Spider-Man: Shadow of the Green Goblin
J. M. DeMatteis · Howard Mackie · Michael Sta. Maria · Dan Fraga
Story era 01 · The Dawn of the Heroes
DeMatteis connects Peter’s early grief to the Osborn family’s damage in a short character story.
Setup & reading order
- After Familiarity with Peter’s Lee/Ditko beginnings
Read the four Shadow of the Green Goblin chapters and the included Spider-Man #-1 as an early-career retrospective.
Optional context & path
Path: Spider-Man, classic era. Related projects that read well in this order; the order is a suggestion, not a requirement.
Useful background and earlier stops: Untold Tales of Spider-Man — retrospective foundation.
Only required setup and earlier volumes in the same project affect the queue. Everything here is optional.
About these books · 4 sources
Publisher and reference pages describe the editions. Reviews and reader discussions offer different views of the stories.
- AIPT — Shadow of the Green Goblin review (opens in a new tab)Critics and editors
- Marvel / Penguin Random House — Shadow of the Green Goblin (opens in a new tab)Publisher
- Grand Comics Database — Shadow of the Green Goblin (opens in a new tab)Reference
- MN Stash — Shadow of the Green Goblin complete-series review (opens in a new tab)Video
The books
Spider-Man: Shadow of the Green Goblin
Book 1 of 1 · The Dawn of the Heroes
A story from Peter’s earliest days links his grief over Uncle Ben to the Osborn family and the Proto-Goblin’s origins.
See reading checkpoints9781302957537Planned edition#1–4#-1Edition sources
Each ISBN identifies a specific printing and cover. “Owned copy” identifies the edition on my shelf; “Planned edition” identifies the edition listed for collecting.
Duplication across this project
These books share full issues or parts of issues with other books in the plan. Open the lists below to see which stories repeat.
No shared contents are recorded with other books in the plan.
Things to know
- This is a retrospective expansion of the early years, so reading it after the foundational Lee/Ditko stories preserves the original discovery of the cast.