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Issue: The Amazing Spider-Man #260
Publication Date: January 1985
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Issues: #260 of 443 Issues (968 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 09/11/1984
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 CAD
£0.30 GBP
$0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #55, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-10-02.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age, then Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; #200 square bound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Hobgoblin [Roderick Kingsley]; Harry Osborn
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In Issue: FlagSpider-Man and Zoids #13 published May 1986
In Issue: FlagBiblioteca Marvel: Spiderman #44 published February 2006
In Issue: FlagA Csodálatos Pókember #29 published ?
In Content Item: FlagEdderkoppen #10/1987 published October 1987
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagL'Uomo Ragno #52 published July 1990
as La Sfida Di Hobgoblin [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagΣπάιντερ Μαν [Spider-Man] #181 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Disclose Notes: Appears on the inside front cover.
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The Challenge of Hobgoblin!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Aunt May Parker; Arthur Chekov; Harry Osborn; Liz Osborn; Mary Jane Watson; Franklin Richards; Invisible Girl; Betty Leeds; Ann MacIntosh; J. Jonah Jameson; Robbie Robertson; Hobgoblin [Roderick Kingsley] (villain); Rose (villain); Black Cat (cameo flashback); Green Goblin [Norman Osborn] (cameo flashback)
First Line: Are you all right, May?
Synopsis: Spidey cuts through the New York underworld looking for Hobgoblin. Spidey's black alien costume tries to get young Franklin Richards to free it from containment but fails. Hobgoblin attacks Harry looking for more of his dad's Goblin journals but Spidey intervenes. They take their fight to the women's bathroom where Hobby has to extinguish a pumpkin bomb webbed to his hand in the toilet. Hobgoblin tries to get away but Spidey snags his goblin glider. Hobby retaliates by slamming Spidey into the side of a train. Liz and Mary Jane are captured by the Rose's men and Harry is powerless to stop it.
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Tales #274 [Direct] published June 1993
In Issue: FlagAmazing Spider-Man Epic Collection #15 [unnamed variant] published January 2014
In Issue: FlagSpider-Man: The Complete Alien Costume Saga #2 published January 2015
In Content Item: FlagSpider-Man and Zoids #12 published May 1986
as The Challenge of Hobgoblin! [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint contains first 12 of 22 pages
In Content Item: FlagEdderkoppen #9/1987 published September 1987
as Enda en utfordring [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagL'Uomo Ragno #52 published July 1990
as La Sfida Di Hobgoblin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 22
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First Line: Find your way to the Newtons treasure chest!
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First Line: Look out when new Bonkers fruit candy hits town!
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Genres: superhero
First Line: Secret Wars Action Figures and Accessories from Mattel
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Disclose Notes: Appears after page 7 of the main story.
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Classified Ads

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Classified Ads

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Feature(s): Styx Comic Service
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Feature(s): NFL SuperPro Club
First Line: Hey kids! JOin the NFL SuperPro Club today!
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Disclose Notes: Appears after page 17 of the main story.
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You May Be the Next Marvel Superstar!

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First Line: Win a job at Marvel Comics
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Disclose Notes: Promo ad for The Official Marvel Comics Try-Out Book. Appears after page 19 of the main story.
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Disclose Notes: Marvel Hunk of the Month?; Hype Box; Check List. Appears after page 20 of the main story.
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Disclose Notes: Letters from Barry Dutter, Kevin Lee Routon, John Garner, "Madd John", Victor Marchetti, and J.M.R.N.
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Celebrate the Holidays!!!

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Disclose Notes: Promo ad for a discounted subscription to current Marvel titles.
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First Line: Pure adrenaline
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Montezuma's Revenge

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First Line: I had to think quick -- remember where I seen that key...
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Disclose Notes: Appears on the back cover.

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