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Dave the Wonder Boy said:

My nominee WTF storyline was where whoever was scripting the book around 1988-1989, (Tom Defalco? David Michelinie? ) revealed (in total contradiction to all the past clues given to the character's identity) that Hobgoblin was Ned Leeds (issue 289 ).

????!!!???

Truly, WHAT THE F---.



Yeah, I remember that one. I wasn't very old when I read it, so at that time I didn't think any of it, but when I think about it now, it really is a WTF?!?!?



The original "clone" story was in AMAZING SPIDERMAN 148-149, and quickly ran its course around 1975. It was actually pleasant, before it was resurrected two decades later in the early 1990's as a huge overblown crossover event.

The only other mention of it for a long time was WHAT IF # 30 (December 1981) which was a great "What if Spiderman's clone had lived?"
This was a really fun story, that I'd recommend.




I definitely am not a fan of the 90's clone revival.



Another great WHAT IF was "What if Gwen Stacy had lived?" in WHAT IF 24.



I wish this last one could have been stretched into a 6 or 12 issue alternate storyline, to really develop all the great altered elements from the regular series, in this compelling single-issue story that could have been a great expanded series.

Very enjoyable.