Green Goblin

The Green Goblin is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Universe and an archenemy of Spider-Man. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, the character first appears in Amazing Spider-Man #14 (July 1964). more...

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The first, current, and best-known Green Goblin is the alter ego of industrialist Norman Osborn. A serum that grants Osborn superhuman strength also drives him insane. Osborn adopts a Halloween themed appearance, dressing in a goblin costume and using an arsenal of high-tech weapons, notably grenade-like \"Pumpkin Bombs and Razor Bats\" and a bat-shaped \"goblin glider\" to terrorize New York City. He is one of Spider-Man's most recognizable foes and is widely regarded as his deadliest enemy, having much impact in Spider-Man's life, and posing a large threat to him and his loved ones. Wizard Magazine rated him the 19th greatest villain of all time.

The Green Goblin appears in several Spider-Man animated series throughout the years and in Spider-Man, in which he is played by Willem Dafoe.

Publication history

According to Steve Ditko; the Green Goblin, as we know him, was entirely his creation. He claims:

\"Stan's synopsis for the Green Goblin had a movie crew, on location, finding an Egyptian-like sarcophagus. Inside was an ancient, mythological demon, the Green Goblin. He naturally came to life. On my own, I changed Stan's mythological demon into a human villain.\"

The Green Goblin first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #14. His identity was unknown. He proved popular and reappeared in later issues which made a point of his secret identity. Yet Stan Lee and Steve Ditko had no specific identity in mind. Later they disagreed. According to one theory; Stan Lee always wanted him to be someone known by Parker while Ditko wanted him to be a stranger, feeling this was closer to real life. However Ditko seems to have refuted this rumor, claiming:

\"So I had to have some definite ideas: who he was, his profession and how he fit into the Spider-Man story world. I was even going to use an earlier, planted character associated with J. Jonah Jameson: he be the Green Goblin. It was like a subplot working its way until it was ready to play an active role.\"

Ditko left the series before he could reveal the Goblin's identity and Lee decided in #39 to make him Norman Osborn, a character who had been introduced only two issues earlier (although a Norman Osborn-like character appears in Amazing #23 & #26 as a member of Jameson's executive club and it was referenced in Amazing Spider-Man #249 that Norman Osborn and Jonah Jameson were both members of what was then titled The Century Club) the father of Harry Osborn, introduced in #31. In a particularly inventive twist, Osborn discovers Spider-Man's true identity in Amazing #39 but then suffers amnesia so that the story that revealed his origin would also be his last appearance. Nevertheless the Green Goblin would come back three times, the third time killing Gwen Stacy and being killed in the next issue. Considered dead for more than twenty years he would be brought back to explain he had been the mastermind behind many of the complex plots of the '90s.

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