December 1986
Good Guy: Spider-Man
Bad Guys: Titania & the Absorbing Man
Cameos: Flash Thompson, Captain Keating, Kate Cushing, Betty Brant, Ned Leeds, Joe Robertson, Lance Bannon, Wasp, Mary Jane Watson, Hobgoblin, Daniel Kingsley (posing as his identical twin brother Roderick)
Synopsis
“With foes like these…”
Writer: Tom DeFalco
Penciler: Ron Frenz
Peter Parker's old high school classmate/bully Flash Thompson has been wrongly accused of being the infamous Hobgoblin.
While searching for Flash Spidey runs into Titania robbing a jewelry store. She flees when she sees Spider-Man because in their last encounter (in the “Secret Wars”) Spidey trounced her.
Spider-Man tracks her down to a fancy hotel where her and Crusher Creel, aka the Absorbing Man, are hiding out. They let slip that they are going to make a huge haul at the Airport later that night so Spidey informs the Avengers.
Peter sells some photo’s to the Bugle and has a run in with Ned Leeds who continues to set off his Spider-sense. He meets MJ for lunch and his Spider-sense is again set off when the Hobgoblin is in the next room meeting with Daniel Kingsley (at the time we believe it to be Roderick his identical twin brother, however Daniel is running the modeling agency by day so that his brother, the Hobgoblin, can go about terrorizing the city - confusing ---yes!!)
Peter tells MJ that he will quit being Spider-Man after he finds Flash. Over the radio Spider-Man hears there has been a major disturbance at Avengers HQ. Just to make sure the Avengers apprehended Titania and the Absorbing Man he web-swings over to the airport where Titania throws a car at him.
A battle ensues and ends with Crusher holding up a plane and telling the wall crawler to go away or he’ll destroy the plane with all the passengers inside. Spider-Man has no option other than to leave.
Rating: 9/10
Great comic full of cameo's and lots of action!!
Favorite Panel:
Simple.. Spidey hitching a ride on top of a police car..
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