Spider-Man 24 Review

We are going to reach right into the really big comic book box of doom and pull out another comic book, for Spider-Man Volume 1 Issue 24 from July 1992. Both Jason Macendale and Peter Parker are plagued by dreams, the demons of their past, leading to an uneasy alliance between Spider-Man and Hobgoblin as they face off with unfriendly foes.

Spider-Man Volume 1 Issue 24 Review

This is an issue of Adjectiveless Spider-Man. Spider-Man 24 was released by Marvel Comics with a cover date of July 1992, titled "Double Infinity", which was written by Howard Mackie, penciled by Larry Alexander, Inked by Andrew Pepoy, Colored by Gregory Wright, and Lettered by Kathy Kennedy.

The cover of this comic book is sadistically wicked. We have a lot of sadistic villains right in this story, Hobgoblin, Demogoblin, Doppleganger, and that is not counting the villains that are present in the dream sequence that Peter Parker had it.

I better explain Hobgoblin and Demogoblin. Grab a cup of hot chocolate and some popcorn, this might take a while.

As we know, the original Green Goblin was Norman Osborn, who died, only not really. However, there was a new goblin, the Hobgolin. Years later, the Hobgoblin was revealed to be fashion designer Roderick Kingsley, although at this time, we thought it was Daily Bugle reporter Ned Leeds, at least back in 1992, but it was a frame up.

A two bit thug named Jason Macendale, formally Jack O'Lantern, turned into the new Hobgoblin but after several times where he was soundly trashed by Spider-Man, he sold his soul to be bounded with a demon. The demon split off into its own personality, forming Demogoblin.

And people wonder why the 1990s were met with such scorn as far as comic books were concerned.

This story, tries to be deep, but it's not deep. We have Demogoblin ranting about Sinners, Hobgoblin trying to really take out his demonic counterpart, and the we have Doppleganger. Doppleganger is a mindless creature created that resembles Spider-Man and it is very nineties. He appears in Maximum Carnage, which is nineties trash right at its very worse. Although the video game was awesome.

The art work did have some nice visuals and hey, Spider-Man even when bad does have some fun moments. Adjectiveless Spider-Man as it was called, did have some weird stuff.

Overall this was an issue that you could throw down in five minutes and be done with your day, with some halfway decent artwork.

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