Red Goblin

Few characters arrive with the kind of instant gravity that Red Goblin carries — debuting in 2018's Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide with art by the legendary Alex Ross, this Modern Age creation landed squarely in one of Marvel's most storied corners of the universe. Sharing pages with titans like Spider-Man, Norman Osborn, and Kraven the Hunter signals just how high-stakes the company is here, and appearances across Zeb Wells' celebrated Amazing Spider-Man run cement this as a figure woven into some of the wall-crawler's most intense recent chapters. Still a relatively fresh presence in the catalog, Red Goblin represents exactly the kind of modern addition worth tracking early — a character born into legacy and already rubbing shoulders with legends.