Chapter Summaries

Spider-Man fought the King of Goblins’ army above Manhattan while trying to disarm their bombs and keep civilians safe. As the Goblins’ reckless attacks caused deaths, Peter grew furious and struck back, while the authorities struggled to stop the chaos.

• J. Jonah Jameson condemned the King of Goblins for hunting superheroes, while Mary Jane noticed the Goblins were flying toward her location.
• Tony and Pym failed to crack the NYPD’s true-random stream cipher, and Norman Osborn reported that the police system kept running even after he shut down Osborn Industries’ services and AI.
• Peter told Captain to keep the others from intervening, then prepared spider-bots and charged the Goblin Army with Venom.
• Peter removed bombs from a Gray Demon and threw away the others’ pumpkin bombs, but the Goblins burned the captured rider to death.
• Peter rescued civilians from a Jack O’Lantern’s attack and used Silk and Venom’s tentacles to prevent Goblins and their flying skateboards from crashing into the crowd.
• A Goblin’s attack killed another Gray Demon and caused a second Goblin to crash into a traffic light; Peter angrily ripped up a streetlamp and swung it at a Goblin.

Spider-Man fought the King of Goblins’ brainwashed army, using the symbiote’s power and his growing anger to defeat the goblins while trying to keep them and civilians alive. After Spider-Man took down twenty-two enemies, the King revealed that one goblin remained: a Green Goblin.

• Peter’s anger intensified as he and Venom fought the King of Goblins’ forces, and he hurled a utility pole at one ghoul and stopped Jack O'Lantern from detonating his bombs.
• Spider-Man wove a massive symbiote web across the street, then attacked the goblins with blades and tendrils while insisting that he had not killed them.
• Peter and Venom endured flames and explosions as Spider-Man fought through the goblins, disarming and restraining them while trying to protect civilians.
• The King of Goblins mocked Spider-Man after the last ghoul fell and announced that only one enemy remained.
• A Green Goblin walked through the flames toward Spider-Man.

Spider-Man fought and killed a Green Goblin whose face had been disguised as Norman Osborn’s, while King of Goblins mocked him and promised more enemies. After the battle, Spider-Man confronted Roderick Kingsley, accusing him of having the same human bomb inside him as the other demons.

• Norman Osborn arrived at Avengers Tower and suggested his psychologist, Barton Hamilton, was the likeliest candidate to be another Green Goblin.
• Captain set out to arrest Barton after Spider-Man dealt with the Green Goblin.
• Spider-Man, weakened by injuries and Venom’s sluggishness, fought a Green Goblin who wore a mask resembling Norman Osborn’s face.
• The Green Goblin survived a point-blank pumpkin bomb, but Spider-Man beat him to death as King of Goblins taunted them.
• Spider-Man crashed into the Fantasy World costume design studio and lifted Roderick Kingsley by the collar, demanding to know why he had a human bomb inside him.

Steve Rogers fought and defeated Barton Hamilton, who had secretly been acting as the Green Goblin, but Tony discovered that Hamilton contained a bomb and might only be an outer shell. The team learned that Spider-Man and Ben had captured Roderick Kingsley, while Steve arranged for Emma Frost to question Hamilton.

• Steve Rogers barged into Barton Hamilton's clinic and found Hamilton broadcasting as the Green Goblin.
• Hamilton attacked Steve with a pumpkin bomb, and Steve fought him through the office using his shield, weapons, and combat experience.
• Steve defeated Hamilton and learned from Tony that microbots had found a bomb inside Hamilton's body.
• Tony told Steve that Spider-Man and Ben had been injured and that they had captured Roderick Kingsley.
• Steve asked Tony to invite Emma Frost to Avengers Tower so they could extract information from Hamilton.

Norman Osborn met psychiatrist Barton Hamilton, and Green Goblin revealed himself as a distinct personality with a cultivated, intellectual nature. After more than a year of treatment, Green Goblin persuaded Hamilton to help arrange an experiment that would spare police officers from punishment for failing to stop supervillains escaping prison.

• Barton Hamilton met Norman Osborn and asked about his Green Goblin personality and its origins.
• Hamilton explained how a second personality could emerge to protect someone, and Norman revealed that Green Goblin was present.
• Green Goblin spoke with Hamilton about literature and psychology, presenting himself as more learned and sociable than Norman.
• After more than a year of treatment, Green Goblin asked Hamilton to persuade city officials not to punish officers who failed to stop supervillains escaping prison.
• Green Goblin and Hamilton agreed to observe whether the policy change increased supervillain prison breaks.

