The Green Goblin flies outside Peter Parker’s
apartment window, determined to kill Spider-Man once and for all, just as Peter
was going to call a doctor for Harry! The Goblin flies into the apartment,
where Peter shows him the sick, limp form of his son. This causes the Goblin to
pause and then freak out. Not wanting to remember Harry and what he means to
Norman Osborn, the Goblin hurriedly flies out of the apartment to finish off
Spider-Man at another time! With this brief respite, Peter quickly gets Harry
to a hospital, forced to leave things in the doctors’ hands. Peter thinks about
Gwen and wonders if she’s thinking about him. Little does he know, across the
pond in London, Gwen is indeed thinking about him. She realizes that nothing in
life feels quite right without Peter and aims to fix the mistake she feels
she’s made!
Some time later, Peter exits class and is soon stopped
by a drug pusher, looking for Harry. Peter realizes this is the guy who sold
Harry the drugs and he’s led away by the guy and his friends into an alley. Now
out of sight, Peter lays a royal smackdown on the two goons before turning his
anger upon the drug pusher. Peter thrashes the guy, despite holding back, and
warns him not to push his drugs anywhere again, or next time he won’t be this
gentle! Meanwhile, at the Daily Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson calls Robbie into his
office to discuss how they’re going to run the story about Harry being in the
hospital. Robbie feels it’s the perfect way to show that drugs affect everyone,
not just the poor minorities, and Jameson tells him to get it ready as soon as
possible.
That evening, Peter changes to Spider-Man to once
again look for the Green Goblin. Soon enough, the Goblin finds him,
forcing Spidey on the move to avoid his attacks, while Spidey worries about how
to deal with him without hurting him. After being worn down, Spidey is hit by a
new weapon of the Goblin’s, a mist that neutralizes his wall-crawling! Not only
that, just after Spidey discovers that his web-shooters have run out of
webbing, leaving him without two of his greatest advantages! Spider-Man is then
forced to stick and move, dodging the Goblin’s attacks by sheer agility alone,
while he figures out a course of action. Beginning to tire, Spidey ducks behind
a roof ledge and is able to pounce on the Goblin when he goes to investigate,
wrapping his legs around the Goblin’s neck!
Now in control, Spidey uses his might to steer the
Goblin in the direction of the hospital, stopping just outside Harry’s window.
He forces the Goblin to confront the sight of his bed-ridden, drug-addled son,
and it has the desired effect. Osborn’s grief at seeing his son like this
shocks him out of his Goblin persona once more, eventually fainting from the
stress. Spider-Man then rushes Osborn back home, making sure to burn his Green
Goblin costume once more, now that the threat of the Goblin has passed once
again. Feeling that his identity is safe once more, Peter goes to head home,
before getting a huge surprise. Gwen appears, revealing that she returned from
London and the two run to each other and embrace in a passionate kiss, giving
Spidey a happy ending for once!
Give that special marvelite a timely gift