The Amazing Spider-Man #289 · 1987
The face behind the mask.
A shadow-faced Hobgoblin holds his mask under gunfire. Compare Tom Morgan and Tom Palmer’s unmasking composition with its Buffy the Vampire Slayer reinterpretation.
The origin pointThe Amazing Spider-Man #289 · Tom Morgan (pencils); Tom Palmer (inks)
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The Amazing Spider-Man #289
A shadow-faced Hobgoblin holds his mask under gunfire. Compare Tom Morgan and Tom Palmer’s unmasking composition with its Buffy the Vampire Slayer reinterpretation.
This catalog follows the original cover’s composition across published comics and announced editions. Trade dress, virgin, foil and sketch treatments are described in edition notes. Connecting sets identify their participating issues and panels.
Verified records have source support for the exact cover and target. Partial records retain attribution or edition gaps. Reprints, interior-scene homages, different targets and unresolved references are listed separately below.
The Amazing Spider-Man #289 collection
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Research & releases · Reviewed October 20, 2026
New editions and open questions
No publisher-confirmed homage specifically to The Amazing Spider-Man #289 scheduled after 20 October 2026 was located. Search results for comics numbered #7, ASM #238/#300 tributes, original-art commissions and original-cover reprints were checked separately to avoid false additions. The supplied single published homage remains the verified gallery record.
Undisclosed print quantities, ambiguous credits and conflicting edition dates remain identified as unknown. This catalog can grow as publishers, artists and collectors provide new evidence.
Research changes and source notes
- CL-ASM289-0001: Cover homage
Added Dexter Vines cover-ink credit (signed on cover, edition-specific GCD index). Michelle Madsen is listed as issue colorist by Dark Horse and as part of the cover team in Buffyverse metadata, but the edition-specific GCD cover-color field is unresolved; no definitive cover-color credit assigned. Release remains 3 March 2010. Jo Chen’s cover for this issue is a different image. Publisher exact native source is 600 × 922; no artificial upscaling. No limited edition ratio or print run established.
- Buffy Season Eight #33 Obama unmasked promotional spoof: Not added
Artist/editor promotional joke; Scott Allie explicitly said no such cover would be sold. Not a published variant and not counted separately.
- The Amazing Spider-Man #289 newsstand and overseas reprints: Not added
Original-art edition/reprint reuse; not newly drawn homage artwork.
- Sergi Domènech Gang War original ink tribute (2026 auction): Not added
Original-art auction listing, not a published comic variant; listing also describes a Kingpin ensemble inconsistent with ASM #289. Excluded rather than accepting erroneous target label.
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