Harry Osborn Archive

People who’ve read my site know I love myself some multi-layered, sympathetic bad guys. So I thought I’d list 10 of my favorites over at comicbook.com. These are the bad guys that aren’t totally bad. Maybe they’re misunderstood, or maybe they have some reasons for their madness. Either way,

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Electro, Rhino and Harry Osborn’s Green Goblin have all been confirmed as the featured villains in Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (opening in the United States next week). If you’re anxious to see it, or just want some reading material about a couple of Spidey B-list bad guys, I

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In celebration of Superior Spider-Man’s “Goblin Nation” arc, over the next two months, I’m going to acknowledge what I consider to be the 10 best Green Goblin/Spider-Man storylines. I’m creating this list based on a full array of arbitrary, unscientific criteria: namely historical significance, artwork, creativity and my overall enjoyment of the

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“Super Blog Team-Up” is back, and this time, an expanded roster of some of the finest comic book blogs on the internet is tackling a controversial topic in the medium we profess to love: retroactive continuity, or retcons for short. Over the years, these little “alterations” of a certain

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In celebration of Superior Spider-Man’s “Goblin Nation” arc, over the next two months, I’m going to acknowledge what I consider to be the 10 best Green Goblin/Spider-Man storylines. I’m creating this list based on a full array of arbitrary, unscientific criteria: namely historical significance, artwork, creativity and my overall enjoyment of the

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In celebration of Superior Spider-Man’s “Goblin Nation” arc, over the next two months, I’m going to acknowledge what I consider to be the 10 best Green Goblin/Spider-Man storylines. I’m creating this list based on a full array of arbitrary, unscientific criteria: namely historical significance, artwork, creativity and my overall enjoyment of

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What’s so unique about Amazing Spider-Man #239 is how writer Roger Stern takes his new creation, the Hobgoblin, and expertly crafts the villain as a legitimate physical and psychological threat to Spider-Man, while also exposing the character’s vulnerabilities and weaknesses. In the 20 years of Spider-Man comics that preceded

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As I mentioned in my post about Amazing Spider-Man #136 last week, part of what made Harry Osborn as the second Green Goblin such a captivating character was his unique relationship to the man underneath the Spider-Man mask, Peter Parker. While Spidey has had personal connections to villains (in

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I never found a way to be successful at that whole comic book speculator thing. That’s part of the reason why I chose to dedicate my collection to only one title, Amazing Spider-Man, because otherwise I would probably make one bad investment after another, chasing after fool’s gold and

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Who here doesn’t love a great mystery? And going back and rereading the earlier years of Amazing Spider-Man has got my brain fixated on one of the most famous mystery-storylines ever told in the pages of ASM: the identity of the Green Goblin. The Goblin, who goes on to

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