Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 254
Release Date: July 1984
Highlights
- First appearance of Tony Falcone, Bernie, and his partner
- First appearance of Gino's Restaurant
- The police are finally hauling Hobgoblin's battle van from the river
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 251, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 56, 91, and the entirety of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars
- Aunt May still refuses to talk to Peter since he told her he dropped out of school
- Spider-Man traces the battle wagon down, and finds some thugs stripping it, led by Jack O'Lantern
- As Spider-Man chases Jack O'Lantern, the battle van comes to life, and drives away, unmanned
- Aunt May tells Nathan Lubensky that she feels her an Peter have grown far apart, and that her nephew doesn't seem to care
- Jack O'Lantern leads Spider-Man into a toy store, and the villain blows up a G.I. Joe display
- Spider-Man punches Jack into a display of Marvel action figures
- Spider-Man tries to get information from Jack O'Lantern as to why he was interested in Hobgoblin's van, but never gets an answer
- Peter misses lunch with Nathan and Aunt May, and Nathan stays behind to yell at the "boy"
- None
Oddities
- Nathan Lubensky calls Peter at the Daily Bugle, and tells him that he and his Aunt are both acting stubborn, and that Peter should come meet them for lunch - How is Peter acting stubborn? He's call twice, and been told both times she won't come to the phone
- Editor's Day Off: Spider-Man asks Jack O'Lantern, "Did you know know my webbing could stop a speeding Cutlass Supreme in its tracks?"
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