Mark Drummond - in terms of that interview, it's nice to see these same arguments would crop up 20 years later with the Hobgoblin.Īccording to John Romita in Comics Interview #89, at the time he took over, Stan Lee told him that Spider-Man was already Marvel's 2nd-bestselling book right behind Fantastic Four(and that Daredevil sales jumped way up during Romita's time there). I remember reading the second issue on Bring on the Bad Guys as a kid. These two issues are widely acknowledged classics. Yeah, the art here is really fresh and great. Roy also states that at one point Ditko wanted the Goblin to be a nondescript nobody. In the Roy Thomas interview in Comics Interview #66, reference is made to a John Romita article where he claims that Stan Lee wanted Ned Leeds to be the Goblin, but Ditko disagreed and started drawing a guy that became Norman Osborn instead. The Goblin was one of my favorite villains and Romita sure new how to capture him.

I think they cost me about $3.50 each! I still have them. I found these 2 issues in clear plastic at the old comic shop in downtown Honolulu when I was a kid. Someone corrected me on that and i added a clarification on ASM #37 but i missed the Reference to it here. It seems like Stan planned it this way, so that Spidey could let Norman off the hook since hadn't committed any 'real' crimes.

The Goblin was about to shoot him when he had a heart attack. Stromm wasn't actually assassinated by the Green Goblin, it was more of an attempted assassination.

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