- Spider-Man: The Complete Alien Costume Saga #2
- Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man #24
- Spider-Man: The Complete Black Costume Saga Omnibus #[nn]
- Amazing Spider-Man No. 260 Facsimile Edition #[nn]