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Spider-Man: Goblin Moon


Since the characters inception in the 1960s Spider-Man has appeared in multiple forms of media besides comics, including several books and novels.

The main form of literature which in Spider-man has appeared in is Comic Books.

Nr 1 of the Marvel Pocket Novels. Written by Len Wein and Marv Wolfman. Doc Ock is blackmailing the top eight CEO's of U.S. oil companies in order to get a strangle-hold on U.S. oil. He also tries to convince those same CEO's that he has rendered their oil radioactive and thereby hence useless. For one year, they must secretly agree to buy oil from Ock instead, and at the end of that time, they can go back to business.

Nr 8 of the Marvel Pocket Novels. Written by Paul Kupperberg. The plot concerns a TV anchorman whose daughter has been kidnapped by the Kingpin, who has forced the popular media frontsman to stand as Mayor. Kingpin has taken millions of dollars from his the other gang-lords in order to cut them into his plan, which is to push his candidate into becoming Mayor. Peter Parker manages to convince Jonah Jameson into standing for Mayor too. Secondly, Parker gets sent to cover a mayoral rally, and thirdly, Silvermane's plan to secretly undermine Kingpin's authority has him using a fake Spider-Man to threaten the Kingpin's candidate, and to lead the read Spider-Man into conflict with Kingpin. Meanwhile this is all happening Jameson has hired a private investigator named Cindy Sayers to pretend to be his niece to find out how Peter Parker can get so many pictures of Spider-Man.

Nr 11 of the Marvel Pocket Novels and a sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man: Crime Campaign also written by Paul Kupperberg. The book begins with the Hulk fighting the US military in a desert but then cuts to Spider-Man intervening in a raid on a company doing research for NASA. The wall-crawler doesn't quite save the day, but returning to the Bugle he immediately gets dropped into a story to cover the latest StarLab spy-in-the-sky satellite which is due to drop back out of the sky. That story takes Parker out to a U.S. aircraft carrier. But when the satellite vanishes from the radar, trubble arises. Meanwhile, Bruce Banner is reading a newspaper advertisement offering a potential treatment for his condition. He follows up on the ad, but finds himself kidnapped by the villain and gets brainwashed to fight Spider-Man.

A short story collection. Edited by Stan Lee. It features a short story named "An Evening in the Bronx with Venom" by Keith R.A. DeCandido.

Written by David Michelinie and Dean Wesley Smith. A man named Catrall is on the run from the FBI because he has a serum that will drive anyone who comes into contact with it into a killer rage. He created the serum as a byproduct of studies designed to eliminate violent behavior. Meanwhile, an experiment is being run to try and kill the Carnage symbiote without killing Casady, it's host. Catrall shows up because he thinks that he can destroy the serum in the firewall that is holding Casady. Catrall accidentally frees Carnage without destroying the serum. Carnage fights with Spider-Man, but escapes before he can be defeated. Spider-Man looks all over New York, finds Catrall, and finds out about the experiments that led to the serum and that Carnage found Catrall first, and took the serum. Carnage is planning to put the serum in a meal being made for some homeless people during a fundraiser being put together by Jonah Jameson. Spider-Man finds Carnage, fights in front of the audience, and then defeats Carnage. He takes the serum to Reed Richards to be kept out of the wrong hands.


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