Jason Macendale

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name=Jason Philip Macendale Jr.


caption=Panel from "Web of Spider-Man" #93 (October 1993). Pencils by Alex Saivuk.
comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Jason Macendale, Jr.
real_name=Jason Philip Macendale, Jr.
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Machine Man" #19 (Feb 1981)
creators=Tom DeFalco
Steve Ditko
alliance_color=background:#c0c0ff
alliances=Sinister Six, Gaunt
aliases=Jack O'Lantern
Hobgoblin
powers=
*Enhanced physical abilities due to Kraven's formula and cybernetic implants
*Various weapons and Goblin paraphernalia, including cybernetically-controlled "Goblin glider"
*Highly trained in armed/unarmed combat
*Expertise in mechanical engineering and physics|

Jason Philip Macendale, Jr. is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in "Machine Man" #19 (Feb 1981), and was created by writer Tom DeFalco and artist Steve Ditko.

Fictional character biography

Jason Philip Macendale is a mercenary and freelance terrorist/assassin, whose U.S. citizenship is revoked when he enlists in a foreign army, and later becomes a professional criminal. His original alter ego is Jack O'Lantern, and battles Machine Man in his first appearance. ["Machine Man" #19] He later moves to make a permanent home in the family of Spider-Man villains, after encountering Spider-Man for the first time. ["Spectacular Spider-Man" #56] He next tries to hijack the original Hobgoblin's battle van. ["Amazing Spider-Man" #254]

Wishing to increase his underworld status, Macendale hires assassins to kill Ned Leeds (who was believed to be the original Hobgoblin at that time) ["Spider-Man Vs. Wolverine" #1] and takes his arsenal for himself, adopting the Hobgoblin identity. ["Amazing Spider-Man" #289] Despite being the Hobgoblin, Macendale lacked the original's superpowers, and became obsessed with finding the Green Goblin's secret formula of superhuman strength, attempting to steal it from Harry Osborn, but fails as the latter did not have it at the time. ["Amazing Spider-Man" #312]

During a demonic incursion on New York City, Macendale foolishly offers to sell his soul to N'astirh in exchange for the power of a demon. N'astirh refuses the offer, considering Macendale's wretched soul to be worthless to him. However, in return for amusing the demon's twisted sense of humor, N'astirh fuses a demon to Macendale anyway, just for making him laugh. ["Spectacular Spider-Man" #147] Enhanced by the demon's power, Macendale would return to battle Spider-Man once again, nearly killing the web-slinger until he was saved by the intervention of Mary Jane Watson. As an independent mercenary and criminal, Macendale would clash with many other heroes, including Ghost Rider, Sleepwalker, Doctor Strange, and Darkhawk.

Eventually, Macendale's personality was overcome by the insane demon who shared his body, and the creature became convinced that it had been appointed by God to kill sinners. However, the two identities of Macendale and the demon fought fiercely over control of the body. Shortly thereafter, the demonic presence physically separated itself from Macendale and continued its purge of the city, calling itself the Demogoblin. Once more powerless, Macendale obtains the strength formula of Kraven the Hunter, ["Spider-Man" #47] which enables him to easily defeat his demonic doppelganger. ["Spider-Man" #48]

Macendale is later hired by Gaunt and further augments himself with cybernetic implants.

After being incarnated in prison, he is murdered by Roderick Kingsley, the true Hobgoblin, who had allowed Macendale his claim on the goblin "franchise" to further hide his identity as the power behind the various incarnations of the Hobgoblin. ["Hobgoblin Lives"]

In other media

Television

*Jason Philip Macendale appears as the Hobgoblin in "", voiced by Mark Hamill.

Video games

*The NES game "" had the third line-up of the Sinister Six, which included Macendale.

Toys

*The demonic version of Macendale appears in the Spider-Man Classics line. This was reworked for the Sinister Six Marvel Legends set and then repainted for the Demogoblin figure.

References

External links

*comicbookdb|type=character|id=5007|title=Jason Macendale (Jack O'Lantern)
* [http://www.spiderfan.org/characters/jack_olantern.html Jack O'Lantern (Jason Macendale)] at SpiderFan.org
*comicbookdb|type=character|id=4993|title=Jason Macendale (Hobgoblin)
* [http://www.spiderfan.org/characters/hobgoblin4.html Hobgoblin IV (Jason Macendale)] at SpiderFan.org

* [http://en.marveldatabase.com/Jason_Macendale_Jr._%28Earth-616%29 Jason Macendale Jr. (Earth-616)] at the Marvel Comics Database Project
* [http://www.marvel.com/universe/Hobgoblin_(Jason_Macendale) Hobgoblin (Jason Macendale)] at the Marvel Universe Character Bios