Hobgoblin

Few villains carry the weight of mystery and menace quite like Hobgoblin, who glided onto the Marvel scene in 1987 courtesy of Steve Englehart and Al Milgrom. A Copper Age creation with staying power — nearly four decades of appearances and counting — this cackling, pumpkin-bomb-hurling figure has haunted the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man alongside the likes of Spider-Man, Peter Parker, and the shadowy Richard Fisk. With two key issues to their name and a rogues' gallery résumé that reads like a who's who of Marvel's street-level underworld, Hobgoblin is exactly the kind of character that rewards the dedicated collector who digs deep into the web-slinger's most thrilling era.