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Cover: Tom Morgan & Joe Rubinstein

The Amazing Spider-Man #276

Name: The Amazing Spider-Man #276
Brand: Marvel
Availability: InStock

May 1986 · Marvel · 0.75 USD; 0.40 GBP; 0.95 CAD

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“Unmasked!”

In "Unmasked!", Spider-Man finally confronts the Hobgoblin in a brutal showdown that ends with the villain’s mask coming off—revealing a face that shocks even the web-slinger. The truth behind the identity is far from clear, and the revelation sends shockwaves through the story. Meanwhile, the Human Fly meets a grim end at the hands of the Scourge. Written by Tom DeFalco and illustrated by Ron Frenz, with inks by Brett Breeding and letters by Joe Rosen, the issue’s cover by Tom Morgan and Joe Rubinstein captures the moment of revelation in chilling detail.

writer Tom DeFalco · artist Ron Frenz · inker Brett Breeding · letterer Joe Rosen · cover Tom Morgan, Joe Rubinstein

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Trivia · 8 facts

Title/Story: 'Unmasked!' — Part 2 of 2; cover-dated May 1986, on-sale February 1986 (per Complete Marvel Reading Order).
Creative team: Script by Tom DeFalco, pencils by Ron Frenz, inks by Brett Breeding, letters by Joe Rosen, cover by Tom Morgan and Joe Rubinstein; editor James Owsley (Christopher Priest), Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter.
Central story event: Spider-Man unmasks the unconscious Hobgoblin and finds Flash Thompson — a deliberate frame engineered by the real Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley), serving as a major red herring in the long-running identity mystery.
Death of the Human Fly (Richard Deacon): The villain escapes from a psychiatric facility mid-issue, only to be shot and killed by the Scourge of the Underworld — one of the Scourge's confirmed victims during Marvel's 1985–86 campaign — with Scourge's signature cry 'Justice is served.'
Supporting cast appearances: Mary Jane Watson, Flash Thompson, the Rose, Sha Shan, Joe Robertson, Lance Bannon, Betty Leeds, and the covert villain 'Captain Kris Keating' (secretly the Foreigner).
The cover of #276 is noted by Wikipedia's Hobgoblin article as one of three Amazing Spider-Man covers — alongside #245 and #251 — that depicted Spider-Man unmasking the Hobgoblin, part of an intentional editorial strategy to sustain the identity mystery across multiple years.
The issue was reprinted in Marvel Tales #284, as confirmed by MyComicShop and the Marvel Database.
Issue fits into the Copper Age (1984–1991) and is part of the DeFalco/Frenz era on the title, a run noted for its soap-opera ensemble storytelling and its ongoing serialization of the Hobgoblin and Rose subplots.