Beating up the Green Goblin, easy-peasy. Beating up the Green Goblin and a nonagenarian, wah, that's too hard!

His fists are so bony! And he smells like soup! This issue, Aunt May in the hospital is the free Bingo space, can Spidey fight his way out of a plastic bag, and not a reveal, but the prime suspect is crossed off; all this and more, from 1978, Amazing Spider-Man #179, "The Goblin's Always Greener...!" Written and edited by Len Wein, illustrated by Ross Andru, embellished by Mike Esposito.

It probably isn't the least-dignified death-trap Spidey's ever been stuck in, but this starts off with the Goblin already having him in the bag: a clear "polymer plastic!" Spidey says is stronger than steel (Mylar?) but he could be panicking, either from the air running out, or because he had to get to the hospital for Aunt May. Luckily for him, there's help at hand: a thug with a bazooka! OK, that was a surprise, coming into this somewhat cold; but the Goblin and Silvermane were facing off for control of New York's underworld, which apparently hinged on whoever caught Spidey and turned him over to the bosses? I guess there's worse ways to decide this stuff, so...The Goblin's glider is damaged, forcing him to retreat, and he drops Spidey, who busts out of the bag but still lands in a dumpster. The mobsters, somewhat dated even then but very dapper in their little suits and hats, are clearly overjoyed as they cuff Spidey and take him for a ride...for about a block, before Spidey recovers and kicks the crap out them, and their car.

Peter gets to the hospital, but Aunt May had already been taken into surgery. The Green Goblin arrives back at his hideout, where he monologues to a tied-up man with a bag over his head, reiterating the Silvermane plot, as well as how he couldn't stand to look at his hostage's face. Back at the hospital, Robbie Robertson shows up, because he's the coolest; but after Aunt May is out of the woods, J.Jonah Jameson calls him with a job for Peter: get some pictures of a riot over at Radio City Music Hall! Since Aunt May would be under for a while, Spidey gets there for a Silvermane/Green Goblin fight, already in progress. Silvermane had several gunsels with him, as well as some arm candy that was probably not a quarter of his age and had to be purely ornamental: I'm not looking it up, but pretty sure this issue predates Viagra. Although he gets held up when he trips over his girl, and was probably older than Aunt May, Silvermane puts up a good fight--this was well before he became a cyborg--and he does pull off a nice throw, hitting Spidey with the Goblin! But when the three of them are punching each other on the Goblin's glider, they all fall...

Meanwhile, back at the Goblin's hideout, his hostage manages to cut his ropes on a shard of metal, and removes the bag, revealing...Harry Osborn? Then who was this Green Goblin? And what would Harry do about it? The next issue would have the reveal, although I apologize, for indexing purposes the GCD links have spoilers! Also, I can't recall if that Green Goblin had the same treatment that gave the others super-strength; but I suppose he must have, or his head would get knocked off the first time Spidey actually hits him. (This is also why I can't for the life of me figure out why the current Spider-Man/Predator book is more than one issue: I know they probably don't want to show the Predator getting clowned on, but Spidey is way stronger, and the Pred wouldn't be able to sneak up on him! Unless they make up some nonsense reason to pad it.)