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Roderick Kingsley is the first of several fictional characters who would claim the alias Hobgoblin that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in ''Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #43 then as the Hobgoblin in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #238, and was created by Roger Stern and John Romita, Jr.〔''Marvel Age'' #111, April 1992, Marvel Comics〕 In 2009, the Hobgoblin was ranked by IGN as the 57th greatest comic book villain. ==Publication history== Roderick Kingsley first appeared in ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #43. The Hobgoblin was created by writer Roger Stern and artists John Romita, Jr. while working on ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' in the early 1980s. Like other writers Stern found himself under pressure to have Spider-Man fight the Green Goblin again but did not wish to bring Norman Osborn or Bart Hamilton back from the dead, have Harry Osborn become the Green Goblin again or create yet another Green Goblin. Instead he decided to create a new character as heir to the Goblin's legacy and developed the Hobgoblin. The character's identity was not initially revealed, generating one of the longest running mysteries in the Spider-Man comics. According to Stern, "I plotted that first story with no strong idea of who the Hobgoblin was. As I was scripting those gorgeous pages from JR (Romita, Jr. ), particularly the last third of the book, and developing the Hobgoblin’s speech pattern, I realized who he was. It was Roderick Kingsley, that sunuvabitch corporate leader I had introduced in my first issue of ''() Spectacular ()''." A handful of readers deduced that Kingsley was the Hobgoblin almost immediately. In order to throw them off the scent, and in the same stroke provide a retroactive explanation for his inconsistent characterization of Kingsley in his early appearances, Stern came up with the idea of Kingsley having a brother named Daniel who sometimes impersonates him, sealing the deception by having the Hobgoblin conspicuously appear in the same room as Daniel Kingsley in ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #249.〔 Stern's original plan was to have the mystery of the Hobgoblin's identity run exactly one issue longer than that of the Green Goblin's identity, meaning the truth would be revealed in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #264.〔 However, Stern left the series after ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #252, and his successors felt Roderick Kingsley was a weak choice for the Hobgoblin's true identity.〔 After considerable creative struggle over the issue, the Hobgoblin was ultimately unmasked as Ned Leeds in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #289, and a new Hobgoblin was created from the storyline of Jason Macendale's hatred of the Hobgoblin. Stern was unhappy with the revelation that his character's civilian identity was Ned Leeds, and in 1997 he wrote a three-issue miniseries, ''Spider-Man: Hobgoblin Lives'', with the retcon that Roderick Kingsley was the original Hobgoblin, and had brainwashed Leeds into serving as a fall guy. The series also reinstated Kingsley as the active Hobgoblin. After Norman Osborn returns from his apparent death, Stern followed up the miniseries with a Spider-Man storyline "Goblins at the Gate," which resulting Kingsley and Osborn becomes bitter rivals obsessed with each other's destruction over the legacy of the Goblin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roderick Kingsley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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