Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 241
Release Date: February 1984
Highlights
- First appearance of Shirley, Roderick Kingsley (it's actually his twin brother Daniel), Williams, and George Vandergill
- First appearance of the location, Kingsley Limited
- The symbiote saga begins (unless you take into consideration that Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 86 directly leads into issue 87 without a gap, but AMS 249is widely considered the starting point)
- Peter Parker is attending the house warming party of Norman Osborn, and his wife, Liz (formerly Allen)
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 39, 189, 245, and Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 85
- Spider-Man takes the biggest surge from his spider sense that he's ever gotten before, and just as quickly as it comes, it fades away with no trace of danger in site
- Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson start talking as friends again, even throwing each other into a pool
- J. Jonah Jameson is being blackmailed by an unknown person for the events which led to Mac Gargan becoming the Scorpion
- Harry Osborn is also being blackmailed by the mysterious person who knows his father was the Green Goblin
- The origin of how Norman Osborn became the Green Goblin is retold, as well as the events of him discovering Peter Parker Was Spider-Man, the death of Gwen Stacy, and his own villainous demise
- Peter goes with Harry to the club to see who's blackmailing him, the both notice Kingpin is there
- All the blackmailed club goers are brought into the Booker Room - There are a lot of them, and they all suspect each other
- The curtain in the room opens, and Hobgoblin reveals himself, but Spider-Man's spidey sense doesn't go off
- J. Jonah Jameson stands up to Hobgoblin, and Harry Osborn follows suit - The later takes a swing at the villain, knocking his robotic head off
- Ironically, Roderick Kingsley (again, really his twin, Daniel) deduces that if this Hobgoblin was a robot that the goblin could be anyone, even one of them (hint hint)
- As the fight breaks out, Kingpin notes that he wants to observe Hobgoblin
- Hobgoblin hit's Spider-Man with a gas that wipes out his spider sense, and sends him into unconsciousness
- Before he passes out Spider-Man his thrown spider tracer at Hobgoblin, but it lands on Kingpin's foot
- Kingpin throws the tracer onto Hobgoblin's glider as he is escaping, and then brings Spider-Man to with smelling salts
- Kingpin informs Spider-Man that Hobgoblin is capable, and may interfere with his business in the future, so it's best to help Spider-Man go after him
- The issue ends with Spider-Man still having no spider sense
- This issue coming after Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 86 creates a chronological problem in the Spider-Man reading order
- The events of Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 87 immediately take place after issue 86, and there's no room for anything to have possibly occurred between those two issues
- Further, the events of The Amazing Spider-Man 250, and 251 continue the events of 249 immediately, with no room for anything to have possibly occurred between those two issues
- Issue 138 of Marvel Team-Up is noted to come after issue 251 of The Amazing Spider-Man, but the ending of AMS 251 leaves no possible way for the events of MTU 138 to occur afterwards
- Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 87 makes reference to the event of the spider sense surge from this issue, meaning it occurs after AMS 249, but again, issue 86 of PP, TSSM doesn't leave a gap for any other events to have occurred other than those that continue in issue 87, nor do the events of AMS 249 - 251
- So messy
Oddities
- Peter Parker wearing a cut off shirt that has the word, "animal" printed on the back, even though he references it as a gag gift from a grad school buddy
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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