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As with The Rose, I recall Stan saying that they had NO idea who the Green Goblin was going to be back in the day when they were writing him in Spidey.Hobgoblin certainly went through a few iterations as well. How often would you say characters get written with no identity in place at the start? Or even a better idea coming along and plans changing before the reveal? And has the process changed much either way in recent years?
First off, Ditko states that he knew exactly who the Green Goblin was from the very beginning–which is why he was able to seed Norman Osborn in among Jameson’s club members even before Pete went to college and met Harry. Typically, people don’t start a mystery story without knowing the outcome–to do so is the most slap-dash form of storytelling, and almost never works out well. The Hobgoblin began with an identity (or virtually did), it was just one that the subsequent Spidey writers didn’t agree with. So it’s possible to change direction mid-stream, but doing so almost inevitably means that you’re going to come up with an answer to the puzzle that doesn’t work and that doesn’t fit all of the clues properly. That was definitely the case with the Hobgoblin in the 1980s.
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