Who Was That Goblin I Saw You With?
By Len Wein, Ross Andru, Mike Esposito
May 1978
- A New Goblin Part 5
- Spidey, GG, and Silvermane fall from high above RCMH, at first Spidey tries to save them using his web shooters but GG knocks him out with a sonic toy from his bag of tricks
- all three continue to fall, GG manages to get back on his glider; he grabs Spidey but lets Silvermane fall all the way to the floor
- Silvermane's goons shoot at GG as he escapes with an unconscious Spidey but don't score any hits
- GG flies to an incineration plant in Brooklyn and just as he is about to throw Spidey in to one of the tall exhaust towers Spidey wakes up and breaks free of GG
- Spidey and GG fight, Spidey tries to talk Harry out of what he is doing but GG gets angry and says tells Spidey to stop calling him Harry, Spidey insists and rips off the Goblin mask and is surprised to discover that the face beneath the mask is that of Dr Hamilton, Harry's psychiatrist
- Hamilton explains how he learned all of Harry's secrets during his sessions with him, he verified what Harry told him and then started playing with the Goblin's toys that he found in the hideout that Harry told him about
- Harry shows up also dressed as the Green Goblin, and fights with Hamilton, towards the end of which Harry rips off the costume in disgust at what it has done to his life
- Hamilton has a bomb and attempts to use it to kill Harry and Spidey but Hamilton is the only one who gets killed in the blast, Harry gets knocked unconscious and when he wakes up doesn't remember anything
- Peter takes Harry back to his apartment where Liz Allen, who recently dumped him, is waiting to apologize to him
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Sunday, March 20, 2016
Friday, March 11, 2016
Amazing Spider-Man 179
The Goblin's Always Greener…!
By Len Wein, Ross Andru, and Mike Esposito
Apr 1978
- Part 4 of A New Goblin
- crazy cover: how did Silvermane get up there? It looks like he's flying
- was that supposed to be Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland in the theater sitting next to Silvermane?
- Spidey escapes from the Green Goblin's polymer bag thanks to Silvermane's goons who fire a bazooka at the pair, which damages both the bag and GG's glider, Spidey is briefly the prisoner of The goons but quickly escapes
- Peter finally makes his way to the hospital and signs the consent forms
- GG returns to his lair on his damaged glider; he's there for his spare glider, he messes with his prisoner some more but soon takes off to look for Silvermane, upon whom he has secretly planted a transmitter during their last encounter (ASM 177)
- GG finds Silvermane at Radio City Music Hall (he's there to see the Rockettes), panic ensues at RCMH once GG makes his entrance flying over the crowd on his glider
- Robbie Robertson shows up at the hospital to provide emotional support to Peter but after getting a call from JJJ, he sends Peter to RCMH to cover the riot unaware that GG and Silvermane are the cause of the disturbance
- once Peter arrives and sees the dueling villains he changes into costume and joins the fight, he tries to save Silvermane from getting nabbed by GG but this leads to all three of them falling from high above the floor, cliffhanger!
- finally, GG's prisoner escapes after cutting the ropes loose from his hands using the sharp edge of the broker glider that GG discarded, he rips off his mask to reveal that he is Harry Osborn and he's mad as hell
By Len Wein, Ross Andru, and Mike Esposito
Apr 1978
- Part 4 of A New Goblin
- crazy cover: how did Silvermane get up there? It looks like he's flying
- was that supposed to be Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland in the theater sitting next to Silvermane?
- Spidey escapes from the Green Goblin's polymer bag thanks to Silvermane's goons who fire a bazooka at the pair, which damages both the bag and GG's glider, Spidey is briefly the prisoner of The goons but quickly escapes
- Peter finally makes his way to the hospital and signs the consent forms
- GG returns to his lair on his damaged glider; he's there for his spare glider, he messes with his prisoner some more but soon takes off to look for Silvermane, upon whom he has secretly planted a transmitter during their last encounter (ASM 177)
- GG finds Silvermane at Radio City Music Hall (he's there to see the Rockettes), panic ensues at RCMH once GG makes his entrance flying over the crowd on his glider
- Robbie Robertson shows up at the hospital to provide emotional support to Peter but after getting a call from JJJ, he sends Peter to RCMH to cover the riot unaware that GG and Silvermane are the cause of the disturbance
- once Peter arrives and sees the dueling villains he changes into costume and joins the fight, he tries to save Silvermane from getting nabbed by GG but this leads to all three of them falling from high above the floor, cliffhanger!
- finally, GG's prisoner escapes after cutting the ropes loose from his hands using the sharp edge of the broker glider that GG discarded, he rips off his mask to reveal that he is Harry Osborn and he's mad as hell
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Amazing Spider-Man 178
Green Grows the Goblin
By Len Wein, Ross Andru, and Jim Mooney
Mar 1978
- part 3 of A New Goblin
- GG leaves the meeting at the WTC after promising to kill Spider-Man and bring back his body as proof
- after GG leaves SM inadvertently reveals his presence to Silvermane and his flunkies, after a scuffle with the gangsters SM escapes
- GG returns to his lair to resupply his weapons and visit briefly with his prisoner who tries in vain to escape
- Spidey returns home to study but can't stop thinking about GG and soon decides to go back out; just before he leaves he gets a call from MJ who tells him that AM is still in the hospital and the doctor needs him to sign the consent form so he can perform an operation on AM
- PP agrees to meet MJ at the hospital and heads there but on the way gets attacked by GG
- final scene (similar to the one on the cover) from inside AM's hotel room: MJ is with comatose wondering when PP will arrive, outside is Spidey wrapped up in a polymer steel bag getting dragged away by GG
- once again it is implied that GG's prisoner is Dr Hamilton and that GG is Harry Osborn, but what if it is just the opposite?
