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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published October 1964
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Return of the Green Goblin!"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Green Goblin [Norman Osborne]; J. Jonah Jameson
Genre superhero
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #12; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #155; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #5; in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 (December 1996)

22 page Spider-Man story "The Return of the Green Goblin!"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Green Goblin [Norman Osborne]; J. Jonah Jameson; Betty Brant; Liz Allan; Flash Thompson; Aunt May Parker; Mr. Brant (see notes); Dorrie (Johnny Storm's girlfriend)
Synopsis Spider-Man attends a fan club meeting organized by Flash Thompson, but the Green Goblin crashes the meeting. Fortunately the Human Torch is in attendance to help Spider-Man. During the battle Spider-Man finds out that Aunt May is in the hospital and he leaves, causing everyone to believe that he is a coward.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes The "Mr. Brant" in this issue is Liz Allan's father and owner of a nightclub, not Betty Brant's father. I assume that it was meant to be Mr. Allan. [Mike Nielsen]
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #12; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #155; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #5; in Spider-Man Megazine (Marvel, 1994 series) #2 (November 1994); in Essential Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 (December 1996)