The ruthless co-owner of a leading chemical-manufacturing enterprise based in New York City, Norman Osborn was obsessed with wealth and power -- both legitimately acquired and ill-gotten. When he learned that his longtime partner, Professor Mendell Stromm, had appropriated company funds for personal use, Osborn exploited the situation to seize full control of the firm. He alerted authorities, and Stromm was arrested and jailed for theft. With his partner out of the picture, Osborn found himself with unlimited access to Stromm's private research. Therein, he discovered a formula capable of increasing an individual's intelligence and physical strength, and recreated the chemical from the professor's notes. As manufactured by Osborn, however, the solution was unstable -- literally blowing up in his face. Osborn was hospitalized, but managed to keep secret the explosion's cause. The chemical had increased his intelligence dramatically, but slowly was driving him insane. A second, sinister persona soon emerged -- not unlike the green, goblin-like wraith whose maniacal cackling had haunted the nightmares of his youth. Outfitting himself with combustible Pumpkin Bombs, high-voltage gauntlets and a gravity-defying Goblin-Glider, the Green Goblin embarked crime spree colored by his precarious mental state. By killing the wisecracking, web-slinging super hero known as Spider-Man, he hoped to attain instant credibility among the denizens of the underworld.
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