Title: Web Of Spider-Man
Issue Number: 38
Release Date: May 1988
Highlights
- First appearance of Barney Muggins, Fran, Mindy, Jasmine, and Dick Wagner
- Jason Macendale Jr., AKA Jack O'Lantern, but now Hobgoblin, streaks through the sky on his glider
- He explodes his way into Kingpin's tower, searching for the crime lord
- Arranger halts the battle by telling Hobgoblin that they should talk like the businessmen they are
- When in a private office, Hobgoblin demands to know why he's been blacklisted, and not received any assassination assignments, and is told it's because he's a boor, and an incompetent idiot who's only success is stealing the identity of someone else
- Arranger tells him that he proposes a test to see if he deserves the mantle of Hobgoblin
- It's proposed he kill Spider-Man
- When the meeting is over, Tombstone walks up behind Hobgoblin, and tosses him out the window
- He's able to call his glider at the last moment, saving himself from death
- Hobgoblin vows he'll not only kill Spider-Man, but then Arranger
- Mary Jane has thrown a massive party in the apartment, and Mrs. Muggins, who is searching for her husband, is none to pleased with all the noise
- It's a moving out party, as the two will soon be relocating
- Spider-Man is downing the punch that Mary Jane is serving, not knowing it's not just punch
- Hobgoblin searches the city for the perfect battle ground to challenge Spider-Man, and finds it in the Lincoln Tunnel
- Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 261
- Harry Osborn calls Peter from his car phone, and informs him that he and his wife are stuck in the Lincoln Tunnel, and that the radio has announced that Hobgoblin is onsite causing problems
- Peter explains the situation to Mary Jane, and heads out
- The punch starts to kick in, and a drunk Spider-Man not only misses his web shots, but starts slurring his words
- A drunk Spider-Man goes into battle with Hobgoblin, and it isn't pretty
- He only wins the fight when Hobgoblin crashes his glider into a tower, causing it to go haywire, launching him off into the distance
- When he returns home, Peter demands to know who spiked the punch, only for Mr. Muggins to admit it was him
- Mrs. Muggins sees her husband, and attempts to chase after him
- Peter stops her, and when she says she won't miss him, he tells her that he'll miss her, and plants a kiss on her
- The party commences
- It's really just a trope to hammer home the "drinking is bad" monicker
- Regardless, it's amusing and humerous
Oddities
- It's odd that Arranger would propose that Hobgoblin kill Spider-Man, calling him an obstacle for Kingpin, when the crime lord has often stated that Spider-Man serves a purpose to him
- A "friend" of Mary Jane's at the party hits on Peter, telling him she'd love to be the other woman in his life, and that his wife need not know
- Drunk Spider-Man
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