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The Spectacular Spider-Man comic books issue 255

  • Issue #255A
    Spectacular Spider-Man (1976 1st Series) 255A

    Cover with Green Goblin - "Something Goblin This Way Comes" Spiderhunt Part 4 of 4. Double-sized issue. Guest-starring the Punisher. Plot by Tom DeFalco. Script by J.M. DeMatteis. Pencils by Luke Ross. Inks by Dan Green and Al Milgrom. Cover by John Romita Jr. and Scott Hanna. Story continues from Spider-Man (1990) 89. After escaping from a burning warehouse and numerous gun-toting vigilantes, the exhausted web-slinger goes home to rest. However while the wall-crawler sleeps, the nefarious Green Goblin demands that Norman Osborn bring the ransom for his grandson to the Brooklyn Bridge! And by the time the spectacular one wakes up and web swings to the bridge, the situation has become total chaos! The goblin, Punisher, Shotgun, Jimmy-6, Override, New York's finest, and Norman himself are all involved in the mêlée! With no sign of Normie Osborn anywhere! But finally amid the confusion, the web-spinner spies the goblin flying away to a local junkyard! And then and there, the Amazing Spider-Man and the Green Goblin fight to the finish for the life of young Normie Osborn! Cameo appearances by Mary Jane Watson, Anna Watson, Betty Brant, Ben Urich, Flash Thompson, J. Jonah Jameson, Liz Osborn, Arthur Stacy, Jill Stacy, Paul Stacy, Dr. Angst, and Aura. (Notes: This issue features a gatefold cover detailing the previous events in the Spiderhunt storyline. The web-slinger battles the goblin known as the "fifth" Green Goblin. This issue was reprinted in 2012 in the trade paperback: Amazing Spider-Man Spiderhunt.) 48 pages. Cover price $2.99.

  • Issue #255B
    Spectacular Spider-Man (1976 1st Series) 255B

    Some Thing Goblin This Way Comes (Spiderhunt, Part 4), script by Tom Defalco (plot) and J.M. DeMatteis (script), pencils by Luke Ross, inks by Dan Green and Al Milgrom; Spider-Man, hunted by most of New York, fights the new Green Goblin for the life of the kidnapped Normie Osborn. 52 pgs. $2.99. Cover price $2.99.