Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 30
Release Date: September 1987
Highlights
- Final appearance of Dina
- The events of this story continue from the last issue, which occur concurrently with The Amazing Spider-Man 289
- Reference is made to Spider-Man Versus Wolverine, The Amazing Spider-Man 238, 276, and 289
- Richard Fisk has been missing for days
- Alfredo tries to calm Dina down
- Richard Fisk heads to church, and makes a confession
- In it, we get the origin of the Rose and Hobgoblin
- Ned Leeds initially approaches Richard Fisk, questioning him about his father
- When turned down, he takes to following Richard and Alfredo around the globe
- It's true that Richard and Alfredo want to bring the Kingpin down, and soon decide that their best bet is to work with Ned
- Ned reveals to them that he's Hobgoblin, and provides Fisk with the identity of the Rose
- The two feel like even though they're waging a gang war that they're still the good guys in it
- While things start off well, Ned soon becomes obsessed with Green Goblin's old journals, which puts him in conflict with Spider-Man
- The identity of Hobgoblin soon takes over his mind, and he begins missing meetings with the Rose, and following his own agenda, and Spider-Man
- In all of this, Ned and his wife drifted apart, but he didn't see it, which is why he was so enraged with Flash Thompson, and framed him
- All of this drew a line between the Rose and Hobgoblin, and the two began plotting to kill each other
- Richard goes to his father, and tells him he'll work for him
- The story summarizes, and wraps up all the events of the long Hobgoblin saga, while providing a cliffhanger ending to the future of the Rose
- It's very satisfying to see how all the pieces fell into place
- One could easily skip the last forty issues from the various titles, and essentially get the same story from this issue, granted with far less details, but certainly a whole lot less filler
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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