So Many Spider-Men

Marvel has been exploring every (and I mean, EVERY) single interpretation of Spider-Man in their current “Edge of the Spider-Verse” storyline. The original comic book Spider-Man, Peter Parker, teams with the Miles Morales, the current Spider-Man of the Marvel Ultimate Universe and dozens of other Spiders against a dimension-spanning threat. The Spider-Army ranges from absurd to obscure.

Here’s a look at six of these alternate Spider-Men.


 

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  1. Hostess Cakes Spider-Man
  2. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, Hostess cakes, the company behind Twinkies, Ho Hos, and a bunch of other snack cakes decided to run a series of one-page ads in comics featuring popular superheroes of the day. The ads were corny and silly. Alas, this will be the last Twinkie this Spidey will ever enjoy.

     
    Spider-Ham

  3. Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham
  4. (Sings) Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig… the star of Marvel’s Star Comics line, a children’s line of G-rated comics makes it to prime time as part of the Spider-Army. He’s as close to a walking cartoon as you can get in a comic-book world.

     
    Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

  5. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
  6. Even the Spidey of Broadway makes a small cameo, by means of a conversation between Peter Parker and Miles Morales. (Honorable mention: Electric Company Spider-Man, and motion picture Spidey’s Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.)

     
    Japan Spider-man

  7. Spider-Man Japan ’70s live-action TV show
  8. Motorcycle racer Takuya Yamashiro fights giant monsters in his leopard headed spaceship that transforms into giant robot Leopardon. The prior sentence consists of a everything an 9-year-old boy in 1979 would define as awesome. Marvel has the TV episodes online too.

     
    Punk Spider-Man

  9. Punk Spider-Man
  10. Bitten by a radioactive spider created by illegal waste dumping comes Hobie Brown, the Anarchic Spider-Man. Mohawk-chain, leather brigade and guitar. He breaks all the f’ing rules, goes to hell with Superman and dies like a champion. Yeah, hey!

     
    Spider-man Noir

  11. Spider-Man Noir
  12. One of the more stylish and original takes on Spider-Man, the 1930s Noir Spider-Man is based on Uncle Ben’s World War I era airman uniform. He’s a shadow-crawling, pistol-packing vigilante in the grittiest sense. Noir Spidey also made an appearance in the Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions 2010 video game.