Versions Of Spider-Man

For more than 40 years Spiderman exist in our world, there has been an evolution to the series in the comics especially. The stories, the abilities and enemies has become more and more interesting and variety. Evolution of more that 40 years created many versions of Spiderman to tackle different fans and readers.

Ultimate Spider-Man is a separate continuity from the Spiderman comic series. A modernized reboot of Spider-Man story and made to attract the new and young reader. The story starting from the very beginning as it is free from the decades of the original story. Here, Peter is a high –school student bitten by the spider during the school trip. (Instead of radioactive spider – it is a modified genetically by Osborn Industries). The themes and characterization and setting are made to reflect the modern world.

In Spiderman mini series ‘The House of M’, Spiderman was a mutant in the world of mutant ruled by Magneto. He married with Gwen Stacy and live rich and famous and has a son named Ritchie. And Spiderman identity is widely known.

Spider-Man 2099 is no longer Peter Parker, he is Miguel O’Hara, a geneticist and gained his power from gene –splicing incident. As a Spiderman, Miguel fought against the Alchemax Corporations control over city and tried to bring down the Ceo, Tyler Stone, whom Miguel later discovered to be his birth father. Dr. Max Borne was the Spider-Man of the year 2211 after the Spider-Man 2099.

There are still many versions of Spiderman besides what I have listed above. And Spiderman has also inspired a number of derivatives such as Yu Komori in Spiderman: The Manga. Takuya Yamashiro as Spiderman produced by Toei Company,and an Indian Spiderman, Pavitr Prabhakar and many more.

Colllections Of Spiderman Films

Spiderman comes alive in a film in 2002. The collection for the first Spiderman movie worldwide was $821.6 millions and the domestics collections (for US alone) is $403.7 millions. Spiderman become the 3rd biggest movie in ranking worldwide in 2002 after Harry Porter and the Chamber Of Secret ($879 mill) and Lord of the Rings –The Two Towers ($924.7 mill). Spiderman also beat the collections for Star Wars –Episodes Two Attack of the Clones in the same year.

But for the sequel, Spiderman 2 releases in 2004. The collections are decrease compared to the first Spiderman movies. Spiderman 2 collected only $783.6 mill less about $100 +- mill from the first movie. But Spiderman 2 still at the ranking no.3 among the films release in 2004 also been beat by the Harry Porter (The Prisoner of Azkaban). Some say, the sequel of Spiderman was not as what they expected to be. Even though, a Spiderman 2 collection is less than the first one but both Spiderman movies were ranked no.3 in the year of release. This is a normal trend for the sequel films in Hollywood, the first one will gained better result and collections. It’s happened to most of superheroes films such as Batman. Even the attempted to reproduce the Batman films in Batman Begin is not as good as the first Batman Movie collections.

Now, the new sequel for Spiderman, Spiderman 3 will be release in May, 2007. What could be expected from his film collections, can it beat the first sequel? And I believe the all the crew and people involved has taken steps to make this films better than the last 2 film, because it should be better (with 3 villains) … right?

P/s: statistics from worldwideBoxoffice.com

Venom, End Of Story

It's confirmed that the villains for Spiderman 3 are The Sandman, Green Goblin 2 and Venom. I expected that Venom will only appeared at the end of the story..(wild guess). As much as I love Venom to appear at the beggining of the story, but with the rumors about the storyline i heard, I think Eddie Brocks will only be turn to Venom nearly at the end of the story. And the sequel continue for Spiderman 4, then only Venom will be the main Villain, and its really frustrated. But, look at the bright sight, I hope the Spiderman 3 will gives a full of action expected and the never ending issue of Peter Parker . Remember guys, May 4th 2007... this summer .
I think next post , i would like to talk about these villains.

Steve Ditko, Co-Creator

Last post I’ve told u about Stan lee, the Spiderman creator but I forgot to mention Steve Ditko, he was a co-creator for the character. At that time he was an artist for Spiderman character. Steve Ditko or Stephen Ditko was born on 2nd November 1927 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He was in a military service in post-war Germany before he studied at Cartoonist and Illustrators School in New York City. He began professionally illustrating comic’s books in 1953. Ditko’s early work starting with the cover of “Space Adventure # 10” and the five-page story “Homecoming” For Charlton Comics. He continued producing fiction, horror, and mystery stories, as well as co-creating Captain Atom with writer Joe Gill in 1960.

