When Peter, captured and bound, identifies the unmasked Green Goblin as Harry’s father, Norman is flustered, temporarily afraid that Harry might learn of it. Peter taunts Norman into revealing his background. Norman recalls how he turned on his business partner Mendell Stromm and sent him to prison, then went through Stromm’s research and discovered a strange formula. When Norman recreated the formula it turned green and exploded in his face. Released from the hospital Norman believed the formula had increased his intelligence even as it gave him a split personality. He conceived the Green Goblin identity and attempted to conquer the criminal underworld. Meanwhile, Aunt May, distressed by Peter’s long absence, turns to Anna Watson for comfort. Elsewhere, Betty Brant returns to New York. In the Green Goblin’s lair, Norman uses a mental image projector to prove that he was always Spider-Man’s superior. Goaded, he sets Peter free for one last battle. During the fight, the Goblin’s chemicals explode and strike him. Norman awakens with no memory of being the Green Goblin. Spider-Man burns the costume, turns Norman over to emergency workers and returns home to receive a reprimand from Dr. Bromwell for abandoning his aunt. However, Aunt May is more concerned with Peter than herself and, insisting that he has a fever, sends him to bed. Elsewhere, Norman is visited in the hospital by Harry and hopes that their future will be good.