Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 239

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 239
Release Date: April 1983

Highlights

  • First appearance of Donald Menken
  • First appearance of Hobgoblin's battlewagon
  • Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 76, The Amazing Spider-Man 96, 229, and 230
  • Black Cat remains in the hospital, and while there, Spider-Man stops in to see Madame Webb, who reaming in the hospital from her manhandling by Juggernaut
  • Madame Webb's psychic powers have not returned, leaving her not remembering much about the incident, or that Peter Parker is Spider-Man
  • Amy Powell tries again to get Peter Parker's attention to make Lance Bannon jealous - Peter doesn't take the bait
  • Spider-Man and Hobgoblin fight for the first time
  • After barely escaping from Spider-Man, Hobgoblin ponders what secret Norman Osborn had that allowed him to face off against Spider-Man so many times, and vows to discover that secret
Low Points
  • During their fight, Spider-Man webs a piece of roof, and rips it up to throw at Hobgoblin - Who's going to pay for that?
Oddities
  • None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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