The Toy Box: Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 250

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 250
Release Date: March 1984

Highlights

First appearance of Stephanie
Seminal issue 250
Spider-Man worries that Green Goblin's journals may have made mention of him being Peter Parker
Hobgoblin finds the spider tracer attached to his glider, and laughs since Spider-Man doesn't have his spider sense after the villain gassed him
Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 11, 39, and 40
Hobgoblin confirm while talking to himself that while Green Goblin's journals mention that he had a plan to use that same gas in revealing Spider-Man's identity, the journals make no reference to who is behind the hero's mask
Spider-Man visits George Vandervill, hoping to get information about Hobgoblin, but is told by the man that he's not worried about being blackmailed

However, when Spider-Man leaves, the man gets a call confirming his one way ticket to Bimini

At the home of Roderick Kingsley, he accidentally calls his wife Stephanie by the name of Sheila (Roderick is really his twin brother Daniel, thus the slip up, though this aspect hasn't been revealed to the reader yet)
Despite not having his spider sense restored, Spider-Man is hit again with a massive jot of spider sense, just to again have it slowly dissipate
Spider-Man learns of J. Jonah Jameson's secret that Hobgoblin was blackmailing him for, and takes the editor-in-chief's confession from his typewriter, crumpling it up
Spider-Man vows to stop Hobgoblin, making it so J. Jonah Jameson doesn't have to confess about the Scorpion, and his hand in the villain's creation
When Spider-Man leaves, J. Jonah Jameson simply pulls out another sheet, and starts typing again
Spider-Man digs out his old tracking receiver, originally used in conjunction with his spider tracers, and soups it up to help him find Hobgoblin
Spider-Man tracks down Hobgoblin, and the two once again start to duke it out
In the fight, Hobgoblin sets some automatic lasers to fire upon Spider-Man, and in doing so, accidently ignites the journals of Green Goblin, which he has no copies of
In his anger, Hobgoblin throws a pumpkin bomb, which sets his whole hideout ablaze
The story ends on a cliffhanger ending with Hobgoblin's hideout on fire, and J. Jonah Jameson handing his copyboy the stack of papers he typed out

Low Points

Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 86 is read prior to The Amazing Spider-Man 249
However, 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 AMS 249, meaning it occurs after that issue, 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

Oddities

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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