Title: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
Issue Number: 130
Release Date: September 1987
Highlights
- First appearance of Carlos D'Agostino, and Tony
- First appearance of the locations Washington West, and Curt Connors' home
- It's noted that this issue takes place before the events of The Amazing Spider-Man 289
- Spider-Man bursts on the scene, looking for a cackling Hobgoblin
- He finds him in a wheelchair, bandaged up
- Hobgoblin tells him that if he doesn't cooperate that Harry Osborne is dead
- We see the villain has sent a pumpkin to him with a note that explains he's just been poisoned, and if he wants to live to contact Spider-Man, and have him meet the Goblin at a specified location
- Hobgoblin explains that he was hired to steal a set of ledgers from Kingpin, but it all went South fast, and after being attacked by his men, he fell from the building, slowing his decent only by hitting balconies, breaking limbs and bones on the way down to the pavement
- Harry Osborne has been poisoned as leverage to force Spider-Man to get the ledgers for him
- Throwing Spider-Man a homing device not only points him towards the ledgers, but also puts the same poison on him that will kill Harry Osborne
- Hobgoblin offers the antidote for the ledgers
- Rather than go find the ledgers, Spider-Man instead goes to Dr. Curt Connors for help
- While they do determine the root of the toxin, they both know that time will not allow to create an antidote from scratch
- As Spider-Man leaves to go complete the mission, Connors says he'll search for an existing antidote
- Carlos D'Agostino is somehow now in possession of the ledgers, and Spider-Man traces him to his yacht
- After a battle which see's D'Agostino's guests fleeing in all directions, Spider-Man gets the ledgers
- As Spider-Man returns to Connors' home to check in, he notices some thugs inside, but these aren't D'Agostino's men
- After making short order of them, Kingpin appears, telling him he has not only something that belongs to him, but handle the Hobgoblin for him, and says he's prepared to negotiate for both
- Spider-Man fills him in on the events thus far
- Kingpin tells Spider-Man that he not only knows what toxin Hobgoblin has used, but can get the antidote in two hours if Spider-Man will return the books, and take care of Hobgoblin for him
- Spider-Man takes the deal, and Kingpin does indeed deliver, providing the cure for him and Harry
- Spider-Man heads back to Hobgoblin, but the villain is able to escape easily
- Kingpin is disappointed in his failure, and calls Spider-Man an amateur
- None
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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