Ditko joined Marvel beginning with four –page in “Journey Into Mystery # 33 1956. Then he continued contributed for Marvel, and then met with Stan Lee which both of them created Spiderman in Amazing Fantasy # 15. The other character that Ditko created are The Creeper, Hawk and Dove (co-creator), Shade, the Changing Man, The Odd Man, Doctor Strange, Doctor Octopus, Electro, Kraven the Hunter, Sandman and other Spiderman villains (co-creator) and others.

More Spiderman films will come out?

The new head of Marvel Kevin Feige took the time to address some questions about the new HULK movie and the future of Spiderman when he talked to MTV.
And he share some of the information on what we should expect from Spiderman movie franchise. And just how many more films we might get.

"There will be many more Spider-Man films to come," he promised. "We already have stacks of ideas for the next one because of the wealth of stories in the comics. We could be making Spider-Man movies for the next 20 years, based on the 50 years of Spider-Man history we have."

Spiderman 3

Spiderman 3 released date : 4th May 2007
Starring: Tobey Macguire as Spiderman, Kristen Dunst (Mary Jane), James Franco (Harry Osborne), Thomas Haden Church – Flint Marko/The Sandman, Bryce Dallas Howard – Gwen Stacy, James Cromwell (Captain Stacy), Elizabeth Banks (Betty Brant) and Topher Grace (Eddie Brocks/Venom)

For this new film, Spiderman will be facing more villains than the last sequel, appearing Sandman, The Green Goblin and Venom. While his hands full taking care of the villains, Spiderman also facing the love triangle between him, Mary Jane and Harry plus his new interest Gwen Stacy. In this film reveals the black suit (Venom suit) for Spiderman, a new suit that increases his abilities but also can control his mind. Peter Parker dependency on the soul –sucking Venom suit will take him to a junkie-like level of desperation. While Harry insanity turn him to The Green Goblin hires Sandman to seek vengeance on Spiderman. The story became more interesting when Eddie Brocks become the Venom? Will he?

Spider-Man Love

Everybody knows that Mary Jane Watson was Spiderman girlfriend and ended up marry her in the comics episodes. Mary Jane also appeared in the last 2 film of Spiderman and the new sequel in March 2007. For the new sequel, there is also a new woman in Spiderman life, Gwen Stacy.

So, who is Spiderman love through out his life?, the most popular and known is Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy. Gwen Stacy or Gwendolyn ‘Gwen’ Stacy is the first love for Spiderman or Peter Parker. A blonde, bookish girl first appeared in Amazing Spiderman # 31 (Disember 1965). She met Peter while they were undergraduates at Empire State University. Gwen seemed to appreciated Peter’s Intellectual personality but with at first Peter ignored her because problem as a Spider-man. However, a romance developed and be the first true Peter love. Their romance became complicated when her father ( a police captain) was killed from a battle between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus. Gwen blame Spider-man for that, which set back their relationship. She moved to Europe. And after returned she resume her loves with Peter, but it was not last long. Gwen died in Amazing Spiderman # 121 killed by Spiderman arch-enemy The Green Goblin. Gwen Stacy death not only affected Peter but also made Mary (Gwen close friend) closer to Peter and their relationship begin.

Mary Jane Watson, a gorgeous green-eye and redheaded woman was first appeared in Amazing Spiderman # 42. Mary Jane stayed was a neighbor to Peter when he stayed with his Aunt May. When Gwen killed, MJ was the one who be with him and their relationship began. Peter proposed to her, but MJ turned him down and left New York for several years. MJ also a person who knows Peter another identity, but he kept it for herself. She then admitted Peter that she knows everything including his other identity Spider-man. They then married. Mary Jane was said to be the forth lover for Spiderman. The pairing of Mary Jane and Peter Parker has become one of the true classic romances of the comic medium and the couple are considered to be one of the superhero genre's most beloved "super-couples".

