Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 245
Release Date: October 1983
Highlights
- First appearance of Ms. Smithers, and NYPD officer McReady
- Death of Lefty Donovan, who is disguised as Hobgoblin
- First appearance of the Mercy Medical Center location
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 238, 239, 244, and The Avengers 235
- Lefty Donovan is severely burned in a chemical accident while mixing Green Goblin's old formula
- The burns leave Donovan unidentifiable, unable to speak, and lying in a hospital bed
- Peter and Betty see J. Jonah Jameson leaving with a gym bag, and are both baffled by his desire for physical fitness - It becomes relevant a few issues down the line
- Betty tricks Peter into having dinner with her, Ned, and Mary Jane, and Peter is none too happy about the latter being there
- Peter spends three weeks honing his photographer skills, and searching for Lefty Donovan
- Lefty escapes the hospital, and makes his way back to where the accident occurred to take up the mantle as Hobgoblin
- Spider-Man realizes that Lefty is just a pawn, and not the real Hobgoblin
- The real Hobgoblin locks Lefty's fee to the glider, and sends him exploding into the side of a building where he'll never be able to talk again
- Hobgoblin reveals he was only using Lefty to create the formula so that he could study him, the effects, and recreate the formula without the explosive side effects
- None
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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