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A brief history of the Green Goblins
As it turned out, Harold ("Harry") Osborn, Norman's son and Peter's friend, saw the battle and took pains to cover up his father's Goblin identity and manner of death. Already mentally weakened with a serious bout with narcotics, he blamed Spider-Man for his father's death, and upon learning Peter's identity from his father's records planned his revenge as the second Green Goblin. Peter managed to subdue him in battle that left Harry with amnesia and under the medical care of Dr. Barton Hamilton. Unfortunately, Hamilton's therapy with Harry revealed the secrets of the Goblin, which gave him the ambition of gaining the same power the Osborns had as the third Green Goblin. Eventually, the underpowered amateur was killed and the Goblin menace was buried yet again.
Later, fashion designer Roderick Kingsley discovered an abandoned secret lair of Norman Osborn's and set about to discover the rest of Osborn's equipment and records. With much of that accomplished, Kingsley created a variant of the Goblin identity as the Hobgoblin The Hobgoblin is a comic book supervillain appearing in the Marvel Comics universe as an enemy of Spider-Man. There have been two major characters to take up this identity.
Still later, Harry's insanity relapsed and he became the Green Goblin again on numerous occasions until he died from the side effects of the Goblin serum. His equipment and the identity of the Green Goblin was then briefly used by Philip Benjamin Urich, who tried to gain a reputation as super-hero - though he sometimes seemed to be as maniacal as his villainous predecessors. When his equipment was damaged during a battle against a Sentinel in the Onslaught Crossover, Phil was unable to repair or replace it and the fourth Green Goblin had to retire.
Soon after that it was revealed that Norman Osborn is still alive and is determined to plague Spider-Man's life still more, but with a more subtle approach. For a while a genetic construct acted as the fifth Green Goblin, following Norman's orders, but it proved unstable and died. Currently, Norman still acts as the Green Goblin. Of all the Goblins, he has proved to be the most formidable and the most resourceful.
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