Hobgoblin Archive

The three-part Spectacular Spider-Man “Goblins at the Gate” arc which ran in issues #259-261, is the comic book equivalent of the Wrestlemania 18 showdown between Hulk Hogan and The Rock. In these three issues – which also function as a postscript to the Roger Stern/Ron Frenz Hobgoblin Lives miniseries

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Given that Superior Spider-Man readers are being promised a “goblin fight like no other” when the Green Goblin and the “original” Hobgoblin square off in Superior Spider-Man  #26 later this week, I thought I would get everyone in the mood by revisiting some past Goblin vs. Goblin showdowns this

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Between the immense crowds and just my general exhaustion of canvassing the Jacob Javits Center like a maniac the past two days, I cut short my Saturday session at New York Comic Con. But I come bearing news for Dan Slott fans, and also had an opportunity to speak

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The incomparable Dan Gvozden, co-host of Superior Spider-Talk and a super-friend to Chasing Amazing, has returned from last weekend’s Baltimore Comic Con bearing gifts of awesome interviews with some of Spider-Man’s greatest creators. In Episode 14 of Superior Spider-Talk (a special Superior Spider-Talk and Our Amazing Friends episode), Dan

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The “Hobgoblin Lives” mini-series certainly goes a long way in setting things “right” about the identity of the Hobgoblin in that writer Roger Stern was finally given an opportunity to explain the story he was building before leaving Amazing Spider-Man at issue #250. But despite the fact that Stern

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Jim Salicrup, editor-in-chief of Papercutz and a former Marvel editor who oversaw the Spider-Man titles for years (and who hired superstar artist Todd McFarlane to illustrate Amazing Spider-Man), sat down with Dan Gvozden and I at the Connecticut ComiCONN event in Trumbull, CT, last weekend. The interview has just

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Until Roger Stern wrote the “Hobgoblin Lives” mini-series in 1997, Ned Leeds, as revealed in Amazing Spider-Man #289, was the Hobgoblin. The dogged reporter, who was known to have a mean streak whenever another man got near his woman, Betty Brant, was revealed to be one of the most

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The “legendary” Tom DeFalco, former Marvel editor-in-chief, writer on multiple Spider-Man titles for decades, and the creator of the Spider-Girl series, sat down with Dan Gvozden and I at the Connecticut ComiCONN event in Trumbull, CT, last weekend. The interview has just been released as an episode of the Superior

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Lo, there shall be an ending! After spending my entire summer writing about the “Original Hobgoblin Saga” in full, I have reached Amazing Spider-Man #251, the final chapter in the story that was originally introduced by Roger Stern in ASM #238 and then fleshed out over the course of

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Reading Amazing Spider-Man #250 is like watching the season finale of a television show where the showrunner  or writer knows he or she is leaving the show (either willingly or acrimoniously) and thus decides to introduce a ton of big ideas into the final script that are impossible for

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