Spider-Man, The Creator

Stan Lee or Stanley Lieber created Spider-Man 1962 in the “Amazing Fantasy # 15” by Marvel Comics. He was 16 when he first joined Marvel Comics, at that time he was the teenage cousins of the wife of Martin Goodman, the owner of Marvel Comics. The name appeared and signed “Stan Lee” he later recalled, “ because I felt someday I’d be writing the Great American Novel and didn’t want to use my real name on these silly little comics”,

He has given a sparks to the new era of the comics, when introduced Spider-Man to the world, that is really different with the other earlier superheroes. Most important, that Lee heroes lives in a real world and with real people. That bring the imagination on how real people might act if they suddenly gained superpowers heroes. After a year Spider-Man hits the industry, Stan Lee get promoted and his character spread throughout the comics strip in the newspaper around the world. And at the age of 20, he became an editor and chief writer.

He was a writer to Spider-Man from the beginning until the late 1990’s. In this industry, Lee invented the vocabulary and the attitude of the modern superhero, placing his characters and their complex stories in a vivid, literary landscape. He was also a principal architecture of the modern comics books. His quoted “ He was never very interesting to me, because I was never worried about him. And if you’re not worried about the jam your hero, there’s no excitement”, on DC heroes such as Superman changed the wave of superheroes created after.

Stan Lee left Marvel Comics in late 1990’s. And he’s creativeness also created the X-Men, Fantastic Four , Iron Man, and Incredible Hulk.

Spider-Man Original Abilities

After been bitten by the radioactive spider, Peter Parker gained some abilities, and these are the original abilities;-

Physical Abilities

Healing power, Spider-Man heals fast than a normal human but not as fast the Wolverine (X-men). This healing factor even helps him from getting any scar. He can recovers from broken bones and damage in as little a week. He may not affect to the normal dose of drugs (you need more dose) and will be recovered from the drugs rapidly. His eyesight also improved and he needs no glasses after gained the power.

Beside the enhancement to his physical, he’s not immune to the alcohol; just like normal people he will lose his balance, reflexes and coordination. He is also still still vulnerable to disease, and has fallen ill due to flu many times.

Superhuman Strength

Spider-Man possess a superhuman strength and increase in his abilities to jump, crawl and run at a superhuman speed for short sprints.

Reflexes and Spider Sense

His reflexes and agility are also increase, combined with his super- strength, allows him to dodge almost any attack and even gunfire. He is also have the ability to sense danger or any threat to him , a ‘spider sense’.

Wall –Crawling

Spider-Man is capable of crawling on walls and ceilings. He has conscious control over this ability. However, if a surface is too slippery, he has problems sticking to it He can also use his clinging ability to lift or hold objects The ability works through thin layers of cloth, but not through material such as the soles of shoes.


Shoot Web, Spider Web.

These power are not originally gained from the radioactive spider, after discover the he has a spider abilities, only then he created a fluid (synthetic adhesive) that look-alike spider web and placed it to his ‘web shooter’ (invented by him also) wear it on his hand. But in a later version of spider-man, he has an ability to shoot his own organic web like a spider.

Spider-Man the live action television series.

Spider-Man first appeared on live action television series in 1978 after 16 years since the character was created, followed after a pilot episode on The Amazing Spiderman in April, 1977 on CBS network. The pilot episode is only a 90 minute film and is about how Peter Parker got his spider power uses his power against evil. Starring by Nicholas Hammond as a Peter Parker a.k.a Spiderman. The series came on air a year later on 1977, with the same actor in the pilot episode.
The first season of the series of 5 episodes began on April 5 until May, 3, 1978. And a second season with 8 episodes began on September 5 on the same year. Besides Nicholas Hammond as Spiderman, also starring are Chip Fields as Rita, Robert S. Simon as J. Jonah Jameson, Ellen Bry as Julie Masters, Irene Tedrow played as Aunt May and Michael Pataki as Captain Barbera.



The series, The Amazing Spiderman must be considered one of the single dreariest superhero series ever made. There was complete lack of the super-villains to fight with. The series just only show a man with a costume fight the crime and no different with the average cop series at that time. Nicholas Hammond was also extremely weak as Spiderman and the series been directed in the dullest way you can imagine.

The series badly received by the public and the spidey fans. The series was bland and there is much silliness that overrides most of the proceedings. The character is also to be said badly overplayed by Hammond. Besides the television series in the state, Spiderman also appeared in the Japanese TV only that the story line is really different with the original even though the costume is the same…. Its Japanese style …like Ultraman heheheh…



p/s : this topic also remind me of the SPIDEY in Square One TV on the 80’s….

