The Hobgoblin Saga

Set Description

This set is for my favorite Spider-Man villain, the one and only HOBGOBLIN! I grew up in the Hobby era and always dug him. Jack O'Lantern made fewer appearances but I loved his design. Together they wore the mantle of the Hobgoblin for years so this set is for both of them under each of their aliases. I'd like as many Hobgoblin and Jack O'Lantern covers as I can. I'm including the other pumpkin-themed baddie in here as they as so closely tied, with Jason Macendale holding the mantle of both. I may add Demogoblin in here at some point too. Collecting is fun! :)

Although I’m calling this a Hobgoblin set Jason Macendale, aka: Jack O’Lantern appeared first. After showing up in a Frank Miller cover on Machine Man #19 he popped up in Spectacular Spider-Man #56, yet another Miller cover, and this one is killer!






Eventually the Hobgoblin made his appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #238, one of the more classic covers of the Copper Age. As he appeared in all of the Spider-Man books over the next few years the “mystery of the Hobgoblin” deepened! Roger Stern was all over the place, giving us red herrings and kept readers guessing. The letters pages of these issues were a lot of fun to read.






Eventually there was a big reveal in Amazing Spider-Man #289, but that was not to be the end! Macendale took over the orange cowl after that for the next decade or so until the story came back again! Stern returned along with Roderick Kingsley who had been alive and well this entire time and was actually the Hobgoblin and it was not Ned Leeds (who we were led to believe it was) who was dead. How’s that for some crazy soap opera storylines? Of course there’s a lot more to the story including possession, other Hobgoblins, other Halloween themed characters, and a whole lot more! Thankfully Roderick is still around causing havoc in the Marvel Universe.






To make this set more interesting I'm going to try to put them in chronological order as best I can. This will differ from the order of publication by a little bit, but not too much. I've got a plan, so let's see how it pans out!

Ideally, I’d like to have a set with books in 9.8 with white pages. Got any I'm missing? Send me a message! Thanks for looking!

For more information on Roderick Kingsley GO HERE!
For more information on Jason Macendale Jr GO HERE!
This is A Spider-Man Fan’s Guide to the Essential Hobgoblin Stories!

Set Goals

I'm not sure how many issues of his I'll eventually have graded copies of, but I'll add them as I acquire them. I'd like all of any early ASM / PPSSM / Web Of era covers until his "death" for sure but it's impossible to stop there. At this time cover appearances are more important than issues where there was just an appearance / cameo.

The fun ones to track down are the random appearances that these characters made in non-Spidey titles. For some there are very few - if ANY - in 9.8, so it's not easy. Even some of the modern covers are scarce in my preferred grade. But that's not stopping me! ;)

Ideally I'd like any appearance and maybe even add in the Hallows Eve and Demogoblin issues too! It helps that there are a lot of issues where there are appearances by multiple characters.

Some will be issues that I got off the rack or out of bins and others much later. Let's go!!!