Goblin question, which one?

[gdw]

Hey everybody!

I don't usually venture to this side of the boards that often, but I had a question about a book I had as a kid.

It featured the beginnings of one of the Goblins, or at least that's what I'm recalling.

The main things I remember were a mystery man, presumably our Goblin to be, and someone he had helping him. He eventually kills this "assistant", if I recall correctly, by blowing up a van that he was heading to, or maybe it was their hideout.
I also recall what I believe was the last panel, which was the reveal of him opening a mold to reveal the new Goblin mask he made.

Although I always assumed it was the start of the origin of someone new taking up a Goblin mantle, it could very well have been a return of a previous Goblin.

Any who, I have no clue which Goblin, nor who was to be behind that mask, and I've long since lost the issue.

I figure it's a long shot, but I thought I'd ask if anyone else remembered this, and maybe knew which Goblin it was?

Thanks
Cheers

 

[JewishHobbit]

This was how the original Hobgoblin started in Amazing Spider-Man 238 if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

You pointed out the exact issue.
Just confirming.

 

[gdw]

Really? The original Hobgoblin?
How the hell did I get my hands on that as a child?
Damn. Wishing even more that I still had it.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I'm going to take a guess and say you got a hold of it the same way I did... with this wonderful reprint:

I was too young and new to even know it was a reprint title for a long time.

 

[gdw]

I'm going to take a guess and say you got a hold of it the same way I did... with this wonderful reprint:

I was too young and new to even know it was a reprint title for a long time.

That is certainly a possibility, though the cover of the original printing looks more familiar to me.

I was born in '82, and while it looks like the first printing was in '83, I doubt I was collecting THAT young.

I mean, I started young enough that I don't know what my first comic was (my father used to read them to me when I was a kid before I could read) so there is a remote possibility, though I doubt it.
Much more likely I would have bought it, at the earliest, in '85 or '86. Certainly possible it was an older issue on a rack. Most of my early books were picked up at convenience stores at that age.

Who knows.
I'm pretty sure the cover was missing within the first 6 weeks of me getting my hands on it at that age, so it'd be worthless either way.