Why doesn the Green Goblin know Spider-Mans identity?
Simply put everyone who knew Spider-Man’s identity after One More Day, doesn’t. So there would be no way for him to keep that knowledge. It would be like everyone forgot his identity except for this person or that person. This was something we had to decide very early on was, who knows and who doesn’t know it and the thing that we all agreed upon was best to keep it simple. Let’s come up with one bright light rule: nobody knows. And anybody that we want to know, it turns into a story about how they found out. Because now everybody has to rediscover that information. The Flash Q: It’s an old question, I know, but why did The Flash (Bart Allen) have to die? That was another thing that was decided before me. I killed him but it wasn’t my decision. Basically DC came to me and said look we’re killing off Bart Allen, we’re going to do it in five issues, do you want to write those five issues? And I said yes and even though I didn’t necessarily think that Bart needed to be killed off. I was d