Proto-Goblin Video | Movie Clips & Character interview

Proto-Goblin is the name of a Marvel Comics supervillain His real name was Nels Van Adder. He was married though they never named the wife. He was a Research assistant to Mendel Stromm. He had volunteered to become a test subject for a chemical developed by Stromm and Norman Osborn. His first appearance was Peter Parker: Spider-Man I# minus 1 (July, 1997. Police, hunting a serial killer,...  MORE

Proto-Goblin is the name of a Marvel Comics supervillain His real name was Nels Van Adder. He was married though they never named the wife. He was a Research assistant to Mendel Stromm. He had volunteered to become a test subject for a chemical developed by Stromm and Norman Osborn. His first appearance was Peter Parker: Spider-Man I# minus 1 (July, 1997. Police, hunting a serial killer, spotted a ￢ﾀﾘsuspicious individual￢ﾀﾙ lurking outside Osborn￢ﾀﾙs plant, it was Van Adder, and he attacked them, before fleeing into the plant. Captain George Stacy led a squad of men into the plant, accompanied by his brother Arthur, Osborn￢ﾀﾙs chief of security. Van Adder wounded one of the police with his claws, and fled again. Cornered by the Stacy brothers, he threw Arthur into a stack of crates, and leapt straight through a brick wall, escaping, despite having been shot six times by George Stacy. The brothers found his Osborn Industries ID card, which he had dropped. When questioned by Arthur Stacy the next day, Norman Osborn claimed Van Adder to be a disgruntled employee who had left the company months earlier, but refused to talk about what work Van Adder was involved in. That night, LESS