>>18262731It was Ned Leeds, who was killed off by a different writer before he could be unmasked causing the whole affair to have such a shit sandwich ending they fired all of the Spiderman writers and made the replacement writers quickly marry Spiderman and Mary Jane to try and change the subject.
They later retconned Hobgoblin to be a literal who that brainwashed Ned to get his fall guy/patsy and got away with it because Peter literally cucked Ned/hated him for marrying his teenage crush Betty.
Ned was brought back recently but got rebrainwashed by both the literal who and Goblin Queen, with Peter and Green Goblin beating him up. Peter only bothered to get him out of jail when the two tried to kill Betty to keep her from clearing his name.