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Issue Details

Issue #250
Published March 1984
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 36
Editing Danny Fingeroth; Bob DeNatale (Assistant)

Cover Details - "Behold the Face of Death! Behold... Hobgoblin!"

Characters Spider-Man; Hobgoblin [Roderick Kingsley]
Genre superhero
Pencils John Romita, Jr. (signed)
Inks Klaus Janson (signed)
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Notes In the top corner box, Hobgoblin is saying, "It's great! Steal it!"

22 page Spider-Man story "Confessions!"

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

1 page Bullpen Bulletins promo (ad from the publisher) "Bullpen Bulletins Special"

Script Tom Defalco
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Notes Tom Defalco discusses THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE with Mark Gruenwald, Mike Carlin and Eliot R. Brown. Marvel checklist for comics dated March 1984.

1 page The Spider's Web letters page "The Spider's Web"

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Notes Letters from readers.