User blog:ARTaylor/50 Years of Green Goblin

This is the fiftieth anniversary of the debut of that most vile of Spider-Man villains, Green Goblin. He originally appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #14 in July of 1964, though his alter-ego Norman Osborn would not appear until The Amazing Spider-Man #37 in June 1966. Green Goblin was little more than an intelligent menace on a flying broomstick until he was revealed to be the father of Peter's best friend Harry Osborn. But his biggest moment came when he kidnapped Peter's girlfriend Gwen Stacy ultimately resulting in her death. Since then he's been a constant throne in the wallcrawler's, and the entire Marvel universe's, side.