Spider-Girl

Spider-Girl
Promotional art for The Amazing Spider-Girl #1. Art by Ron Frenz.
Publication information
First appearance	What If (vol. 2) #105 (February 1998)
Created by	Tom DeFalco Ron Frenz Mark Bagley (costume)
In-story information
Alter ego	May "Mayday" Parker
Team affiliations	A-Next Fantastic Five New Warriors Web Warriors
Notable aliases	Spidey, Spider-Girl Red, Petra Parker
Abilities	Superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, durability, reflexes and endurance Precognitive "Spider-Sense" Bio-magnetism manipulation Ability to sense the weak points in her enemies, stick to solid surfaces and repel objects and people

Spider-Girl (May "Mayday" Parker) is a fictional superheroine in Marvel Comics' MC2 universe. The character was created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz as the teenage daughter of Peter Parker (Spider-Man) and Mary Jane Watson, and first appeared in What If (vol. 2) #105 (February 1998). She later acquired her own ongoing comic book, Spider-Girl, written by DeFalco and drawn by Frenz and Pat Olliffe, which was the longest-running superhero book with a lead female character ever published by Marvel before being relaunched as The Amazing Spider-Girl, and later The Spectacular Spider-Girl.

Spider-Girl first appeared in a one-shot story in the ongoing series What If. Following positive fan response to the concept, Spider-Girl and two other series (A-Next and J2) set in the same alternate future universe were launched under the MC2 imprint. Although each of these titles were slated to be 12-issue limited series, Spider-Girl's initial sales justified their continuation as ongoing titles.

After initial interest, Spider-Girl drew low sales. The book's active fan base convinced Marvel to revoke several cancellation announcements. Reprints of the series in digest size trade paperbacks sold well. Marvel Associate Editor Nick Lowe revealed in a November 2005 interview that "Spider-Girl, for the first time, is completely safe from cancellation."

Despite Lowe's statement, Marvel announced that #100 would be the title's final issue. The book was relaunched as The Amazing Spider-Girl, with issue #0 appearing in October 2006.

On October 11, 2008, Tom DeFalco announced that Amazing Spider-Girl would be canceled with issue #30, though he revealed that, due to the company's love for the character, she could possibly be given a sixteen-page back-up strip in The Amazing Spider-Man Family. On November 8, 2008, Marvel EIC Joe Quesada confirmed that Spider-Girl would become a feature in the monthly anthology magazine Amazing Spider-Man Family. The series would replace the feature "Mr. and Mrs. Spider-Man", written by DeFalco, which served as a prequel series to the Spider-Girl universe.