| Characters |
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; GUESTS: J. Jonah Jameson; Harry Osborn; VILLAINS: Hobgoblin [Roderick Kingsley]; Kingpin [Wilson Fisk]; George Vandergill |
| Synopsis |
Spidey has been robbed of his spider sense by the Hobgoblin's nerve deadening gas and rescued by one of his oldest foes, the Kingpin, who has chased the villain off; With Harry and Jonah still under the threat of blackmail by the Hobgoblin, Spidey contacts all of the businessmen who are being squeezed as he tries to get a line on who and where Hobby is; He even tries to get help from Jonah who is busy typing up a confession to be published in the Bugle about how he was responsible for creating the Scorpion; Peter finally decides to dust the cobwebs off of his old mechanical spider tracer receiver and is able to get a bead on the Hobgoblin's location; Spidey battles Hobgoblin in his lair but finds it tough without the aid of his spider sense; During the fracas, Norman Osborn's Goblin journals are burned up and Hobgoblin is furious as he hasn't made a copy yet; Hobgoblin tosses a pumpkin bomb and blows up the building. |
| Genre |
Superhero |
| Script |
Roger Stern |
| Pencils |
John Romita, Jr. |
| Inks |
Klaus Janson |
| Colors |
Christie Scheele |
| Letters |
Joe Rosen |
| Reprinted |
in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #260; in Amazing Spider-Man: The Origin of the Hobgoblin, The (Marvel, 1993 series) #[nn]; in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #37 |