Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 288
Release Date: May 1987
Highlights
- Death of Doctor Zachar
- The final chapter in the gang war
- Kingpin tells Doctor Zachar that he threatened his wife with a higher dosage when she recognized her son, and that is a failure - He blasts the man with a ray from his cane
- Mary Jane brings over fixings to make Peter breakfast in bed, but finds Black Cat there already making it, while Peter is asleep
- Black Cat calls her Molly Jo, which enrages her
- Kingpin fires Jack O'Lantern, saying he lacks the skills necessary to be an assassin in his organization
- Alfredo informs Richard Fisk that he's going to hunt down and take care of Hobgoblin for trying to kill him
- Kingpin sends men to kill Matt Murdock, Sgt. Tork, and Sam Wilson, but their assignment fails, and they are captured
- Kingpin informs the Arranger to have his people killed before the arraignment
- Ned Leeds goes to Lance Bannon's house to tell him he's going to go to Europe on assignment, and needs a photographer, but while there, notices Lance has several photos of Hobgoblin on his wall
- Lance plays it off, saying he's working on a photo morgue, then sighs a relief when Ned leaves that he bought it
- Kingpin gives a list of his own men to the Arranger who he wants eliminated
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 276, 280, 286, and Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 123
- Flash Thompson and Betty Leeds are kissing, clearly having an affair
- Lance heads to Ned's apartment, and as Betty is leaving, he sees Flash in the window
- When Betty returns to the apartment, Flash is being beaten by Hobgoblin, seeing her, the villain says he doesn't want to involve her, and retreats
- As Peter enjoys lunch at his aunt's house, Matt calls him, but Peter hangs up on him
- Hobgoblin attack's Jack O'Lantern, but the fight is intervened by Alfredo
- Just as Alfredo has Hobgoblin dead to rights, Jack O'Lantern hits him from behind, stating he must be the one to fell the goblin
- Hobgoblin retreats
- Falcon chastises Daredevil for treating Spider-Man so poorly, but now expecting he will help them
- Spider-Man shows up with Black Cat, stating he can speak for himself
- Daredevil cuts him off, and tells him that Kingpin intends on cleaning house by assassinating all his Lieutenants, and now is the time to strike against him
- Kingpin calls the Rose, and tells him he needs to see his son
- The Rose does come, and asks how long he's known he was the crime boss
- Kingpin informs his son that he's allowing Vanessa, his wife, to return to Europe tonight, and ending the gang war precisely at midnight
- Kingpin's plan is all a ruse - He never intended to kill them, and instead made a deal with the local authorities to arrest them
- Not a very satisfying ending
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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