Spiderman, The Story

Spider-Man is another side of Peter Parker when he been bitten by the radiation exposed spider when he visited the science demonstrations. From the bitten he gained most of the spider skills and power.

Here’s the story, Peter Parker was raised by his uncle Ben and Aunt May when his parent were killed in the plane crash, at that time he was only four . Peter Parker was aloof from his classmate, and appeared as a weak and nerdish schoolboy. During the school outing, he visited the science demonstrations of the new radiation technology. During the demonstrations, a spider crept into a beam of radiation, generated by the experiment. The spider than dropped down and bite Peter Parker hand. He than felt ill and left the science demonstration and went home. As he walked home along the street, he was nearly hits by a speeding car, but found that he was able to leap more than a hundred feet and cling to the side of building in order to escape. As a day pass, he discovered his enhanced strength, agility and the amazing power of spider. As a result of the bite from the exposed radiation spider, he posses a new abilities which was amplified by the spider’s passage through the beam of radiation. The result was superhuman reflexes and strength, spider-like abilities to cling to surfaces, increase of mental alertness, ability to sense danger and most of all the power to spin and shoot web strands to great distances which then functioned like powerful vines.

Possessing the superhuman power of a spider is not making Peter Parker a Spider-Man yet, until he realize that the great power he possess comes with great responsibility (quoted as my favorite Spider-man words). With the great power and his new abilities Peter Parker was eager to earn some money as a wrestler, in which he disguised with a mask and suit. One evening, after a fight he goes back to a room to change the costume crossed path with a burglar, he choose not to interfere believing that it is not his responsibility. Couple days later his uncle Ben was killed by a burglar, he tracks and caught the burglar and discovered that it is the same burglar he had ignored earlier. This leaves Peter guilty and vaults him into the world of fighting crime and becomes Spider-Man that swears to fight evil from the day on.

Spiderman, The History.

Spiderman was created by Stan Lee in 1962 for Marvel Comics; Stan Lee was 16 when he joined Marvel Comics. Spiderman Character first appeared in a comic book series, “Amazing Fantasy” # 15. The comic was such a hit that Amazing Fantasy was renamed Amazing Spider-Man and Stan lee was promoted a year later. He became the youngest editor in the comic’s book history. Primarily due to overwhelming popularity of Spiderman, Marvel Comics became one of the dominant comic’s book publishers by the start of the next decade. Stan Lee change the new era of the comics when Spiderman lived in the real world and with real people, not in the Gotham City or Metropolis.



In 1977, Spider-Man appeared in his own newspaper strip and ultimately appearing in more than 500 newspapers around the world and became the longest running super heroes comics strips of them all. Spider-Man was written throughout from the beginning until the late 1990’s by Stan Lee when he left Marvel Comics. And his younger brother Larry Lieber only drew the daily newspaper comics for Marvel since the late 1980’s when Larry replace Fred Kids as the artist for “ The Amazing Spider-Man” .

Spider-Man popularity then been bought to his first animated television series, Spider-Man in 1967, premiering on ABC network and running throughout 1967 and 1968 seasons. An attempted to go further with this character, Spider-Man appeared on a live action series, but it only last for 2 years , 1977 to 1979. It is not overwhelming as the previous superheroes live action television as Batman and Superman. The Spider-Man spread throughout the world, and interest Toei Animation from Japan to produced a Japanese version of live action television series. The costume was similar, but sadly the story line is different from the original version.

The return of Spider-Man television animated series began in 1981 -1982, and “Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends” came afterwards featuring others superheroes included Incredible Hulk, Ice Man, and Fire Stars and this series aired on NBC from 1982 -1985. Spider-Man than return with 65 episodes in the 1990’s, said to be most successful Spiderman animated series, running from 1994 – 1998. The follow-up series, Spiderman Unlimited was short –lived and pulled off the air to make room for Japanese anime. Besides all the animated series and the comic version of Spider-Man, there is an attempted throughout the year to bring the Spider-Man to Cinema until the first Spider-Man live action featured film released in summer 2002 by Colombia Pictures and directed by Sam Raimi. The sequel than released in 2005, Spiderman 2 and still we are waiting for the Spiderman 3 in 2007.

Spider-Man was one of the first and most popular comic strip or comic books crossover stories. Not only he gained the worldwide fame, but for me he is still one of the most popular superheroes of all time. Long live Spider-Man