Comics Corner: The Amazing Spider-Man 276

   

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 276
Release Date: May 1986

Highlights

  • Death of Human Fly
  • Spider-Man blasts Hobgoblin in the face with a web ball, and the only way to get loose is to ditch his mask
  • Hobgoblin fleas before Spider-Man can get close and see who he is
  • Though he battled Hobgoblin to rescue Sha-Shan, Peter still wants to quit being Spider-Man
  • Spider-Man returns home, where Mary Jane is waiting for him, but his three neighbors are on the roof, preventing him from entering
  • Spider-Man has to panhandle for a quarter to call Mary Jane to bring him clothes
  • Mary Jane starts to think that maybe Peter should stop being Spider-Man for the sake of both of them
  • Flash goes to see Sha-Shan in the hospital, but only to confront her in anger about her leaving him
    • A cop breaks up the scuffle after Sha-Shan gives him a return backhand for the one he dealt her in the last issue
  • Flash is grabbed by a reporter looking for a story on the incident
    • Flash obliges by telling the world that Hobgoblin a coward who needs a costume, and is too weak to face a real man like him
      • It's aired multiple times on the news, and seen by Hobgoblin and The Rose, and many others
  • Human Fly has escaped the mental institute, and he's on a quest for revenge against Spider-Man
  • Peter tells Mary Jane that he has to stop Hobgoblin, or he'll feel responsible for every crime he commits in the future
    • Mary Jane once again leaves, saying to herself that Peter will have to move forward without her
  • As he goes in for his surprise attack on Spider-Man, Human Fly is shot in the back, and killed by Scourge of the Underworld
  • Hobgoblin hits Spider-Man with a bomb that negates his ability to stick to surfaces
  • Hobgoblin lures Spider-Man to the depths of a building where he blasts a gas furnace, causing a massive explosion
    • When the smoke clears, Spider-Man finds the unconscious villain, and unmasks him revealing, Flash Thompson
  • After Flash is arrested, the police get a warrant, and search his apartment
    • Inside, they find crates full of goblin bombs, and other Hobgoblin related gear
  • Across town, the true Hobgoblin reflects on  his happiness setting Flash Thompson up for the fall, cloaked in shadows to keep his identity a continued mystery
Low Points
  • None
Oddities
  • None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)



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