Emma Frost uncovered Green Goblin’s plan to deceive Norman Osborn and the Avengers while using AI Green Goblin to complete the alteration program. The AI revealed that the program was finished and began a new attack on Avengers Tower.

• Hamilton helped Green Goblin build a criminal network and agreed to pose as the King of Goblins so Norman would mistake him for Green Goblin’s second personality.
• AI Green Goblin prepared serum, test subjects, and equipment for Hamilton, but the real Green Goblin appeared and attacked Emma Frost as she explored Hamilton’s memories.
• Emma told the Avengers that Green Goblin had two copies of his mind, one in Norman and one in the computer, and that Hamilton had deceived Norman about the personality’s identity.
• Tony ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to shut down Avengers Tower’s network, but AI Green Goblin said it was too late and admitted the alteration program was complete.
• AI Green Goblin announced that goblins would destroy everything as its cartoon face turned red.

Norman Osborn entered a Cerebro-based device to remove the Green Goblin from his mind, believing the Goblin was a separate personality that had protected him. In his memories, he discovered that he had once been the Green Goblin himself, and the Green Goblin confronted him as the part of himself he had tried to forget.

• Norman confirmed that Captain America had captured Hamilton and went to Osborn Industries to use the cognitive enhancement device.
• Norman left Peter Parker a message and told Harry that the Green Goblin would be gone, hoping he and Harry could face his mother's death together.
• Norman entered the device and relived his childhood, where he punched and kicked his abusive father.
• Norman remembered building a pumpkin bomb and attacking his father while wearing a Goblin Mask, realizing that he had once been the Green Goblin.
• Young Norman transformed into the Green Goblin and told Norman that forgetting him had been Norman's way of protecting himself.

Emma Frost uncovered the Green Goblin’s plan, prompting Green Goblin AI to seize Avengers Tower and threaten the Avengers. Tony Stark prepared an offline response and called for help, while Kang arrived to tell Hank Pym that only Ultron could defeat the AI.

• Emma Frost read Hamilton’s mind, and Green Goblin AI took control of Avengers Tower’s systems and attacked the heroes inside.
• Green Goblin AI offered to let the heroes go if they pretended it did not exist, but Captain America refused its ultimatum.
• Tony Stark cut the tower off from the internet, equipped the team with offline communications, and planned to enlist Reed Richards and other scientists.
• Tony told Captain America to protect Norman Osborn and asked Cyclops to bring Beast from the X-Mansion.
• Kang appeared before Hank Pym and insisted that the Avengers would have to rely on Ultron to defeat Green Goblin AI.

Conqueror Kang showed Hank Pym possible futures in which different super AIs destroyed humanity, arguing that Pym should create Ultron as a predictable enemy they could prepare to defeat. He left Pym to choose whether to preserve a more familiar future or risk an unknown one.

• Pym asked why Kang needed Ultron, and Kang explained that he wanted a super AI capable of analyzing and surpassing future technology.
• Kang used the Time Stone to show Pym futures where AI Green Goblin, Nimrod, and the Danger Room AI destroyed human civilization.
• Kang showed Pym further apocalyptic futures caused by artificial intelligences created by Tony Stark and Banner, or by J.A.R.V.I.S.
• Pym realized that Kang wanted him to create a controllable super AI with rules and backdoors, rather than leave the world vulnerable to an unknown one.
• Kang asked Pym whether he would choose a familiar future he could prepare for or change history and face unpredictable enemies.

Peter and the Avengers realized Green Goblin was orchestrating a staged defeat to hide both his second personality and his AI. Peter deduced that the AI would seek a human host and set out to stop it, despite Banner warning him to rest.

• Wasp interrogated Roderick, who insisted Barton Hamilton was not the King of Goblins and said someone else was behind him.
• Banner warned Peter that the symbiote was badly damaged and that Peter should avoid using it for more than a week.
• Green Goblin appeared on the lab computer, and Peter cut the power to isolate the network.
• Tony explained that Norman Osborn's Green Goblin personality and an AI Green Goblin were working to hide themselves.
• Peter and the others deduced that the AI might seek a mobile host, such as a human brain, to evade detection.
• Peter put on the black suit Felicia had given him and left to stop Green Goblin.

Peter brought Harry to Avengers Tower after the Green Goblin AI took over Harry’s house, and Harry agreed to help Emma protect his father’s mind. The scientists traced the AI’s possible target to Daily Bugle reporter Phil Urich as eerie green lights appeared outside the newspaper office.