By Len Wein, Ross Andru, and Jim Mooney
Mar 1978
- part 3 of A New Goblin
- GG leaves the meeting at the WTC after promising to kill Spider-Man and bring back his body as proof
- after GG leaves SM inadvertently reveals his presence to Silvermane and his flunkies, after a scuffle with the gangsters SM escapes
- GG returns to his lair to resupply his weapons and visit briefly with his prisoner who tries in vain to escape
- Spidey returns home to study but can't stop thinking about GG and soon decides to go back out; just before he leaves he gets a call from MJ who tells him that AM is still in the hospital and the doctor needs him to sign the consent form so he can perform an operation on AM
- PP agrees to meet MJ at the hospital and heads there but on the way gets attacked by GG
- final scene (similar to the one on the cover) from inside AM's hotel room: MJ is with comatose wondering when PP will arrive, outside is Spidey wrapped up in a polymer steel bag getting dragged away by GG
- once again it is implied that GG's prisoner is Dr Hamilton and that GG is Harry Osborn, but what if it is just the opposite?
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Amazing Spider-Man 177
Goblin in the Middle
By Len Wein, Ross Andru, and Mike Esposito
Feb 1978
- Part 2 of A New Goblin
- Spidey saves Flash but Green Goblin escapes
- Flash doesn't think that Harry is the Goblin, but Spidey does
- GG returns to his lair where he has a bound, gagged, and hooded prisoner, no explicit reveals as to who it is but it is implied that it is Dr. Hamilton
- GG doesn't hang with his prisoner for long, he spends the next hour or two attacking mobsters trying to find out where some meeting is going to take place, apparently he wants to become the crime boss of NYC
- Eventually he gets someone to tell him the meeting is at the World Trade Center and he crashes in, Silvermane is in charge
- PP visits his aunt in the hospital, later while breaking up a gangland execution he stumbles across an invitation to the meeting at the WTC and heads there, he gets there just in time to watch GG tangle with SM's muscle and then reveal that he knows Spidey's secret identity
- nicely setting things up
- there is a quick recap of Spidey's history with GG on page 8, which mention how the original Goblin knew his secret identity, mentions the death of Gwen Stacey and GG 1, and Harry taking on the identity of the Goblin and being cured until Liz dumped him
- Aunt May experiences more chest pain after Peter leaves
By Len Wein, Ross Andru, and Mike Esposito
Feb 1978
- Part 2 of A New Goblin
- Spidey saves Flash but Green Goblin escapes
- Flash doesn't think that Harry is the Goblin, but Spidey does
- GG returns to his lair where he has a bound, gagged, and hooded prisoner, no explicit reveals as to who it is but it is implied that it is Dr. Hamilton
- GG doesn't hang with his prisoner for long, he spends the next hour or two attacking mobsters trying to find out where some meeting is going to take place, apparently he wants to become the crime boss of NYC
- Eventually he gets someone to tell him the meeting is at the World Trade Center and he crashes in, Silvermane is in charge
- PP visits his aunt in the hospital, later while breaking up a gangland execution he stumbles across an invitation to the meeting at the WTC and heads there, he gets there just in time to watch GG tangle with SM's muscle and then reveal that he knows Spidey's secret identity
- nicely setting things up
- there is a quick recap of Spidey's history with GG on page 8, which mention how the original Goblin knew his secret identity, mentions the death of Gwen Stacey and GG 1, and Harry taking on the identity of the Goblin and being cured until Liz dumped him
- Aunt May experiences more chest pain after Peter leaves
Amazing Spider-Man 176
He Who Laughs Last…!
By Len Wein, Ross Andru, and Tony DeZuniga
Jan 1978
- Part 1 of A New Goblin
- Spider-Man bickers with J Jonah Jameson as he takes him home, which is follow up to the previous story which involved the Punisher
- Spidey heads home to get some rest
- later (the next day?) he goes looking for Aunt May only to find her at a protest, where she gets into an argument with a cop and then has either a stroke or a heart attack
- then PP gets into an argument with the cop and shoved him harder than he meant to and then almost gets shot by the cop, who gets talked down from it by another cop
- MJ meets PP at the hospital, are they an item at this point? She is there for support
- after leaving the hospital Pete goes to Dr Hamilton's office to find out how Harry Osborn is doing only to find the place has been trashed and Harry is probably the one who did it
- Pete goes to the apartment that Harry shares with Flash Thompson only to discover that Harry is dressed as the Green Goblin and beating up Flash
- the issue ends with the Goblin tossing Flash out of a window
- mostly setup, a definite in between-er
- priceless: Aunt May at the protest, fighting with the cop, hitting him with her sign
By Len Wein, Ross Andru, and Tony DeZuniga
Jan 1978
- Part 1 of A New Goblin
- Spider-Man bickers with J Jonah Jameson as he takes him home, which is follow up to the previous story which involved the Punisher
- Spidey heads home to get some rest
- later (the next day?) he goes looking for Aunt May only to find her at a protest, where she gets into an argument with a cop and then has either a stroke or a heart attack
- then PP gets into an argument with the cop and shoved him harder than he meant to and then almost gets shot by the cop, who gets talked down from it by another cop
- MJ meets PP at the hospital, are they an item at this point? She is there for support
- after leaving the hospital Pete goes to Dr Hamilton's office to find out how Harry Osborn is doing only to find the place has been trashed and Harry is probably the one who did it
- Pete goes to the apartment that Harry shares with Flash Thompson only to discover that Harry is dressed as the Green Goblin and beating up Flash
- the issue ends with the Goblin tossing Flash out of a window
- mostly setup, a definite in between-er
- priceless: Aunt May at the protest, fighting with the cop, hitting him with her sign
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