Hobgoblin Identity Crisis Archive

Blind Spots: The Ned Leeds Hobgoblin Origin

September 4, 2013Blind Spots2 Comments

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

Amazing Spider-Man #289 and the Hobgoblin’s Identity Crisis

By Mark Ginocchio

September 3, 2013the big box of comicsNo comments

For the past eight weeks, I’ve looked at a series of comic books that initiated one of the greatest and most clumsily handled mysteries in the history of Spider-Man. There are tons of scattershot accounts of how the identity of the Hobgoblin was supposed to pay off – including