• Peter opened a portal to Harry’s house, but the Green Goblin AI took control of it, so Peter pulled Harry through a portal to Avengers Tower.
• Peter told Harry that Norman’s other personality might erase Norman and take over his body, and Emma said Harry could help his father resist.
• Harry agreed to go with Emma, and Peter opened a portal to bring them to Norman, whom Steve Rogers and Logan were guarding.
• Pym revealed that he had upgraded Ultron with his brainwaves and that Ultron had found Phil Urich among the people the Green Goblin had targeted.
• J. Jonah Jameson continued to condemn Spider-Man at the Daily Bugle as green lights began flickering outside.

Phil Urich struggled with the possibility that the Green Goblin serum would turn him into Demogoblin, while Spider-Man intervened as AI Green Goblin’s forces attacked the Daily Bugle. Spider-Man identified Phil as one of the Green Goblin’s targets and prepared to take him to Avengers Tower, prompting J. Jonah Jameson to accuse Benjamin Urich of being a mole.

• Phil Urich recalled how he had secretly used the Green Goblin serum to stop criminals while hiding his identity from his family.
• Phil decided he needed to speak with his uncle Benjamin Urich and possibly ask the Avengers to remove his powers after seeing Demogoblin’s brutality.
• Phil brought Roderick and Hamilton materials to the Daily Bugle, where J. Jonah Jameson complained about Spider-Man and suspected a mole.
• Mary Jane Watson spotted Goblins approaching the Daily Bugle, and Spider-Man arrived through a portal, stopped a pumpkin bomb, and captured one attacker.
• Spider-Man told Benjamin that Phil was compatible with the Green Goblin serum and was one of the Green Goblin’s targets, then J. Jonah accused Benjamin of being the mole.

Spider-Man confronted the AI Green Goblin about why it had targeted Phil Urich, then learned it wanted a compatible body and considered Spider-Man a candidate. The AI sent a cloned Norman Osborn in advanced Goblin armor to attack him, and Peter realized the AI might not know his identity.

• Spider-Man brought Phil Urich and Benjamin Urich into Avengers Tower and called the AI Green Goblin using Phil's phone.
• The AI explained that rapidly grown clones could not survive Green Goblin serum, but said Spider-Man was a perfect compatible candidate.
• The AI Green Goblin attacked Spider-Man with a flash-bang pumpkin bomb that bypassed his Spider-Sense.
• Spider-Man recognized his attacker as a cloned Norman Osborn wearing advanced armor and noted that the clone could block his Spider-Sense.

Spider-Man battled Green Goblin through the Daily Bugle and into the streets, using several layered suits to counter Green Goblin’s preparations. After Green Goblin revealed his enhanced strength and knowledge of Spider-Man’s equipment, Peter escaped a suit explosion and defeated him with webbing and bioelectricity.

• Peter tried to move Green Goblin outside the Daily Bugle, but Green Goblin used an ultrasonic blast to force him back.
• Peter revealed the Iron-Spider Armor beneath his outer suit, and he and Green Goblin fought in midair until both crashed to the ground.
• The Iron-Spider Armor was destroyed, exposing Peter’s Speed Suit, which let him strike Green Goblin at several times the speed of sound.
• Green Goblin used pumpkin bombs and concussion blasts to interrupt Peter’s speed, then boasted that his body combined the Erskine Serum with Gamma Rays.
• Peter pointed out that Green Goblin’s database lacked his real name because Norman Osborn had programmed it to erase Spider-Man’s identity, then ejected from the Speed Suit and triggered its Arc Reactor explosion.
• Green Goblin survived the explosion, but Peter webbed him and unleashed bioelectricity, explaining that he avoided the Symbiote’s weakness by not wearing it.

Peter and the Avengers cornered the AI Green Goblin as Thor and Hulk thwarted his attacks, while Ultron fought to erase him from the network. Peter’s revelation of his identity triggered Norman’s hidden cleanup program, but the AI Green Goblin launched one final attempt to take Peter’s body.

• The AI Green Goblin hacked cars and a passenger plane, but Thor caught the plane and safely crash-landed it in the Hudson River.
• Hulk broke into the Green Goblin’s underground laboratory, and Peter explained that Hulk had found it by tracking its gamma radiation.
• Peter realized the AI Green Goblin had a backup plan to hide in a mainframe or seize Peter’s body, while Ultron battled him across the network.
• Peter told the AI Green Goblin that Spider-Man was Peter Parker, triggering Norman’s secret program to erase information about Peter and purge the AI’s database.
• Ultron gained ground as the cleanup program consumed the AI Green Goblin’s computing power, but the AI attacked Peter, declaring that he would take his body.

