Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 284
Release Date: January 1987
Highlights
- First appearance of the Blue Boys
- The five issue story arc, Gang War, officially kicks off
- Reference is made to Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 197 -110, 122, Web Of Spider-Man 11, and 18
- A mysterious figure hides in the rafters of a warehouse, taking photographs of the criminals below, when suddenly the blue hoods bust in, and a battle starts
- Spider-Man shows up, knocking in heads, but then Hobgoblin arrives too
- Hobgoblin informs Spider-Man a gang war has started, and he's there to teach everyone a lesson to stay in line
- Peter takes his photos from the warehouse fight to the Bugle, and finds several staff members there with Jonah discussing the gang war which has erupted in the city
- The war appears to have started in the waked of Kingpin disappearing, as Silvermane, The Arranger, The Rose, Hammerhead, and The Blue Boys all jockeying for the proverbial crown
- Peter's spidey sense keeps going off when he's around Ned Leeds
- We learn that it was Lance Bannon who was in the rafters taking photos, and as a result, the Bugle doesn't want Peter's photos
- Roderick Kingsley meets Kris Keating secretly, and Spider-Man just so happens to run into it
- Spider-Man says he's not going to get involved, but then runs into another gang fight
- As he begins to interject, he stops himself, and decides it's not his problem, and heads for home
- Hammerhead takes a couple girls out for a ritzy dinner, but just as he's giving a toast, the place explodes, all set up by The Arranger
- Richard Fisk, Kingpin's son, goes to meet The Arranger
- The Arranger sends Jack O'Lantern to deal with Silvermane, and he does just that
- Mary Jane is waiting for Peter in his apartment for their at home dinner date
- Peter thinks to himself that he doesn't want to be there, that he doesn't actually feel at home in his own place since Mary Jane repaired and decorated it
- Seeing the news, and hearing about Hammerhead, Peter determines with his great power he has great responsibility, and swings into action
- As Betty Leeds returns home, she's met by a hiding Flash Thompson
- He professes that he's not going to hide anymore, that from now on its him and her against the world
- As Spider-Man heads back out in the wake of the restaurant bombing, he doesn't tell Mary Jane he's leaving - That's rude
- Flash Thompson is still trying to steal Ned's wife
Oddities
- Editor's Day Off: As Betty Leeds returns home, she says to herself, "Maybe I'll write write mom a letter..."
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