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Marvel Comics characters with spider powers

  • Spider-ManMarvel's publisher told Stan Lee that Spider-Man would never work. The comic was being canceled anyway.
  • Carnage (character)Carnage, the Marvel Comics supervillain, has a favorite calling card: the words "Carnage Rules," written in blood for others to follow. The character is a symbiote, an amorphous alien parasite that bonds with a living host and grants…
  • Ben ReillyBen Reilly first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #149, published in October 1975, and he was seemingly killed in that very same issue. He had no name yet. He was a nameless clone of Peter Parker, the man behind Spider-Man, grown by a…
  • Venom (character)Venom, the alien symbiote of Marvel Comics, began as a $220 purchase. In 1982, a Marvel reader from Norridge, Illinois, named Randy Schueller received a letter from Jim Shooter, the company's editor-in-chief. The letter said Marvel liked…
  • Spider-Woman (Gwen Stacy)Spider-Woman, better known as Spider-Gwen, first appeared in Marvel Comics on the 17th of September 2014, in Edge of Spider-Verse issue 2. Her co-creator, writer Jason Latour, has said the idea began with an uncomfortable realization. He…
  • Miles MoralesMiles Morales makes his first public appearance as Spider-Man by stopping an assault by a villain called Kangaroo. The bystanders are not impressed. They tell him his Spider-Man costume is in bad taste, and he considers changing it. That…
  • Flash ThompsonEugene "Flash" Thompson first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15, published in August 1962 by Marvel Comics. Writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko introduced him in the very issue that launched Spider-Man. Flash starts out as the star of his…
  • Silk (character)Silk, the Marvel Comics superhero whose civilian name is Cindy Moon, first appeared in April 2014 without a face. She showed up as a faceless cameo in The Amazing Spider-Man #1, created by writer Dan Slott and artist Humberto Ramos.…
  • Peni ParkerPeni Parker is a Japanese American high school student who shares her mind with a radioactive spider named SP//dr. Together they pilot a mech suit that carries the same name. When Gerard Way, the musician known for My Chemical Romance,…
  • Spider-Man NoirSpider-Man Noir is a version of Peter Parker who has never seen a color. In the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, his home universe is entirely black and white, so ordinary hues leave him baffled when he travels elsewhere. That…

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