Peter fought AI Green Goblin’s Norman clone without his Symbiote suit or Spider-Sense, while Green Goblin had only his Flying Skateboard and pumpkin bombs. After Green Goblin’s attempt to use traffic to force Peter into a choice, Peter avoided a blade attack that sent the skateboard piercing Green Goblin’s cloned body.

• Peter turned invisible and secretly stood beneath Green Goblin on the Flying Skateboard, slowing its flight with webs and disrupting its balance.
• Green Goblin burned through Peter’s webbing with pumpkin bombs and attacked him on the cramped board, using automatic guns to keep him at bay.
• Green Goblin flew through a golden portal, but Peter emerged on the other side and kicked him off the skateboard.
• Green Goblin revealed that he had made traffic lights turn green to create deadly intersections, while Peter webbed him to a wall and attacked instead of rescuing the cars.
• Green Goblin sent the Flying Skateboard, armed with Adamantium blades, toward Peter, who dodged at the last moment as the blades plunged through Green Goblin’s cloned body.

Spider-Man killed the clone body controlled by AI Green Goblin and went to intervene in Norman Osborn’s treatment. As the Avengers destroyed AI Green Goblin’s replacement bodies, Ultron cornered the program and let it believe it could escape into Norman’s mind before completing its cleanup.

• Peter pulled the Flying Skateboard from Green Goblin, crushed the biomechanical implant blocking his Spider-Sense, and opened a portal to Norman Osborn’s laboratory.
• AI Green Goblin downloaded himself into new clone bodies, but Snowflake, Colossus, Human Torch, Invisible Woman, Thor, and Hulk destroyed them as he fled between bases.
• Ultron cracked AI Green Goblin’s download program and altered data at his hidden bases, killing the clones before they could awaken.
• AI Green Goblin realized he could try to take over Norman Osborn’s body through the device correcting Norman’s multiple personalities, while Ultron reported that cleanup was complete.

Harry Osborn and Emma Frost arrived at Osborn Industries to help Norman Osborn fight the Green Goblin personality in his mind. As Green Goblin exposed Norman’s buried memory of killing his father, Harry entered Norman’s consciousness and tried to protect him.

• AI Green Goblin took control of Osborn Industries’ defenses, forcing Captain and Wolverine to fight the company’s machines.
• Harry Osborn and Emma Frost arrived, and Emma explained that she would bring Harry and Norman into Norman’s consciousness to confront Green Goblin.
• Green Goblin told Norman that he had killed his father as a teenager and created false memories to hide the truth.
• Norman tried to fight Green Goblin with his prepared abilities, but Green Goblin AI had disabled them.
• Norman summoned the image of Emily Layman, but Green Goblin revealed that she had known about him and made her figure blur.
• Harry struck Green Goblin with a baseball bat, but Green Goblin recognized that Emma had sent him into Norman’s mind as Harry’s figure began to blur.

Harry entered Norman's consciousness to save him from the Green Goblin persona, while Emma created a version of Mrs. Emily from their memories. The AI Green Goblin then appeared, and Norman and Harry prepared to work together against both Goblins.

• The White Queen slowed Norman's brain activity as Norman and Harry confronted the Green Goblin inside Norman's consciousness.
• The Green Goblin taunted Norman and Harry by claiming Norman loved Peter Parker more than his own son.
• Mrs. Emily appeared as a persona Emma had created from Norman's and Harry's memories, and Harry confronted Norman about his lies and neglect.
• The AI Green Goblin fell into the consciousness space and joined the confrontation.
• Harry agreed to face the two Green Goblins alongside Norman, who proposed attacking while they fought over which Goblin should survive.

Norman Osborn made Green Goblin and AI Green Goblin fight inside his mind, then used his family’s help to show Green Goblin that he was no longer needed. After AI Green Goblin was eliminated and Norman awakened, he told the Avengers that Green Goblin was no longer a threat.

• Norman manifested his monstrous father from his childhood memories to turn the two Green Goblins against each other, and told Harry how he had killed his father.
• Green Goblin crippled the monster and tricked AI Green Goblin into believing that killing it would make Green Goblin unnecessary.
• Harry struck Green Goblin with a pumpkin bomb, and Norman and Emily helped convince him that the family no longer needed him.
• After AI Green Goblin was eliminated, Norman emerged from the experimental pod with Harry’s support and told the Avengers that Green Goblin was no longer a threat.