Green Goblin (Bart Hamilton) is a

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appearing in

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s published by

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. The character was depicted as the third

Green Goblin The Green Goblin is the alias of several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, the first and best-known incarnation of the Green Goblin is Norman Osborn, ...

, and first appeared in ''

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'' #176 (January 1978).

Fictional character biography

Bart Hamilton first came into contact with the legacy of the Green Goblin when he treated a mentally disturbed

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, who had just been captured after a long stint as the Green Goblin. Under hypnosis, Osborn told Hamilton everything about the Goblin, as well as

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's secret identity. Hamilton was sceptical about these stories, and checked on them, finding them to be true. After curing Osborn of his insanity, and temporarily making him forget about ever being the Green Goblin, Hamilton investigated the old headquarters of the Green Goblin and, after being exposed to the same chemical formula that Norman and Harry used in the past, became the third Green Goblin.

References

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