The Spider

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The Spider ( Eng. "Spiderman") is a British comic book and a comic book character of the same name, which were designed by the author Ted Cowan and the illustrator Reg Bunn .

Historical origin

The Spider appeared as a super villain, but who changed fronts over time, for the first time from June 26, 1965 to April 26, 1969 in the cartoon Lion and in Lion Annuals (1967-1971). Jerry Siegel , one of the creators of Superman , wrote from his third appearance within Lion actively in the plot of his adventure and wrote most of the chapters in which the character appeared.

The Spider was developed almost simultaneously, but independently, to Stan Lee's Marvel character The Amazing Spider-Man in the 1960s. Therefore, their names Spiderman / Spinnenmann sometimes led to confusion in German-speaking countries.

Publications

In Germany, The Spider first appeared in February 1975 under the name Spiderman in the weekly Kobra (magazine) as a sequel and from 1977 also in the Kobra paperback series. The comic was also published in the United States , Spain , Italy and France , among others .

In 1992, 2000 AD released an "Action Special" which was written by Mark Millar and which also used "The Spider" in conjunction with characters from the same era . The fact that the character was portrayed as a cannibal led the fans to reject this issue.

An older, retired, version of the character appeared in the Jack Staff comic .

In 2005, the first chapters within King of Crooks (Titan Books, London 2005, ISBN 1-84576-000-X ) were reprinted.

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