Spider-Woman
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Three of the Spider-Women from Marvel's Multiverse; from left to right: Silk (Cindy Moon), Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), and Spider-Gwen (Gwen Stacy). Artwork for the cover of Spider-Women Alpha vol. 1, 1 (April 2016 Marvel Comics). Art by Yasmine Putri.
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance |
Jessica Drew Marvel Spotlight #32 (Feb. 1977) Julia Carpenter Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #6 (Oct. 1984) Mattie Franklin The Spectacular Spider-Man #236 (July 1996) Charlotte Witter The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2, #5 (May 1999) Veranke New Avengers #1 (Jan. 2005) |
| Created by | Archie Goodwin, Marie Severin |
| Characters |
Jessica Drew Julia Carpenter Mattie Franklin Charlotte Witter Veranke |
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Spider-Woman #1 (April 1978) Featuring the Jessica Drew version of the character. Art by Joe Sinnott. |
| Series publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Format |
(vols. 1, 3 & 5) Ongoing series (vols. 2 & 4) Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date |
(vol 1) April 1978 – June 1983 (vol 2) November 1993 – February 1994 (vol 3) July 1999 – December 2000 (vol 4) November 2009 – May 2010 (vol 5) January 2015 – November 2016 (vol 6) November 2016 |
| Number of issues |
(vol. 1) 50 (vol. 2) 4 (vol. 3) 18 (vol. 4) 7 (vol. 5) 10 (vol. 6) 9+ |
| Main character(s) |
(vols. 1, 4, 5, & 6) Jessica Drew (vol. 2) Julia Carpenter (vol. 3) Mattie Franklin |
Spider-Woman is the code name of several fictional characters in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew, had her own animated television series, and the second Spider-Woman, Julia Carpenter, was a regular in the 1990s TV series Iron Man, part of The Marvel Action Hour.
Marvel Comics' then-publisher Stan Lee said in 1978, shortly after Spider-Woman's debut in Marvel Spotlight #32 (Feb. 1977) and the start of the character's 50-issue self-titled series (cover-dated April 1978 – June 1983), the character originated because,
I suddenly realized that some other company may quickly put out a book like that and claim they have the right to use the name, and I thought we'd better do it real fast to copyright the name. So we just batted one quickly, and that's exactly what happened. I wanted to protect the name, because it's the type of thing [where] someone else might say, 'Hey, why don't we put out a Spider-Woman; they can't stop us.' ... You know, years ago we brought out Wonder Man, and [DC Comics] sued us because they had Wonder Woman, and ... I said okay, I'll discontinue Wonder Man. And all of a sudden they've got Power Girl [after Marvel had introduced Power Man]. Oh, boy. How unfair.
Following that initial Spider-Woman series, more followed. Volume two was a miniseries published from November 1993 through February 1994; volume three was published from July 1999 through December 2000; and volume four, featuring Jessica Drew, the original Spider-Woman, was published from November 2009 through May 2010.
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