Issue Description

Green Goblin attacks a truck carrying radioactive materials. What is the villain’s end goal with this dangerous bounty? Plus, Peter’s friends and family rally to MJ’s side after she is injured by an explosive. Green Goblin makes Spider-Man choose between saving his friends, or Aunt May!

At the start of this issue, the second Green Goblin (Harry Osborn) flies towards a truck, and takes it out with a pumpkin bomb. He then opens the back of it, where he takes out a cylinder of an unknown substance, before leaving with it.

In New York, Spider-Man is looking for Harry Osborn, who tried to kill him last issue. After a bit, Spider-Man decides that he won't be able to find Harry, and returns to their apartment. Unfortunately, when he reaches it, he remembers that it was blown up by a bomb Harry made in the previous issue, and so instead changes to Peter Parker and heads to the hospital where Mary Jane is (after being injured by the bomb). At the hospital, Mary Jane tells Peter about a news report she's heard over the radio, which reports the Green Goblin attacking the truck. Peter changes to Spider-Man and heads to investigate, but all he finds are the remnants of the Green Goblin's pumpkin bomb.

Spider-Man heads to Norman Osborn's former house, where he finds Harry in the Green Goblin costume. Spider-Man fights the Green Goblin, and is about to knock him out, when Harry points out some screens to Spider-Man. One has Aunt May being viewed, one has Mary Jane, and one has Flash Thompson. All are tied up and have a bomb dangling above their head. Harry tells Spider-Man that one of the bombs is real (made with the cylinder he stole from the truck), whereas two are fake, and if he fails to get rid of the right one, the person most dear to him will die. He only has enough time to get rid of one bomb, but all three are equipped with spider-tracers to help Spider-Man find them faster. In anger, Spider-Man knocks out Harry before heading off to stop the bombs.

Spider-Man is looking for the bombs, when he realizes something Harry said which gives him a clue to who has the real bomb. Since Harry said "the one most dear to you will die", Spider-Man guesses that Aunt May has the real bomb, since she is most dear to him. Spider-Man throws the bomb attached to Aunt May into the river nearby, and fortunately it's the real one. He then heads back to Harry's house, and calls the police to take away Harry, before changing himself to Peter Parker and getting rid of the Green Goblin outfit.

However, when the police arrive, Harry accuses Peter of being Spider-Man. Peter panics for a minute, before the police skeptically ask Harry how he would know. Harry tells them that he's the Green Goblin, and the police decide to put him in a mental institution, since he needs help.

The Amazing Spider-Man (1963)

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

After the success of Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962) a few months later the same creative team came back to start an ongoing series focusing on the character the two of them created.

The book's run continued until issue number 441 (Nov. 1998) when Marvel relaunched the title as Amazing Spider-Man Volume 2 with a new number 1 in January 1999. After issue #30 (#471) Marvel used a dual numbering system, yet the indicia still stated The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2. On the title's 40th anniversary the numbering was reverted to go from issue 58 to issue 500 (Dec. 2003) as The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1.

This volume ends with #700 and is picked up by the Marvel Now! revolution volume Superior Spider-Man.

Collected EditionsMarvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 (#1-10)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 (#11-19)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 3 (#20-30)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 4 (#31-40)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 5 (#41-50)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 6 (#51-61)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 7 (#62-67)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 8 (#68-77)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 9 (#78-87)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 10 (#88-99)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 11 (#100-109)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 12 (#110-120)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 13 (#121-131)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 14 (#132-142)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 15 (#143-155)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 16 (#156-168 and Annual #10)Spider-Man vs. Black Cat (#194-195, 204-205, 226-227.)Spider-Man: Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut (#224-230)Birth of Venom (#252-259, #298-300)The Amazing Spider-Man: The Complete Alien Costume Saga Book 1 (#252-258)The Amazing Spider-Man: The Complete Alien Costume Saga Book 2 (#259-263)Kraven's Last Hunt (#293-294)The Amazing Spider-Man: Life in the Mad Dog Ward (#295)Amazing Spider-Man by David Michelinie & Todd McFarlane (#296-329)Sinister Six (#334-339)Powerless (#341-343)Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Round Robin (#351-360)Round Robin (#353-358)Maximum Carnage (#378-380)

Collection of sequentially numbered trades, Amazing Spider-Man.

Spider-Man: Mark of the Tarantula (#231-237)Coming Home (#471-476)Revelations (#477-480)Until the Stars Turn Cold (#481-486)Life and Death of Spiders (#487-491)Unintended Consequences (#492-497)Happy Birthday (#498-502)The Book of Ezekiel (#503-508)Sins Past (#509-514)Skin Deep (#515-518)New Avengers (#519-524)

Individual trades with their own volumes because of sub-titles.

The Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Great Power (#1-17)Punisher vs. the Marvel Universe (#161-162)The Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Ghosts of the Past (#259-272)The Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Return of the Sinister Six (#334-350)Spider-Man: The Gathering of Five (#440-441)The Other (#525-528)The Road to Civil War (#529-531)Civil War (#532-538)Back in Black (#539-543)One More Day (#544-545)Brand New Day Vol 1 (#546-551)Brand New Day Vol 2 (#552-558)Brand New Day Vol 3 (#559-564)Kraven's First Hunt (#565-567)New Ways to Die (#568-573)Crime and Punisher (#574-577)Death and Dating (#578-583)Election Day (#584-588)24/7 (#589-594)American Son (#595-599)Died in Your Arms Tonight (#600-601)Red-Headed Stranger (#602-605)Return of The Black Cat (#606-611)The Gauntlet, Vol 1 (#612-616)The Gauntlet, Vol 2 (#617-621)The Gauntlet, Vol 3 (#622-625)The Gauntlet, Vol 4 (#626-629)The Gauntlet, Vol 5 (#630-633)The Grim Hunt (#634-637)One Moment in Time (#638-641)Origin of the Species (#642-647)Big Time (#648-651)Matters of Life and Death (#652-657)The Fantastic Spider-Man (#658-662)Big Time Ultimate Collection (#648-662)The Return of Anti-Venom (#663-665)Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time - The Complete Collection vol. 2 (#663-676)Spider-Island (#666-673)Flying Blind (#674-677)Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time - The Complete Collection vol. 3 (#677-687 and 679.1)Trouble on the Horizon (#678-681, #679.1)Ends of the Earth (#682-687)No Turning Back (#688-691)Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time - The Complete Collection vol. 4 (#688-697)Danger Zone (#692-697)Dying Wish (#698-700)Amazing Spider-Man: Peter Parker The One And Only (#700.1-700.5)

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