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Attributes

Height: 6' 1"

Weight: 210 lbs

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Black

Features: Macendale recently underwent a cybernetic re-working, with presumably-permanent facial and body implants.

Summary

Created By: Peter David, Alan Kupperberg, Tom Morgan, Tim Fern

Real Name: Jason Philip Macendale, Jr.

Current Aliases: None

Former Aliases: Jack O'Lantern

Dual Identity: The public at large is unaware of the Hobgoblin's history, and assumes that Hobgoblin I and IV are the same man.

Current Occupation: Dead

Former Occupation: Chronologically: Marine, C.I.A. operative, professional assassin and criminal-for-hire.

Citizenship: His U.S. citizenship has been revoked

Legal Status: Dead

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts

Marital Status: Divorced

Known Relatives: Ex-wife, Karen (since re-married); Son, Jay

Known Confidants: None

Known Allies: Macendale has worked with the Kingpin, the Rose I, Hobgoblin III, the demon N'astirh, the Foreigner and Gaunt

Major Enemies: Spidey, the 1st and 3rd Hobgoblins, the 2nd Green Goblin, DemoGoblin, Grim Hunter and his own massive power-driven ego.

Usual Bases: As an international terrorist, he remains mobile.

Former Bases: None

Current Groups: None

Former Groups: The Sinister Six

Education: He studied at M.I.T. before being recruited by the C.I.A.

Powers & Paraphenalia

Strength Level: He was subject to Kraven the Hunter's elixirs, and further on, to cybernetic implants. This made him very strong.

Powers: Enhanced physical abilities, courtesy of Kraven's formula and Gaunt's implants.

Abilities: Macendale is highly skilled in hand-to-hand combat. His military experience included flight training. He can pilot most forms of airplanes and helicopters.

Equipment: The vertical-thrust goblin glider, which was powered by a miniature turbo- fan. It can go up to 90 miles per hour and support 400 pounds.

Weapons: Macendale inherited the weapons of the original Hobgoblin: Jack O'Lantern bombs, razor-edged bat-wings, and gloves capable of conducting pulses of electricity upwards of 10,000 volts.

Limitations: A thirst for power that makes him continually overstep his capabilities.

Background

Dangerous and violent as Macendale was, he was still outclassed by the superhumans that ran in his business. This inequality led him to try and make a deal for more power with the demon N'astirh, who had him possessed. He remained in this form for some time before achieving separation from the demonic entity in Web of Spiderman #85. The demonic entity, known as Demogoblin, formed a "criminal" career himself. (Actually, he was more concerned with wiping out sinners than mere criminals.) Macendale was one of his prime targets, and the two clashed, several times. Hobgoblin eventually gained the upper hand after he went to Russia and paid for Kraven's strength enhancing formula.

With Demogoblin dead in a collapsed church, Macendale felt free to go about getting everything he wanted in life, including being a part of his young son's. His ex-wife had ran with the boy when Jason became a dangerous criminal, and Hobgoblin kidnapped Jason Jr. to re-establish himself as his father. He was defeated by Spider-Man and the female vigilante, Coldheart, who was also looking for her son.

Macendale wasnt finished with his former family, however. Karen Macendale married a wealthy accountant, Ronald Vancolder. Ronald was the accountant for the New York Transit Authority and was to hold a press conferrence on the "money train." Jason and a band of goons attacked the train in order to rob and humiliate his ex-wife's new husband. Hobgoblin was delayed by the Green Goblin (Phil Urich) and finally defeated by the Fantastic Four's Ben Grimm.

Having apparently learned nothing from the demon-blending experience, he underwent physical alteration during his tenure with Gaunt, allowing himself to be implanted with cybernetic devices. Hobgoblin was hired by Gaunt to intimidate Peter Parker, who had retired from being Spider-Man and left the webs to Ben Reilly. A skeleton of another Spider-Man clone had shown up, and Peter and Ben set out to find the truth behind this new twist in the Clone Saga. When they got too close, a cybernetic mercenary team called Cell-12 assaulted and badly beat a powerless Peter. Peter beleived that Ben's friend, Dr Seward Trainer, to be behind the attack but Ben wanted to prove Seward innocent.

Spider-Man tracked Seward down to a Multivex factory and was ambushed by Cell- 12, whom he quickly defeated. However, he was taken by surprise by the enhanced Hobgoblin. Spidey barely managed to stay ahead of him, and was eventually beaten down and knocked unconscious. Hobgoblin was about to kill him, but was stopped by Dr Trainer. Seward pleaded with Ben to forget about him. Hobgoblin obeyed Trainer but warned "Listen to the man, Spider-Man, otherwise even HE wont be able to stop me next time."

"Next time" wasnt far away. Still determined to get answers as to whom was manilpulating thier lives, Peter went to Mulivex to confront Dr Trainer, but was again thwarted by Cell-12 and the Hobgoblin, even after Ben showed up to help. Frustrated by his carefully assembled team's failure to kill one man, Hobgoblin left them with this carefully worded farewell before pumkin bombing them to atoms: "As for you living with my disappointment? I think not." Macho bravado aside, Macendale was not a happy man. In yet another warehouse hideout, he asks himself "What am I doing all this for? I have no home. I have no friends. My ex-wife would just as soon see me dead...my son hates and fears me...when it comes right down to it...I've...got...NOTHING!" Gaunt(who was under orders from Norman Osborn) then arrived to tell Hobgoblin that their business together was complete and not to ever attempt to contact him. Also, Spider-Man was on his way, and to not, under ANY circumstances, kill him.

Spider-Man arrived soon after, and learned during the following battle that Macendale wasnt the mastermind of the recent attacks on Ben Reilly and Peter Parker, but was merely a pawn. Naturally, Hobgoblin was defeated and sent to prison. Little did he or Spider-Man know it, but it would be the last meeting between the two. Roderick Kingsley returned and killed Macendale in his prison cell, afraid that the recently loose lipped criminal would start telling everything he knew to the press, which could lead to the public becomming aware that Kingsely had been the original Hobgoblin.

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The assistance of the Marvel Chronology Project is gratefully acknowledged.

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