Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 281
Release Date: October 1986
Highlights
- The story picks up immediately from the previous issue's events, with the Sinister Syndicate bearing down on Silver Sable and Spider-Man
- As Beetle prepares to open fire, he's hit from behind by Sylvester Mann, the Sandman
- Sandman intervenes, giving Spider-Man a chance to get Silver Sable to safety
- Sandman admits that he didn't really care about helping Spider-Man, but rather hates Hydro-Man so much that he just wanted to ruin whatever plan he and his fellow villains had
- Spider-Man insists he needs to go back and help Sandman, but Silver Sable tells him he's on her dime, and that Sandman knew what risk he was getting into intervening
- The conversation is cut short by Beetle and Boomerang attacking them again
- Robbie Robertson sits staring at a side by side picture of Hobgoblin and Flash Thompson unmasked in the suit, convinced that Thompson isn't the villain, before announcing he's got it
- Getting Sable to safety, Spider-Man goes back to help Sandman, but Sable eventually follows
- Jack O'Lantern breaks into the prison to free Flash Thompson, believing he really is Hobgoblin, but is baffled when Thompson tries to fight him instead of embrace the help being sprung from jail
- An informant calls The Rose, and tells him about the prison break
- The Rose in turn tells Hobgoblin, setting him off, but also convincing him to kill Flash
- Hobgoblin and Jack O'Lantern square off
- Flash Thompson escapes Jack O'Lantern's hideout
- The battle between Hobgoblin and Jack O'Lantern ends in a stalemate
- Wandering the streets, Flash surmises he's on his own, unable to call anyone for help
- Silver Sable rescinds her off to pay Spider-Man saying he formally quit when he went back to help Sandman, and instead offers Sandman the job
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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