That is, until HobGoblin Lives (January 1997). The wise businessman knows that sometimes, you can’t declare victory, you simply have to cut your losses – which is what Kingsley did. And, there was a certain amount of circumstantial evidence that could be conceivably connected to him. Of course, Kingsley had invested a considerable amount of effort to make the world believe that the original HobGoblin was dead. Since Fisk was out for blood for the HobGoblin’s betrayal of him during the Gang War, the only certain way for Kingsley to finish Fisk off would be to engage him directly, and that meant reassuming the guise of the HobGoblin (Kingsley would not approach Fisk in his civilian identity – he had gone to great lengths to ensure that Fisk did not know his real identity). Not that Kingsley was really afraid of Fisk, but he likely did not want to confront him, at least not in the United States. So, an exodus out of the country before Richard Fisk realized the truth seemed to be a logical idea. It is likely that the Rose did not realize at the time that his men had only wounded, rather than killed Kingsley, since they were soon afterwards murdered by the Jason Macendale HobGoblin.
These two events probably made Kingsley think that a quick retreat was in order.
was manufacturing weapons for the HobGoblin, suddenly disappeared (really, the Foreigner simply retired that identity). Detective Kris Keating (really the Foreigner or a crony – but Kingsley didn’t know that), who knew that Kingsley, Ltd. However, a jilted and unforgiving Rose sent his goons after him and shot his brother Daniel, who was posing as him. Originally, he probably thought he had closed all of the loose ends of his HobGoblin career when he set Ned Leeds up to be murdered. It’s not hard to figure out why Kingsley did this. It had been over nine years (real time) since Roderick Kingsley made an appearance, which is explained by his statement that he renounced his US citizenship and is living in Belize, South America. The writer on this issue was Glenn Herdling, of whom I know nothing. Now, I have no idea whether this was a warm-up for next month’s debut of Stern’s HobGoblin Lives mini, or sheer coincidence. Jameson rebuffs them, and then is approached by a familiar face… Jonah Jameson, he is approached by businessman George Vandergill (remember him from Roger Stern’s run on Amazing Spider-Man?) and an associate about a plan to inject some much needed cash into the Daily Bugle. As we open Part 4 of this series, the Clone Saga is ending, and due to the vagaries of the publishing schedule, we come to one of the straggling final appearances of Spider-Ben in Spider-Man Unlimited #14 (December 1996), where we meet an unexpected guest star. When we finished up Part 3, the dynamic duo of the Amazing Spider-Ben (the Spider-Man clone) and Peter Parker had defeated the latest incarnation of the Jason Macendale HobGoblin, whom I dubbed the CyberGoblin, and he was incarcerated (see the “Blood Brothers” story arc which concluded in No-Adjective Spider-Man #69). Part 2 takes us through Tom DeFalco’s tenure, beginning with Amazing Spider-Man #252 up through the “revelation” that Ned Leeds was the HobGoblin in ASM #289, and Part 3 chronicles the careers of the Jason Macendale HobGoblin and his demonic offspring the DemoGoblin.
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If you’re new to this series and a glutton for long-winded, biased exposition, you can check out the first three parts of this series back at my home page Spidey Kicks Butt or go directly to the articles Squandered Legacy Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Part 1 follows the career of the HobGoblin from the debut of Roderick Kingsley in Spectacular Spider-Man #43 and the HobGoblin in Amazing Spider-Man #238 to Roger Stern’s departure from Amazing Spider-Man in issue #251. Squandered Legacy: The Rise and Fall of the HobGoblin