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| Jason Philip Macendale Jr. was a mercenary and criminal before assuming the identity of the Jack O' Lantern. Macendale continued to seek power both physically and relationally. After a falling-out with the criminal Hobgoblin, Macendale organized his assassination and assumed that identity. As the Hobgoblin, Macendale battled the hero Spider-Man on numerous occasions, as well as his enemy, the Green Goblin. |
| Some time later, during a time when New York was being invaded by demons, the power-hungry Macendale followed a group of demons back to their lair. There he found the arch-demon N'astirh to whom Macendale offered his immortal soul in exchange for supernatural powers. N'astirh laughingly refused, but went along and merged a mentally unstable demon to Macendale's being, transforming him into a religiously fanatical demonic entity. |
| After some time of coexistence in the same body with Macendale, the demon who possessed him proved to be incompatible and yearned for complete domination of the body he was in. The two fought many painful battles for control, and Macendale started to go insane before he finally ridded himself of the demon inside. Ultimately, the demon literally ripped away from its human host and began a separate existence as the Demogoblin. |
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