Summary
Peter Parker's proven time and again that you can't keep a good man down, but keeping a BAD one down is even harder! Norman Osborn's supposed to be dead, so who's going bats in the green-and-purple togs now? Whether the latest Green Goblin is an old friend or a new enemy, he's out to conquer the underworld - so Silvermane wants him dead, whether he kills Spider-Man first or not! Spidey fights both sides of a mob war, but the war's end may come in the form of another Goblin - if he doesn't take down everyone else! Collects Amazing Spider-Man #176-180.
Leonard Norman Wein was born in New York on June 12, 1948. He received an art degree from Farmingdale State College. He would become a prolific comic book writer. He and Marv Wolfman sold their first work to DC Comics in 1968. Wein wrote for Batman, the Flash, Superman, the Justice League of America, and numerous other comics series. He and Bernie Wrightson created Swamp Thing, who first appeared in 1971. In 1975, Wein and David Cockrum created new characters for the relaunch of Marvel Comics' X-Men including Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Wolverine, who first appeared in an Incredible Hulk story Wein wrote.
Wein was an editor for Marvel, DC and Disney Comics. In 1986, he was editor on the Watchmen series by Alan Moore. He had writing credits on numerous television shows, many of them based on characters he had helped create. He died on September 10, 2017 at the age of 69.
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