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The Hobgoblin is the alias of several fictional characters that appear in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first Hobgoblin Roderick Kingsley first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #238 and was created by Roger Stern and John Romita Jr. During the late 1980s and most of the 1990s the Hobgoblin identity was carried exclusively by Jason Macendale instead. In 2009 the Hobgoblin was ranked by IGN as the 57th greatest comic book villain.