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The Hobgoblin, Part One
Review by Amazing Spidey, Media by Kolbar
Episode #11 - The Hobgoblin, Part One
Original Airdate May 20th, 1995
Peter saves The Kingpin from an attempt on his life by The Hobgoblin. But who set it all up? With his Aunt
injured by The Goblin and his new roommate kidnapped, Spider-Man goes searching for anwsers!
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Credits
Story By: John Semper
Written By: Larry Brody
Music Composed By: Shuki Levy and Kussa Mahchi
Animation Services By: Toyko Movie Shinsha (TMS)
Guest Starring: Christopher Daniel Barnes as Spider-Man/ Peter Parker, Ed Asner
as J. Jonah Jameson, Neil Ross as Norman Osborn, Mark Hamill as The Hobgoblin and
Roscoe Lee Brown as The Kingping
Review:
Once again production troubles come into play with this series. Anyone who's
read any Spider-Man comics in his or her lifetime will know the Green Goblin
debuted over 20 years before the Hobgoblin did. However, it went the other way
in this cartoon; it would be another 2 seasons before The Green Goblin
appeared. The reason behind this is one left from an apparently clueless
previous producer, which couldn't be changed as once again, toys where
being produced, and money was being made. No one is quite sure why the
previous producer made Hobgoblin come first, but I personally thought
it was very, very cool.
This didn't leave a huge plot hole in the series, far from it, the
introduction of a new Goblin later came across flawlessly, The Hobgoblin angle
benefited it all. It worked as a prelude to Norman becoming the Green Goblin,
and set up Peter learning that Wilson Fisk was actually The Kingpin. It
probably helped that The Hobgoblin is arguably the coolest villain in this
entire show. He had a great design and an outstanding voice in Mark Hamill.
Easily one of the best, as far as Spidey's rouges gallery goes.
The Aunt May in a coma is nothing new, as it's been done in the comics hundreds
of times, but the reason behind it was especially lame, as she went into a full
coma because his room was a mess. Even though she just saw her nephew attacked
by a Goblin on a glider, she gets shocked over his room. After a party no less.
This show did a horrible job with Aunt May, on the odd occasion. She truly was
the one supporting cast member with the weakest development.
The animation in the fight in the air between Spider-Man and The Hobgoblin
shined, especially some of the explosions. Whilst this episode was simply a set
up off what was to come in part 2, it did it very well. I especially liked how
Norman was portrayed in this episode. It gave us a great build up to him eventually
becoming The Green Goblin.
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