Jason Macendale
Jason Macendale is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Jason Macendale, Jr.
He later salvaged the Hobgoblin's Battle Van after being hired through intermediaries by that villain. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #254)
After a humiliating defeat at the hands of Spider-Man and the Green Goblin, the Hobgoblin Macendale sought greater power to destroy all his enemies At this time, the city was being attacked by Demons due to the events of the Inferno. Several of the creatures attacked Macendale who destroyed them and followed the Demons to their master N'astirh. The demon lord wanted to be entertained by the human with Macendale his own soul in exchange for power. N'astirh responded with a laugh at the quality of the mortals soul but did admit that this made him laugh. Thus, he decided to grant the humans wish and transformed him into a partly demonic being. (Spectacular Spider-Man v1 #147)
Later on, the Hobgoblin became leader of the Sinister Seven. He was concentrating his efforts on riding his new organization of Doctor Octopus' killer, Kaine. During this time, he had some trouble obtaining the Vulture's cooperation. (Spider-Man Unlimited v1 #9)
Macendale revealed to the press of killing and replacing his apparent predecessor, Ned Leeds. He was transferred to Great Neck. He experienced nightmares of being haunted by Spider-Man and the Hobgoblin. Waking up, he was confronted by a mysterious figure standing outside his cell. He had the same voice as the Hobgoblin; in fact, he was the Hobgoblin. Ned Leeds was a "dupe" donning the costume. Because Macendale had become such an embarrassment, he had to die. And thus, he was blasted within close range, reduced to a smoldering skeleton. (Spider-Man: Hobgoblin Lives v1 #1)
Some time later, the Jackal brought Macendale back to life in a new cloned body; Hobgoblin decided to stay with the Jackal, serving him at New U Technologies with other resurrected Spider-Man's villains. (Clone Conspiracy v1 #2)
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Notes
- Jason Macendale was created by Tom DeFalco and Steve Ditko where he first appeared as Jack O'Lantern in Machine Man v1 #19 (February, 1981) and later as the Hobgoblin in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #289 (June, 1987).
- In Back Issue! v1 #35 (2009), writer Roger Stern commented, "When I was preparing to revisit the Hobgoblin, I went over the story that Howard [Mackie] and JR had done in Spider-Man #68, which was still fairly recent at the time, and I said to the editors, "Wow, they did all this work to revamp the second Hobgoblin—what do you want me to do? I can have Macendale beat my guy [Kingsley], anything you want, because you just went to all this trouble." I heard back and was told that I could open my story by having my guy kill Macendale. That left things pretty open![emphasis in original]."
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Spider-Man, Jason Macendale appeared as a villain in the guise of Hobgoblin in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Mark Hamill. He was first introduced in the episode "The Hobgoblin" though his real identity was not revealed until "Goblin War". This version appeared before the Green Goblin with the Hobgoblin being a mercenary hired by Norman Osborn who equipped him with his equipment and tasked him with eliminating Wilson Fisk. After failing due to Spider-Man, Osborn fired him but the Hobgoblin went rogue where he allied with the Kingpin where he revealed that Norman had hired him to eliminate Fisk. Despite this new alliance, Hobgoblin was shown as being greedy in that he desired more power leading to Fisk turning on him. In his civilian identity of Jason Macendale, he began romancing Felicia Hardy where he intended to take her fortune before it was revealed by Green Goblin that he was the Hobgoblin.
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Appearances
- Machine Man v1: (1987)
- Amazing Spider-Man v1:
- Clone Conspiracy v1:
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